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Updated: May 27, 2025
One fine day, when I, confined to the barracks, was undergoing some absurd little punishment for having made three errors in the management of my arms, I received a visit from Michel. "Ah, Mathurin!" he said to me, "you are well punished for having left Montreuil.
The superior, who was the more thoroughly possessed of the two, was surrounded by the Carmelite monks, the sisters belonging to the convent, Mathurin Rousseau, priest and canon of Sainte-Croix, and Mannouri, a surgeon from the town.
Even a bit of a pair of breeches, said to have belonged to Saint Mathurin, whom many think was a sans-cullotte, obtains her adoration on certain occasions.
When he go 'long de street, everybody say, 'Ah, dere go de good Mathurin! He laugh, he tell story, he smoke leetla tabac, he take leetla white wine behin' de door; dat is nosing non. "He have in de parish five, ten, twenty children all call Mathurin; he is godfadder with dem yes. So he go about with plenty of sugar and sticks of candy in his pocket.
George du Maurier's grandfather's name was Robert Mathurin Busson du Maurier, Gentilhomme verrier gentleman glass-blower. Until the Revolution glass-blowing was a monopoly of the gentilshommes, no commoner might engage in the industry, at that time considered an art. The Busson genealogy dates from the twelfth century.
He told me very minutely what I already knew relating to Louis XVII. and the cruel Simon, and of the infamous calumnies that wretch was induced to utter respecting the unfortunate queen, &c. Finally he said, that while in prison, some persons came with an idiot boy of the name of Mathurin, who was substituted for him, while he himself was carried off.
"De colonel nod his head and say: 'Unloose de men. Den de men are unloose, and dey all go away, for Mathurin tell dem to go quick. "Everybody is ver' 'fraid becos' of what Mathurin do. Mathurin he say to de soldiers: 'Lift him up and bring him in de church. Dey bring him up to de steps of de altar.
He saw the light of day at River Canard in the district of Mines on the 9th of June, 1744. His father, Michel Bourg, and his mother, Anne Hebert, with most of their children, escaped deportation at the time of the Acadian expulsion in 1755 and sought refuge at the Island of St. Young Joseph Mathurin became the protege of the Abbe de l'Isle-Dieu, then at Paris.
The first of these was one Hervagaut, who, when discovered to be a tailor's son, was condemned in 1802 to four years' imprisonment. In 1818, Mathurin Bruneau, a shoemaker, tried the same trick; but failing, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
Mathurin kept pouring and winking to the saloon keeper, a big, red-faced man, who chuckled as though at the thought of some fine joke; and Jeremie kept absorbing alcohol and wagging his head, giving vent to a roar of laughter and looking at his comrade with a stupid and contented expression. All the customers were going away.
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