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Updated: June 23, 2025
The Micio and Demea of the Adelphi, with their opposing views of the proper management of youth, are still alive; the Sganarelles and Arnolphes of the Ecole des Maris and the Ecole des Femmes, are not all buried. Tartuffe is the father of the hypocrites; Orgon of the dupes; Thraso, of the braggadocios; Alceste of the 'Manlys'; Davus and Syrus of the intriguing valets, the Scapins and Figaros.
Orgon still deserves notice from its beautiful situation, and from its having been the place where Buonaparte met with so narrow an escape from the fury of the inhabitants during his journey to Elba. "Vous allez sans doute voir la Pierre Percée," said every body at the inn, whom we interrogated as to what was best worth seeing in the compass of an hour's walk.
We were tempted by a beautiful morning to rise somewhat before four o'clock, in order to visit the Roman ruins near this place, before our departure for Orgon. A walk of ten minutes conducted us up a gentle terrace on which they were situated, and which rises between the town and the fantastic hills we had remarked the day before.
How, for example, shall an audience be assured that an evident and monstrous dupe is actually deceived without being an absolute fool? In Le Tartuffe the note of high Comedy strikes when Orgon on his return home hears of his idol's excellent appetite. 'Le pauvre homme! he exclaims. He is told that the wife of his bosom has been unwell.
Remy on the 29th of December, 1848, in a state of great poverty. He at one time was possessed of a moderate fortune, but invested it in a silk-worm nursery, and lost it all. "'He had no son, but left two daughters, one of whom is a teacher at Aix, and the other married a retail merchant at Orgon.
"Nothing worthy of note happened on the road to Orgon, which we reached next day; but the isolated detachments of troops which we passed from time to time reminded us that the tranquillity was nowhere perfect.
How is it, that the French, so generally gallant, can suffer their women to take the fork and hoe, and work so laboriously in the fields? Orgon had nothing which merits even mention; I believe, however, it was well known to the ancients, and is mentioned in some of the Latin itineraries. A convent, very picturesquely situated, is now converted into a manufacturing establishment.
He courageously refused, though threatened with a stroke of a sabre, when, fortunately; the carriage being ready to start, he whipped the horses and set off at full gallop. The Commissioners would not breakfast at Orgon; they paid for what had been prepared, and took some refreshments away with them.
Italy and Eugene Siege of Dantzic-Capitulation concluded but not ratified-Rapp made prisoner and sent to Kiow Davoust's refusal to believe the intelligence from Paris Projected assassination of one of the French Princes Departure of Davoust and General Hogendorff from Hamburg The affair of Manbreuil Arrival of the Commissioners of the Allied powers at Fontainebleau Preference shown by Napoleon to Colonel Campbell Bonaparte's address to General Kohler His farewell to his troops First day of Napoleon's journey The Imperial Guard succeeded by the Cossacks Interview with Augerean The first white cockades Napoleon hanged in effigy at Orgon His escape in the disguise of a courier Scene in the inn of La Calade Arrival at Aix The Princess Pauline Napoleon embarks for Elba His life at Elba.
A photographic exactitude in dialogue is now the exclusive fashion; but even in the ablest hands it tells us no more I think it even tells us less than Molière, wielding his artificial medium, has told to us and to all time of Alceste or Orgon, Dorine or Chrysale. The historical novel is forgotten.
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