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Pasquier's Letters contains the following passage, which applies perhaps quite as forcibly to the present age as to his own time: "I cannot forbear complaining at this time of the calamity of this age which has produced such a plenty of reputed or untimely authors. Any pitiful scribbler will have his first thoughts to come to light; lest, being too long shut up, they should grow musty.
I fear that in the long run people will weary of them. But it is a vice peculiar to us that as soon as we see anything succeeding prosperously for any one, everybody wants to join in." Estienne Pasquier's fear was much better grounded after the death of Francis I., and when Ronsard had become the head of the poet-world, than it would have been in the first half of the sixteenth century.
O posterity, above all things do not forget our gothic salons, our Renaissance furniture, M. Pasquier's discourses, the shape of our hats, and the aesthetics of La Revue des Deux Mondes! While we were pondering upon these lofty philosophical considerations, our wagon had hauled us over to Tiffanges.
He has a big nose, thick lips, heavy eyebrows, an intelligent and severe eye, and grey, ill-combed hair. Changarnier looks like an old academician, just as Soult looks like an old archbishop. Changarnier is sixty-four or sixty-five years old, and tall and thin. He has a gentle voice, a graceful and formal air, a chestnut wig like M. Pasquier's, and a lady-killing smile like M. Brifaut's.
* "Now, that M. le Vicomte d'A is attracting so much attention, they will perhaps let me alone," M. le Vicomte Demosthenes was heard to say yesterday. * An Ultra, condemning M. Pasquier's speech, said his programme was only a continuation of Decaze's policy. "Yes," said a lady, "but he stands on a Monarchical basis, he has just the kind of leg for a Court suit."
* "Now, that M. le Vicomte d'A is attracting so much attention, they will perhaps let me alone," M. le Vicomte Demosthenes was heard to say yesterday. * An Ultra, condemning M. Pasquier's speech, said his programme was only a continuation of Decaze's policy. "Yes," said a lady, "but he stands on a Monarchical basis, he has just the kind of leg for a Court suit."
At the roll call, when M. Pasquier's name was reached he said: "Monsieur the Chancellor " When he got to that of M. Dupin, President of the National Assembly, he called: "Monsieur Dupin." First ballot. Alfred de Musset 5 votes. M. Nisard 23 " M. Nisard is elected. To-day, September 12, the Academy worked at the dictionary.
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