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Updated: June 1, 2025
Look at those walnut chairs covered with horse-hair, that mahogany table with its oilcloth cover, that sideboard, also of mahogany, that carpet, bought at a bargain, beneath the table, those metal lamps, that wretched paper with its red border, those execrable engravings, and the calico curtains with red fringes, in a dining-room, where the friends of Petitot once feasted!
The fountain from which the court takes its name has been often changed; a poor work by Petitot now replaces the grand designs of the time of Francois I. and Henri IV. Beyond this court we find, on the left, the Porte Doree, which faces the Chaussee de Maintenon, between the Etang and Parterre; it was built under Francois I., and decorated by Primaticcio with paintings, restored in 1835.
It was an insignificant little picture, representing a simple round face with ringlets; and it made, as it must be confessed, a very poor figure by the side of Mademoiselle Petitot, dancing over a rainbow, or Mademoiselle Redowa, grinning in red boots and a lancer's cap.
His neighbour Petitot, a man of singular appearance, lean, with a long thin drooping nose, commonly supported him. Petitot, who bore the nickname of "the Inquisitor," represented the Venerable Company of Pastors, and was viewed with especial distaste by the turbulent spirits whom the war had left in the city, as well as by the lower ranks, who upheld Blondel.
With the potion and the man in his possession, he must force the secret from Basterga; force it by threats or promises or aught that would weigh with a man who lay helpless and in a dungeon. It would not be difficult to get the truth in that way: not at all difficult. It seemed, indeed, as if Providence and Fabri and Petitot and Baudichon had arranged to put the man in his power ad hoc.
Monsieur Petitot folded up his document and looked at him with an amiable tolerance. "Wonderful wonderful!" he said "But of course eccentricities WILL appear in the world occasionally! and you must pardon me if I venture to think that you are certainly one of them. But I imagine you have nograsped the whole position.
He destined this miniature for the Emperor of China or the Sultan. I went to see M. Petitot at Clagny. When he saw me he came to me with a wrathful air, and, presenting me his unfinished enamel, he said to me: "Here, madame, is your Greek hero; his new edicts finish us, but, as for me, I shall not finish him.
"But too often an occasion let slip does not return, as you well know. The least disorder in the box he searched may put Basterga on the alert, and wreck my plans." They did not answer. They felt one and all, Petitot and Baudichon no less than Fabri, that they had done this man an injustice.
While other men, Baudichon and Petitot for instance, to say nothing of Fabri and Du Pin, reaped where they had not sown. That, by the way; for it had naught to do with the matter in hand the discovery of a scheme which would place the remedium within his grasp. He thought awhile of the young student. He might make a second attempt to coerce him.
"Sire," replied Petitot, "it will not be for another six weeks. All these affairs and decrees have deprived me of many hours; my heart is heavy over it!" "And why do you busy yourself with these discussions, with which your great talent has no concern?" said the King to him, gently. "Sire, it is my religion that is more concerned than ever. I am a Christian, and my law is dear to me."
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