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"Yes, in the case of wise and honest men like yourself, my good friend Petitot; but just as all your brothers have not your talents, so they have not your rectitude and loyalty, which are known to me." "Sire, your Majesty overwhelms me; but I beg you to be persuaded that my brothers have been calumniated."
At the moment when the first edicts, were issued against the public exercise of the Reformed Religion, the famous and incomparable Petitot, refusing all the supplications of France and of Europe, executed for me, in my chateau of Clagny, five infinitely precious portraits, upon which it was his caprice only to work alternately, and which still demanded from him a very great number of sittings.
And going out he closed the door behind him closed it jealously, that they might not hear. "I hope he has news will decide him," Petitot muttered lowering his voice involuntarily. "Messer Blondel is over-courageous for me!" He shook his head dismally. "He is very courageous," Fabri assented in the same undertone. "Perhaps even a little rash." Baudichon grunted. "Rash!" he repeated.
But at the final revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he thought his conscience, or rather his vanity, compromised, and quitted France, although the King offered to allow him a chaplain of his communion, and a dispensation from all the oaths, to Petitot himself, to Boyer, his brother-in-law, and the chaplain whom they had retained with them. Lovers' Vows. The Body-guards. Racine's Phedre. The Pit.
Mézeray, vol. xi. pp. 16, 17. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 121, 127. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 384, édit. Petitot, suite de Bassompierre. Bassompierre, Mém. p. 75. Richelieu, Hist. de la Mère et du Fils, vol. i. pp. 224, 225. L'Etoile, vol. iv. p. 206. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 385. L'Etoile, vol. iv. pp. 210, 211. Le Vassor, Hist. de Louis XIII, vol. i. pp. 57, 58.
Blondel did not answer and the secretary looked up from his register. "An old soldier, Messer Petitot?" he said. "Yes, there is." "Perhaps you know him also, Messer Blondel?" "Yes, I know him. He served the State," Blondel answered quietly. He had winked at more than one irregularity on the part of Grio, and at the sound of the name anger gave place to caution.
And Cyrillon Vergniaud was given this happiness of the highest, purest kind, as with the aid of the wondering and reluctant Monsieur Andre Petitot, he gave poor families comfort for life, and rescued the sick and the sorrowful, and all he reserved to himself from his father's large fortune was half a million francs.
A little royal amenity, a little conversation and blandishment, a la Louis XIV., will seduce his artistic vanity. At the cost of that, your portrait, Sire, will be terminated. It would not be without." The surprise of his Majesty was extreme when he had to learn and comprehend that the prodigious talent of Petitot was joined to a Huguenot conscience, and this talent spoke of expatriating itself.
No, my friends" throwing himself back in his chair with an air of patronage, almost of contempt for by dint of repeating his argument he had come to believe it, and to plume himself upon it "I look farther ahead than you do, and for the sake of future gain am willing to take present responsibility." They were silent awhile: his old mastery was beginning to assert itself. Then Petitot spoke.
Madame de Montespan, in great alarm, has told me that you wished to leave me. You leave me, my good friend! Where will you find a sky so pure and soft as the sky of France? Where will you find a King more tenderly attached to men of merit, more particularly, to my dear and illustrious Petitot?" At these words, pronounced with emotion, the artist felt the tears come into his eyes.
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