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Updated: May 28, 2025
Madame Tiphaine had introduced into Provins the Parisian custom of taking leave as soon as coffee had been served. On this occasion she had company at home and was anxious to get away.
"How touching!" exclaimed the serious and philosophic Count de la Fere. The galloping of hoofs caused them to withdraw from each other's embraces. A gigantic figure rapidly approached. "The innkeeper of Provins!" they cried, drawing their swords. "Perigord, down with him!" shouted D'Artagnan. "Stay," said Athos. The gigantic figure was beside them. He uttered a cry. "Athos, Aramis, D'Artagnan!"
Health gave her, perhaps, too much the look of a handsome barmaid. "But that can't be a defect in the eyes of a Rogron," sighed Madame Tiphaine. Mademoiselle de Chargeboeuf's dress when she made her first appearance in Provins at the Rogrons' house was very simple.
Here you have unbroken solitude and a wide expanse of open country; you also get a good idea of the commanding position of Provins. A poetic halo still lingers round the rude times of Troubadour and Knight, but fortunately no such contrast can now be found at least in France as there existed between court and people, lord and vassal.
The few aristocrats who lived in Provins were, of course, apart, and formed a single salon in the Upper town, at the house of the old Comtesse de Breautey. All parties wished to study the Rogrons before admitting them. It was difficult, of course, to keep out merchants of the rue Saint-Denis, originally from Provins, who had returned to the town to spend their fortunes.
Had it not been for their connection with Provins, where they went three or four times a year, when they could close the shop for a day or two, they would have had no clerks or young women. But old Rogron, their father, sent them all the unfortunate young people of his neighborhood, whose parents wished to start them in business in Paris.
The arrival of Madame and Mademoiselle de Chargeboeuf in the lawyer's household was a great reinforcement for the liberal party; and it created consternation among the aristocrats of Provins and also in the Tiphaine clique. Madame de Breautey, horrified to see two women of rank so misled, begged them to come to her.
Three days after the letter had gone, the pair were already asking themselves when she would get there. Sylvie perceived in her spurious benevolence towards her poor cousin a means of recovering her position in the social world of Provins.
This future athlete of parliamentary debate, who was destined to share in proclaiming the dynasty of the house of Orleans had a terrible influence on Pierrette's fate. At the present moment he was bent on making for himself a weapon by founding a newspaper at Provins.
The poor fellow gripped my hand as proof. The physician blushed scarlet. "I'll give him an injection of ether and then you take him in your cart to the nearest hospital it's Provins twenty miles from here." He jabbed in the needle, and then handing it with a phial to me: "Here take this. I'm clearing out. Got a wife and baby to save. Keep his heart going there's a ghost of a chance. Adieu!"
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