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Updated: May 1, 2025
Such unjust judgment would most probably be formed by accepting anecdotes, like those contained in Tallemant's scandalous chronicle or Bussy Rabutin's "Letters," as historic truths; or by placing implicit faith in every statement made by De Retz or La Rochefoucauld, given as both were to exaggeration and over-colouring, and whose object, moreover, was not so much to tell the truth as always to exalt themselves, sometimes by its suppression, at others by downright falsification.
In fact we have dislikes founded, or rather unfounded, upon the basis of Bussy Rabutin's lines: "Je ne vous aime point, Hylas; Je n'en saurois dire la cause. Je sais seulement une chose. C'est que je ne vous aime pas." Next comes an even more intimate personal element the critic's condition. The day may have been vexing. The present indecent haste of the income-tax collector may have worried him.
What apology of Lauzun's, or Bussy Rabutin's for faithlessness could equal this? "Why dost thou say I am forsworn, Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn; It was last night I swore to thee That fond impossibility." Has "In Memoriam" nobler numbers than the poem, from exile, to Lucasta?
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