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Madame de Maintenon, in fact, who, strong-minded as she might be, was nevertheless perpetually tormenting herself and wailing about something or other, continually eulogised that natural equanimity which she envied, that courage allied with good temper, that amiability, and that beau sang qui ne laissait rien d'âpre et de chagrin en elle.
An instructive measure of the degree in which he possessed these two qualities may be found in that deplorable diary of his, where on such days as the Fourteenth of July, when the Bastille fell, and the Sixth of October, when he was carried in triumph from Versailles to the Tuileries, he made the simple entry, 'Rien. And he had no firmness.
In the epistles of Humphrey Prideaux, student of Christ Church, we recognise the foibles of the modern University, the love of gossip, the internecine criticism, the greatness of little men whom rien ne peut plaire. Antony Wood was a scholar of a different sort, of a sort that has never been very common in Oxford.
The fascination of her fine and elevated intellect, her gentle sympathy, her keen appreciation of talent, and her graces of manner lent a singular charm to her presence. Her character was aptly expressed by this device which Rulhiere had suggested for her seal: "Un souffle m'agite et rien ne m'ebrante." Chateaubriand was enchanted with a nature so pure, so poetic, and so ardent.
She was the irruptive heroine of that witty and delightful sonnet on the Iliad: Je veux lire en trois jours l'Iliade d'Homère, Et pour ce, Corydon, ferme bien l'huis sur moi; Si rien me vient troubler, je t'assure ma foi, Tu sentiras combien pesante est ma colère.
"Il n'y a rien que je crains comme le desoeuvrement, l'inertie, la lethargie des facultes. Quand le corps est paresseux l'esprit souffre cruellement; je ne connaitrais pas cette lethargie, si je pouvais ecrire.
"Cela ne fait rien." "But are you hurt, sir?" "Pas trop.... Not quite what I was at dawn; and not quite what I shall be at dark." He was sitting strangely huddled. "May I see?" begged Kit, fingers at his breast. "Certainly not," the other replied with his faint chuckle. "But have they made you comfortable?" "Quite.... So kind, you English once you've got your own way.
"There are two who have escaped from Givet," replied he: "how they escaped no one can imagine; but," continued he, again looking at O'Brien, "avec les braves, il n'y a rien d'impossible." "That is true," replied O'Brien; "I have taken one, the other cannot be far off. You had better look for him."
The most opulent possessors, I often found the most penurious contributors." "Rien de trop," said Mr. Stanley, "was the favorite maxim of an author whom I am not apt to quote for rules of moral conduct. Yet its adoption would be a salutary check against excess in all our pursuits. If polite learning is undervalued by the mere man of science, it is perhaps over-rated by the mere man of letters.
After all these discussions you will now understand the true meaning of the famous pamphlet published by Abbé Sieyes in 1788 and so before the French Revolution which was summed up in these words: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que le tiers état? rien! qu' est qu'il doit être? Tout!"
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