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Updated: May 12, 2025
She stretched out her arms as though to embrace some invisible treasure in the air "Priscilla! ... Priscilla!" Then as Priscilla took her gently round the waist and tried to calm her she began to laugh again. "The old motto! you remember it? the motto of the Sieur Amadis de Jocelin! 'Mon coeur me soutien! You know what it means 'My heart sustains me. Yes and you know why his heart is so strong?
Presently, checking her sobs, she rose, and looked about her in a kind of dream the familiar little room seemed to have suddenly become strange to her, and she thought she saw standing in one corner a figure clad in armour, its vizor was up, showing a sad pale face and melancholy eyes the lips moved and a sighing murmur floated past her ears "Mon coeur me soutien!"
He nettles him to flaunt his courage; and the man's nobler mind is expressed in his exclamation: "Des chevaliers de ma patrie L'honneur toujours fut le soutien! "And finally, to crown the work, the theme comes in which sounded the note of fatality at the beginning. Thus, the leading strain, the magnificent call to the deed: "Nonnes qui reposez sous cette froide pierre, M'entendez-vous?
She paused, looking up by the dim candle-light at the arms of the "Sieur Amadis" who "Here seekinge Forgetfulnesse did here fynde Peace" and at the motto "Mon coeur me soutien." "Poor 'Sieur Amadis!" she murmured "He sought forgetfulness! shall I ever do the same? How strange it will be not to WISH to remember! surely one must be very old, or sad, to find gladness in forgetting!"
My brother Charles, despite his being the only son of a widow and soutien de famille, had been enlisted, and his letters did not always reach their destination, though his regiment was at Chagny, not far from Autun, and for a while Mr. Hamerton had lost all traces of his mother-in-law.
'Jack ; Le Nabab ; Les Rois en exil ; Numa Roumestan ; L'Evangeliste ; Sapho ; Tartarin sur des Alces ; L'Immortel ; Port Tarascon ; Rose et Ninette ; La petite Parvisse ; and Soutien de Famille ; such is the long list of the great life-artist. In Le Nabab we find obvious traces of Daudet's visits to Algiers and Corsica-Mora is the Duc de Morny.
And when he died he was buried on his own land and his effigy is on his tomb it was sculptured by himself. I used to put flowers on it, just where his motto was carved 'Mon coeur me soutien. For I I was brought up at Briar Farm... and I was quite fond of the Sieur Amadis!"
And the moonlight, widening and then waning over the smooth and peaceful meadows of Briar Farm, had it all its own way for the rest of the night, and as it filtered through the leafy branches of the elms and beeches which embowered the old tomb of the Sieur Amadis de Jocelin it touched with a pale glitter the stone hands of his sculptured effigy, hands that were folded prayerfully above the motto, "Mon coeur me soutien!"
Racine had not been afraid to use the word 'chien' in the most exalted of his tragedies; but his degenerate successors quailed before such an audacity. If you must refer to such a creature as a dog, you had better call it 'de la fidélité respectable soutien'; the phrase actually occurs in a tragedy of the eighteenth century.
Amadis de Jocelyn! the name of her old stone Knight of France, on his tomb at Briar Farm, with his motto "Mon coeur me soutien!" "Amadis de Jocelyn!" she repeated, falteringly ... "Are you sure? ... I mean ... is that his name really? ... it's so unusual... so curious..." "Yes it IS curious" agreed her host "but it's quite a good old French name, belonging to a good old French family.
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