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At last, Francois Gervaise was by the merest chance detected openly, under circumstances which blasted his character for ever. His companion in guilt was brought before M. de La Trappe, to leave no doubt upon the matter. D. Francois Gervaise, utterly prostrated, resigned his office, and left La Trappe.
The monastery which had lingered in Durtal's fancy as a mere confused picture, apart from time, without place or date, deriving nothing from his memories of La Trappe but the sense of discipline, and on to which he had at once engrafted the fancy of an abbey of a more literary and artistic stamp, governed by a conciliatory rule, in a milder atmosphere that ideal retreat, half borrowed from reality and half the fabric of a dream was taking shape.
Visit to La Trappe. M. de Luxemhourg's Claim of Precedence. Origin of the Claim. Duc de Piney. Character of Harlay. Progress of the Trial. Luxembourg and Richelieu. Double-dealing of Harlay. The Duc de Gesvres. Return to the Seat of War. Divers Operations. Origin of These Memoirs. Quarrels of the Princesses. Mademoiselle Choin. A Disgraceful Affair. M. de Noyon. Comic Scene at the Academie.
"When I went to La Trappe for my great purification, I was not harassed by apprehensions of this kind; when I have gone there again several times since, it never occurred to me that I should really bury myself in a monastery; and now that it is a matter merely of a short visit to a Benedictine monastery, I am trembling and recalcitrant. "Such a commotion is quite childish!
To discover the unknown source of his flaccid longing for he knew not what, and his inexplicable dissatisfaction, he had only to look back a little way and pause at La Trappe. He saw now everything had begun there.
"There is a fellow coming from the place," he said, pointing out a vagabond, who was crossing the copse at a great pace. And he explained to Durtal that every beggar had a right to food and even to lodging at La Trappe; they gave them the ordinary fare of the community in a room close to the brother porter's lodge, but did not let them into the convent.
One soon presented itself, but as soon fell to the ground; and I went to La Trappe to console myself for the impossibility of making an alliance with the Duc de Beauvilliers. La Trappe is a place so celebrated and so well known, and its reformer so famous, that I shall say but little about it. My father had been very intimate with M. de la Trappe, and had taken me to him.
Burglary by a Duke. Proposed Marriage of the Duc de Bourgogne. The Duchesse de Lude. A Dangerous Lady. Madame d'O. Arrival of the Duchesse de Bourgogne. My Return to Fontainebleau. A Calumny at Court. Portrait of M. de La Trappe. A False Painter. Fast Living at the "Desert." Comte d'Auvergne. Perfidy of Harlay. M. de Monaco. Madame Panache. The Italian Actor and the "False Prude".
The Romanesque is the La Trappe of architecture; we find it sheltering the austerest Orders, the sternest Brotherhoods, kneeling in ashes, and chanting in an undertone with bowed heads none but penitential Psalms. These massive cellars speak of the fear of sin, but also of the dread of a God whose wrath could only be appeased by the Advent of the Son.
M. de La Trappe read it, and was much scandalized. The more he studied it, the more this sentiment penetrated him. At last, after having well examined the book, he sent his opinion to M. de Meaux, believing it would be considered as private, and not be shown to anybody.
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