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In that old maid there's always something of Madame la Ressource in Moliere's 'Miser." "I think, Monsieur le maire, that you are mistaken," said Phellion. "Madame la Ressource is a character in 'Turcaret, a very immoral play by the late Le Sage." "Do you think so?" said Minard. "Well, very likely.
If we wish to study the masterpieces of French comedy in the eighteenth century, we shall promptly shut up the volumes of Diderot, and turn to the ease and soft gracefulness of Marivaux's Game of Love and Chance, to the forcible and concentrated sententiousness of Piron's Métromanie, to the salt and racy flavour of Le Sage's Turcaret.
The Government, always alarmed by a new idea, has banished these materials of modern comedy from the stage. The citizen class, less liberal than Louis XIV., dreads the advent of its Mariage de Figaro, forbids the appearance of a political Tartuffe, and certainly would not allow Turcaret to be represented, for Turcaret is king.
They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus. They had stoutly shaken the swing attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbe de Bernis.
"You would cheapen a gold mine!" said Louchard, bowing and leaving. "I shall get dat address for five hundert franc!" cried the Baron, who desired his servant to send his secretary to him. Turcaret is no more.
"But vy dis minute?" asked he. "Bless me, my sweetheart, you must give it to her in a little satin box wrapped round a fan. You must say, 'Here, madame, is a fan which I hope may be to your taste. You are supposed to be a Turcaret, and you will become a Beaujon." "Charming, charming!" cried the Baron. "I shall be so clever henceforth. Yes, I shall repeat your vorts."
Grown big and stout and high-colored with good cheer and prosperity, Gaudissart made no disguise of his transformation into a Mondor. "We are turning into a city-father," he once said, trying to be the first to laugh. "You are only in the Turcaret stage yet, though," retorted Bixiou, who often replaced Gaudissart in the company of the leading lady of the ballet, the celebrated Heloise Brisetout.
The Marquise previously quoted no, it was the Marquise de Rochefide came out of that dressing-closet in a furious rage, and never went back again. She discovered nothing 'improper' in it. Godefroid used to keep a little cupboard full of " "Waistcoats?" suggested Finot. "Come, now, just like you, great Turcaret that you are.
"I understant," said he, "vy you call her Asie; dis is Asiatic cooking." "I begin to think he loves me," said Esther to Europe; "he has said something almost like a bon mot." "I said many vorts," said he. "Well! he is more like Turcaret than I had heard he was!" cried the girl, laughing at this reply, worthy of the many artless speeches for which the banker was famous.
Grown big and stout and high-colored with good cheer and prosperity, Gaudissart made no disguise of his transformation into a Mondor. "We are turning into a city-father," he once said, trying to be the first to laugh. "You are only in the Turcaret stage yet, though," retorted Bixiou, who often replaced Gaudissart in the company of the leading lady of the ballet, the celebrated Heloise Brisetout.
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