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It was generally said that some day or other, when he had sown his wild oats, he would, if he took to politics, be an eminent man. Altogether he was a very strong creature. That was a very strong age under Louis Philippe. The viveurs of Paris were fine types for the heroes of Dumas and Sue, full of animal life and spirits. Victor de Mauleon was a romance of Dumas, incarnated."
We all know they had an intense aversion to any savour of domesticity, and they never shaved, washed, dined, visited, had new clothes. Holiness, indeed! They were viveurs.... We have witnessed Religion without Theology, and why not an Unsectarian Thebaid? I sometimes fancy it needs only one brave man to begin.... If it were not for the fuss Euphemia would make I certainly should.
But, meanwhile, he had made many friends amongst young men of his own age those loose wild viveurs who, without doing anything the law can punish as dishonest, contrive for a few fast years to live very showily on their wits.
Where we fail, many of us, is in the elaborateness of our pleasures, in the fact that we learn to be connoisseurs rather than viveurs, in losing our taste for the ancient wholesome activities and delights.
Regulate yourself, and not after the fashion of the fabulous Don Juan. Marry live soberly and quietly and you may survive the grandchildren of viveurs. Go on as you have done, and before the year is out you are in Pere la Chaise." Rameau listened languidly, but with a profound conviction that the physician thoroughly understood his case.
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