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We may be sure that he guarded himself with delicate care from the charge of being what was then called a "libertine," that is a man openly at war with the theory and practice of the theologians. It is said that La Rochefoucauld invented the word "vraie," "true," to describe the character of Mme de La Fayette.
"Je ne l'aurais peut-etre pris que comme une maniere de taquiner, une plaisanterie, si cela ne m'avait ete repete encore tout dernierement par un homme d'une vraie valeur intellectuelle, qui a toute une theorie sur les races. La conclusion a deduire etait: tout ce qui pense serieusement ne peut etre francais.
Through the medium of the press, notably of the journal La Vraie République, she continued to give plain expression to her sentiments, regardless of the political enmities she might excite, and of the personal mortification to which she was exposed, even at Nohant, which with its inmates had recently become the mark for petty hostile "demonstrations." Alluding to these, she writes:
I interpreted for H., and she had quite a little conversation with him about his son, and about music. She told him she hoped the day was coming when art would be consecrated to express the best and purest emotions of humanity. He had read Uncle Tom; and when he read it he exclaimed, "This is genuine Christianity" "Ceci est la vraie Christianisme!"
And you never weary of it never sigh when it is time to return to it from New York?" "I never have been to New York, nor Albany either," Daisy made answer. Lady Berenicia held up her fan in pretended astonishment. "Never to New York! nor even to Albany! Une vraie belle sauvage! How you amaze me, poor child!" "Oh, I crave no pity, madam," our dear girl answered, cheerily.
Shoulders are of no age les épaules sont la vraie fontaine de jouvence pour les jolies femmes. 'You are such a witty creature, Seraphine, Fifine. You ought to be a descendant of that wicked old Madame du Deffand. Rilboche, give Madame some more chartreuse.
"What do you know about her?" "Nothing for certain; but it's my belief that she's better than he. I've even gone so far as to believe that she's a lady a vraie dame and that she has given up a great many things for him. I do the best I can for them, but I don't believe she has had all her life to put up with a dinner of two courses."
At one moment, she pronounced him to be "la vraie image de ce cher et bon Lord Castlereagh," whom she had so much liked; and the next she declared him to be exactly like "ce preux chevalier, son père," who was so irresistible that no female heart, or, as she said, at least no Italian female heart, could resist him.
The light riding skirt and jacket taken off, left her in green from head to foot. A daring colour for a brunette. But her own tint was so clear and the mossy shade of her dress was so well chosen, that the effect was extremely good. She looked like a wood nymph. 'Charming! vraie Française' said Madame, softly. 'That is a coquettish colour, my dear are you of that character!
"So you thought," wrote Madame Sand to a political friend, in 1849, "that I was drinking blood out of the skulls of aristocrats. Not I! I am reading Virgil and learning Latin." And her best propaganda, as by and by she came to own, was not that carried on in journals such as La Vraie République and La Cause du Peuple.
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