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Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas, in their turn, differed on this point, as Pelagius and Augustine did. The Franciscans and the Dominicans took respectively the views of those two great schoolmen. The Jesuits and the Jansenists of Louis XV's time shewed a like cleavage. Wherever you find Calvinistic views held and combated, there you have in fact the controversy which was started by our countrymen.
"What, Louis XV's time!" said the doctor muttering to himself. 'Jan. 27. 2. ditto, ditto. "'Two' means the second volume I suppose?" "Yes sir." "Hum if you were a mouse you would gnaw through the wall in time at that rate. This is in the original?" "Yes sir." 'Feb. 3. Paris. "What do these hieroglyphics mean?" "That stands for the 'Library of Entertaining Knowledge," said Fleda.
During Louis XV's time soft cushions fitted into the sinuous lines of the furniture, and as some Frenchman has put it, "a vague, discreet perfume pervaded the whole period, in contrast to the heavier odour of the First Empire." The walls and ceilings of the three Louis were richly decorated in accordance with a scheme, surpassing in magnificence any other period.
That verse came from Punch, not from Captain Devot. I happen to remember it because it struck my fancy when I read it, and added to the romance of the road made for Louis XV's daughters daughters of France, where now so many sons of France have died for France!
But the place was shut up by Barbara, Aurelius XV's widow, a severe and devout Princess of the House of Bolkum and Regent of the Duchy during her son's glorious minority, and after the death of her husband, cut off in the pride of his pleasures. The theatre of Pumpernickel is known and famous in that quarter of Germany.
We must now retrace our steps, which will bring us to the Rue Francs Bourgeois; No. 25 is an hôtel of the time of Henri IV, No. 7, Hôtel de Jeanne d'Abret, of Louis XV's days, and No. 12, the former residence of the Dukes de Roquelaure, and at the corner will be observed a little turret belonging to a house, one side of which is in the Vieille Rue du Temple; there is some curious work upon it, and it is supposed to have been standing at the time the Duke of Orleans was murdered by order of the Duke of Burgundy, which was just about this spot, in 1407.
If a commoner gave a noble even so much as a Damiens-scratch which didn't kill or even hurt, he got Damiens' dose for it just the same; they pulled him to rags and tatters with horses, and all the world came to see the show, and crack jokes, and have a good time; and some of the performances of the best people present were as tough, and as properly unprintable, as any that have been printed by the pleasant Casanova in his chapter about the dismemberment of Louis XV's poor awkward enemy.
The curved line was used persistently until the last years of Louis XV's time, but it was a beautiful, gracious curve, elaborate, and in furniture, richly carved, which was used during the best period. The decline came when good taste was lost in the craze for rococo. Chairs were carved and gilded, or painted, or lacquered, and also beautiful natural woods were used.
The Church itself told me stories, I tried to see it in Louis XV's time I dare say it looked much the same, only dirtier And life was made up with etiquette and forms and ceremonies, more exasperating than anything now. But they were ahead of us in manners, and a sense of beauty. A little child came and sat beside me for about ten minutes, and looked at me and my crutch sympathetically.
"It reminds one of Louis XV's supposed reply to his daughters" I said to Maurice yesterday. "When they asked him to make them a good road to the Château of their dear Gouvernante, the Duchesse de la Bove He assured them he could not, his mistresses cost him too much! So they paid for it themselves, hence the 'Chemin des Dames."
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