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Surely it would have been better if he had never gone to Paris, but, like his friend Mistral, had remained in Provence and devoted his essentially poetic genius to an expression of the spirit of the south. His keenly sensitive nature was too delicate for intercourse with the virility of a Zola or the subtlety of a Goncourt. Paris made of him a realist, and the world lost by the transformation.
Boxtel knew that van Baerle had found the bulb of the black tulip, and had denounced him to the police in the hope that, after the arrest of the master of the house, he could enter the garden unnoticed and steal the famous bulbs. The day of the arrest he remained in bed, pretending to be sick. La nuit vint. C'était la nuit qu'attendait Boxtel. La nuit venue, il se leva.
If only he had continued as he began, if only he had remained the poet of the "Lettres de mon moulin"; if only he had not been led astray by his "task," he might have brought to the world of readers that happiness which he brought to his few friends in the attic of Auteuil. We are told the story of the publication of "Tartarin de Tarascon" by Daudet himself in his "Trente Ans de Paris."
The siege lasted sixty-five days, and on December 26, 1552, the imperial troops left Metz as a permanent possession of the French. It remained one of their most important strongholds till its cession to Germany in 1870. Charles V.'s remark upon his defeat is well known: "I see that Fortune is just like a woman; she favors a young king more than an old emperor."
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