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Of the nature of this union and of the talk it gave rise to, we shall not speak. Mme. de Sévigné tells all that need be known. "Leur mauvaise santé," writes she, "les rendoit comme nécessaires l'un
Auger tells us gravely that Mme. de La Fayette found the reading of the Latin poets a safeguard from the bad taste and extravagance of the Rambouillet coterie. But the same safeguard should have proved effectual in case of Ménage first of all, says Sainte-Beuve, who then gives the true relation of Mme de La Fayette to the Hôtel de Rambouillet: "Mme. de La Fayette, qui avait l'esprit solide et fin, s'en tira
The early education of Mme. de La Fayette for by this name we can best speak of her was made the special care of her father, "un père en qui le mérite égaloit la tendresse." Later, she was put under Ménage, and possibly Rapin. Segrais, with his usual garrulousness, tells the following story: "Trois mois après que Mme. de La Fayette eut commencé d'apprendre le latin, elle en savoit déj
But her society was still much sought after; for a notice of her death in the Mercure galant, tells us that when she could no longer go to the Court, the Court might be said to have come to her.
Quant aux obsidiennes de l'Alagheuz, grâce aux veines rouges qu'elles contiennent fréquemment, on peut suivre le développement de leur commerce jusqu'en Susiane. En effet, les fragments et les éclats de cette roche sont nombreux dans les couches anciennes des tells de l'
In an article which appeared in "Les Annales," July 6, 1913, Charles Le Goffic tells of a visit to the house in Tarascon known as la maison de Tartarin, and reports a conversation he had with Mistral, the great Provençal poet, an intimate friend of Daudet.
"My father said to me again and again," Léon Daudet tells us, "I should like, after I have accomplished my task, to set myself up as a merchant of happiness. My reward would be in my success!" This longing, so entirely characteristic of the man, is manifest everywhere in his earlier work, only rarely in the great novels; unfortunately the great novels were his "task."
Long years of suffering follow, but, although in almost constant pain, the indefatigable worker remains at his desk. In "Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres" and "Trente Ans de Paris" Daudet tells the story of his life and literary activity. It is through these works that we become intimately acquainted with our author, and we are not disillusioned.
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