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After the breaking-up of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, there were formed various smaller coteries, among which that of Mme. de La Fayette was by no means the least important. From her little circle of précieuses, Mme. de La Fayette was drawn to the Court of Louis XIV. chiefly through the friendship of "Madame," the Princess Henrietta of England.
For Mme. de La Fayette, though belonging wholly to the young Court, took no part in the intrigues and factions of the royal household. It is this Court life, which, under guise of that of Henry II., is described in La Princesse de Clèves: "There were so many interests and so many intrigues in which women took part that love was always mingled with politics and politics with love.
When M. Guizot, as ambassador here, read me Thiers's note of the 8 october, he said, if I mistake not, that he was not going to discuss with me the arguments or the doctrines contained in it, and that he was not responsible for them. In fact I clearly perceived that M. Guizot saw through the numerous fallacies and false doctrines which that note contained.
D'après cette note, Letourneur traduit: That my end Was wrought by nature and not by vile offense,
The great novels which now follow are the fruit of meditation, the ripening process which the war precipitated, and which was fed from the flame of Flaubert, Goncourt, Zola, and others. Neglecting almost entirely those elements of his genius which came to him as his birthright, he devotes himself henceforth to a study of the problems of life.
He was left in the city with a brigade of 5.000 men. He moved 3.000 of these suddenly outside the city, and then as suddenly became alarmed for the safety of the remainder amongst so large a hostile population. He therefore marched the 3.000 camped outside hastily back again.
In despair he refused to eat. Gryphus was delighted. Bon, dit Gryphus en descendant après la dernière visite; bon, je crois que nous allons être débarrassés du savant. Rosa tressaillit. Bah! dit Jacob, et comment cela? Il ne boit plus, il ne mange plus, il ne se lève plus, dit Gryphus. Rosa devint pâle comme la mort. Oh! murmura-t-elle, je comprends; il est inquiet de sa tulipe.
The Orange party wished the death of the de Witts and had stirred up the populace, which was kept from breaking into the prison only by state troops under the command of Tilly. Mort aux traîtres! cria la compagnie des bourgeois exaspérée. Bah! vous dites toujours la même chose, grommela l'officier, c'est fatigant!
Daudet's love for his native land was intense. Its images were ever present to him; its poetry haunted him throughout his life. He urged young men ambitious of literary laurels to remain in their native provinces, to draw their inspiration from the soil, confident that something great and beautiful would result. Why did he not take for himself the counsel he so incessantly offered to others?
Mme. de la Fayette, whose maiden name was Marie-Magdeleine Pioche de La Vergne, was born at Paris in 1634. Her father belonged to the lesser nobility, and was for awhile governor of Pontoise, and later of Havre.
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