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So filled with common sense, simply using sentiment as an ornament, and a relaxation; and never allowing it to interfere with the practical necessities of life. Ignorant people say they are hysterical, and over passionate They are nothing of the kind They believe in material things, and in the "beau geste."
When Cyrano de Bergerac threw, with a noble gesture, his purse to the players, his "Mais quel geste!" reveals that he was a player himself and was "showing off." There may be spectacular patriots, who are willing to suffer the extreme penalty for the sake of a place in history.
Votre satiete n'attend pas le banquet, et connaissant la coupe ou le monde s'enivre, dedaigneuse a vos pieds vous le regardez vivre. Et vous apparaissez par un geste coquet, rappelant Mnemosyne a son socle appuyee comme le souvenir d'une sphere oublie.
And we are justified in supposing that, quite as little of the real history of events can be extracted from the tale of Troy, as from the Chansons de Geste. By the time the Odyssey was composed, it is certain that a poet had before him a well-arranged mass of legends and traditions from which he might select his materials.
When the pinch of necessity came, however, Pershing sank his objections to amalgamation and, to his credit, agreed with a beau geste and fine phrase which concealed the differences between the Allied chiefs and won the heartiest sympathy from France and England.
The argument is that a man with a large shield needs no body armour, or uses the shield because he has no body armour. We turn to a French Chanson de Geste La Chancun de Willem of the twelfth century A.D., to judge by the handwriting. One of the heroes, Girard, having failed to rescue Vivien in battle, throws down his weapons and armour, blaming each piece for having failed him.
It was a beau geste, gallant and romantic in those days of trouble, when Amiens was still closely beleaguered, but safer now that Australians and British troops were holding the lines strongly outside, with French on their right southward from Boves and Hangest Wood. The French commandant had procured a collection of flags and his men had decorated the battered city with the Tricolor.
Some of these qualities are already distinctly visible in the earliest French works which have come down to us the Chansons de Geste. These poems consist of several groups or cycles of narrative verse, cast in the epic mould.
In that case they were showing archaeological conscientiousness in following the presumed earlier poets of the bronze age, the age of the Mycenaean graves. Now early poets are never studious archaeologists. They do not archaeologise. Again, the later remanieurs of the earliest Chansons de Geste modernise the details of these poems.
So keen a critic as Dr Brugger has not hesitated to accept the theory of the existence of this Geste, and is of opinion that the German poem Diu Crone may, in part at least, be derived from this source.
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