Category: Novels
There is no need for me to tell over again here the life of Monsieur l’Abbé Jérôme Coignard, professor of oratory at the college of Beauvais, librarian to Monseigneur de Séez, _Sagiensis episcopi bibliothecarius solertissimus_, as his epitaph has it, later on secretary at the...
There is no need for me to tell over again here the life of Monsieur l’Abbé Jérôme Coignard, professor of oratory at the college of Beauvais, librarian to Monseigneur de Séez, _...
2. Part 2Why were you not with him in my study, Monsieur l’Abbé Coignard, to make him feel the falsity of his doctrine? You would not have talked to this generous Utopian of the benefits...
3. Part 3“Oh!” resumed Catherine, sliding near to him and looking at him with a great pretence of tenderness, “I shall be very unhappy if I cannot succeed in giving you the inclination....
4. Part 4Monsieur Jérôme Coignard, always avid of news, slid up to him to glean what he could across his shoulder. This man, learned and of so rare a genius, owned nothing of the goods o...
5. Part 5“Monsieur Coignard,” said the locksmith from Greenwich, “it is easy to see by the baseness of your talk that you are accustomed to servitude. You would speak differently of stat...
6. Part 6“I will not betray you,” answered my father, “a good song is worth a glass of wine to me, and even more, I do not say anything either about the knives, and I am glad, my good fe...
7. Part 7“Thought is a malady peculiar to certain individuals which cannot propagate itself without promptly ending the race. Soldiers live in company, and man is a sociable animal. They...
8. Part 8“Stop, Tournebroche, my son, do not say anything evil of unfortunate selections,” replied my master. “To begin with, in all human undertakings one must take into consideration t...
9. Part 9“Three things make a man happy in this world, to know the charm of intercourse, dainty meats, and liberty, perfect and entire. We have seen in what way our illustrious kingdom h...
10. Part 10“No, Monsieur,” replied my good master, letting the fish, he had held to his lips for some moments, fall on his plate. “No, it is not amusing, and the thought that that nice-loo...
11. Part 11“Monsieur,” said my good master, “it is less innocent to make war than to go to Ramponneau’s in a lace head-dress. But justice gives to every one what is his, according to the r...