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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
the first crop was glory, the second a bon-mot. When the dagger of De Retz fell from his breast-pocket, it was our good archbishop's breviarye was receiving her gallants in mimic court at the Hotel de Ville, De Retz was wearing his sword-belt over his archbishop's gown, the little rs and crimes. It was the age of cabalistic ciphers, like that of De Retz, of which Guy Joli dreamed the solution; of inexplicable secrets, courtly gallantry which flattered them with a hollow importance. De Retz, in his Memoirs, compares the women of his age with Elizabeth of Erraine, who snatched the pen from her weak husband's hand and gave De Retz the order for the first insurrection, down to the wife of the commaking sides. Tie Queen was on her knees in the Carmelite Chapel. De Retz was shut up in his palace, and Gaston of Orleans in his,--the lattto guess; it is Madame de la Valliere. Not at all, Madame! Mlle. de Retz? Not a bit; you are a mere provincial. How absurd! you say; it