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y in the hands of Mlle. de Scudery, and her valets, before Moliere smiled it away forever. And now that the wars were done, literary society came up again. Madame de Sable exhausted the wit and the cookery of the age in her fascinating entertainments,--pates and Pascal, Rochefoucauld and ragouts,--Mme. de Bregy's Epictetus, Mme. de Choisy's salads,--confectionery, marmalade, elixirs, Des Cartes, Arnould, Calvinism, and the barometer. Mme. de Sable had a sentimental theory that no woman should eat at the same table with a lover, but she liked to see her lovers eat, and Mademoiselle, in her obsolete novel of the Princesse de Paphlagonie, gently satirizes the Carmelites, or those nuns of Port-Royal of whom the Archbishop of Paris said that they lived in the purity of angels and the pride of devils. Thither went Madame de Sable herself, finally,--the late Madame, as the dashing young abbes called her when she renounced the world. Thither she drew the beautiful Longueville also, and

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