Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07

the masters Of the house. NJ de Troyes, NJ de Toulon.
father Bpurdaoue, his associate, Despreaux H. O. Boi-
leau ard Corbnel conversation arose on the works
Of the ansients and the moderns Despreaux supported
the ancetts with the exception Of single modern who
surpassed according his taste both the old and new
The associate Of Bourdaloue, who showed himself
to be conceited fellow, and who had arrayed himself
the side Of ofDespreaux and Corbnei, asked him. What
then e book remarkable for its ceverness? Des
preaux didnot wish to it. Corbinelli said to him
Sir bessech you to tell it to me, that may readit all
night long, Despreaux replied with laugh: sAh air.
you have read it more than once am sure' The Jesuit
resumes with dsdainful air. cotat rtso 0naro, and
presses Despreaux to this marvellous author
Despreaux replied MY father, do net press me- Ths
father persists AT last Despreaux takes him by the arm
and giving II good squeeze, says: My father you viii
have it, eh !? Well, mor6lsu 1t Is PASCAL Pascslt'
says the father growing red in the face and confused
Pascal is beautiful 1t is given to the false ~ ss
The false interrupts Despreaux the false Eou know
he Is true he is inimabe he has just been
s i.f rasr assf o rAs now
and cries like mad: what my father, viii you
say that one Of your men did not have printed IN ons
God? Dare you say that is false? Sir says the father
in furious passion is necessary to make distinctions
there Make distinction cries Despreaux; make
distinction more make distincton make distinctions
whether under obligation TO loUe God or not And
taking Corbine by the he rushed away to the end
of the then returning and running about like aman
took himself off rsjoin the company which had remain
ed in the dining Here ends the history the cur
tain drops Corbnel promises to tell more about it
But, persuaded am that you viii find the scene A
funny as have, send it to you
Time and space would fail us were we to attempt
recapituation Of the almost numberess references in
these letters Ncolo and his Essays Moral Science,
which she pronounces to be sof the same stuff as Pass
ca' All who have read Mrs. Schimmelpenninck's i'm
teresting Recoections Of Port Royal (and this work
Of all those relating to Jansenism is the most accessible
IT, ~ n1oa olln-s~
eulogium the Mother Ang6lique de St. JeanArnaud,
brother of the celebrated champion Of Jansenism and
abbess Of the monastery at Port Royal.
"Madame de Lesdignieres has written to the Mother
Angeique Of Port Royal She showed the reply shs
received thought it beautiful that copied it. and
you will find it herewith. 1t is the first time have
untalk and think like nun. have seen some who
were disturbed about the marriage Of their relatives
who in despair because their nieces nat
yet married; who vindctive ack-biting, medds-
some, preudiced 1t is natural that should be So but
before any who truly and sincerely dead
to the world Enjoy with me, my child, the same plea
which this rarity has given She the dear
child Of M. dAndiy and 1t Of her that he said to
me- BE assured that all my brothers. and all my chill
drsn and myself are but bockheads in comparison with
| Angelque.' Nothing good has come out Of that
country Royal which has not been corrected ana
approved by her. She has been taught all
and oil the sciences; in fine, she is prodigy and only
the because she entered religious life at the
age of six years refused copy Of her letter to Bran
he is unworthy Of it, but told him he must confess
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of hers much beautiful and more to the point
This is letter written with running pen my own in
fair way to get off on trot. !" y
These letters Of Madame de Sevigne need scarcsly
say thick with pleasanries with pearls Hsr
sdent humor peeps out beneath all the DISCUSSES Of her
Jansenist gravity With what animation she recouAtx
| the following incident
i sThe Archbishop Of Rheims The was NJ lie Teller,
brother Of the Minister Louvos returning yesterday
very fast from st. Germain he came like whirwnd
He believes himself to be great lord but his people BE-
lliava 10 ho roatar fhanh doaa hAv
passing from Nanterre, trG, ira; they meet
man horseback clear the track clsor Srack the man
to get out Of the way the horse doesn't wish
and the coach and six horses tip up heels over head
the poor and his horse and pass right them.
and exactly them overset the coach and spill
the archbishop At the time the and his horss
instead of amusing themselves with being broken by tho
wheels and manged pick themselves up miraculously,
mount the the other and take themselves of in
hurry and keep running while the ackeys of the arch
bishop and the coachman and the archbishop himself sse
to crying, Haoo stop him. stop the rascal; give him
hundred ashes The archbishop in telling the story.
said II had got hold Of the scoundrel would have
broken his and cut off his ears. :"
Flashes Of wit and CLEANS of the most shiny humee
thus escape from almost every mssive of this sprghty
marques. She mirth as easily as she sobsrs
our thoughts And she has quiet way Of limiting hsr
satire and playing with her pleasantly which dsarms heE
wit Of sting while it heightens the pquancy Of hs
She has too dramatic faculty which enables
her. few dsshes of the pen to sketch character and
to put it in before eyes, while her Imagination
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petty comedy tragedy the case may be. How vivid
y she brings before Louis Quatorze at royal recap
ton, spreading himself in all his glory and now
whimperng because La Vaere has left him to the tsA
der mercies Of Madame Montespan Who can forget the
nice little Madame de Ludres, who talked French 50 pref
tily, 1--WE mean SO afectedy,) "0d! Zesu! Aatams te
Grgnan, quels eranse de zse soute nue. tGrs "a
me." Or the good Able Pontcarre who always excused
himself from telling story, when in bad humor b3
pleading pain in the fat Of his thighs" Or the
thery Mad dc Guerchy, who, having lost daughter rs
4 ftod hat aha 20 emil
Fiction" that she could not 60 to ball!
We had marked several letters for the purpose Of trans
lang and giving them in full to readers but the
length which remarks and excerpts have already
been extended to conclude We therefore hy
aside pen, but with feeling Of regret that our
gentle craft rarely calls genial task like thae
have essayed to-day in thus reyivng recoecoss
Of this charming letter writer whom oil the world e1ceps
Voaire has agreed to admire to praise, and to love-
Z. THE CHARTER OAK"
/ FROM THE HARTFORD (coss.) rAEs OF SEPT Y