A History of the French Novel to the Close of the 19th Century volume 1
A History of the French Novel to the Close of the 19th Century volume 1
Saintsbury George
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It is not four pages long ; it tells how an ancestral genie a great king named Louis blessed the child, and said that he would be called " the father of his people, " and another followed suit with " the father of letters, " and a third swore Ventre Saint Gris! and named the baby's uncle as "Joseph, " and a still greater Louis said other things, and a fairy named vm SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL 269 Maria Theresa crowned the blessings. Then came an ogre mounted on a leopard and eating raw meat, who... was of Albion, and said he was king of the country, and observed " God ham " [sic], and was told that he would be beaten and made to lay down his arms by the child. And the Dauphin, unless this signalement is strangely delusive, lived to know the worst ogres in the world (their chief was named Simon), who were of his own people, and to die the most unhappy prince or king in that world. And he of the Leopard who said God ham, would have saved that Dauphin if he could, and did slay many of his less guiltless relations and subjects, and beat the rest " thorough and thorough, " and restored (could they have had the will and wit to profit by it) the race of Louis and Francis, and of the genie who said " Ventre Saint Gris !
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