Life of Voltaire 1
Life of Voltaire 1
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Notice had been given! D'Argental for- warded it swiftly to Cirey. The pretext of the threatened prosecution seems to have astounded the inmates of the cha- teau even more than the threat itself. It was a merry poem of a hundred and twenty lines, called u The Worldling " (Le Mondain), suggested by the u Fable of the Bees," and written in the gay hours following the success of " Alzire," a few months before. The poem was a jovial explosion of anti- Pascalism ; harmless if taken as a joke, nor li...kely to be taken otherwise except by a Tartuffe.
" Regret who will the good old time, And the age of gold, and Astrea's reign, And the beautiful days of Saturn and of Rhea, And the garden of our first parents." " For my part," continued the poet, " I love luxury and even softness [mollesse]^ all the pleasures, all the arts, cleanli- ness, taste, decoration ; and so does every honest man." One of the lines of this poem has remained current coin in France ever since : " Le superflu, chose trds n^cessaire." 1 The offense of this poem was supposed to lie in a few lines referring to the legend of Adam and Eve : " My dear Adam, my gourmand, my good father, what did you do in the garden of Eden ?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Notice had been given! D'Argental for- warded it swiftly to Cirey. The pretext of the threatened prosecution seems to have astounded the inmates of the cha- teau even more than the threat itself. It was a merry poem of a hundred and twenty lines, called u The Worldling " (Le Mondain), suggested by the u Fable of the Bees," and written in the gay hours following the success of " Alzire," a few months before. The poem was a jovial explosion of anti- Pascalism ; harmless if taken as a joke, nor li...kely to be taken otherwise except by a Tartuffe.
" Regret who will the good old time, And the age of gold, and Astrea's reign, And the beautiful days of Saturn and of Rhea, And the garden of our first parents." " For my part," continued the poet, " I love luxury and even softness [mollesse]^ all the pleasures, all the arts, cleanli- ness, taste, decoration ; and so does every honest man." One of the lines of this poem has remained current coin in France ever since : " Le superflu, chose trds n^cessaire." 1 The offense of this poem was supposed to lie in a few lines referring to the legend of Adam and Eve : " My dear Adam, my gourmand, my good father, what did you do in the garden of Eden ?
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