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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
deration by the deserved contempt with which the efforts of their malice were regarded . The friends of Grandier found infinite charms in his conversation and manners ; but to his enemies his carriage was full of loftiness and disdain . Alibis designs and undertakings were marked with peculiar firmness aud intrepidity ; and in matters of interest he was not easily wronged or overborne . He repelled < ivery
attack with such vigour and resentment , that his enemies were rendered ineconcileable . But innocent as was Grandier of the crime of magic , he was undoubtedly chargeable on the score of gallantry , in which he discovered but little self-government and moderation—a part of his history that will well account for man } 'of those implacable enmities
which he drew upon himself : and we may conclude , that the least furious of his persecutors were not among his defeated rivals , and the relations of tlie victims to his seductive qualities . Amidst the many amours with which he was embarrassed , there was but one mistress of his heart , and report gave this title to Magdeleiue de Brou , with whom he was thought to have contracted a marriage of conscience , and to have written , for the greater repose of hermiiid
his famous treatise against the celibacy of the clergy . But , as his heart was great and honourable , he ' was never known , by the slightest breath of intimation , to sport with the character of any female whose ' charms had yielded to his allurements . Notwithstanding the predominancy which this passion had gained in his mind , it had not been able to subdue or weaken the sentiments of piety and principles of
faith with which it was inspired ; and we shall see in the end that these qualities acquired their due ascendancy , and supported liirn under gieater trials—greater than humanity is constructed to bear , without tlie extraordinary succours and resources of a never-failinoreli g ion . Some legal victories which his superior eloquence and address
obtained in various ecclesiastical contests , excited the keenest resentment in the breasts of those he had defeated , which was moreover exasperated to an uncommon pitch by the disdainful triumphs with which these victories were accompanied . Mounier and Mignon were the principal among this number . To these we may add the numerous relations of Barot , President des Ehis , the uncle of Mignon , whom Grandier had treated with a mortifying contempt , in a difference which had taken : place between them , and whose great riches and connexions gathered round him an immense crowd of sharers in his
resentment . But the most determined of all his enemies was Trinquant , the King ' s Procureur , whose daughter ' s affections had been won by Grandier , and to . whom it was on good grounds supposed that her virtue had been likewise surrendered . The exposure of the parties was prevented by an act of friendshi p that deserves to be recorded . Martlie Pelletier , by whom the unfortunate girl was tenderl y beloved , disguised from the world the fruits « f the amour , and took upon herself the whole reproach , by declaring
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Story Of Urbain Grandier.
deration by the deserved contempt with which the efforts of their malice were regarded . The friends of Grandier found infinite charms in his conversation and manners ; but to his enemies his carriage was full of loftiness and disdain . Alibis designs and undertakings were marked with peculiar firmness aud intrepidity ; and in matters of interest he was not easily wronged or overborne . He repelled < ivery
attack with such vigour and resentment , that his enemies were rendered ineconcileable . But innocent as was Grandier of the crime of magic , he was undoubtedly chargeable on the score of gallantry , in which he discovered but little self-government and moderation—a part of his history that will well account for man } 'of those implacable enmities
which he drew upon himself : and we may conclude , that the least furious of his persecutors were not among his defeated rivals , and the relations of tlie victims to his seductive qualities . Amidst the many amours with which he was embarrassed , there was but one mistress of his heart , and report gave this title to Magdeleiue de Brou , with whom he was thought to have contracted a marriage of conscience , and to have written , for the greater repose of hermiiid
his famous treatise against the celibacy of the clergy . But , as his heart was great and honourable , he ' was never known , by the slightest breath of intimation , to sport with the character of any female whose ' charms had yielded to his allurements . Notwithstanding the predominancy which this passion had gained in his mind , it had not been able to subdue or weaken the sentiments of piety and principles of
faith with which it was inspired ; and we shall see in the end that these qualities acquired their due ascendancy , and supported liirn under gieater trials—greater than humanity is constructed to bear , without tlie extraordinary succours and resources of a never-failinoreli g ion . Some legal victories which his superior eloquence and address
obtained in various ecclesiastical contests , excited the keenest resentment in the breasts of those he had defeated , which was moreover exasperated to an uncommon pitch by the disdainful triumphs with which these victories were accompanied . Mounier and Mignon were the principal among this number . To these we may add the numerous relations of Barot , President des Ehis , the uncle of Mignon , whom Grandier had treated with a mortifying contempt , in a difference which had taken : place between them , and whose great riches and connexions gathered round him an immense crowd of sharers in his
resentment . But the most determined of all his enemies was Trinquant , the King ' s Procureur , whose daughter ' s affections had been won by Grandier , and to . whom it was on good grounds supposed that her virtue had been likewise surrendered . The exposure of the parties was prevented by an act of friendshi p that deserves to be recorded . Martlie Pelletier , by whom the unfortunate girl was tenderl y beloved , disguised from the world the fruits « f the amour , and took upon herself the whole reproach , by declaring