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Article ANECDOTES OF DR. JOHNSON, &c. ← Page 8 of 8 Article PRIVATE ANECDOTES OF ILLUSTRIOUS FRENCH CHARACTERS. Page 1 of 8 →
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Johnson, &C.
T _ " As the Characters in the reigns of Henry VIII . and Edward VI . are now exhausted , tlie Printer is requested to accept in future the following remarkable Characters or Anecdotes of later times . M . R . "l
Private Anecdotes Of Illustrious French Characters.
PRIVATE ANECDOTES OF ILLUSTRIOUS FRENCH CHARACTERS .
JACQUES AUGUST DE THOU , . £ Born at Paris 1553 , died in 1617 . J INajourney toLanguedoc in with the M de
Schomcompany berg I went to see the Bishop of Mende at his country seat of Chanac . We were entertained with magnificence—we took notice that among the different sorts of game served to his table , some wanted the head , a leg , a wing , or some other part of the body , and which gave occasion to the Bishop to say in a very pleasant manner , that some allowances were to be made to the gluttony of his
purveyors , who had always been in the practice of tasting every thing beforehand : we were a good deal surprised at this intelligence , but vyere not allowed to remain long ignorant of what we thought a riddle . —When the Bishop had informed us that these his purveyors were Eagles , we were desirous of examining things nearer hand ; we found as we had been told that the eagles build their nests on the tops of inaccessible rocks . As soon as the shepherds perceive
where the nests are built , they construct a small hut at the foot of the rock , where they watch unseen the eagles carrying of game to their young ; when the old ones are flown away in search of more they quickly clamber up to the top of the rock , and carry away what they have brought , and in the stead leave the entrails of some beasts ; all this cannot be done so expeditiously but that the young eagle has already deyoured a partwhich is the reason the
, game comes mutilated to the table , but of a flavour far superior to any thing of that kind ever bought in the market . When the young eagle becomes strong enough to Hy , which happens but very slowl y , because he has been deprived of liis usual food , the shepherd chains him to the nest , that the old ones may continue to bring him food . This they do for some timetill at last wearied outthey fl
, , y away , and are never seen again ; the shepherds then remove the young eagle and destroy the nest , for the mother will never hatch in an old one . There happened to M . de Thou a very singular adventure in th * year 1598 : —there was at Saumur a mad-wom . an , whom this gentle-
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Anecdotes Of Dr. Johnson, &C.
T _ " As the Characters in the reigns of Henry VIII . and Edward VI . are now exhausted , tlie Printer is requested to accept in future the following remarkable Characters or Anecdotes of later times . M . R . "l
Private Anecdotes Of Illustrious French Characters.
PRIVATE ANECDOTES OF ILLUSTRIOUS FRENCH CHARACTERS .
JACQUES AUGUST DE THOU , . £ Born at Paris 1553 , died in 1617 . J INajourney toLanguedoc in with the M de
Schomcompany berg I went to see the Bishop of Mende at his country seat of Chanac . We were entertained with magnificence—we took notice that among the different sorts of game served to his table , some wanted the head , a leg , a wing , or some other part of the body , and which gave occasion to the Bishop to say in a very pleasant manner , that some allowances were to be made to the gluttony of his
purveyors , who had always been in the practice of tasting every thing beforehand : we were a good deal surprised at this intelligence , but vyere not allowed to remain long ignorant of what we thought a riddle . —When the Bishop had informed us that these his purveyors were Eagles , we were desirous of examining things nearer hand ; we found as we had been told that the eagles build their nests on the tops of inaccessible rocks . As soon as the shepherds perceive
where the nests are built , they construct a small hut at the foot of the rock , where they watch unseen the eagles carrying of game to their young ; when the old ones are flown away in search of more they quickly clamber up to the top of the rock , and carry away what they have brought , and in the stead leave the entrails of some beasts ; all this cannot be done so expeditiously but that the young eagle has already deyoured a partwhich is the reason the
, game comes mutilated to the table , but of a flavour far superior to any thing of that kind ever bought in the market . When the young eagle becomes strong enough to Hy , which happens but very slowl y , because he has been deprived of liis usual food , the shepherd chains him to the nest , that the old ones may continue to bring him food . This they do for some timetill at last wearied outthey fl
, , y away , and are never seen again ; the shepherds then remove the young eagle and destroy the nest , for the mother will never hatch in an old one . There happened to M . de Thou a very singular adventure in th * year 1598 : —there was at Saumur a mad-wom . an , whom this gentle-