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Private Anecdotes Of Illustrious French Characters.
stances remarkable in the behaviour of Malherbe , and which were forgiven him on account of his great merit . —He was but indifferently lodged , and had but seven or ei g ht matted chairs ; was much visited by persons of the first distinction : when the chairs were ail filled he bolted his door in the inside , and if anybody knock'd , cried outto them"Staystaythe chairs are all taken up . " The
circum-, , , , stances of his death have shewn that he had very . little , or no religion , at all ; it was with difficulty they could prevail on him to confess , he said "Pie was never accustomed to it , except at Easter . "— "The person who determined him to it at last was Yvrand his pupil ; to persuade him he told him , that as he had made profession of living like other menit was his duty to die like them . "— " Malherbe answered
, , I believe you are in the right , " and immediately ordered the vicar of his parish to be sent for ; it is said , that an hour before his death , after having been at least two in mortal agonies , he suddenly wakened and reprimanded the woman of the house , who served him as a nurse , for making use of a word that was not good French , his confessor reproved him for it ; he said he could not help it , and that
he was determined to the last moment of his life to defend the purity of the French language ; they also say , that his confessor representing to him the happiness of the next world , in low mean expressions , asked him , " Whether he did not feel a very great desire to enjoy that felicity '' - —Malherbe answered , " Don ' t talk to m @ about it , your bad stile gives me a disgust against it . "
THEODORE AGRIPPA D'AUBIGNE . D'AUBIGNE was son to an Officer , who commanded the army of the Calvinists , during the religious wars at Orleans ; on his return from Guienne ( where he had been obliged to remain a considerable time on account of settling affairs for the party he had embraced ) he found his son had led a very disorderly and licentious
, life ; in order to punish him for his misdeeds , and to correct him for the future , he sent him a very coarse suit of clothes , such as the peasants wear in the country , and had him conducted through all the shops in towns , that he mig ht choose whatever trade he liked best;—the young man took this aifront so much to heart , that he . was attacked by a violent and dangerous fever , of which it was
thought he would have died . He was no sooner recovered , and able to leave his apartment , than he went to his father and begged his pardon in so moving a manner , that he drew tears from the eyes of every one present , his father not excepted , who immediately embraced and forgave him ; about a year after his father died , and his guardian finding him determined to study no longer , but to embrace
a military life , put him in prison ; for fear of an escape the young gentleman ' s clothes were taken away every night when he went to bed . Some of his military friends acquainted him , they were going to set out for the army ; on hearing this , it being the hei ght of summer , he made a shift to fasten the sheets of his bed to an iron 3 R
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Private Anecdotes Of Illustrious French Characters.
stances remarkable in the behaviour of Malherbe , and which were forgiven him on account of his great merit . —He was but indifferently lodged , and had but seven or ei g ht matted chairs ; was much visited by persons of the first distinction : when the chairs were ail filled he bolted his door in the inside , and if anybody knock'd , cried outto them"Staystaythe chairs are all taken up . " The
circum-, , , , stances of his death have shewn that he had very . little , or no religion , at all ; it was with difficulty they could prevail on him to confess , he said "Pie was never accustomed to it , except at Easter . "— "The person who determined him to it at last was Yvrand his pupil ; to persuade him he told him , that as he had made profession of living like other menit was his duty to die like them . "— " Malherbe answered
, , I believe you are in the right , " and immediately ordered the vicar of his parish to be sent for ; it is said , that an hour before his death , after having been at least two in mortal agonies , he suddenly wakened and reprimanded the woman of the house , who served him as a nurse , for making use of a word that was not good French , his confessor reproved him for it ; he said he could not help it , and that
he was determined to the last moment of his life to defend the purity of the French language ; they also say , that his confessor representing to him the happiness of the next world , in low mean expressions , asked him , " Whether he did not feel a very great desire to enjoy that felicity '' - —Malherbe answered , " Don ' t talk to m @ about it , your bad stile gives me a disgust against it . "
THEODORE AGRIPPA D'AUBIGNE . D'AUBIGNE was son to an Officer , who commanded the army of the Calvinists , during the religious wars at Orleans ; on his return from Guienne ( where he had been obliged to remain a considerable time on account of settling affairs for the party he had embraced ) he found his son had led a very disorderly and licentious
, life ; in order to punish him for his misdeeds , and to correct him for the future , he sent him a very coarse suit of clothes , such as the peasants wear in the country , and had him conducted through all the shops in towns , that he mig ht choose whatever trade he liked best;—the young man took this aifront so much to heart , that he . was attacked by a violent and dangerous fever , of which it was
thought he would have died . He was no sooner recovered , and able to leave his apartment , than he went to his father and begged his pardon in so moving a manner , that he drew tears from the eyes of every one present , his father not excepted , who immediately embraced and forgave him ; about a year after his father died , and his guardian finding him determined to study no longer , but to embrace
a military life , put him in prison ; for fear of an escape the young gentleman ' s clothes were taken away every night when he went to bed . Some of his military friends acquainted him , they were going to set out for the army ; on hearing this , it being the hei ght of summer , he made a shift to fasten the sheets of his bed to an iron 3 R