Chapter 11 di frigido

Many people remember the name of Frigudo. His shop can be said to be a temple to solve hunger and relieve poverty.Few of the university students who had lived in the Latin Quarter during the first twelve years of the Restoration were not frequent patrons of Friguteau.Dinner consists of three courses, plus a jug of wine or a bottle of beer, priced at eighteen coppers, and you can have a whole bottle of wine for an extra four coppers.The company's posters are printed with the words "bread as much as possible", which means that the customers are not afraid of "overdosing"; this kind of business policy has prevented the boss who took care of the young people from making a fortune.Many prominent dignitaries were nurtured by Fei Liguduo.On the corner of Place Sorbonne and Rue Neuve Richelieu, when many celebrities saw the glass facade with small grids, many indescribable memories floated up in their hearts, and they felt very meaningful.Before the July Revolution①, Frigudo's sons and grandsons never changed the facade, and the glass was always dark yellow, with an old and stable atmosphere that indicated that they didn't like the appearance of attracting customers.Today's restaurant owners almost always advertise things that are not good for food. There are some game that are not prepared for barbecue, like taxidermy, in the window; If you want to buy an excellent carp, you might as well wait ten days or eight days”; there are also seasonal vegetables and fruits that have long been out of the market.The honest Fuligu didn't do this kind of thing, he just filled the lettuce pots he had repeatedly repaired with boiled plums, so that the customers would feel comfortable after seeing them, knowing that other restaurants boasted about "after-dinner snacks" on the posters. This is not empty talk.The six-pound bread is cut into four sections to ensure the promise of "as much bread as possible".This is the ostentation of the shop.The master's surname has a lot to say, ② if he had been born two hundred years earlier, Molière would have made him famous.The Friguto Hotel exists to this day, and as long as college students want to survive, the shop will surely survive.Everyone ate there as usual, neither too much nor too little; while eating, as when working, the mood was either gloomy or cheerful, depending on each person's character and situation.The famous shop consisted of two long, narrow, and low dining-rooms at right angles, one facing the Place Sorbonne and the other facing the Rue Neuve Richelieu.The table was very long and had a monastic flavor. It was moved from some monastery dining room. The napkin next to the knife and fork was covered with bright white iron hoops, and the number was engraved on it.In the hands of the old Friguteau, the tablecloths were changed every Sunday. It is said that later Friguteau's son changed it to twice a week, because the old shop was threatened by competition from the same industry.This shop is like a workshop with all the tools, not a luxurious and magnificent hall where the banquet is held and the guests leave after eating.The store is very busy, the waiters come and go, they are never idle, everyone is working, no one is redundant.There are not many varieties of dishes.Potatoes are available all year round, there isn't even a single potato in Ireland, they're gone everywhere, and Frycotto still has it: for thirty years it's always fried to the same shade Titian likes, and it's sprinkled with fine crumbs. Vegetable leaves, the same appearance, make women who are afraid of aging jealous. If you look at potatoes in 1814, you can look at them again in 1840, and you will be sure that there will be no difference.The lamb chops and tenderloin steaks in the store are equivalent to the grouse and sturgeon fillets at Werley's. They are very famous dishes and need to be ordered in the morning.There is a lot of cow beef and a lot of veal, which are made into various fresh tricks.As soon as the great stocks of cod and mackerel appeared on the Atlantic coast, the Fry Cottage shop flocked.Everything is closely related to the alternation of vegetables and the changes of the seasons in France, and you know things there that people who have money, leisure, and don't care about the order of nature will never think of it.The student in the Latin Quarter knows the seasons best at the Friguto: he knows when the soybean and pea crops are bountiful, when the cabbages are flooding the central market, which lettuces are in abundance, when the turnips are failing.There has always been a nonsense among the people that the supply of steaks has something to do with the death rate of horses; ④ when Lucien lived in the Latin Quarter, this kind of talk was popular again.Few restaurants in Paris can see such a moving scene as that in the shop of Fliguto.There is a lot of youthful vigor, confidence, and a spirit of self-satisfaction that is not afraid of poverty; of course, there are not without faces that are fierce, serious, gloomy and restless.Everyone dressed casually.As soon as the regular customers came to the door with a well-dressed dress, someone immediately noticed.Everyone knows that it is either to meet a lover, or to go to the theater or socialize in high society.It is said that several college students who later became celebrities made an appointment at that hotel, as you can see below.Except for the young people who usually sat at the end of the table for the sake of fellowship, most of the diners were serious and rarely smiled, perhaps because they were drinking light wine and were in high spirits.Fryguto's regular customers may remember some gloomy, unpredictable people, who seemed to be wrapped in the cold mist of poverty, who had eaten for two years and suddenly disappeared like ghosts. Can't figure out their details.As for those who made friends at Fry Coteau's, they often went to the neighboring cafe to drink a glass of strong and sweet hybrid wine, or to have a cup of coffee with strong alcohol, and to strengthen their friendship with the warm taste of wine. friendship.

① Refers to the French bourgeois revolution that overthrew the Restoration Dynasty in July 1830. ②A word with a similar pronunciation to Fuliguduo is called Fuliguduan, which means a person who eats delicious food, or a person who is dedicated to illegal profits. It is just the opposite of Fuliguduo who runs a restaurant. ③ Titian (about 1490-1576), a great Venetian painter during the Italian Renaissance. ④The price of horse meat is the cheapest among French meats, so some people often suspect that some beef is faked as horse meat. In the early days of Lucien's move to the Hôtel de Cluny, he behaved with the formality and restraint of a newcomer.He had a painful experience in the elegant life. After giving away the source of life, he worked hard.But this first burst of energy will soon be dispelled by the hardships and prosperity of Paris, whether you live the most luxurious or the most miserable life; Aspirations under the determination to do nothing.Lucien went to Frigideau's at four-thirty in the afternoon. He found that it was beneficial to go early, because the restaurant had more variety and the dishes he liked could still be ordered.Like all imaginative beings, he had a particular preference for one seat, and the one he chose proved his good taste.Lucien walked into the restaurant on the first day, and from the appearance of the guests and the occasional conversations, he found that a table near the counter was occupied by friends from the literary and art circles.Secondly, he naturally felt that sitting near the counter could chat with the owner of the hotel, he had become acquainted with him for a long time, and he might be able to accommodate his debts when his money was not wide.So he picked a small square table next to the counter. There were only two sets of knives and forks on the table, and two white napkins without bands. It was probably for entertaining guests who came and went.At the same table was a thin and pale young man, who seemed to be as poor as Lucien, his handsome face was already a little haggard, and the broken hope made his forehead look tired, leaving many grooves in his heart, and the seeds sown did not grow. sprout.With these residual poetic, irrepressible sympathies, Lucien was tempted to approach the stranger.

His name was Lousteau, and his name was Etienne.The poet of Angoulême spent a week, courteously, chatting with him, exchanging ideas, and making him his first partner.Two years ago, Étienne, like Lucien, left his native town, a town in the Berry region.His gesticulating movements, bright eyes, and sometimes short speech reveal his somewhat bitter experience in literary and artistic career.When he came from Sancerre, he brought one of his tragedies with him, and was attracted by glory, power, and money like Lucien.The young man ate at Fliguto's shop for several days in a row, but he rarely showed up afterwards.Lucien saw his poet again after five or six days, hoping that he would go again the next day, but unexpectedly there was a newcomer in his place the next day.Among young people, when they meet on the first day, the interest in the conversation can still be picked up the next day; Not easy to be intimate.Lucien learned from the lady in charge of the accounts that his future friend was an editor of a small newspaper, wrote reviews of new books, and reported plays at the Comedy House, the Jolly Theater, and the Panorama Theater.Lucien immediately felt that the young man was a character, and he wanted to have a friendly conversation with him, and he did not hesitate to make some sacrifices in exchange for the friendship that a beginner needs most.The reporter didn't come to eat for half a month.Lucien didn't know that Étienne only went to the Friguteau when he had no money, so he was always sullen and listless; seeing his indifference, Lucien tried his best to laugh with him and find good things to say.In fact, whether we should make this friend is worthy of serious consideration; it seems that the unknown reporter lives a life of profligacy: he needs shochu, coffee, and mixed wine, and he also has to go to the theater and eat supper.Lucien, on the other hand, at the beginning of his stay in the Latin Quarter, behaved like a poor child, terrified by his first experience of living in Paris.He studied the price of the drink, felt in his purse, not daring to follow Etienne's example; he was still regretting the absurdity of the past, lest it should happen again.He has not yet shaken off the influence of his education in the provinces. Whenever he has evil thoughts, his two guardian gods, Eve and David, immediately appear, reminding him of everyone's expectations of him: he not only wants to make his mother happy, but also lives up to his own. genius.During the day he studied history at the Saint-Geneviève library.After preliminary research, it was found that his novel "The Archer of Charles IX" had some ridiculous errors.The library closed, and he returned to his cold, damp room to revise, organize, rewrite, and delete entire chapters of his work.After dinner at Fry Coodo's shop, he went down to Commercial Lane, read contemporary literary works, daily newspapers, periodicals, and poetry anthologies in the literary reading room run by Blois, and learned about popular thoughts; Hotels, lights and firewood for heating were all saved.Those readings greatly changed his views. He re-read the collection of sonnets chanting flowers, and the "Chrysanthemum", which he has always valued, was greatly revised and the original poem retained was less than a hundred lines.It can be seen that Lucien first lived the life of an ordinary poor boy in the provinces, pure and innocent, and felt that the food of Friguteau was already a luxury compared with the food of his hometown; , with a warm heart, squinting at the beautiful woman; never going out of the district, just thinking about the future, and working hard.Helpless, Lucien was born a poet and had great desires. Seeing the posters in the theater was itchy and unbearable.He paid fifty or sixty francs for the back seats downstairs at the Théâtre de France, the burlesque, the Variety, the Opera Comique.What college student would give up the pleasure of watching Talma play some of his most famous roles?Poetic men love the theater from the very beginning, and Lucien was fascinated by it.He felt that the actors and actresses were all important people, and it was impossible to step over the footlights and look at them casually.In Lucien's mind, those celebrities who made him happy were like gods, and the newspapers mentioned them as much as they talked about national affairs.He aspires to be a playwright, to make up plays for people to perform!Some daring souls, like Cassimi Delavigne, have made such a dream come true!Lucien turned these creative ideas, now full of confidence, now pessimistic, and mentally disturbed, but he continued to live a life of hard work and frugality, no matter how many strong desires stirred up in the dark.He was even too cautious to go into a gold-selling place like the Palais Royal, where he spent fifty francs a day at Verry's, and nearly five hundred on clothes?Even if he couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to see performances by Fleury, Talma, Michu, or Brother Baptiste, he would only dare to buy the empty seats upstairs, and he would line up at 5:30. People had to spend ten coppers to buy a site near the box office.Many college students often waited for two hours, and finally heard that the ticket was over!Big disappointment.After the show ended, Lucien walked back with his head down, not daring to look at the goddess in the street.Perhaps he had had a few very simple adventures that seemed so important to his young and timid imagination.One day Lucien counted the money and was surprised to find that there was not much left; and the thought of finding a publisher and getting some work to support him broke out in a cold sweat.The young reporter whom he wished to be a friend no longer went to the Friguto Hotel.Lucien waited for the opportunity, which never came.In Paris, only the well-connected people can meet coincidences; the more acquaintances, the greater the possibility of success of all kinds, and the so-called luck is originally a fawning thing.Lucien still kept the temperament of the provincials to plan for a rainy day. He didn't want to wait until there were only a few francs left, so he decided to go to the bookstore owner boldly.

①Fleury and Talma are both famous tragedies.Brothers Mi Xu and Baptiste are comedians.