Chapter 170 Volume 3 Grandfather and Grandson

When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he used to walk about in several very fine and noble drawing-rooms.M. Gillenormand, though a bourgeoisie, was received.Because he has double wisdom, one is his original wisdom, and the other is that others think he is wise, and even everyone invites him and flatters him.Wherever he goes, he must stand out, otherwise he would rather not go.Some people always like to do everything possible to influence others to make them treat them differently. If they can't be leaders, they must be clowns.Gillenormand, on the other hand, was of a different temperament, and Monsieur Gillenormand had gained a place of distinction in the royalist drawing-rooms in which he usually frequented, without in any way hurting his self-respect.He is the authority everywhere.He was on equal terms with M. de Bernard, and even M. Bache-Puy-Vallet.

Around 1817, he had to spend two afternoons a week at the home of Baroness T., in the nearby Rue de Frouh, a woman worthy of admiration and respect, whose husband was in Louis XVI's time. Served as French ambassador to Berlin. Baron T. was fond of gazing and apparition during his lifetime. He died in exile with all his wealth. The legacy he left is only ten volumes of gold-edged hardcover with red sheepskin cover. The content is some rather novel things about Mesmarck and his wooden basin memories. Mrs. T. did not publish it because of her family status, and lived on a meager annuity that she somehow kept. Mrs. T. was not close to the court, she said it was a "quite complicated place", and she lived a noble, lonely, poor, narcissistic life.A few friends met twice a week by her solitary fireside, and thus formed a sort of pure Royalist drawing-room.Everyone drank tea there, depressed or excited according to their own momentary mood, and talked about the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the government of the bourgeoisie brought by the sale of blue pendants, the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII, etc. The question lamented or roared, and whispered about the hope that the future Charles X would give people.

There they sang joyously the vulgar songs about Napoleon being called Nicholas.Duchesses, the most elegant and lovable women in the world, sang joyously such refrains, such as this one directed at the Confederates: ! They entertain themselves by singing lingoes and innocuous phrases they think are horrifying but they consider poisonous wordplay such as quatrains and even couplets, such as the De Sole cabinet, a moderate cabinet with Decaz and Desai Two members of your cabinet, they sang thus: Or they adapt the list of the Senate, thinking that "the Jacobins of the Senate stink terribly," and they concatenate the names on that list, and make them into one sentence, as in "Damas, Sabran, Gouvion Saint-Cyr. "So I felt overjoyed.

In that kind of living room everyone vilifies the revolution.They both had a whiff of wanting to muster the same hatred, but in opposite directions.They sang the lovely "It'll be all right": The song is like a guillotine, which indiscriminately cuts off the head of this person today and that person tomorrow.That's just a change of object. It was at that time, in 1816, that the case of Phartes took place, in which they sided with Bastide and Josión, since Phartes was a "Buwanapartist." ".They call liberals "brethren and friends," and that's the worst kind of swearing.

Just like the bell towers of some churches, there are two roosters in the drawing room of Baroness T.One is Monsieur Gillenormand, and the other is Count Lamotte-Varoa. When they mentioned the count, they always approached him with admiration and said, "You know? This is the Lamotte in the collar incident." Terrible!" There is often that kind of inscrutable compromise between crony and crony. Let us add this point: in the bourgeoisie, if you choose friends too casually, you will often lower your reputation and status. You should pay attention to what kind of people you make friends with, just as you will lose your warmth when you get along with people who are not warm. Likewise, being near someone who is despised can diminish the esteem of others.The old upper classes were governed by this and all other laws.Marigny, Madame Pompadour's brother, was often at the house of Prince Soubis.But... no, because... Mrs. Faubernier's godfather, Du Barry, was a very welcome guest in the house of Marshal Li Hanliu.That society, Olympus, was the home of Mercury and Prince Gemeneus.A thief can also be received, provided he is a god.

The Comte de Lamotte, who in 1815 was already an old man of seventy-five years, was worthy of attention only for his quiet seriousness, his hard-edged face, his absolute humility, right down to the button of his tie. A jacket, a pair of old crossed long legs, and a pair of clay-colored soft trousers.His face is the same color as his trousers. This Monsieur Lamothe had "place" in that drawing-room because he was "famous" and, strangely enough, because of his surname Varoa. As for M. Gillenormand, he was very popular.He is the authority.despite his frivolous behavior