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PRESENT OCCUPANTS. 365
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Meudon and its forests—do not even reach mediocrity . But this inwith significant peculi church ar interest , so poor from in reli being gions * intimatel monuments y associ , is yet ated invested with
[ Rabelaisthe Swift of the 16 th century ; and the most facetious and foul- , tongued satirist of whom French literature can boast or be
9 the ashamed . But of like Swift tin 1 , Rab and elais resemblin did not utter him too his foulness in another for g
first respect purpose and , he onl never y promotion corrup derived he g much ; ever raised , received benefit him from h from aving Court the been office patronage when of deacon in , the his forty-fifth Cardinal Bellay
to the unimportant year post of cure of Meudon . He there led a very flock exemp — lary teaching life , the attending children equall how y to to sing the in soul chorus s and ; bodies amusing of his his
friends with his frequent displays of humour in and out of print , and making chemical experiments , which gained for him among
blue his parishioners blazes" But the reputation the Parisians of being then ' notwithstanding able to raise the the devil Sor in
-. , bonne set of , peop as now le , and in sp as ite read of y the to Censor laugh of at public the press abuses , were as a to _scejrfcical rise in
arms against them , and though they would not allow that Rabelais erformed that iece of necromancy in a literal sense , yet expressed
p the opinion that p he did something equivalent to it by exposing with an unsparing pen the corruptions of the age in which he
lived . The most illustrious inhabitants of the capital were never and with deterred j heresy ovi , alit by , the from nihtl accusation crowding kept them broug to his in ht a modest against roar . mansion Nor him is of , wh the being ere spell his tainted wit yet
broken which y three gy centuries ago attracted so much brilliant comhas pany increased to what was in then for a remote though village doubtless ; but the on maj the orit contrary y of the , it
thousands which power the trains , transport , each Sunday , to Meudon , go there to breathe the pure air on the wooded hills around it , and to
uated enjoy the Ameri unrivalled cansslovenl prospect German from the s terrace fresh-faced , yet , a well host -shaved of atten , or
big- for whiskered no other Eng reason , lishmen than y , with because , ladies , Kab in elais straw lived hats and there crinolines . When ,
go the quarians art of would printing indeed was destroy still in all its belief infancy in , some the pleasing disagreeable tradition anti s -
which have been handed down about this great satirist , by asserting that Notre some Dame must de y Pari manuscr s , proves ipt , or th reg at ister Kab , elais in the never chap exercised ter he house not onl at of
Meudon the function of curate . Be that as it may , y still died , extant but lived about here him many will years hold ; greater and in any sway case over , the the traditions popular
mind than any contrary , assertion ; so that one might as well attempt to monarch prove to as to the disprov multitude e Kabelais that Kichard ' connexion . III . with was Meudon an amiable . St .
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Present Occupants. 365
PRESENT OCCUPANTS . 365
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 365, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/5/
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