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<h1 class="f1 athelas mt3 mb1">Chapter III: Monsieur the Cardinal</h1>
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<time class="f6 mv4 dib tracked" datetime="2017-04-11T11:13:32-04:00">April 11, 2017</time>
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<div class="nested-copy-line-height lh-copy serif f4 nested-links mid-gray pr4-l w-two-thirds-l"><p>Poor Gringoire! the din of all the great double petards of the Saint-Jean,
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the discharge of twenty arquebuses on supports, the detonation of that
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famous serpentine of the Tower of Billy, which, during the siege of Paris,
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on Sunday, the twenty-sixth of September, 1465, killed seven Burgundians
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at one blow, the explosion of all the powder stored at the gate of the
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Temple, would have rent his ears less rudely at that solemn and dramatic
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moment, than these few words, which fell from the lips of the usher, “His
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eminence, Monseigneur the Cardinal de Bourbon.”</p>
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<p>It is not that Pierre Gringoire either feared or disdained monsieur the
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cardinal. He had neither the weakness nor the audacity for that. A true
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eclectic, as it would be expressed nowadays, Gringoire was one of those
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firm and lofty, moderate and calm spirits, which always know how to bear
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themselves amid all circumstances (<em>stare in dimidio rerum</em>), and who
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are full of reason and of liberal philosophy, while still setting store by
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cardinals. A rare, precious, and never interrupted race of philosophers to
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whom wisdom, like another Ariadne, seems to have given a clew of thread
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which they have been walking along unwinding since the beginning of the
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world, through the labyrinth of human affairs. One finds them in all ages,
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ever the same; that is to say, always according to all times. And, without
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reckoning our Pierre Gringoire, who may represent them in the fifteenth
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century if we succeed in bestowing upon him the distinction which he
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deserves, it certainly was their spirit which animated Father du Breul,
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when he wrote, in the sixteenth, these naively sublime words, worthy of
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all centuries: “I am a Parisian by nation, and a Parrhisian in language,
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for <em>parrhisia</em> in Greek signifies liberty of speech; of which I have
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made use even towards messeigneurs the cardinals, uncle and brother to
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Monsieur the Prince de Conty, always with respect to their greatness, and
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without offending any one of their suite, which is much to say.”</p>
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<p>There was then neither hatred for the cardinal, nor disdain for his
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presence, in the disagreeable impression produced upon Pierre Gringoire.
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Quite the contrary; our poet had too much good sense and too threadbare a
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coat, not to attach particular importance to having the numerous allusions
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in his prologue, and, in particular, the glorification of the dauphin, son
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of the Lion of France, fall upon the most eminent ear. But it is not
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interest which predominates in the noble nature of poets. I suppose that
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the entity of the poet may be represented by the number ten; it is certain
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that a chemist on analyzing and pharmacopolizing it, as Rabelais says,
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would find it composed of one part interest to nine parts of self-esteem.</p>
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<p>Now, at the moment when the door had opened to admit the cardinal, the
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nine parts of self-esteem in Gringoire, swollen and expanded by the breath
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of popular admiration, were in a state of prodigious augmentation, beneath
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which disappeared, as though stifled, that imperceptible molecule of which
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we have just remarked upon in the constitution of poets; a precious
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ingredient, by the way, a ballast of reality and humanity, without which
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they would not touch the earth. Gringoire enjoyed seeing, feeling,
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fingering, so to speak an entire assembly (of knaves, it is true, but what
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matters that?) stupefied, petrified, and as though asphyxiated in the
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presence of the incommensurable tirades which welled up every instant from
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all parts of his bridal song. I affirm that he shared the general
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beatitude, and that, quite the reverse of La Fontaine, who, at the
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presentation of his comedy of the “Florentine,” asked, “Who is the
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ill-bred lout who made that rhapsody?” Gringoire would gladly have
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inquired of his neighbor, “Whose masterpiece is this?”</p>
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<p>The reader can now judge of the effect produced upon him by the abrupt and
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unseasonable arrival of the cardinal.</p>
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<p>That which he had to fear was only too fully realized. The entrance of his
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eminence upset the audience. All heads turned towards the gallery. It was
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no longer possible to hear one’s self. “The cardinal! The cardinal!”
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repeated all mouths. The unhappy prologue stopped short for the second
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time.</p>
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<p>The cardinal halted for a moment on the threshold of the estrade. While he
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was sending a rather indifferent glance around the audience, the tumult
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redoubled. Each person wished to get a better view of him. Each man vied
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with the other in thrusting his head over his neighbor’s shoulder.</p>
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<p>He was, in fact, an exalted personage, the sight of whom was well worth
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any other comedy. Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop and Comte of
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Lyon, Primate of the Gauls, was allied both to Louis XI., through his
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brother, Pierre, Seigneur de Beaujeu, who had married the king’s eldest
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daughter, and to Charles the Bold through his mother, Agnes of Burgundy.
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Now, the dominating trait, the peculiar and distinctive trait of the
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character of the Primate of the Gauls, was the spirit of the courtier, and
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devotion to the powers that be. The reader can form an idea of the
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numberless embarrassments which this double relationship had caused him,
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and of all the temporal reefs among which his spiritual bark had been
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forced to tack, in order not to suffer shipwreck on either Louis or
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Charles, that Scylla and that Charybdis which had devoured the Duc de
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Nemours and the Constable de Saint-Pol. Thanks to Heaven’s mercy, he had
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made the voyage successfully, and had reached home without hindrance. But
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although he was in port, and precisely because he was in port, he never
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recalled without disquiet the varied haps of his political career, so long
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uneasy and laborious. Thus, he was in the habit of saying that the year
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1476 had been “white and black” for him—meaning thereby, that in the
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course of that year he had lost his mother, the Duchesse de la
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Bourbonnais, and his cousin, the Duke of Burgundy, and that one grief had
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consoled him for the other.</p>
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