Article First of my set of laws: all women are equal in love, provided they are young, pretty, admirably attractive in shape and carriage, above all, not too thin." "And what of equality ?" "So much the worse.

With this eminently liberal and constitutional policy, I intend to gather all the flowers that will allow themselves to be gathered by me, without one being esteemed more fresh than another, because it belongs to the nobility, or another less sweet, because plebeian.

And as field daisies are a little more numerous than imperial roses, it follows that I very often stoop.

That is the reason why, at this very moment, I am up to my ears in a little rustic love affair: Simple et naive bergerette, elle regne--" "Stop that noise; Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's room is just underneath." "I will tell you then, since I must give an account of myself, that I went into the park to sketch a few fir-trees before dinner; they are more beautiful of their kind than the ancient Fontainebleau oaks.

That is for art.