But when he submits the question to reasoning, he wavers, as he does here, and leaves the question more undecided than anywhere else in his work.

This is a pity, but it is the natural penalty of his partial abandonment of the poetic for the prosaic realm, of the imagination for the understanding, of the Reason for reasoning.
FOOTNOTES: [11] Rene Gentilhomme, page to Prince Conde, heir of France since Louis XIII.

and his brother Gaston were childless, is surprised, while writing a love poem, by a lightning flash which shatters a marble ducal crown.
He thinks this a revelation from God, and he prophecies that a Dauphin will be born to the childless Queen.

The Dauphin was born, and Rene pushed suddenly into fame.
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