Volume 3 (of 6) 31/50 30.] [Footnote 2215: Speech by Chaumette, procureur of the commune, to the newly married. 408).] [Footnote 2216: The class to which they belonged has been portrayed, to the life, by M.Roye-Collard (Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux Lundis," IV. 263): "A young lawyer at Paris, at first received in a few houses on the Ile St.Louis, he soon withdrew from this inferior world of attorneys and pettyfoggers, whose tone oppressed him. The very thought of the impression this gallant and intensely vulgar mediocrity made upon him, still inspired disgust. |