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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne And Of
+Monsieur De Boulingrin, by Anatole France
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+Title: The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne And Of Monsieur De Boulingrin
+       1920
+
+Author: Anatole France
+
+Editor: James Lewis May And Bernard Miall
+
+Translator: D. B. Stewart
+
+Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #25409]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DUCHESS OF CICOGNE ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF THE DUCHESS OF CICOGNE AND OF MONSIEUR DE BOULINGRIN
+
+From "The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard & Other Marvellous Tales"
+
+By Anatole France
+
+Translated by D. B. Stewart
+
+Edited By James Lewis May And Bernard Miall
+
+John Lane Company MCMXX
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+THE story of the Sleeping Beauty is well known; we have excellent
+accounts of it, both in prose and in verse. I shall not undertake to
+relate-it again; but, having become acquainted with several memoirs of
+the time which have remained unpublished, I discovered some anecdotes
+relating to King Cloche and Queen Satine, whose daughter it was that
+slept a hundred years, and also to several members of the Court who
+shared the Princess's sleep. I propose to communicate to the public such
+portions of these revelations as have seemed to me most interesting.
+
+After several years of marriage, Queen Satine gave the King, her
+husband, a daughter who received the names of Paule-Marie-Aurore. The
+baptismal festivities were planned by the Duc des Hoisons, grand master
+of the ceremonies, in accordance with a formulary dating from the
+Emperor Honorius, which was so mildewed and so nibbled by rats that it
+was impossible to decipher any of it.
+
+There were still fairies in those days, and those who had titles used
+to go to Court. Seven of them were invited to be god-mothers, Queen
+Titania, Queen Mab, the wise Vivien, trained by Merlin in the arts of
+enchantment, Melusina, whose history was written by Jean d'Arras, and
+who became a serpent every Saturday (but the baptism was on a Sunday),
+Urgèle, White Anna of Brittany, and Mourgue who led Ogier the Dane into
+the country of Avalon.
+
+They appeared at the castle in robes of the colour of time, of the sun,
+of the moon, and of the nymphs, all glittering with diamonds and pearls.
+As all were taking their places at table an old fairy called Alcuine,
+who had not been invited, was seen to enter.
+
+"Pray do not be annoyed, madame," said the King, "that you were not of
+those invited to this festivity; it was believed that you were either
+dead or enchanted."
+
+Since the fairies grew old, there is no doubt that they used to die.
+They all died in time, and everybody knows that Melusina became a
+kitchen wench in Hell. By means of enchantment they could be imprisoned
+in a magic circle, a tree, a bush, or a stone, or changed into a statue,
+a hind, a dove, a footstool, a ring, or a slipper. But as a fact it was
+not because they thought her dead or enchanted that they had not invited
+the fairy Alcuine; it was because her presence at the banquet had been
+regarded as contrary to etiquette. Madame de Maintenon was able to state
+without the least exaggeration that "there are no austerities in the
+convents like those to which Court etiquette subjects the great." In
+accordance with his sovereign's royal wish the Duc des Hoisons had not
+invited the fairy Alcuine, because she had one quartering of nobility
+too few to be admitted to Court. When the Ministers of State represented
+that it was of the utmost importance to humour this powerful and
+vindictive fairy, of whom they would make a dangerous enemy if they
+excluded her from the festivities, the King replied in peremptory tones
+that she could not be invited, as she was not qualified by birth.
+
+This unhappy monarch, even more than his predecessors, was a slave to
+etiquette. His obstinacy in subordinating the greatest interests and
+most urgent duties to the smallest exigencies of an obsolete ceremonial,
+had more than once caused serious loss to the monarchy, and had involved
+the realm in formidable perils. Of all these perils and losses, those
+to which Cloche had exposed his house by refusing to stretch a point
+of etiquette in favour of a fairy, without birth, yet formidable and
+illustrious, were by no means the hardest to foresee, nor was it least
+urgent to avert them.
+
+The aged Alcuine, enraged by the contempt to which she had been
+subjected, bestowed upon the Princess Aurore a disastrous gift. At
+fifteen years of age, beautiful as the day, this royal child was to die
+of a fatal wound, caused by a spindle, an innocent weapon in the hands
+of mortal women, but a terrible one when the three spinstress Sisters
+twist and coil thereon the thread of our destinies and the strings of
+our hearts.
+
+The seven godmothers could modify, but could not annul Alcuine's decree,
+and thus the fate of the Princess was determined. "Aurore will prick her
+hand with a spindle; she will not die of it, but will fall into a sleep
+of a hundred years, from which the son of a king will come to arouse
+her."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+ANXIOUSLY the King and Queen consulted, in respect of the decree
+pronounced upon the Princess in her cradle, all persons of learning and
+judgment, notably Monsieur Gerberoy, perpetual secretary of the Academy
+of Sciences, and Dr. Gastinel, the Queen's accoucheur. "Monsieur
+Gerberoy," Satine inquired, "can one really sleep a hundred years?"
+"Madame," answered the Academician, "we have examples of sleep, more or
+less prolonged, some of which I can relate to Your Majesty. Epimenides
+of Cnossos was born of the loves of a mortal and a nymph. While yet a
+child he was sent by Dosiades, his father, to watch the flocks in
+the mountains. When the warmth of midday enveloped the earth, he laid
+himself down in a cool, dark cave, and there he fell into a slumber
+which lasted for fifty-seven years. He studied the virtues of the
+plants, and died, according to some, at the age of a hundred and
+fifty-four years; according to others at the age of two hundred and
+ninety-eight.
+
+"The story of the seven sleepers of Ephesus is related by Theodore
+and Rufinus, in a manuscript sealed with two silver seals. Briefly
+expounded, these are the principal facts. In the year 25 of our Lord,
+seven of the officers of the Emperor Decius, who had embraced the
+Christian religion, distributed their goods to the poor, retired to
+Mount Celion, and there all seven fell asleep in a cave. During the
+reign of Theodore the Bishop of Ephesus found them there, blooming like
+roses. They had slept for one hundred and forty-four years.
+
+"Frederick Barbarossa is still asleep. In the crypt beneath a ruined
+castle, in the midst of a dense forest, he is seated before a table
+round which his beard has twisted seven times. He will awake to drive
+away the crows which croak around the mountain.
+
+"These, madame, are the greatest sleepers of whom History has kept a
+record."
+
+"They are all exceptions," answered the Queen. "You, Monsieur Gastinel,
+who practise medicine, have you ever seen people sleep a hundred years?"
+
+"No, madame," replied the accoucheur, "I have not exactly seen any such,
+nor do I ever expect to do so; but I have seen some curious cases of
+lethargy, which, if you desire, I will bring to Your Majesty's notice.
+
+"Ten years ago a demoiselle Jeanne Caillou, being admitted to the
+Hôtel-Dieu, there slept for six consecutive years. I myself observed the
+girl Léonide Montauciel, who fell asleep on Easter Day in the year '61,
+and did not awake until Easter Day of the following year."
+
+"Monsieur Gastinel," demanded the King, "can the point of a spindle
+cause a wound which will send one to sleep for a hundred years?"
+
+"Sire, it is not probable," answered Monsieur Gastinel, "but in the
+domain of pathology, we can never say with certainty, 'This will or will
+not happen.'"
+
+"One might mention Brunhild," said Monsieur Gerberoy, "who was pricked
+by a thorn, fell asleep, and was awakened by Sigurd."
+
+"There was also Guenillon," said the Duchess of Cicogne, first
+lady-in-waiting to the Queen. And she hummed:
+
+     She was sent to the wood
+     To gather some nuts,
+     The bush was too high,
+     The maid was too small.
+
+     The bush was too high,
+     The maid was too small,
+     She pricked her poor hand
+     With a very sharp thorn.
+
+     She pricked her poor hand
+     With a very sharp thorn,
+     From the pain in her finger
+     The maid fell asleep.
+
+"What are you thinking of, Cicogne?" said the Queen. "You are singing."
+
+"Your Majesty will forgive me," replied the Duchess. "It was to ward off
+the bad luck."
+
+The King issued an edict, whereby all persons were forbidden under
+pain of death to spin with spindles, or even to have spindles in their
+possession. All obeyed. They still used to say in the country districts:
+"The spindles must follow the mattock," but it was only by force of
+habit. The spindles had disappeared.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+MONSIEUR DE LA ROCHECOUPÉE, the Prime Minister who, under the feeble
+King Cloche, governed the kingdom, respected popular beliefs, as all
+great statesmen respect them. Caesar was Pontifex Maximus, and Napoleon
+had himself crowned by the Pope. Monsieur de La Rochecoupée admitted
+the power of the fairies. He was by no means sceptical, by no means
+incredulous. He did not suggest that the prediction of the seven
+godmothers was false. But, being helpless, he did not allow it to
+disturb him. His temperament was such that he did not worry about evils
+which he was impotent to remedy. In any case, so far as could be judged,
+the occurrence foretold was not imminent. Monsieur de La Rochecoupée
+viewed events as a statesman, and statesmen never look beyond the
+present moment. I am speaking of the shrewdest and most far-sighted.
+After all, supposing one day the King's daughter did fall asleep for a
+hundred years, it was, in his eyes, purely a family matter, seeing that
+women were excluded from the throne by the Salic Law.
+
+He had, as he said, plenty of other fish to fry. Bankruptcy, hideous
+bankruptcy was ever present, threatening to consume the wealth and the
+honour of the nation. Famine was raging in the kingdom, and millions of
+unfortunate wretches were eating plaster instead of bread. That year the
+opera ball was more brilliant and the masques finer than ever.
+
+The peasantry, artisans, and shopkeepers, and the girls of the theatre,
+vied with one another in grieving over the fatal curse inflicted by
+Alcuine upon the innocent Princess. The lords of the Court, on the
+contrary, and the princes of the blood royal, appeared very indifferent
+to it. And there were on all hands men of business and students of
+science who did not believe in the award of the fairies, for the very
+good reason that they did not believe in fairies.
+
+Such a one was Monsieur Boulingrin, Secretary of State for the Treasury.
+Those who ask how it was possible that he should not believe in them
+since he had seen them are unaware of the lengths to which scepticism
+can go in an argumentative mind. Nourished on Lucretius, imbued with
+the doctrines of Epicurus and Gassendi, he often provoked Monsieur de La
+Rochecoupée by the display of a cold disbelief in fairies.
+
+The Prime Minister would say to him: "If not for your own sake, be a
+believer for that of the public. Seriously, my dear Boulingrin, that
+there are moments when I wonder which of us two is the more credulous in
+respect of fairies. I never think of them, and you are always talking of
+them."
+
+Monsieur de Boulingrin dearly loved the Duchess of Cicogne, wife of the
+ambassador to Vienna, first lady-in-waiting to the Queen, who belonged
+to the highest aristocracy of the realm; a witty woman, somewhat lean,
+and a trifle close, who was losing her income, her estates, and her very
+chemise at faro. She showed much kindness to Monsieur de Boulingrin,
+lending herself to an intercourse for which she had no temperamental
+inclination, but which she thought suitable to her rank, and useful to
+her interests. Their intrigue was conducted with an art which revealed
+their good taste, and the elegance of the prevailing morality;
+the connection was openly avowed, and thereby stripped of all base
+hypocrisy; but it was at the same time so reserved in appearance that
+even the severest critics saw no cause for censure in it.
+
+During the time which the Duchess yearly spent on her estate, Monsieur
+de Boulingrin used to stay in an old pigeon-house, separated from his
+friend's château by a sunken road, which skirted a marsh, where by night
+the frogs among the reeds tuned their diligent voices.
+
+Now, one evening when the last rays of the setting sun were dying the
+stagnant water with the hue of blood, the Secretary of State for the
+Treasury saw at the cross-roads three young fairies who were dancing in
+a circle and singing:
+
+     "Trois filles dedans un pré
+          Mon coeur vole
+          Mon coeur vole
+     Mon coeur vole à votre gré."
+
+They enclosed him within their circle, and their light and airy forms
+sped swiftly about him. Their faces, in the twilight, were dim and
+transparent; their tresses shone like the will-o'-the-wisp. They
+repeated:
+
+"Trois filles dedans un pré!" until, dazed and ready to fall, he begged
+for mercy.
+
+Then said the most beautiful, opening the circle:
+
+"Sisters, give leave to Monsieur de Boulingrin to pass, that he may go
+to the castle, and kiss his ladylove."
+
+He went on without having recognized the fairies, the mistresses of
+men's destinies, and a little farther on he met three old beggar women,
+who were walking bowed low over their sticks; their faces were like
+three apples roasted in the cinders. From their rags protruded bones
+which had more dirt than flesh upon them. Their naked feet ended in
+fleshless toes of immoderate length, like the bones of an ox-tail.
+
+As soon as they saw him approaching they smiled upon him and threw him
+kisses; they stopped him on his way, calling him their darling, their
+love, their pet, and covered him with caresses which he was powerless
+to evade, for the moment he made a movement to escape, they dug into his
+flesh the sharp claws at the tips of their fingers.
+
+"Isn't he handsome? Isn't he lovely?" they sighed.
+
+For some time they raved on, begging him to love them. Then, seeing they
+could not rouse his senses, which were frozen with horror, they covered
+him with abuse, hammered him with their staves, threw him on the ground
+and trod him underfoot. Then, when he was crushed, broken, aching, and
+crippled in every limb, the youngest, who was at least eighty years
+of age, squatted upon him and treated him in a manner too infamous to
+describe. He was almost suffocated; immediately afterwards the other
+two, taking the place of the first, treated the unfortunate gentleman in
+the same way.
+
+Finally all three made off, saluting him with: "Good night, Endymion!"
+"To our next meeting, Adonis!" "Good-bye, beautiful Narcissus!" and left
+him swooning.
+
+When he came back to his senses, a toad near him was whistling
+deliciously like a flute, and a cloud of mosquitoes were dancing before
+the moon. He rose with great difficulty and limpingly pursued his
+journey.
+
+Once again Monsieur de Boulingrin had failed to recognize the fairies,
+mistresses of the destinies of men.
+
+The Duchess of Cicogne awaited him impatiently.
+
+"You come very late, my friend," she said.
+
+He answered, as he kissed her fingers, that it was very kind of her to
+reproach him. His excuse was that he had been somewhat unwell.
+
+"Boulingrin," she said, "sit down there."
+
+And she confided to him that she would be very happy to accept from
+the royal treasury a present of two thousand crowns, as a fitting
+compensation for the unkindness of fate, faro having for the last six
+months been terribly against her.
+
+Informed that the matter was urgent, Boulingrin wrote immediately to
+Monsieur de La Rochecoupée to ask for the necessary sum of money.
+
+"La Rochecoupée will be delighted to obtain it for you," he said. "He
+is a helpful person and takes pleasure in serving his friends. I may add
+that in him one perceives greater talents than are commonly seen in the
+favourites of Princes. He has taste, and a head for business; but he
+is lacking in philosophy. He believes in fairies, relying on his
+senses----"
+
+"Boulingrin," said the Duchess, "you stink like a tom-cat."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+SEVENTEEN years, day by day, had elapsed since the fairies' decree. The
+Princess was as beautiful as a star. The King, Queen, and Court were
+in residence at the rural palace of Eaux-Perdues. Need I relate what
+happened then? It is well known how the Princess Aurore, wandering one
+day through the castle, came to the top of a keep, where, in a garret,
+she found a dear old woman, all alone, plying her distaff. She had never
+heard of the King's regulations, forbidding the use of spindles.
+
+"What are you doing, my good woman?" asked the Princess.
+
+"I am spinning, my dear child," replied the old woman, who did not
+recognize her.
+
+"Ah, how pretty it looks," replied the Princess. "How do you do it? Give
+it to me, that I may see if I can do it as well."
+
+No sooner had she picked up the spindle, than she pricked her hand with
+it, and fell swooning.{*} King Cloche, when he heard that the fairies'
+decree had been accomplished, ordered that the sleeping Princess should
+be placed in the Blue Chamber, on a bed of azure embroidered with
+silver. Shocked, and full of consternation, the courtiers made ready to
+weep, practised sighing, and assumed an expression of deep affliction.
+Intrigues were formed in every direction; it was reported that the King
+had discharged his Ministers. The blackest calumnies were hatched. It
+was said that the Duc de La Rochecoupée had concocted a draught to
+send the Princess to sleep, and that Monsieur de Boulingrin was his
+accomplice.
+
+     * Contes de Perrault, édition Aadré Lefevre, p. 86-108
+
+The Duchess of Cicogne climbed the secret staircase to the chambers of
+her old friend, whom she found in his night-cap, smiling, for he was
+reading _La Fiancée du roi de Garbe_.
+
+Cicogne told him the news, and how the Princess was lying on a blue bed
+in a state of lethargy.
+
+The Secretary of State listened attentively.
+
+"You do not believe, I hope, my dear friend, that the fairies have
+anything to do with it?" he said.
+
+For he did not believe in fairies, although three of them, ancient and
+venerable, had overpowered him with their love and their staves, and had
+drenched him to the skin in a disgusting liquid, in order to prove their
+existence to him. The defect of the experimental method pursued by
+these ladies is that the experiment was addressed to the senses, whose
+testimony one can always challenge.
+
+"The fairies have had everything to do with it!" cried the Duchess. "The
+Princess's accident may have the most unfortunate results for you and
+for me. People will not fail to attribute it to the incapacity of the
+Ministers, and possibly to their malevolence. Can one tell how far
+calumny may reach? You are already accused of niggardliness. According
+to what is being said, you refused, on my advice, to pay for warders for
+the young and unfortunate Princess. Worse than that, there are rumours
+of black magic, of casting spells. The storm has got to be faced. Show
+yourself, or you are lost!"
+
+"Calumny," said Boulingrin, "is the curse of this world. It has killed
+the greatest of men. Whoever honestly serves his King must make up his
+mind to pay tribute to that crawling, flying horror."
+
+"Boulingrin," said Cicogne, "get dressed." And she snatched off his
+night-cap, and threw it down by the bed-side.
+
+A few minutes later they were in the antechamber of the apartment in
+which Aurore was sleeping, and seating themselves on a bench they waited
+to be introduced.
+
+Now at the news that the decree of the Fates had been accomplished, the
+fairy Vivien, one of the Princess's godmothers, repaired in great haste
+to Eaux-Perdues, and in order that when she awoke her god-daughter
+should have a Court she touched every one in the castle with her ring.
+"Governesses, maids of honour, women of the bedchamber, noblemen,
+officers, grooms of the chamber, cooks, scullions, messengers, guards,
+beadles, pages, and footmen; she also touched the horses in the stables,
+the grooms, the great mastiffs in the yard, and little Pouffe, the
+Princess's lap-dog, which lay near her upon her bed. The very spits
+in front of the fire, loaded with pheasants and partridges, went to
+sleep."{*}
+
+     * Contes de Perrault, édition Aadré Lefevre, p. 87
+
+Meanwhile, Cicogne and Boulingrin waited side by side upon their bench.
+
+"Boulingrin," whispered the Duchess in her old friend's ear, "does it
+not seem to you that there is something suspicious in this business?
+Don't you suspect an intrigue on the part of the King's brothers to get
+the poor man to abdicate? He is well known as a good father. They may
+well have wished to throw him into despair."
+
+"It is possible," answered the Secretary of State. "In any case
+the fairies have nothing whatever to do with the matter. Only old
+countrywomen can still believe these cock-and-bull stories."
+
+"Be quiet, Boulingrin," said the Duchess. "There is nothing so hateful
+as a sceptic. He is an impertinent person who laughs at our simplicity.
+I detest strong-minded people; I believe what I ought to believe; but in
+this particular case, I suspect a dark intrigue."
+
+At the moment when Cicogne spoke these words, the fairy Vivien touched
+them both with her ring, and sent them to sleep like the rest.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+IN a quarter of an hour there grew all round about the park such an
+immense quantity of trees, large and small, with thorns and briars
+interlaced,-that neither man nor beast could pass; so that only the
+tops of the castle towers could be seen, and these only from a long
+way off.{*} Once, twice, thrice, fifty, sixty, eighty, ninety, and a
+hundred times did Urania close the circle of Time: the Sleeping Beauty
+and her Court, with Boulingrin beside the Duchess on the bench in the
+antechamber, still slept on.
+
+     * Contes de Perrault, pp. 87-88.
+
+Whether one regard Time as a mode of the unique substance, whether it be
+defined as one of the forms of the conscious ego, or an abstract phase
+of the immediate externality, or whether one regard it purely as a law,
+a relation resulting from the progression of Reality, we can affirm that
+one hundred years is a certain space of time.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+EVERY one knows the end of the enchantment, and how, after a hundred
+terrestrial cycles, a prince favoured by the fairies penetrated the
+enchanted wood, and reached the bed where slept the Princess. He was a
+little German princeling, with a pretty moustache, and rounded hips. As
+soon as she woke up, she fell, or rather rose so much in love, that she
+followed him to his little principality in such a hurry that she never
+said a word to the people of her household, who had slept with her for a
+hundred years.
+
+Her first lady-in-waiting was quite touched thereby, and exclaimed with
+admiration: "I recognize the blood of my kings." Boulingrin woke up
+beside the Duchess de Cicogne at the same time as the Princess and all
+her household. As he rubbed his eyes, his mistress said: "Boulingrin,
+you have been asleep." "Not at all, dear lady, not at all." He spoke in
+good faith. Having slept without dreaming for a hundred years, he did
+not know that he had been asleep.
+
+"I have been so little asleep," he said, "that I can repeat what you
+said a minute ago."
+
+"Well, what did I say?"
+
+"You said, 'I suspect a dark intrigue.'"
+
+As soon as it awoke, the whole of the little Court was discharged; every
+one had to fend for himself as best he could.
+
+Boulingrin and Cicogne hired from the castle steward an old
+seventeenth-century trap drawn by an animal which was already very aged
+before it went to sleep for a hundred years, and drove to the station of
+Eaux-Perdues, where they caught a train which, in two hours, deposited
+them in the capital of the country. Great was their surprise at all
+that they saw and heard. But by the end of a quarter of an hour they had
+exhausted their astonishment, and nothing surprised them any more. As
+for themselves, nobody took the slightest interest in them. Their story
+was perfectly incomprehensible, and awakened no curiosity, for our minds
+are not interested in anything that is too obvious, or too difficult to
+follow.
+
+As one may well believe, Boulingrin had not the remotest idea what had
+happened to him. But when the Duchess said that it was not natural, he
+answered:
+
+"Dear lady, allow me to observe that you have been badly trained in
+physics. Nothing exists which is not according to Nature."
+
+There remained to them neither friends, relations, nor property. They
+could not identify the position of their house. With the little money
+they had they bought a guitar, and sang in the streets. By this means
+they gained sufficient to support themselves. At night Cicogne staked
+at manille, in the inns, the coppers that had been thrown her during
+the day, while Boulingrin, with a bowl of warm wine in front of him,
+explained to the company that it was ridiculous to believe in fairies.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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