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diff --git a/25409.txt b/25409.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e1fb96 --- /dev/null +++ b/25409.txt @@ -0,0 +1,924 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne And Of +Monsieur De Boulingrin, by Anatole France + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +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: ASCII + +*** 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not undertake to +relate-it again; but, having become acquainted with several memoirs of +the time which have remained unpublished, I discovered some anecdotes +relating to King Cloche and Queen Satine, whose daughter it was that +slept a hundred years, and also to several members of the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), +Urgele, 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 +Hotel-Dieu, there slept for six consecutive years. I myself observed the +girl Leonide 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 ROCHECOUPEE, 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 Rochecoupee 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 Rochecoupee +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 +Rochecoupee 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 chateau 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 pre + Mon coeur vole + Mon coeur vole + Mon coeur vole a votre gre." + +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 pre!" 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 Rochecoupee to ask for the necessary sum of money. + +"La Rochecoupee 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 Rochecoupee had concocted a draught to +send the Princess to sleep, and that Monsieur de Boulingrin was his +accomplice. + + * Contes de Perrault, edition Aadre 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 Fiancee 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, edition Aadre 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. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne +And Of Monsieur De Boulingrin, by Anatole France + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DUCHESS OF CICOGNE *** + +***** This file should be named 25409.txt or 25409.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/4/0/25409/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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