r les moeurs.)--On a
wife being discovered by a husband, he simply exclaims, "Madame, what
imprudence! Suppose that I was any other man." (La femme au dix-huitieme
siecle," 201.)]

[Footnote 2234: See in this relation the somewhat ancient types,
especially in the provinces. "My mother, my sister, and myself,
transformed into statues by my father's presence, only recover ourselves
after he leaves the room." (Chateaubriand, "Memoires," I. 17, 28,
130).--"Memoires de Mirabeau," I. 53.) The Marquis said of his father
Antoine: "I never had the honor of kissing the cheek of that venerable
man. . . At the Academy, being two hundred leagues away from him, the
mere thought of him made me dread every youthful amusement which could
be followed by the least unfavorable results."--Paternal authority seems
almost as rigid among the middle and lower classes. ("Beaumarchais et
son temps," by De Lomenie, I. 23.--"Vie de mon pere," by Restif de la
Bretonne, passim.)]

[Footnote 2235: Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux lundis," XII, 13;--Comte de
Tilly, "Memoires," I. 12; Duc de Lauzun, 5.--"Beaumarchais," by de
Lomenie, II. 299.]

[Footnote 2236: Madame de Genlis, "Memoires," ch 2 and 3.]

[Footnote 2237: Mme. d'Oberkirk. II. 35.--This fashion lasts until
1783.--De Goncourt, "La femme au dix-huitieme siecle, 415,--"Les
petits parrains," engraving by Moreau.--Berquin, "L'ami des
enfants," passim.--Mme. de Genlis, "Theatre de l'Education," passim.]

[Footnote 2238: Lesage, "Gil Blas de Santillane": the discourse of
the dancing-master charged with the education of the son of Count
d'Olivares.]

[Footnote 2239: "Correspondance." by Metra, XIV. 212; XVI. 109.--Mme.
d'Oberkirk. II, 302.]

[Footnote 2240: De Segur, I. 297:

Ma naissance n'a rien de neuf,
J'ai suivi la commune regle,
Mais c'est vous qui sortez d'un oeuf,
Car vous etes un aigle.

Mme. de Genlis, "Memoires," ch. IV. Mme. de Genlis wrote verses of this
kind at twelve years of age.]

[Footnote 2241: Already in the Precieuses of Moliere, the Marquis
de Mascarille and the Vicomte de Jodelet.--And the same in Marivaux,
"L'epreuve, les jeux de l'amour et du hasard," ete.--Lesage, "Crispin
rival de son maitre."--Laclos, "Les liaisons dangereuses," first
letter.]

[Footnote 2242: Voltaire, "Princesse de Babylone."]

[Footnote 2243: "Gustave III," by Geffroy, II. 37.--Mme. Vigee-Lebrun,
I. 81.]

[Footnote 2244: George Sand, I. 58-60. A narration by her grandmot