rse, no direct use or mention is made in the present chapter.

[2] "Il a pour l'art du moyen age, un mepris voisin de la demence et de
la frenesie. . . . Voir le discours ou il propose de mutiler les statues
des rois de la facade de Notre-Dame, pour en former un piedestal a la
statue du peuple francais." Bertrand: "La Fin du Classicisme," pp. 302-3
and _note_.

[3] But see, for the Catholic reaction in France, the writings of Joseph
de Maistre, especially "Du Pape" (1819).

[4] "Histoire du Romantisme" (1874).

[5] _ibid._, 210.

[6] Heine counted, in the Salon of 1831, more than thirty pictures
inspired by Scott.

[7] Also "Le Roi Lear" (Salon of 1836) and "La Procession du Pape des
Fous" (aquarelle) for Hugo's "Notre-Dame de Paris."

[8] Recall Schlegel's saying that the genius of the classic drama was
plastic and that of the romantic picturesque.

[9] Gautier, 192.

[10] This is a distinction more French than English: _la tragedie_ vs.
_le drame_.

[11] Preface to "Hernani."

[12] Preface to "Cromwell."

[13] "Histoire du Romantisme," p. 64.

[14] "Primer of French Literature," p. 115.

[15] One of the principles of the romanticists was the _melange des
genres_, whereby the old lines between tragedy and comedy, _e.g._, were
broken down, lyricism admitted into the drama, etc.

[16] Stendhal, writing in 1823 ("Racine et Shakspere"), complains that
"it will soon be thought bad form to say, on the French stage, 'Fermez
cette fenetre' [window]: we shall have to say, 'Fermez cette croisee'
[casement]. Two-thirds of the words used in the parlours of the best
people (_du meilleur ton_) cannot be reproduced in the theatre. M.
Legouve, in his tragedy 'Henri IV.,' could not make use of the patriot
king's finest saying, 'I could wish that the poorest peasant in my
kingdom might, at the least, have a chicken in his pot of a Sunday.'
English and Italian verse allows the poet to say everything; and this
good French word _pot_ would have furnished a touching scene to
Shakspere's humblest pupil. But _la tragedie racinienne_, with its
_style noble_ and its artificial dignity, has to put it thus,--in four
alexandrines:

"'Je veux enfin qu'au jour marque pour le repos,
L'hote laborieux des modestes hameaux,
Sur sa table moins humble, ait, par ma bienfaisance,
Quelques-uns de ces mets reserves a l'aisance.'"

It was Stendhal (whose real name was Henri Beyle) who said that Paris
needed a chain of mount