634 Rttrofpell oj French Literature. — Mifcellaneouu 



Vain A. 

 II a bair6 mes yeux, il a baife ma bouche ; 

 II dormit fur mon fein ; il habite en mon 

 cceur. 



Ampanani. 

 Vaina, prends ce voile, ec couvres-en tes 

 cliarmes. 



VaVna. 

 O Roi ! parmi les morts que j'ajUe le clier- 



cher ; 

 Ou, s'il fuit, que je puiffe a fa fuite marcher. 



Ampanani. 

 Va, belle Vaina ; va, calme tes alarmes: 

 PerifTe le cruel qui pourroit arracher 

 Et gouter des balfers ou fe melent des larmes!" 



The fecond voiume contains feveral 

 tales, among which are thofe defcriptive 

 cf the manners of the former govern- 

 ment, publifhed under the name of " Frere 

 Paul, Hermite de Paris." 



We fhail clofe this article with 



La ConfeJJion du Rerger Normatid. 

 *' Certain cure, vers Paqucs confertant 

 Un villageois du pays Bas-Normand, 

 Pour rappeler fa memoire engourdie, 

 Lui dlt ; Es-tu joucur ? — Oh! monfieur, flon, 

 •— Ivrojjne ? — Non.— Paillard ?— Nenni. — 



Glouton ? 

 •-Non pas. — Eh ! mais, qu'es tu done, je te 



prie ? 

 — Je fuis berger.— Ah ! ah ! double fripon, 

 Dit le pafteur avec <]uelque furprife ; 

 As-tu du moins garae de notre eglife 

 Les ordres faints qu'elle meme a prefcrits ? 

 — Je n'ai jamais garde que mes brebis. 

 .^Fort bien ! mais dls, dans le cours de ta vie 

 N'as-lu jamais rien pris a toa prochain ? 

 Si fait : je crois qu'au fermier, mon voifin, ' 

 J'ai pris hier une bride pourrie, 

 Un vieux licou.— C'eft mal.— Ah ! pas trop 



mal ; 

 Car au licou tenoit un bon cheval." 

 — — " Va promptement vendre cet animal ; 

 Je t'attendrai dans mon faint prefbytere. 

 l.e prix recu revit-ns vire m'en faire 

 Un ample aumone, et quand je la tiendrai, 

 Pe ce licou vole je t'abfoudrai." 



♦' CE'jvrcs Pofthumes de Maimontel, 

 Hiftonographe de France, iecietaire Per- 

 petuel de I'Academie Franjailt ; impri- 

 riees fur le Manufciit Autographe de 

 J'Auteur, contenant fes Memoiits." — 

 The Pofthumaus Works of Marmon- 

 tel, Hiftoriographer of France, &:c. 4 

 V"ls. 8vo. Thef; four volumes are en- 

 titled " Memoiis of a Father, for the lu- 

 ftruftinn of his Children ;" they are better 

 calculated, however, tor the amurcinent 

 of men of letters and men of the world, 

 who have been the contemporaries of the 

 author; for he makes all thofe with whom 

 he had lived in habits of intimacy pal's 

 before him in review, and defcribes them 



with abunoance of truth. Without in- 

 tereltlng deeply, the work is replete with 

 pleafing details and piquant anecdotes, 

 together with traits which charadterize a 

 man o( merit, whofe m-irals have always 

 been allowed to be eltimable. 



The life of Marmontel pofTefTes at the 

 fame time a confmerable fhare of unifor- 

 mity ; he never varied either in his attach- 

 ments or his principles, and in no one pe- 

 riod of his life can he be quoted in oppo- 

 fition 10 hiinfelf. 



The firft volume, like that of the Con- 

 feflions of Jean Jacques Rouffeau, is de- 

 cidedly the be/f. The pifture of his fa- 

 mily, the defcription of his reipecfable 

 grandfather, of his good aunts, and his 

 excellent mother, is charniing, and rea- 

 dily finds its way to the heart. Tiie pttty 

 adventures which occurred to him while 

 at college, aboui-.d with gaie.y, and dif- 

 play, in the perfun of yourg Marmonrel, 

 not only a Icholar of great hopes, but a 

 lad deftintd to become a man of courage, 

 of probity, and of virtue. 



The Jefuits, who were accnftomed to 

 ftudy the ch^rafiers of their pupils, neg- 

 ledied nothing to enrol in their fociety fiich 

 as aniiounc. d any talent. Their wiflies 

 would have been fully gratified in relpcct 

 to the author, if Madame Ma' montcl had 

 not preven;ed her fon from entering into 

 their order, by a letter replete with fenti- 

 mcnt and eloquence. 



He at length returned to Toulonfe, 

 having firft vifited the colleges of Mau- 

 riac and Clermont, where he diilinguilhed 

 himfelf by obtaining neatly till the pii/es 

 of the academy duiing the Jloral games i 

 but he has not deemed the pieces compoled 

 by him on this occafion worthy of being 

 admitted into his works, although at that 

 period they added not a little to his repu- 

 tation. What was llill better, they ob- 

 tained for him the acquaintance of Vol. 

 taire, and the a61ive proteJfion and con- 

 ftant friendfliip of that great man. 



Voltaire, who would not allow him to 

 remain at Touloufe, obtiined for him a 

 place in the office of Stobrey, at that pe- 

 riod controller-general of tne finances : 

 but while Marmontel was on his journey 

 to the capital, that mir.ifler happened to 

 be dil'graccd. 



Feaimg 10 abufe the kirdnefs of his 

 patron, Marmontel concealed his fitua'ion 

 from him, and lived in the capital tor 

 fome time, in a ftate of mediocrity that 

 greatly refcmbled indigence. At length, 

 in 174(5, he obtained tlie piize at the 

 French Academy, and Voltaire undertook 

 on this occafion to fell the poems of the 

 author 



