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liim for his skill in training the shiike to take the sparrow flying. 
Salnove atti'ibutes- a bugle flourish for the fox to this king, who 
might have been sur named the Just, on account of his true eye, 
being the first French prince who used the arquebuss to shoot 
flying. Apollo and his Muses-— Venus, Diana, and Love — have 
wreathed with a poetic crown the brow of the great king to whom 
no glory is wanting, who did more for liberty, and for the indivisi- 
bility of the French nation, than any of those who have followed, 
and for whom was wrought the first double-barreled gun. Alas, 
with the intelligent hunter who had raised the hare-chase to the 
rank of a royal amusement ; with the magnificent creator of the 
wonders of Marly and of Versailles, cease the splendors of the 
monarchy and of the French hunt. All perish in the hands of 
his unworthy successor, who allies himself with England, as if 
there could be alliance between the bird of day and the bird of 
night. And the respect of the people for the royal authority dis- 
appears with the glory of the French hunt. The king of France 
has opened to the English dog the entrance to his kingdom. Dark 
forests of Gaul, veil your majestic face in thickest vapors, that 
you may not witness the coming profanation. Wreathe your low 
branches in a mail of thorns, to arrest the irruption of the fox- 
hound, for the days of the abomination and of the desolation fore- 
told by tlie encyclopedists, has come. The anglomania, a subtle 
poison, has made a breach into our laws, our morals, our costume ; 
and it will not pause before your mysterious fastnesses. The revo- 
lutionary axe, which strikes together with the English idea, and 
which delights to cut down old trunks, like old dynasties — the 
revolutionary axe will open frightful chasms in your sides. Moan, 
ye mountain echoes, which the resounding clamors of the indigen- 
ous pack will no longer awaken. 
To replace our races of Saintonge, Poitou, and Lorraine— our 
Tvliite dogs, with large chest, subtle smell, and sonorous voice — 
they have a dumb and rapid race, sprung from the greyhound, 
that force the stag in an hour ! 
They have reduced, by three fourths, the duration of pleasure, 
and they call this economizing time. Accursed be thou, 0 rose- 
water Minotaur of the Parc aux Cerfs and the grand Trianon — 
