The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . ur hascooled off. ; 6o j£r6me coignard Monsieur Jean Hibou, crushing his hat on hisnose, bade us good-bye with irritation in his voice. As soon as he was gone Monsieur Blaizot lookedup over his ledgers, and settling his spectacles, saidto my excellent master : I have been a bookseller for forty years at thesign of the Image de Sainte Catherine, and it is alwaysa fresh plea;sure to me to listen to the converse ofthe learned men who meet in my shop. But I do notgreatly care for discussions on public affairs. Peopleget heated, and quarrel to no purpose. Moreove
The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . ur hascooled off. ; 6o j£r6me coignard Monsieur Jean Hibou, crushing his hat on hisnose, bade us good-bye with irritation in his voice. As soon as he was gone Monsieur Blaizot lookedup over his ledgers, and settling his spectacles, saidto my excellent master : I have been a bookseller for forty years at thesign of the Image de Sainte Catherine, and it is alwaysa fresh plea;sure to me to listen to the converse ofthe learned men who meet in my shop. But I do notgreatly care for discussions on public affairs. Peopleget heated, and quarrel to no purpose. Moreover, said my good master, in thissubject there is little solid principle. There is, at least, one that no man will do wellto contest, replied Monsieur Blaizot the bookseller, and that is that he must be a bad Christian and abad Frenchman who would deny the virtue of theholy Ampulla of Rheims, by whose unction our kingsare made vicars of Jesus Christ for the kingdom ofFrance. Here is the basis of monarchy, which shallnever be IV THE AFFAIR OF THE MISSISSIPPI T is well known that during the year1722 the Parliament of Paris sat injudgment on the Mississippi affair,in which were implicated, along withthe directors of the Company, aminister of State, secretary to the King, and many sub-inspectors of provinces. The Company was accusedof having corrupted the officers of the King andhis dominions, who had in reality stripped itwith the greed usual to people in office underweak governments. And it is certain that atthis period all the springs of government wereslackened and warped. At one of the sittings of this memorable action,Madame de la Morang^re, wife of one of the directorsof the Mississippi Company, was called before themembers of Parliament in the upper chamber. Shegave evidence that a Monsieur Lescot, secretary to the 61 62 THE OPINIONS OF Lieutenant-CrimineI* having sent for her to come insecret to the Chatelet, made her understand that itlay with her entirely to sa
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