The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . rtisans, they will be in oppo- io6 jEr6me coignard sition to the masters, who make the artisans will be an incessant cause of dispute and quarrelsThey will form a turbulent council where eachwill agitate for the interests and passions of hiselectors. Nevertheless, I fancy they will not makethe present magistrates regretted who only de-pend on the prince. Their clamorous vanity willamuse the citizens who will see themselves as inan enlarging mirror. They will employ mediocrepowers after a mediocre fashion. Risen from themass of the people they will be
The opinions of Jérôme Coignard . rtisans, they will be in oppo- io6 jEr6me coignard sition to the masters, who make the artisans will be an incessant cause of dispute and quarrelsThey will form a turbulent council where eachwill agitate for the interests and passions of hiselectors. Nevertheless, I fancy they will not makethe present magistrates regretted who only de-pend on the prince. Their clamorous vanity willamuse the citizens who will see themselves as inan enlarging mirror. They will employ mediocrepowers after a mediocre fashion. Risen from themass of the people they will be as incapable offostering it as of restraining it. The rich willbe frightened at their audacity, and the poor wUlblame their fearfulness, whereas they will reallydisplay only noise and impotence. For the rest,they may be equal to common tasks, and toadministering the public wealth with that insufficientsufficiency which they always attain to and neverget beyond. Ouf! said my father, you have spokenwell, Monsieur IAbb^—now drink !. IX SCIENCE HAT day we tramped as far as thePont Neuf, my good master and I,where the recesses were covered withthose trestles on which the second-hand booksellers expose a con-glomeration of romances and books of one may find at twopence apiece the completeAstrde and the Grand Cyrus, worn and thumbed byprovincial readers, with the Ointment for Burns,and divers works of the Jesuits. My good masterwas accustomed, in passing, to read some pages ofthese works, of which he made no purchase, beingout of funds, and wisely keeping for the Peiit Bacchusthe sixpence he happened by a rare chance to havein his breeches pocket. For the rest, he did northirst to possess the good things of this world, andthe best works did not make him envious so long ashe could get acquainted with the noble passages in 107 io8 THE OPINIONS OF them, on which he expatiated afterwards withadmirable wisdom. The trestles of the Pont Neufpleased him in that the books w
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