[33].  De Lauzun, 51. — Champfort, 39. — “The Duc de — whose wife had just been the subject of scandal, complained to his mother-in-law:  the latter replied with the greatest coolness, ’Eh, Monsieur, you make a good deal of talk about nothing.  Your father was much better company.’ " (Mme. d’Oberkirk, II. 135, 241). — “A husband said to his wife, I allow you everything except princes and lackeys.’  He had it right since these two extremes brought dishonor on account of the scandal attached to them.” (Sénac de Meilhan, “Considérations sur les moeurs.) — On a wife being discovered by a husband, he simply exclaims, “Madame, what imprudence!  Suppose that I was any other man.”  (La femme au dix-huitième siècle,” 201.)

[34].  See in this relation the somewhat ancient types, especially in the provinces.  “My mother, my sister, and myself, transformed into statues by my father’s presence, only recover ourselves after he leaves the room.” (Châteaubriand, “Mémoires,” I. 17, 28, 130). — “Mémoires de Mirabeau,” I. 53.) The Marquis said of his father Antoine:  “I never had the honor of kissing the cheek of that venerable man. . .  At the Academy, being two hundred leagues away from him, the mere thought of him made me dread every youthful amusement which could be followed by the least unfavorable results.” — Paternal authority seems almost as rigid among the middle and lower classes.  ("Beaumarchais et son temps,” by De Loménie, I. 23. — “Vie de mon père,” by Restif de la Bretonne, passim.)

[35].  Sainte-Beuve, “Nouveaux lundis,” XII, 13; — Comte de Tilly, “Mémoires,” I. 12; Duc de Lauzun, 5. — “Beaumarchais,” by de Loménie, II. 299.

[36].  Madame de Genlis, “Mémoires,” ch 2 and 3.

[37].  Mme. d’Oberkirk.  II. 35. — This fashion lasts until 1783. - De Goncourt, “La femme au dix-huitième siècle, 415, — “Les petits parrains,” engraving by Moreau. — Berquin, “L’ami des enfants,"passim. — Mme. de Genlis, “Théâtre de l’Education,” passim.

[38].  Lesage, “Gil Blas de Santillane”:  the discourse of the dancing-master charged with the education of the son of Count d’Olivarés.

[39].  “Correspondance.” by Métra, XIV. 212; XVI. 109. — Mme. d’Oberkirk.  II, 302.

[40].  De Ségur, I. 297: 

Ma naissance n’a rien de neuf,
J’ai suivi la commune régle,
Mais c’est vous qui sortez d’un oeuf,
Car vous êtes un aigle.

Mme. de Genlis, “Mémoires,” ch.  IV.  Mme. de Genlis wrote verses of this kind at twelve years of age.

[41].  Already in the Précieuses of Molière, the Marquis de Mascarille and the Vicomte de Jodelet. — And the same in Marivaux, “L’épreuve, les jeux de l’amour et du hasard,” ete. — Lesage, “Crispin rival de son maître.” — Laclos, “Les liaisons dangéreuses,” first letter.

[42].  Voltaire, “Princesse de Babylone.”