The princess; or The Bguine . I THE PRINCESS. CHAPTER I. THE OPERA. Croiriez-vous que je reviens de lOpera ! La fete se faisait pour labbeArnauld. qui nen a pas vu, depuis Urbain VIII, quil eHait a Rome. II en aete fort content; je suis chargee des complimens de toute sa loge. Lettres de Madame de Sevigne, vol. in. p. 10. A party at the Opera arranged for the special entertainment ofthe bishop of Angers, one of the most pious prelates of the Gallicanchurch, and in the reign, too, of one of the most pious of the Frenchkings! A strange trait of manners this, and yet one only in amyriad, proving
The princess; or The Bguine . I THE PRINCESS. CHAPTER I. THE OPERA. Croiriez-vous que je reviens de lOpera ! La fete se faisait pour labbeArnauld. qui nen a pas vu, depuis Urbain VIII, quil eHait a Rome. II en aete fort content; je suis chargee des complimens de toute sa loge. Lettres de Madame de Sevigne, vol. in. p. 10. A party at the Opera arranged for the special entertainment ofthe bishop of Angers, one of the most pious prelates of the Gallicanchurch, and in the reign, too, of one of the most pious of the Frenchkings! A strange trait of manners this, and yet one only in amyriad, proving that hostility to theatrical exhibitions formed noprinciple of the churchs original system. By the introduction of mysteries, the clergy laid the foundationfor the revival of the drama—fallen into oblivion, with the otherarts of civilization, on the destruction of the Roman empire. Dra-matic entertainments also were long the favourite festivities in thepalaces of Roman cardinals; and even popes did not disdain to pa-tronise
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