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		<title>Historymaker: Created page with &quot;Les Mis&amp;eacute;rables,  Volume 3: Marius, Book Second: The Great Bourgeois, Chapter 4: A Centenarian Aspirant&lt;br /&gt; (Tome 3: Marius, Livre deuxi&amp;egrave;me: Le grand bourgeois,...&quot;</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;Les Mis&amp;amp;eacute;rables,  Volume 3: Marius, Book Second: The Great Bourgeois, Chapter 4: A Centenarian Aspirant&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
(Tome 3: Marius, Livre deuxi&amp;amp;egrave;me: Le grand bourgeois, Chapitre 4: Aspirant centenaire)&lt;br /&gt;
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==General notes on this chapter==&lt;br /&gt;
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==French text==&lt;br /&gt;
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Il avait eu des prix en son enfance au coll&amp;amp;egrave;ge de Moulins o&amp;amp;ugrave; il &amp;amp;eacute;tait&lt;br /&gt;
n&amp;amp;eacute;, et il avait &amp;amp;eacute;t&amp;amp;eacute; couronn&amp;amp;eacute; de la main du duc de Nivernais qu'il&lt;br /&gt;
appelait le duc de Nevers. Ni la Convention ni la mort de Louis XVI, ni&lt;br /&gt;
Napol&amp;amp;eacute;on, ni le retour des Bourbons, rien n'avait pu effacer le souvenir&lt;br /&gt;
de ce couronnement. ''Le duc de Nevers'' &amp;amp;eacute;tait pour lui la grande figure&lt;br /&gt;
du si&amp;amp;egrave;cle. Quel charmant grand seigneur, disait-il, et qu'il avait bon&lt;br /&gt;
air avec son cordon bleu! Aux yeux de M. Gillenormand, Catherine II&lt;br /&gt;
avait r&amp;amp;eacute;par&amp;amp;eacute; le crime du partage de la Pologne en achetant pour trois&lt;br /&gt;
mille roubles le secret de l'&amp;amp;eacute;lixir d'or &amp;amp;agrave; Bestuchef. L&amp;amp;agrave;-dessus, il&lt;br /&gt;
s'animait:&amp;amp;mdash;L'&amp;amp;eacute;lixir d'or, s'&amp;amp;eacute;criait-il, la teinture jaune de Bestuchef,&lt;br /&gt;
les gouttes du g&amp;amp;eacute;n&amp;amp;eacute;ral Lamotte, c'&amp;amp;eacute;tait, au dix-huiti&amp;amp;egrave;me si&amp;amp;egrave;cle, &amp;amp;agrave; un&lt;br /&gt;
louis le flacon d'une demi-once, le grand rem&amp;amp;egrave;de aux catastrophes de&lt;br /&gt;
l'amour, la panac&amp;amp;eacute;e contre V&amp;amp;eacute;nus. Louis XV en envoyait deux cents&lt;br /&gt;
flacons au pape.&amp;amp;mdash;On l'e&amp;amp;ucirc;t fort exasp&amp;amp;eacute;r&amp;amp;eacute; et mis hors des gonds si on lui&lt;br /&gt;
e&amp;amp;ucirc;t dit que l'&amp;amp;eacute;lixir d'or n'est autre chose que le perchlorure de fer.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Gillenormand adorait les Bourbons et avait en horreur 1789; il&lt;br /&gt;
racontait sans cesse de quelle fa&amp;amp;ccedil;on il s'&amp;amp;eacute;tait sauv&amp;amp;eacute; dans la Terreur,&lt;br /&gt;
et comment il lui avait fallu bien de la ga&amp;amp;icirc;t&amp;amp;eacute; et bien de l'esprit pour&lt;br /&gt;
ne pas avoir la t&amp;amp;ecirc;te coup&amp;amp;eacute;e. Si quelque jeune homme s'avisait de faire&lt;br /&gt;
devant lui l'&amp;amp;eacute;loge de la R&amp;amp;eacute;publique, il devenait bleu et s'irritait &amp;amp;agrave;&lt;br /&gt;
s'&amp;amp;eacute;vanouir. Quelquefois il faisait allusion &amp;amp;agrave; son &amp;amp;acirc;ge de quatrevingt-dix&lt;br /&gt;
ans, et disait: ''J'esp&amp;amp;egrave;re bien que je ne verrai pas deux fois&lt;br /&gt;
quatrevingt-treize''. D'autres fois, il signifiait aux gens qu'il&lt;br /&gt;
entendait vivre cent ans.&lt;br /&gt;
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==English text==&lt;br /&gt;
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He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he was&lt;br /&gt;
born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, whom he&lt;br /&gt;
called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death of Louis&lt;br /&gt;
XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor anything else&lt;br /&gt;
had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. The Duc de Nevers&lt;br /&gt;
was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. &amp;quot;What a charming grand&lt;br /&gt;
seigneur,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;and what a fine air he had with his blue ribbon!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation&lt;br /&gt;
for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three thousand&lt;br /&gt;
roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He grew&lt;br /&gt;
animated on this subject: &amp;quot;The elixir of gold,&amp;quot; he exclaimed, &amp;quot;the yellow&lt;br /&gt;
dye of Bestucheff, General Lamotte's drops, in the eighteenth century,&amp;amp;mdash;this&lt;br /&gt;
was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the panacea against&lt;br /&gt;
Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. sent two hundred&lt;br /&gt;
phials of it to the Pope.&amp;quot; He would have been greatly irritated and thrown&lt;br /&gt;
off his balance, had any one told him that the elixir of gold is nothing&lt;br /&gt;
but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand adored the Bourbons, and had&lt;br /&gt;
a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating in what manner he had saved&lt;br /&gt;
himself during the Terror, and how he had been obliged to display a vast&lt;br /&gt;
deal of gayety and cleverness in order to escape having his head cut off.&lt;br /&gt;
If any young man ventured to pronounce an eulogium on the Republic in his&lt;br /&gt;
presence, he turned purple and grew so angry that he was on the point of&lt;br /&gt;
swooning. He sometimes alluded to his ninety years, and said, &amp;quot;I hope that&lt;br /&gt;
I shall not see ninety-three twice.&amp;quot; On these occasions, he hinted to&lt;br /&gt;
people that he meant to live to be a hundred.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Translation notes==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Textual notes==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Citations==&lt;br /&gt;
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