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Scan 109
Le Luthier De Cremone et Le Tresor, 1901
32 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 8. See the scan on archive.org.
1Le Luthier de Crémone Notes, 126–274
3126. sainte patronne, patron saint, i.e. saint under whose invocation she had been baptized.
5144. Observe the rhetorical effect of the "romantic" triplex division of this line and of 148. See Introduction, p. xi.
7150. Philomèle, Lat. Philomela, a mythological classical princess who was transformed into a nightingale.
9SCENE 3.
11164. Ouf, a panting sound.
13169. A telles enseignes, To such a degree, or, So truly.
15173. gâte-sauce, scullery-boys, a contemptuous term for a bad cook. tas de rien qui vaille, pack of good-for-nothings.
17174. A lapider, occupied in stoning. The cruelty of Italian street urchins almost passes American comprehension.
19192. C'est, i.e. He shows.
21SCENE 4.
23193. gris, exhilarated, not "drunk."
25208. barbeau, light blue, from the flower of that name.
27209. En manquant de tenue, By negligence in dress.
29SCENE 6.
31217–274. The metrical regularity of this passage is remarkable. Only in the first and last lines is the main pause moved from the sixth syllable except, for rhetorical reasons, in 235, where the pathos becomes for a moment more intense. In 229 and 263 the rhetorical effect is increased by putting the chief pause after revoir and grand. Since pathos is the key-note of the passage, we should expect the six syllables of the 112 half-lines to be divided into three and three or four and two syllables, and with four exceptions this is uniformly the case. See Introduction, p. xi.
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