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Speaker:>> Brie Carlisle: Today well be continuing. les miserables
Speaker:by Victor Hugo
Speaker:chapter six the Little Convent.
Speaker:In this enclosure of the petite Picpiss there were
Speaker:three perfectly distinct the
Speaker:great convent inhabited by the nuns,
Speaker:the boarding school where the scholars were lodged and
Speaker:lastly, what was called the little Convent. It
Speaker:was a building with a garden in which lived all sorts of
Speaker:aged nuns of various orders, the
Speaker:relics of cloisters destroyed in the revolution,
Speaker:a reunion of all the black, gray, and white medleys
Speaker:of all communities and all possible
Speaker:varieties. What might be called,
Speaker:if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of
Speaker:harlequin convent. When the empire was
Speaker:established, all these poor, old, dispersed, and
Speaker:exiled women had been accorded permission to come and take
Speaker:shelter under the wings of the Bernardines
Speaker:Benedictines. The government paid them a
Speaker:small pension. The ladies of the petite picpus
Speaker:received them cordially. It was a singular
Speaker:pell mell. Each followed her own
Speaker:rule. Sometimes the pupils of the boarding
Speaker:school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them a
Speaker:visit. The result is that all those young
Speaker:memories have retained, among other souvenirs, that of Mother
Speaker:St. Basile, Mother Saint
Speaker:Schlastieck and Mother Jacob.
Speaker:One of these refugees found herself almost at home.
Speaker:She was a nun of Saint Aure, the only one of her
Speaker:order who had survived the ancient convent of the
Speaker:ladies of Saint Aure, occupied at the beginning of the
Speaker:18th century, this very house of the Petite
Speaker:Picpus, which belonged later to the Benedictines of Martin
Speaker:Virga. This holy woman, too
Speaker:poor to wear the magnificent habit of her order, which
Speaker:was a white robe with a scarlet scapulary,
Speaker:had piously put it on a little mannequin, which
Speaker:she exhibited with complacency, and which she
Speaker:bequeathed to the house at her death in
Speaker:1824. Only one nun of this order
Speaker:remained. Today there remains only a
Speaker:doll. In addition to these worthy
Speaker:mothers, some old society women had
Speaker:obtained permission of the prioress, like Madame
Speaker:Albertine, to retire into the little convent.
Speaker:Among the number were Madame Beaufort d'Hoppel
Speaker:and Marquise de Fresne. Another
Speaker:was never known in the convent, except by the formidable
Speaker:noise which she made when she blew her nose. The
Speaker:pupils called her Madame Veccormini.
Speaker:Hubbub. About 1820 or
Speaker:1821. Madame de Genlis, who was at that
Speaker:time editing a little periodical publication
Speaker:called Intrepid, asked to be allowed to
Speaker:enter the convent of the petit picpus as lady
Speaker:resident. The duc d'Orleans recommended
Speaker:her uproar in the hive.
Speaker:The vocal mothers were all in a flutter. Madame de
Speaker:Genlis had made romances, but she declared that
Speaker:she was the first to detest them. And then she had
Speaker:reached her fierce stage of devotion. With the aid
Speaker:of God and of the prince, she entered.
Speaker:She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging
Speaker:as a reason that there was no shade in the garden.
Speaker:The nuns were delighted. Although very
Speaker:old, she still played the harp and did it very well.
Speaker:When she went away, she left her mark in her cell.
Speaker:Madame de Genlis was superstitious and a latinist.
Speaker:These two words furnish a tolerably good profile
Speaker:of her. A few years ago, there were still to be
Speaker:seen pasted in the inside of a little
Speaker:cupboard in her cell, in which she locked up her silverware and her
Speaker:jewels. These five lines in
Speaker:Latin, written in her own hand in red ink on yellow
Speaker:paper, and which, in her opinion, possessed
Speaker:the property of frightening way robbers.
Speaker:Imparbius meridus pendent tria
Speaker:corpora dismus et
Speaker:gasmus media est divina potestis
Speaker:ulta petite dismiss in felix in fema
Speaker:jasmus not et res
Speaker:nostrus conservat summa
Speaker:potestus hus versus dicas
Speaker:ne tu furto tua perdas.
Speaker:These verses in 6th century Latin raise the
Speaker:question whether the two thieves of Calvary were named
Speaker:as is commonly believed. Dismiss
Speaker:injustice or dismiss injustice.
Speaker:This orthography might have confounded the pretensions put
Speaker:forward in the last century by the viscount de
Speaker:gestes of a descent from the wicked thief.
Speaker:However, the useful virtue attached to these
Speaker:verses forms an article of faith in the order of
Speaker:the hospitallers. The church of the
Speaker:house, constructed in such a manner as to separate
Speaker:the great convent from the boarding school like a veritable
Speaker:entrenchment, was of course common to the boarding
Speaker:school, the great convent, and the little
Speaker:convent. The public was even admitted by a
Speaker:sort of lazaretto entrance on the street,
Speaker:but all was so arranged that none of the inhabitants of
Speaker:the cloister could see a face from the outside world.
Speaker:Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a
Speaker:gigantic hand and folded in such a manner as
Speaker:to form, not, as in ordinary
Speaker:churches, a prolongation behind the
Speaker:altar, but a sort of hall
Speaker:or obscure cellar to the right of the officiating
Speaker:priest. Suppose this hall to be shut
Speaker:off by a curtain 7ft in height of which weve
Speaker:already spoken. In the shadow of that
Speaker:curtain pile up on wooden stalls, the nuns in the
Speaker:choir on the left, the schoolgirls on the right,
Speaker:the lay sisters and the novices at the bottom.
Speaker:You will have some idea of the nuns of the petite
Speaker:pickpiss assisting at divine service.
Speaker:That cavern which was called the choir, communicated
Speaker:with the cloister by a lobby. The church was
Speaker:lighted from the garden. When the nuns were
Speaker:present at services, where their rule enjoined silence,
Speaker:the public was warned of their presence only by the folding seats
Speaker:of the stalls, noisily rising and falling.
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