[Footnote 2234: 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.)] [Footnote 2235: Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux lundis," XII, 13;--Comte de Tilly, "Mémoires," I. 12; Duc de Lauzun, 5.--"Beaumarchais," by de Loménie, II. 299.] [Footnote 2236: Madame de Genlis, "Mémoires," ch 2 and 3.] [Footnote 2237: 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.] [Footnote 2238: Lesage, "Gil Blas de Santillane": the discourse of the dancing-master charged with the education of the son of Count d'Olivarés.] [Footnote 2239: "Correspondance." by Métra, XIV. 212; XVI. 109.--Mme. d'Oberkirk. II, 302.] [Footnote 2240: 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.] [Footnote 2241: 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.] [Footnote 2242: Voltaire, "Princesse de Babylone."] [Footnote 2243: "Gustave III," by Geffroy, II. 37.--Mme. Vigée-Lebrun, I. 81.] [Footnote 2244: George Sand, I. 58-60. A narration by her grandmother, who, at thirty years of age, married M. Dupin de Francuiel, aged sixty-two.] [Footnote 2245: Mme. de Genlis, "Souvenirs de Félicie," 77.--Mme. Campan, III. 74.--Mme. de Genlis, "Dict. des Etiquettes," I. 348.] [Footnote 2246: See an anecdote concerning this species of royalty in "Adèle et Théodore, I. 69" by Mme. de Genlis.--Mme. Vigée-Lebrun, I. 156: "Women ruled then; the Revolution has dethroned them. . . This gallantry I speak of has entirely disappeared."] [Footnote 2247: "Women in France to some extent dictate whatever is to be said and prescribe whatever is to be done in the fashionable world." ("A comparative view," by John Andrews, 1785.)]