밤이면 밤마다 나의 거울을손바닥으로 발바닥으로 닦아 보자.
therefore, to obtain permission to print it,with the view of presenting ourselvessomeday with the pack of others at thedoors of the Academie des Inscriptions etBelles Lettres, if we should not succeed
This permission, wefeel bound to say, was graciously granted;which compels us here to give a publiccontradiction to the slanderers who pretendthat we live under a government butmoderately indulgent to men of letters.
They will therein findportraits penciled by the hand of a master;and although these squibs may be, for themost part, traced upon the doors ofbarracks and the walls of cabarets, they willnot find the likenesses of Louis XIII
It is not my intention here to enter into ananalysis of this curious work; and I shallsatisfy myself with referring such of myreaders as appreciate the pictures of theperiod to its pages.