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Il me le vint dire: je lui fis voir
que c'etait une infamie de couper ainsi la gorge a une petite creature
pour l'avoir aimer; je representai qu'elle n'avait point sacrifie ses
lettres, comme on voulait lui faire croire pour l'animer. Il entra
dans mes raisons; il courut chez Ninon, et moitie par adresse, et
moitie par force, il retira les lettres de cette pauvre diablesse."
It was easy for a doting mother like Madame de Sevigne to credit
everything her son manufactured for her delectation. The dramatic
incident of de Sevigne taking letters from Ninon de l'Enclos partly by
ingenuity and partly by force, resembled his tale that he had left
Ninon and that he did not care for her while all the time they were
inseparable. He was truly a lover of Penelope, the bow of Ulysses
having betrayed his weakness.
"The malady of his soul," says his mother, "afflicted his body. He
thought himself like the good Esos; he would have himself boiled in a
caldron with aromatic herbs to restore his vigor."
But Ninon's opinion of him was somewhat different.


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