Italian poet makes Angelica prefer Medoro, who was a blond Chevalier

de Valois, to Orlando, whose mare was dead, and who knew no better
than to fly into a passion. Is not Medoro the mythic form for all

courtiers of feminineroyalty, and Orlando the myth of disorderly,
furious, and impotent revolutions, which destroy but cannot produce?

We publish, but without assuming any responsibility for it, this
opinion of a pupil of Monsieur Ballanche.

No information has reached us as to the fate of the negroes' heads in
diamonds. You may see Madame du Val-Noble every evening at the Opera.

Thanks to the education given her by the Chevalier de Valois, she has
almost the air of a well-bred woman.

Madame du Bousquier still lives; is not that as much as to say she
still suffers? After reaching the age of sixty--the period at which

women allow themselves to make confessions--she said confidentially to
Madame du Coudrai, that she had never been able to endure the idea of

dying an old maid.
ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
(Note: The Collection of Antiquities is a companion piece to The Old

Maid. In other Addendum appearances they are combined under the title
of The Jealousies of a Country Town.)

Bordin
The Gondreville Mystery

The Seamy Side of History
The Commission in Lunacy

Bousquier, Du (or Du Croisier or Du Bourguier)
The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)

The Middle Classes
Bousquier, Madame du (du Croisier) (Mlle. Cormon)

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
Casteran, De

The Chouans
The Seamy Side of History

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
Beatrix

The Peasantry
Chesnel (or Choisnel)

The Seamy Side of History
The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)

Coudrai, Du
The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)

Esgrignon, Charles-Marie-Victor-Ange-Carol, Marquis d' (or Des Grignons)
The Chouans

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
Esgrignon, Marie-Armande-Claire d'

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
Gaillard, Madame Theodore (Suzanne)

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Bachelor's Establishment

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Beatrix

The Unconscious Humorists
Granson, Athanase

The Government Clerks (mentioned only)
Lenoncourt, Duc de

The Lily of the Valley
Cesar Birotteau

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
The Gondreville Mystery

Beatrix
Navarreins, Duc de

Colonel Chabert
The Muse of the Department

The Thirteen
The Peasantry

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
The Country Parson

The Magic Skin
The Gondreville Mystery

The Secrets of a Princess
Cousin Betty

Pombreton, Marquis de
Lost Illusions

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Ronceret, Du

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
Beatrix

Ronceret, Madame Du
The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)

Simeuse, Admiral de
Beatrix

The Gondreville Mystery
Troisville, Guibelin, Vicomte de

The Seamy Side of History
The Chouans

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
The Peasantry

Valois, Chevalier de
The Chouans

The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)
Verneuil, Duc de

The Chouans
The Collection of Antiquities (companion piece)

End

• italian [i´tæliən] a.意大利 n.意大利人 (初中英语单词)
• passion [´pæʃən] n.激情；激怒；恋爱 (初中英语单词)
• responsibility [ri,spɔnsə´biliti] n.责任(心)；职责；任务 (初中英语单词)
• monsieur [mə´sjə:] n.先生 (初中英语单词)
• endure [in´djuə] vt.忍耐，忍受；坚持 (初中英语单词)
• collection [kə´lekʃən] n.收集；征收；募捐 (初中英语单词)
• companion [kəm´pæniən] n.同伴；同事；伴侣 (初中英语单词)
• admiral [´ædmərəl] n.海军上将，舰队司令 (初中英语单词)
• royalty [´rɔiəlti] n.王位；特权阶层；版税 (高中英语单词)
• commission [kə´miʃən] n.委任(状) vt.委任 (高中英语单词)
• marquis [´mɑ:kwis] n.侯爵 (高中英语单词)
• distinguished [di´stiŋgwiʃt] a.卓越的，著名的 (高中英语单词)
• unconscious [ʌn´kɔnʃəs] a.无意识的；不觉察的 (高中英语单词)
• feminine [´feminin] a.女性的 (英语四级单词)
• provincial [prə´vinʃəl] a.省的 n.外省人 (英语四级单词)