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Are
we
still
living
in
the
monstrous
times
of
the
Middle
Ages
,
when
vagabonds
were
permitted
to
display
in
our
public
places
leprosy
and
scrofulas
they
had
brought
back
from
the
Crusades
?
"
Or
--
"
In
spite
of
the
laws
against
vagabondage
,
the
approaches
to
our
great
towns
continue
to
be
infected
by
bands
of
beggars
.
Some
are
seen
going
about
alone
,
and
these
are
not
,
perhaps
,
the
least
dangerous
.
What
are
our
ediles
about
?
"
Then
Homais
invented
anecdotes
--
"
Yesterday
,
by
the
Bois-Guillaume
hill
,
a
skittish
horse
--
"
And
then
followed
the
story
of
an
accident
caused
by
the
presence
of
the
blind
man
.
He
managed
so
well
that
the
fellow
was
locked
up
.
But
he
was
released
.
He
began
again
,
and
Homais
began
again
.
It
was
a
struggle
.
Homais
won
it
,
for
his
foe
was
condemned
to
life-long
confinement
in
an
asylum
.
This
success
emboldened
him
,
and
henceforth
there
was
no
longer
a
dog
run
over
,
a
barn
burnt
down
,
a
woman
beaten
in
the
parish
,
of
which
he
did
not
immediately
inform
the
public
,
guided
always
by
the
love
of
progress
and
the
hate
of
priests
.
He
instituted
comparisons
between
the
elementary
and
clerical
schools
to
the
detriment
of
the
latter
;
called
to
mind
the
massacre
of
St.
Bartholomew
a
propos
of
a
grant
of
one
hundred
francs
to
the
church
,
and
denounced
abuses
,
aired
new
views
.
That
was
his
phrase
.
Homais
was
digging
and
delving
;
he
was
becoming
dangerous
.
However
,
he
was
stifling
in
the
narrow
limits
of
journalism
,
and
soon
a
book
,
a
work
was
necessary
to
him
.
Then
he
composed
"
General
Statistics
of
the
Canton
of
Yonville
,
followed
by
Climatological
Remarks
.
"
The
statistics
drove
him
to
philosophy
.
He
busied
himself
with
great
questions
:
the
social
problem
:
moralisation
of
the
poorer
classes
,
pisciculture
,
caoutchouc
,
railways
,
etc.
.
He
even
began
to
blush
at
being
a
bourgeois
.
He
affected
the
artistic
style
,
he
smoked
.
He
bought
two
chic
Pompadour
statuettes
to
adorn
his
drawing-room
.
He
by
no
means
gave
up
his
shop
.
On
the
contrary
,
he
kept
well
abreast
of
new
discoveries
.
He
followed
the
great
movement
of
chocolates
;
he
was
the
first
to
introduce
"
cocoa
"
and
"
revalenta
"
into
the
Seine-Inferieure
.
He
was
enthusiastic
about
the
hydro-electric
Pulvermacher
chains
;
he
wore
one
himself
,
and
when
at
night
he
took
off
his
flannel
vest
,
Madame
Homais
stood
quite
dazzled
before
the
golden
spiral
beneath
which
he
was
hidden
,
and
felt
her
ardour
redouble
for
this
man
more
bandaged
than
a
Scythian
,
and
splendid
as
one
of
the
Magi
.
