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A licentious scamp of a student, bred at some shop in the Cite or the Place Maubert, he has a tone which, at least as much as that of Regnier, has a savor of the places the author frequented.

The beauties whom he celebrates--and I blush for him--are none else than _la blanche Savetiere_ (the fair cobbleress), or _la gente Saul cissiere, du coin_ (the pretty Sausage girl at the corner).

But he has invented for some of those natural regrets which incessantly recur in respect of vanished beauty and the flight of years a form of expression, truthful, charming, and airy, which goes on singing forever in the heart and ear of whosoever has once heard it.

He has flashes, nothing more than flashes, of melancholy.