Englishman found time to read at large in the Caéz'net a'es Fees, he would have discovered therein much to corroborate the evidence steadily and unconsciously borne by his own journals — that the urbanity of life among the French upper classes was genuine, re?ecting a real and (for a whole society) a remarkable sunniness of disposition. Unconscious of their doom, the little victims played. But they did play; and they fell victims, not to their own passions, but to a form of government economically rotten.