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(Tome 3: Marius, Livre premier: Paris &eacute;tudi&eacute; dans son atome, Chapitre 9: La vieille &acirc;me de la Gaule)
 
 
 
==General notes on this chapter==
 
 
 
==French text==
 
 
 
 
Il y avait de cet enfant-l&agrave; dans Poquelin, fils des Halles; il y en
 
avait dans Beaumarchais. La gaminerie est une nuance de l'esprit
 
gaulois. M&ecirc;l&eacute;e au bon sens, elle lui ajoute parfois de la force, comme
 
l'alcool au vin. Quelquefois elle est d&eacute;faut. Hom&egrave;re rab&acirc;che, soit; on
 
pourrait dire que Voltaire gamine. Camille Desmoulins &eacute;tait faubourien.
 
Championnet, qui brutalisait les miracles, &eacute;tait sorti du pav&eacute; de Paris;
 
il avait, tout petit, ''inond&eacute; les portiques'' de Saint-Jean de Beauvais
 
et de Saint-Etienne du Mont; il avait assez tutoy&eacute; la ch&acirc;sse de sainte
 
Genevi&egrave;ve pour donner des ordres &agrave; la fiole de saint Janvier.
 
 
 
 
Le gamin de Paris est respectueux, ironique et insolent. Il a de
 
vilaines dents parce qu'il est mal nourri et que son estomac souffre, et
 
de beaux yeux parce qu'il a de l'esprit. J&eacute;hovah pr&eacute;sent, il sauterait &agrave;
 
cloche-pied les marches du paradis. Il est fort &agrave; la savate. Toutes les
 
croissances lui sont possibles. Il joue dans le ruisseau et se redresse
 
par l'&eacute;meute; son effronterie persiste devant la mitraille; c'&eacute;tait un
 
polisson, c'est un h&eacute;ros; ainsi que le petit th&eacute;bain, il secoue la peau
 
du lion; le tambour Bara &eacute;tait un gamin de Paris; il crie: En avant!
 
comme le cheval de l'&Eacute;criture dit: Vah! et en une minute, il passe du
 
marmot au g&eacute;ant.
 
 
 
 
Cet enfant du bourbier est aussi l'enfant de l'id&eacute;al. Mesurez cette
 
envergure qui va de Moli&egrave;re &agrave; Bara.
 
 
 
 
Somme toute, et pour tout r&eacute;sumer d'un mot, le gamin est un &ecirc;tre qui
 
s'amuse, parce qu'il est malheureux.
 
 
 
 
==English text==
 
 
 
 
There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market;
 
Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic
 
spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, as
 
alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself
 
eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille
 
Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated
 
miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a small
 
lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of
 
Saint-Etienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Genevieve
 
familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius.
 
 
 
 
The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has
 
villainous teeth, because he is badly fed and his stomach suffers, and
 
handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he
 
would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on
 
boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and
 
straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in the
 
presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the little
 
Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy was a
 
gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture says
 
"Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the giant.
 
 
 
 
This child of the puddle is also the child of the ideal. Measure that
 
spread of wings which reaches from Moliere to Barra.
 
 
 
 
To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses
 
himself, because he is unhappy.
 
 
 
 
 
==Translation notes==
 
 
 
==Textual notes==
 
 
 
==Citations==
 
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