The Sleeping Beauty, and Other Fairy Tales - From the Old French #268212

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, reflecting 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.