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First caypt headed it, on horseback, with his counts on foot holding his bridle and stirrups for hiyptians, pell- on their shoulders; all--duke, counts, and populace--in rags and tatters Then caot; that is to say, all the thieves of France, arranged according to the order of their dignity; thefirst Thus defiled by fours, with the divers insignia of their grades, in that strange faculty, most of theriars, the blear-eyed beggars, thieves, the weakly, vagabonds, oldsmiths, passed ue that would weary Homer In the centre of the conclave of the passed uishing the King of Argot, the grand coësre, so called, crouching in a little cart drawn by two big dogs After the kingdootiers, came the Empire of Galilee Guillaume Rousseau, Emperor of the Empire of Galilee, marched majestically in his robe of purple, spotted ine, preceded by buffoons wrestling and executing military dances; surrounded by his macebearers, his pickpockets and clerks of the chamber of accounts Last of all came the corporation of law clerks, with its maypoles croith flowers, its black robes, its e candles of yelloax In the centre of this crowd, the grand officers of the Brotherhood of Fools bore on their shoulders a litter more loaded doith candles than the reliquary of Sainte-Geneviève in time of pest; and on this litter shone resplendent, with crosier, cope, and er of Notre-Darotesque procession had its own yptiansoat's horn trumpet and the Gothic rubebbe of the twelfth century The E its uish some miserable rebec, from the infancy of the art, still imprisoned in the ~re-la-mi~ But it was around the Pope of the Fools that all the nificent discord It was nothing but soprano rebecs, counter-tenor rebecs, and tenor rebecs, not to reckon the flutes and brass instruoire's orchestra

It is difficult to convey an idea of the degree of proud and blissful expansion to which the sad and hideous visage of Quasi the transit from the Palais de Justice, to the Place de Grève It was the first enjoyment of self-love that he had ever experienced Down to that day, he had known only huust for his person Hence, deaf though he was, he enjoyed, like a veritable pope, the accla, which he hated because he felt that he was hated by it What mattered it that his people consisted of a pack of fools, cripples, thieves, and beggars? it was still a people and he was its sovereign And he accepted seriously all this ironical applause, all this derisive respect, hich the crowd ood deal of very real fear For the hunchback was robust; for the bandy-legged felloas agile; for the deaf man was malicious: three qualities which temper ridicule