letters to Voiture: "There is here a man smaller than yourself by a cubit, and, I protest, a thousand times more gallant." Godeau, who entered holy orders and became an abbé, through his devotion to Mile, de Rambouillet, obtained the nickname of "Julie's Dwarf." Voiture was jealous of him, begrudged the favour of the lady who dispensed the literary reputations of the day, and he addressed a rondeau to Godeau:—
"Quittez l'amour, ce n'est votre métier,
Faites des vers, traduisez le psautier;
Votre fagon d'écrire est fort jolie;
Mais gardez-vous de faire folle,
Ou je saurais, ma foi, vous châtier
Comme un galant."
Godeau lived at a time when dancers about the saloons of the toasts and blue stockings of Paris were rewarded with spoils from the Church; and Godeau, when aged only thirty, was offered and accepted the united dioceses of Grasse and Vence. He was consecrated, and went to Grasse. Thence he wrote to Julie:—
"Dans ce desert ou je suis retourné',
Mon coeur languit, a souffrir destiné,
Et mon esprit plein de mélancolie
Ne pense plus qu'a la belle Julie.
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J'aimerai mieux être aux fers condamné
Dans le dur froid de l'âpre Corilie.
O Rambouillet! O nymphe si jolie,
Souffrirez vous que je sois confiné"
Dans ce désert?"
However, Godeau did his duty at Grasse. Indeed, eventually, wearied with squabbles with his chapter
