THE CARNIVAL

February 20th

What a noise out of doors! What is the meaning of these shouts andcries? Ah! I recollect: this is the last day of the Carnival, and themaskers are passing.

Christianity has not been able to abolish the noisy bacchanalianfestivals of the pagan times, but it has changed the names. That whichit has given to these "days of liberty" announces the ending of thefeasts, and the month of fasting which should follow; carn-ival means,literally, "farewell to flesh!" It is a forty days farewell to the"blessed pullets and fat hams," so celebrated by Pantagruels minstrel.

Man prepares for privation by satiety, and finishes his sin thoroughlybefore he begins to repent.

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