The sculptor had also recorded certain anecdotes of Aristotle and Virgil, precisely as Françoise in her kitchen would break into speech about Saint Louis as though she herself had known him, generally in order to depreciate, by contrast with him, my grandparents, whom she considered less 'righteous.' One could see that the ideas which the mediaeval artist and the mediaeval peasant (who had survived to cook for us in the nineteenth century) had of classical and of early Christian history, ideas whose inaccuracy was atoned for by their honest simplicity, were derived not from books, but from a tradition at once ancient and direct, unbroken, oral, degraded, unrecognisable, and alive.
Zizelkariak Aristoteles eta Virgiliori buruzko zenbait pasadizo ere bazituen han bertan elekatuak, Françoise sukaldean Saint Louisi buruz mintzatu ohi zèn tankera gartsu berean, hots, pertsonalki ezagutu izan balu bezala, eta gehientsuenetan haren aipamena gure aitona-amonak lotsaraztearren eginez, berauek hain "justuak" ez omen zirelakoan. Ezagun zuen ezen artista erdiarotarrak eta laborarisa erdiarotarrak (XIX.