the youngest son of a small nobleman whose castle was
destroyed in the wars. 1 His elder brothers--and they
were numerous--resolved upon lightening the ship by
casting overboard little Ugo,--in other words, making
a churchman of him; so they packed him off to school at
Montpellier. "And when they thought he was devoting
himself to letters," wrote his biographer, probably his
autobiographer, "he was devoting himself to love-songs,
and verses and sirventes, and tensos and stanzas, and the

LOOKING TOWARD ANDUZE.

doings and sayings of the notable men and the notable
ladies of those or of former times." It was a poor prepa-
ration for orders; and before long--a young man of some
twenty years, as Casini figures--he gave up canonicals,
and set forth to earn a living with his music, his poetry,
and whatever other arts of entertainment he possessed.

Ugo seems to have been something of an exquisite. To
borrow yesterday's argot of the Paris drawing-rooms, he

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