THE NEW CLASSICAL SC HOOL 87 foreign-looking hexameters, became very popular. In this he made use of a well-known Freneh story1 which, in accordance with the new revolutionary ideas, sicled with the serf agai nst the lord. Two or three decades after Fazekas, Claude Tillier employed the same story in his humorous novel : Mon oncle Benja min. A heart tess landowner robs, with violence, a you ng peasant, takes his geese and sends them to market, and has the lad flogged. The peasant deterrnines to pay back this flogging three-fold, and does so. First he disguises bim self as a wood-cutter and induces the nobleman to follow him into the wood to select timber, and there ftogs bim. Next he gains admittance to his room as an itinerant physician and flogs bim a secon d time. After this the nobleman does not dare to go anywhere without his atten dants, but on one occasion a man whom he meets tel is him that he could help bim to capture th e wicked peasant if the attendants were sent to a certain place which he points out. They accordingly go, leaving their master alone, when the man throws off his disguise and flogs the nobleman for the third time. The peasant's revenge has a moral effect. The beartless landowner confesses his fault and amends his ways.
