Mais son visage est calme, et son front serein."
The pictures he has drawn of the dinner and its service, and his counsels regarding moderation and sobriety, are equally felicitous. Though he himself was no Sybarite, but, like Savarin, was only a gourmand when he had his pen in hand, he is none the less severe on the dietarians:
"En se privant de tout, ils pensent se guérir,
Et se donnent la mort par la peur de mourir."
Nor has he failed to extol the virtues of exercise, that most potent abettor of health and aid to enjoyment:
"D'un noble appétit munissez-vous d'avance,
Sans lui vous gémirez au sein de l'abondance;
II est un moyen sûr d'acquérir ce tresor:
L'exercise, messieurs, et l'exercise encore: