Meissonier, his life and his art . UNDER THE B.\LCO.\Y. 356 APPENDIX Henri Regnault. In this medley of the dead of all ages and conditions, antl inall costumes—from the officers uniform to the sailors jacket, from the volunteers. THE HERALD OF .MUKCIA. military coat to the cassock of priest or seminarist, struck down while tendingthe wounded —in this crowtl of heroic vanquished clinging about the allegoricalfigure of Paris, who would not see, not the sterile record of our misfortunesand APPENDIX 357 losses, but an exhortation to draw a lofty lesson from such a spectacle ? It isimpossible to co
Meissonier, his life and his art . UNDER THE B.\LCO.\Y. 356 APPENDIX Henri Regnault. In this medley of the dead of all ages and conditions, antl inall costumes—from the officers uniform to the sailors jacket, from the volunteers. THE HERALD OF .MUKCIA. military coat to the cassock of priest or seminarist, struck down while tendingthe wounded —in this crowtl of heroic vanquished clinging about the allegoricalfigure of Paris, who would not see, not the sterile record of our misfortunesand APPENDIX 357 losses, but an exhortation to draw a lofty lesson from such a spectacle ? It isimpossible to conceive of one of those corpses rising from his rigid sleep to tracewith his ghostly finger the awful and impious word Nada (nothing), as in thatscene of T/ie Horrors of IVar, traced by Goyas materialistic pencil, where theartist proclaims the emptiness ofsacred aspirations, of the spiritof self-sacrifice, of patriotic de-votion. Rather, if one of thesecould come to life for a moment,would he speak to us of theglory into which he has entered,commending himself to ourmemories, not by the sternlesson of a terrible disenchant-ment, but by a noble encourage-ment in well-doing, in faith, inhope. Meissonicrs grand compo-sition
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