Meissonier, his life and his art . nt through a great deal the other evening at the dinner of LaPaix Sociale. I had to listen to an enthusiastic description of a recent visit to Germany, with apanegyric on the privatevirtues of the German na-tion, winding u]) with theintroduction of a Germansavant to the company. If Icould have done it withoutinsulting everybody present,I .should have got up andgone away. People talked with de-light of the warm receptiongiven to Frenchmen in Ger-many. I should think so,indeed! There is nothing-on earth that tries the Ger-mans more than the horrorwe have and al
Meissonier, his life and his art . nt through a great deal the other evening at the dinner of LaPaix Sociale. I had to listen to an enthusiastic description of a recent visit to Germany, with apanegyric on the privatevirtues of the German na-tion, winding u]) with theintroduction of a Germansavant to the company. If Icould have done it withoutinsulting everybody present,I .should have got up andgone away. People talked with de-light of the warm receptiongiven to Frenchmen in Ger-many. I should think so,indeed! There is nothing-on earth that tries the Ger-mans more than the horrorwe have and always shallhave of them. When we get back Alsace and Lorraine, why thenI will shake hands, but not before !—When the war broke out, Edouardde Francfort, who is related to the Steinheils, came in one evening todine with us, as was his habit. I am sure you will understand, saidI, that I cannot see anything of you at present. Our joys andour sorrows will lie far apart, in these coming days. Farewell toyou. And I showed him the MEISSOKIER. (Pen Sketch.) MEMORIES 325 When, just after the siege, I had the Prussians quartered on me atPoissy, I used to work shut up in my studio at the top of the house ;and one day, knowing they were at dinner, I went down to get a breathof air in my garden. An officer, aware of my presence, I know not
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