Meissonier, his life and his art . MEMORIES 293 was in those days, a heroic effort, and offered me fifteen hundred agreed, on one condition, which was accepted. I am at work on apendant, which your friend can have at the same price. The pendantas you may suppose, was never finished. What those fifteen hundred francs of ready money were to us inthe then state of my exchequer, it would be difficult to say! The other night, at the club, Halevy and some other men were prais-ing the articles against Napoleon, and insisted, among other strangefancies, that Thiers had brought back the Empero
Meissonier, his life and his art . MEMORIES 293 was in those days, a heroic effort, and offered me fifteen hundred agreed, on one condition, which was accepted. I am at work on apendant, which your friend can have at the same price. The pendantas you may suppose, was never finished. What those fifteen hundred francs of ready money were to us inthe then state of my exchequer, it would be difficult to say! The other night, at the club, Halevy and some other men were prais-ing the articles against Napoleon, and insisted, among other strangefancies, that Thiers had brought back the Emperors body as a deliberatedefiance to the Kino-. I exclaimed ! For to say such a thinof is to for-get or to wilfully ignore the real truth. In 1S40 I was twenty-fi\e, Ihardly ever read the newspaper, and never thought about politics ; Iwent with a friend by rail to Pecq, below St. Germain (the line wentno further, in those days), to see the Emperors body, which had beenbrought by river from Havre, pass on its way to Paris. Such a cro
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