. John La Farge : a memoir and a study . y asshe came down the steps of Marats house,into which he was going to see his publisher,who lived in the same building. It may bethat my granduncle, who at that time was po-litically a very religious agent for the throneand the crown, only later to fall under deMaistres guidance, was going upstairs to seeabout some of his lighter works, which, I donot know. A certain fondness for the stageand its ladies brought him later, in 1805,against Stendhal in the person of a Mile. , who preferred Saint-Victor. The lady was Melanie Guilbert, an actress who figure
. John La Farge : a memoir and a study . y asshe came down the steps of Marats house,into which he was going to see his publisher,who lived in the same building. It may bethat my granduncle, who at that time was po-litically a very religious agent for the throneand the crown, only later to fall under deMaistres guidance, was going upstairs to seeabout some of his lighter works, which, I donot know. A certain fondness for the stageand its ladies brought him later, in 1805,against Stendhal in the person of a Mile. , who preferred Saint-Victor. The lady was Melanie Guilbert, an actress who figuresat length both in the Journal of Stendhaland in his Correspondance. In the formerthe jealous lover scornfully dubs his rival apoetaster but it is plain that Saint-Victorcaused him endless worry. One can imaginewith what breathless attention La Farge drankin the reminiscences of this veteran, in the in-tervals of exploring Parisian society with theyoung leaders in art and letters. As he looked back in after days upon the Noli Me Tangere. C 81 1 European opportunities of his youth he waswont to regret, as I have just indicated, thathe had not taken better advantage of he knew that those old encounters hadnot been wasted upon him and he gives themtheir full value in the narrative of his artisticeducation, which we here resume: My granduncle, whose house I used tofrequent in Paris, had been a writer upon art,a collector of fine paintings, and acquaintedwith many famous artists of his prime. Hehad also known most of the literary men whocould have come within his chances. . Mygranduncle had also a further spread to his in-terests and consequent connections; he hadbeen a fervent Royalist, engaged in all sortsof difficulties during the Revolutionary andNapoleonic periods. Like many others he hadbecome a strong churchman and in his forcedexile in Russia had known the great type ofhis efforts in that way, the famous de art and literature were there at my hand,in rath
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