Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . family,according to the French idea. And these peo-ple make up the real France. Her economicwealth does not come so much from individualfortunes as from the small economies of themasses, and so her great artistic, scientific andliterary movement is not carried on so muchby the talent of single individuals as by the vastaccumulation of methodical and often ob-scure efforts which keep the intellectual at-mosphere so overcharged that every now andthen flashes from it a luminous spark knownby some such
Paris of to-day : an intimate account of its people, its home life, and its places of interest . family,according to the French idea. And these peo-ple make up the real France. Her economicwealth does not come so much from individualfortunes as from the small economies of themasses, and so her great artistic, scientific andliterary movement is not carried on so muchby the talent of single individuals as by the vastaccumulation of methodical and often ob-scure efforts which keep the intellectual at-mosphere so overcharged that every now andthen flashes from it a luminous spark knownby some such name as Pasteur, Puvis de Cha-vannes, Renan, Guy de Maupassant. Allthese men were bourgeois, sons of bourgeois,direct descendants of that Tiers fitat whichmade the French revolution. It is this very bourgeoisie which is somuch attacked at present, both from within andwithout; and I am aware that a society whosefinest expression tends towards the obscureefforts of the masses rather than to the brilliantinitiative of individuals is slenderly equippedfor keeping its material preeminence in the. COZY CORNER IX A FRENCH HOME.
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