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"I met Arago, Lamartine, Sue, Châteaubriand and some other celebrities at his mansion in the Rue du Helder one night, recently," continued Marrast, "and I thought I never saw a house arranged with such perfect taste. The salons, library, picture-gallery, cabinet of natural history, conservatory, and laboratory were superb everything, in short, was exquisite."
Lamartine has surely acted down the fallacy of the impractical tendencies of imaginative men. I am full of France just now. Are you all prepared for an outbreak in Ireland? I hope so. My husband has the second edition of his collected poems in the press by this time, by grace of Chapman and Hall, who accept all risks.
Jasmin afterwards visited Reboul at his bakery, where they had a pleasant interview with respect to the patois of Provence and Gascony. At the same time it must be observed that Reboul did not write in patois, but in classical French. Reboul had published a volume of poems which attracted the notice and praise of Lamartine and Alexandre Dumas.
Perhaps Victor Hugo, Balzac, Lamartine, or the aged Chateaubriand, also drop in by-and-by, to recognize, in the music, echoes of the daring romanticism which they opposed to the classic and formal pedantry of the time. Buried in a fauteuil, with her arms resting upon a table, sits Mme.
Lamartine has described Paradise Lost as the dream of a Puritan fallen asleep over his Bible, and this suggestive description leads us to the curious fact that it is the dream, not the theology or the descriptions of Bible scenes, that chiefly interests us.
M. Lamartine, the poet, who professes to be independent of any party, is also a very admired speaker, and so was Sébastiani, but now he is passing fast into the vale of years, and has lost that spirit and energy which formerly gave much force to his speeches. M. Molé is another of those statesmen who has filled the most important political stations, but now is getting old and more quiet.
I think it is Lamartine who has said that truly immortal benefactors have seldom been able to accomplish their mission without the encouragement of either saints or women. This is emphatically true in the case of Columbus. The door to success was at last opened to him by a friendly and sympathetic friar of a Franciscan convent near the little port of Palos, in Andalusia.
But in fact, I was yesterday peer of France, I was yesterday for the Regency, and, believing the Republic to be premature, I should be also for the Regency to-day." "Nations are above dynasties," went on Lamartine. "I, too, have been a Royalist." "Yes, but you were a deputy, elected by the nation; I was a peer, appointed by the King."
The same thought was in the minds of both of us. Curiously enough we felt a certain delicacy in letting Louis perceive our dilemma! "Those cold grouse look excellent," Lamartine said to me, pointing to the sideboard. "Cold grouse are very good," Louis assented. "I will have one specially prepared and sent up." Lamartine shook his head.
When Lamartine was succeeded by Cavaignac, perhaps Nice would have been demanded as well as Savoy.
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