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Here on these beaches and waters, says the French historian Michelet, a man is revived by one of the most invigorating climates in the world. *Latin: "our sea." Ed. But as beautiful as it was, I could get only a quick look at this basin whose surface area comprises 2,000,000 square kilometers.
Thus it happened that he once showered kisses on Michelet's hands, objects by no means suitable for such a demonstration. Michelet said, laughing: "Come, stop it; my hands are dirty." And then poor Paga began to kiss Michelet's bare, hairy arms, saying distractedly: "If your hands are dirty, your arms are all right."
Macaulay's moral pedantry, Thiers's cold and repulsive cretinism, the melodramatic, gesticulatory effusiveness of Michelet are all typical styles. Historical bazaars a la Cesare Cantu may be put on one side, as belonging to an inferior genre. They remind me of those great nineteenth century world's fairs, vast, miscellaneous and exhausting.
It is upon these banks, and on these waters, says Michelet, that man is renewed in one of the most powerful climates of the globe. But, beautiful as it was, I could only take a rapid glance at the basin whose superficial area is two million of square yards. Even Captain Nemo's knowledge was lost to me, for this puzzling person did not appear once during our passage at full speed.
Opposite the Rembrandts are Gerard Dow's masterpiece; 2348, The Sick Woman, and other works by the same artist. We now enter at the end of the Grande Galerie, the new Michelet says that he never visited the Louvre without pausing to muse before this historic canvas.
They amount to no more than five volumes, and are less than the single Thiers or Michelet, and not half as long as Louis Blanc. We can easily read them through; and we shall find that they have made all things clear to us, that we can trust them, and that we have nothing to unlearn.
France is once more tranquil, with the tranquillity of ruin; he may ride home again to Blois, and look, with what countenance he may, on those gems he had got engraved in the early days of his resentment, "SOUVENEZ-VOUS DE " Remember! He has killed Polonius, to be sure; but the king is never a penny the worse. Champollion-Figeac, pp. 279-82. Michelet, iv. pp. 123-4.
Besides the papers and pamphlets of "the Idea," he had also read on stray sheets the views of Michelet and other liberal actors on the stage of history. "We are going to make war on War," he added. "We are going to fight so that this war will be the last." This statement did not seem to be expressed with sufficient clearness, so he recast his thought.
What reason is there for taking up this subject of Joanna precisely in the spring of 1847? Might it not have been left till the spring of 1947, or, perhaps, left till called for? Yes, but it is called for, and clamorously. You are aware, reader, that amongst the many original thinkers whom modern France has produced, one of the reputed leaders is M. Michelet.
Boswell's is, indeed, a very special case, and almost a generic; but it is not only in Boswell, it is in every biography with any salt of life, it is in every history where events and men, rather than ideas, are presented in Tacitus, in Carlyle, in Michelet, in Macaulay that the novelist will find many of his own methods most conspicuously and adroitly handled.
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