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It is very difficult in a country town to avoid a man-to-man conflict of this kind over interests or questions which in Paris appear in a more general and theoretical form, with the result that political combatants also rise to a higher level; M. Laffitte, for example, or M. Casimir-Perier can respect M. de Villele or M. de Payronnet as a man.
This captain was Jean Casimir-Perier, who, in later years, became President of the Republic. He was rewarded for his gallantry with the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Nevertheless, the French success was only momentary. That same night the sky westward of Paris was illumined by a great ruddy glare.
We did get in one cold November afternoon, and our visit was a sample of many others that we paid. The door was opened by a footman struggling into his coat, with a handful of faggots in his arms. I remember quite well Mme. Casimir-Périer telling me that when she went with her husband to St.
If you had followed the march of events you would have been struck by the current that is leading the country back to moderate opinions. The country is tired of exaggerations. It rejects the men compromised by radical politics and religious persecution. Some day or other it will be necessary to make over a Casimir-Perier ministry with other men, and that day "
When M. Casimir-Perier resigned the French Presidency there were those who regarded the act as weak, cowardly, undutiful and otherwise censurable. It seems to me the act, not of a feeble man, but of a strong one not that of a coward, but that of a gentleman.
It is very difficult in a country town to avoid a man-to-man conflict of this kind over interests or questions which in Paris appear in a more general and theoretical form, with the result that political combatants also rise to a higher level; M. Laffitte, for example, or M. Casimir-Perier can respect M. de Villele or M. de Payronnet as a man.
The assassination of President Carnot, in 1894, and the enthusiasm provoked by the cementing of the Russian alliance and by the coming of the Czar to Paris, prolonged the control of the moderates, or Progressists, as they were called in 1896. It was the persistent attacks of the radicals that disgusted Casimir-Perier with the presidency. His successor was Felix Faure, a successful business man.
Reconnaissances and Sorties Casimir-Perier at Bagneux Some of the Paris Clubs Demonstrations at the Hotel-de-Ville The Cannon Craze The Fall of Metz foreshadowed Le Bourget taken by the French The Government's Policy of Concealment The Germans recapture Le Bourget Thiers, the Armistice, and Bazaine's Capitulation The Rising of October 31 The Peril and the Rescue of the Government Armistice and Peace Conditions The Great Question of Rations Personal Experiences respecting Food My father, in failing Health, decides to leave Paris.
On the whole, he was satisfied with the choice of his successor, and amused by this phrase about M. Casimir-Perier in one of Mr. Seeley's letters: "I saw a portrait of the new French President lately. He looks a man not to be trifled with." The remark has been curiously justified since.
Funds of course were a necessary item, but all the countryside contributed largely, and we knew that the artists would give their services gratis. We arranged a breakfast at my house in Paris with Mons. Casimir-Périer, late President of the Republic, who was always ready to lend his influence for anything that interests the people, and teaches them something of their great men, and Mons.
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