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M. de Circourt has been staying with us for three weeks; inexhaustible in memory, anecdote, and conversation. I first knew him at Geneva in 1830, where he took refuge after the storm of the Revolution, and where he soon afterwards married Anastasia de Klustine. I asked him the other day what he knew of the 'Ordonnances' of July.
Reeve's connections were scarcely less numerous than in England. Guizot, Thiers, Cousin, Tocqueville, Villemain, Circourt in fact, nearly all the leading figures in French literature and politics during the reign of Louis Philippe were among his friends or correspondents.
We possess but few verses of the Mussulmans of Granada. "My children are at Guadia, my wife at Jolfata; Thou hast caused my ruin, O Setti Omm el Fata. My children are at Guadia, my wife at Jolfata, Thou hast caused my ruin, O Setti Omm el Fata!" A. de Circourt. Histoire des Moors mudijares et des Moresques. Paris, 1846. As may be seen, these verses have no resemblance to those called Moorish.
But these, and presumably most others, were to a very great extent political or literary pamphlets, which, though not given to the press, were there can be little doubt intended to be circulated among a select public such as he delighted in addressing. Two of the latest of these, written very shortly before his death, are here given: From M. de Circourt La Celle, October 27th.
But, although he was thus versed in foreign affairs, he knew very little of what was passing in the interior of France, though from the violence of the conflict between the Court and the Chamber he foreboded a catastrophe. Polignac told him nothing of the Ordinances, nor had he told the Princess, his wife; for Circourt dined with them on the day they were signed it was Sunday, July 25th, 1830.
He could easily have aroused enthusiasm if, instead of this banter, he had spoken the words of passionate earnestness in which he alluded to his part in the transaction in a letter to Mme. de Circourt. He felt, he said, the tremendous responsibility which weighed on him, and the dangers which might arise from the course adopted, but duty and honour dictated it.
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