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It is remarkable that the excellence of the first group has been maintained by a new generation, Murger, About, Feuillet, Flaubert, Erckmann-Chatrian, Droz, Daudet, Cherbulliez, Gaboriau, Dumas fils, and others. During this period the romance-writing of France has taken two different directions.
To all which ingenious pleasantries my companion replied in kind introducing me at the same time to two or three of the nearest speakers. One of these, a dark young man got up in the style of a Byzantine Christ, with straight hair parted down the middle, a bifurcated beard, and a bare throat, was called Eugène Droz.
How many times have we not laughed over these recollections, already so remote. By GUSTAVE DROZ Toward midnight mamma made a sign to me with her eyes, and under cover of a lively waltz we slipped out of the drawing-room.
Meanwhile the conversation of Messieurs Droz and Lepany had taken a fresh turn, and attracted a little circle of listeners, among whom I observed an eccentric-looking young man with a club-foot, an enormously long neck, and a head of short, stiff, dusty hair, like the bristles of a blacking-brush. "Queroulet!" said Lepany, with a contemptuous flourish of his pipe. "Who spoke of Queroulet?
Then I could thrill at the verse of Musset, and linger lovingly over the prose of Théophile, I could laugh at the wit of Gustave Droz, and weep at the pathos ... it costs me a pang to own it, but yes, I'm afraid ... I could weep at the pathos of Henry Mürger; and these have all suffered such a sad sea-change since.
Some appear to have been secret societies with oaths and pledges. Droz, i. 326. See in Brissot ii. 415, an account of a club to discuss political questions, under pretense of studying animal magnetism. Lafayette, d'Espresmenil, and others were members. Their ideas were vague enough.
De Musset and Anatole France may be taken as revealing authoritatively the moral philosophy of nineteenth-century thought. I must not omit to mention the Jacqueline of Th. Bentzon, and the "Attic" Philosopher of Emile Souvestre, nor the, great names of Loti, Claretie, Coppe, Bazin, Bourget, Malot, Droz, De Massa, and last, but not least, our French Dickens, Alphonse Daudet.
And there are a few sagacious and impartial men who keep the narrow path between them: Tocqueville for the origin, Droz and Laboulaye for the decisive period of 1789, Duvergier de Hauranne for all the political thinking, Dareste for the great outline of public events, in peace and war.
Lepany, Droz, myself, and one or two others, flew at the stranger and dragged him forcibly back. "Assassin!" I cried, "would you murder him?" He flung us off, as a baited bull flings off a pack of curs. For myself, though I received only a backhanded blow on the chest, I staggered as if I had been struck with a sledgehammer. Müller, half-fainting, dropped into a chair.
The Bernard Palissy of literature, he modeled his frogs and water-snakes so true that they seemed better than birds of paradise. Babolain. From the French of Gustave Droz. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
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