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One does not ask an Academician whether he has *promised* his vote, but whether he has *pledged* it." Second ballot. Emile Deschamps 2 votes. Empis 18 " Victor Leclerc 14 " M. Empis is elected. The election was decided by Lamartine and M. Ballanche. On my way out I meet Leon Gozlan, who says to me: "Well?" I reply: "There has been an election. It is Empis." "How do you look at it?" he asks.
During the session and after the election Lamartine sent to me by an usher the following lines: C'est un etat peu prospere D'aller d'Empis en Ampere. I replied to him by the same usher: Toutefois ce serait pis D'aller d'Ampere en Empis. October 4, 1847. I have just heard M. Viennet say: "I think in bronze." December 29, 1848. Friday.
Victor Leclerc 14 " Empis 15 " Lamartine and M. Ballanche arrive at the end of the first ballot. M. Thiers arrives at the commencement of the second; which makes 34. The director asks M. Thiers whether he has promised his vote. He laughingly replies: "No," and adds: "I have offered it." M. Cousin, to M. Lebrun, director: "You did not employ the sacramental expression.
"In both ways." "Empis? " "And tant pis!" March 16, 1847. At the Academy to-day, while listening to the poems, bad to the point of grotesqueness, that have been sent for the competition of 1847, M. de Barante remarked: "Really, in these times, we no longer know how to make mediocre verses."
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