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The Assembly had been three days in session, clamorous, riotous, and full of words, when in the middle of the afternoon of Feb. 16, 1871, two delegates from Alsace and Lorraine appeared, supported by Gambetta. The Speaker that is, the president of the Assembly was M. Jules Grévy, who had held the same office in 1848; he found it hard to restrain the excitement of the deputies.
February 26. I am 69 years old to-day. I presided at a meeting of the Left. February 27. I have resigned the presidency of the Radical Left in order to afford full independence to the meeting. February 28. It is hideous. I shall speak to-morrow. My name is the seventh on the list, but Grevy, the president of the Assembly, said to me: "Rise and ask to be heard when you want to.
Since then a peace-loving president has dropped the reins of government, and another peace-loving president has succeeded him. It is a favorable sign that the French government did not dip into Pandora's box in calling to office another chief magistrate, and that we may be assured of the continuance under President Carnot of the peaceful policy which President Grévy was known to represent.
But this time Swann's last words, instead of the usual calming effect, had that of heating, instantly, to boiling-point his astonishment at the discovery that a man with whom he himself was actually sitting at table, a man who had no official position, no honours or distinction of any sort, was on visiting terms with the Head of the State. "What's that you say? M. Grevy?
These two men are bourgeois to the tips of their fingers, as was Thiers modest, leading a regular life; well-informed on all local matters, and naïvely ignorant of the rest of the world; not strong believers in political economy; prudent and anti-clerical. Only, Gambetta, being twenty years younger than Grévy, is by twenty years more fiery and radical.
But before long the Ministry, in which he represented the War Department, came to an end, as, indeed, appears to have been the fate of all the ministries under the administration of M. Grévy. No policy, no reforms, could be carried out under such frequent changes.
Napoleon III was not really a "good hunter," though he was something of a marksman and took a considerable pride in his skill in that accomplishment. Entering the democratic era, Jules Grévy seems to have been only a pot-hunter of the bourgeoisie, who practiced the art only because he wanted a jugged hare for his dinner, or again simply to kill time.
W. asked Grevy once or twice when Madame Waddington might call upon his wife and he answered that as soon as they were quite installed I should receive a notice. One day a communication arrived from the Elysee, saying that Madame Grevy would receive the diplomatic corps and the ministers' wives on a fixed day at five o'clock.
" Virginité, whitish pink, nearly white when fully expanded. President Grevy is one of the same beautiful group. The blooms are large, double, and produced in very massive clusters, and of a light bluish-lilac tint, when forced almost white.
It is said that in 1830, when Charles X. published his ordinances and placarded his proclamation on the walls of Paris, a young law-student, who was tearing down one of them, was driven off with a kick by one of the king's officers. The officer was Patrice MacMahon; the law-student Jules Grévy. M. Grévy was pre-eminently respectable. He was born in the Jura mountains, Aug. 15, 1813.
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