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"These gloomy doctrines, now applauded in public meetings, have ruined this man. He has heard republicans even women, yes, women ask for the blood of M. Gambetta, the blood of M. Grevy; his weakened mind gave way; he wanted blood, the blood of a bourgeois! "It is not he whom you should condemn, gentlemen; it is the Commune!" Everywhere could be heard murmurs of assent.
Her principal works are a plaster statue, "New France," 1886, in the Museum of Issoudun; a statue of Voltaire; a plaster statue, "Life"; a plaster group, the "Last Farewells"; a statue of "Diana," in the Museum of Amiens; a great number of portrait busts, among them those of Jules Grévy, Flammarion, J. Claretie, etc.
The mob of Paris, in 1884, put M. Grévy to much annoyance and embarrassment by hissing and hooting the young king of Spain on his way through the French capital because he had accepted the honorary colonelcy of a German regiment, and M. Grévy and his Foreign Minister had profoundly to apologize.
And further proof that normal conditions were restored, is given by the Universal Exposition, to which Paris bravely invited the world in that same year. In 1879 M. Grévy succeeded Marshal MacMahon.
Jules Grevy talked at great length about something I did not hear, and when I asked Mr. Hoffman what it was, he answered me, something I did not understand. Jules Favre next spoke about the future glories of notre glorieux pays and the destiny of France. These remarks were received with tremendous applause.
Do you know M. Grevy?" he demanded of Swann, in the stupid and incredulous tone of a constable on duty at the palace, when a stranger has come up and asked to see the President of the Republic; until, guessing from his words and manner what, as the newspapers say, 'it is a case of, he assures the poor lunatic that he will be admitted at once, and points the way to the reception ward of the police infirmary.
Subsequently he served the Turks; and lastly, during the presidency of M. Grévy, at a time of great dissatisfaction in France, he was elected a deputy from one of the Southern cities. By April 7, Cluseret had, as some one expresses it, "swallowed up the Commune."
Neither Madame nor Mademoiselle Grevy came, but some of the ministers' wives did, and it was funny to see the ladies of society looking at the Republican ladies, as if they were denizens of a different planet, strange figures they were not accustomed to see. It is curious to think of all that now, when relations are much less strained.
He had never been popular with frequenters of the Élysée. He was a rich man, both on his own and his wife's side, and was an able man and a man of influence in business affairs. He had been Under-Secretary of Finance and President of the Committee of the Budget." Many thought he had the best chance of any man for succeeding M. Grévy as president of France.
Madame Grevy was always spoken of as a quiet, unpretending person occupied with domestic duties, who hated society and never went anywhere in fact, no one ever heard her name mentioned. A great many people didn't know that Grevy had a wife. When her husband became President of the Republic, there was much discussion as to Madame Grevy's social status in the official world.
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