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La Sirène était commandée par le capitaine Clenricard, véritable type de la pensée de l'auteur du Corsaire: He knew himself a villain but he deemd The rest no better than the thing he seem'd.
It appeared to me therefore that, as M. Guizot could not intend to adopt the paradoxes of his predecessor, it would rather assist than embarass him, in establishing his own position, to have those paradoxes refuted, and that it was better that this would be done by me than that the ungracious task of refuting his predecessor should, by my neglect, devolve upon him.
He spent the winters of 1861-1864 in Algeria, Corsica, and Provence. These voyages were of vital importance in his development. He learned something of the world and became better fitted to study conditions in his own narrow sphere; at the same time he acquired the power of vigorous description and collected material for some of his finest short stories and for the Tartarin series.
We cannot but regret the many visions such as Frédérique which were refused admittance to Daudet's essentially romantic mind by the uncompromising laws of a realism which he had mistakenly accepted as his guide. The composition of "Les Rois en exil" is defective, but its charm is great. In "Numa Roumestan" the technique is better.
So great a loss is not to be repaired or obliterated by time." And again: "Poor Mme. de La Fayette is now wholly at a loss what to do with herself. The death of M. de La Rochefoucauld has made so terrible a void in her life that she has come to judge better of the value of such a friendship. Every one else will be comforted in the course of time, but she, alas, has nothing to occupy her mind."
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