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"You write do you?" snarled Napoleon I, insolently to the wittiest woman of the Paris salons. "What, for instance, have been some of your works since you have been in this country?" "Three children, sire!" retorted the mother of Madame Emile de Girardin. It was this same ready witted mother whom another woman pronounced the happiest of mortals.
Girardin was the illegitimate child of a count of the empire; his mother, taking advantage of the absence of her husband from France, conducted herself in a shameful manner with her lovers, and before her husband had returned, she had presented one of them with the subject of this sketch.
[Footnote H: Cours de Littérature Dramatique. Par Saint-Marc Girardin, de l'Académie Française, Professeur
It was the smaller remaining portion of the splendid mansion and grounds built for the famous financier, Beaujon, by the architect Girardin in the eighteenth century. The original property, situated near the Arc de Triomphe, was nicknamed by contemporaries Beaujon's Folly.
It is not politic. As for me, I will not print an appeal to arms, and I reject the combat. Let us organize an universal strike." This point of view was haughty and superb, but unfortunately I felt it to be unattainable. Two aspects of the truth seized Girardin, the logical side and the practical side. Here, in my opinion, the practical side was wanting. Michel de Bourges answered him.
M. Saint-Marc Girardin, the excellent French essayist and master of critical style, tells of a conversation he had once with an Arab gentleman on the topic of the different management of these difficult creatures in Orient and in Occident: and the Arab spoke in praise of many good results of the greater freedom enjoyed by Western ladies, and the charm of conversing with them.
The National costs twice as much; the Charivari itself costs half as much again; and though all newspapers, of all parties, concurred in "snubbing" poor M. Girardin and his journal, the Republican prints, were by far the most bitter against him, thundering daily accusations and personalities; whether the abuse was well or ill founded, we know not.
If one should set himself carefully to weigh power or fame, power, that force of which Girardin said, however: "I would give fifty years of glory for one hour of power," even if one tilted the scale, one would not find the weight very considerable.
During the revolution of 1848, various men of note, calling on Madame Girardin, expressed alarm at the progress of that most foolish of overturns, when she said, with an air of great solemnity, and pointing upward, ``Gentlemen, there is one above who watches over France.
Marc Girardin, Duchesse de Montpensier. 21st, drive in the Great Park. Treport. 24th, returned to London. 28th, to Foxholes: quiet life. To Mr. E. Cheney Foxholes, October 20th. The perusal of these private letters and correspondence has considerably altered and raised my estimate of Shelley as a man.
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