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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e into his hands, feeble as they were,at a time when most men are called tosit in a corner and look on, the defenceof the nation which had been so rudelytried, and to blow into flame with hisbreath the almost extinguished embersof national feeling. The eloquence of M. Thiers in theChamber of the Empire was raiely, as wecame to see it in later days, patheticand touching, almost surchai-ged withtears; but it was harsh, biting, vindic-tive, sparkling, sometimes wicked. Thepractical side of the old man was alwaysuppermost. He hated, despised, ridi-culed, punished; but he did not weep. EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 145 He did not rise iuto passionate appeal dominates the Assembly with his liead and noble flights of speech until the thrown back. He carries it as Mira- hour of supreme danger had arrived. beau carried his. He settles himself in M. Berrjer and M. Thiers made a the tribune, and takes possession of it as splendid pair. It was not in vain that if he were the master, I had almost said
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THIERS TN TIIK THllUIXK. M. Herryer had been called, after the despot. But that which is especially Miral»eau, the greatest of French era- incomi)arable in him is the rich sound of tors. He is, said an admiring his voice, the first of beauties in actors writr, who descril)e<l liim when he was and orators. He was a Li))eral whom at the height of his l)rilHant career. Republicans coveted, and with whom eloquent in all liis ijersonality. He they could not fail to sympathize, re- 146 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. meinbering that he had been the de-fender of Laniennais, that lie had urgedthe enactment of many demoeiatic lawsand that he had manifested towards theEmperor an uncompromising hostilit),even refusing when he was elected amember of the Academy to make theaccustomed visit to the Chief of State.It is fair to suppose that had M. Ber-rjer lived to join with M. Thiers in thegreat events which followed the Septem-ber Revolution in 1870, he, too, mighthave announced his faith in

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