The Archive · 1924

FRENCH STATESMEN

Tuer One: Frmen Pownes, last. days seems to owe at least, fas much to his acquaintance withi" Dandet as to his visits to the ducal table "Somehow, one. hesi tates to accept from x0 tangential an authority a ne story. that!

'Napoleo: "often stayed. is friend, Walter Sav lage London,' pon whom. he! cannot be said that this little] picture gallery of living. French opinion of the condition of polities lepinion of the condition of politic in Franco. To adopt a well-worn Phrase, "it does not leave a parti-mout The name 60 M. Qulliaux is leecond on tha, list—and there ave lethers. But. the author does not [presume on his anonymity. There no idle gossip and no. cynicism here. "Indeed hé- docs Met. conceal his personal predileotions:

unkindest thing he can tay for M. Poincaré (whom he. evi dently' likes) is that "his busi-mess is to plead causes, and of {the present. moment ho' happens Jan. that is all." confidence of the, nation, "every Frenchman's wish his siteees."" While M. "Caillaux kets what ho deserves, M. Lou-hour seems to be treated, with undue severity. 'To the foreigner, who perhaps' secs' most of the me, it would acorn that the one standing. inherent te M." Damon layer with a personality of out-

leeau, and the author so far ace Knowledges this ax to. put him "The porce ho made was in own likeness, the peace, of a master off polemics pursuing philosophy one hundred years cut fof data."

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