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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 1: (search)
sand individuals in America, and a thousand in France or our old Austria,—notre vieille Autriche, asnger produce great men to manage its affairs. France, on the contrary, has the Revolution behind hekely to take it as if he had never had it. But France, too, wants men of ability; Louis Philippe is they have had for a great while. And then in France there is such a want of stability. On the 7thh twenty-eight Ministers of Foreign Affairs in France. I counted them up the day I had been here twolved. This is very bad for a country like France. France, too, acts badly upon England; and, iFrance, too, acts badly upon England; and, indeed, France and England have always acted badly upon each other, exciting each other to violent cFrance and England have always acted badly upon each other, exciting each other to violent corresponding changes. The influence of France on England since 1830 has been very bad. The affair oFrance on England since 1830 has been very bad. The affair of July, 1830, is called a revolution: it was no such thing; it was a lucky rebellion, which changed ent of uncertainty. The elements of things in France are very bad; there is a great deal of soi-dis
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
. Princess Massimo. Archceological lectures. Journal. Florence, November 5.—A rainy day. I went, however, to see my friend Bellocq, whom I knew in Madrid as Secretary of the French Embassy there, and who is here Charge d'affaires from France, a bachelor, grown old, and somewhat delabre, but apparently with as much bonhomie as ever. I drove, too, to Greenough's house, but found he had gone to the United States; Horatio Greenough, the American sculptor. . . . . but I did little elsido's conjugium vocat, hoc proetexit nomine culpam,— and when she died she left him all her property; so the Palazzo Alfieri, as it is called, is turned into a lodging-house, and all Alfieri's books and manuscripts are carried off to the South of France, except a duplicate copy of his Tragedies, which Monsieur Fabre gave to the Laurentian Library. This annoys the Italians, and so much the more, because Alfieri, not in legal, but in poetical form, by a sonnet, had signified his wish that his lib
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
arty at the Prince de Montfort's,—Jerome Bonaparte's,—who lives here in more elegance than any of his family, and in excellent taste. His beautiful daughter did the honors of the house with grace, but there is a shade of melancholy over her fair features not to be mistaken. She was engaged to be married to her cousin Louis, who attempted that foolish insurrection last autumn at Strasburg, and who is now in America, having given his parole not to return for ten years, without the consent of France. Note by Mr. Ticknor: This fact about his parole was mentioned to me by his father's Chevalier de Compagnie, and therefore it seems difficult to disbelieve it; but the young man is returned to Europe already,—July, 1837,—and denies having given any such promise. The French government, however, insists that he did. The young lady was the Princess Mathilde. . . . . May 16.—It being a plain duty of courtly civility, we went to-day to pay our respects to Prince Maximilian and the Prin
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
ever. He has been travelling in the South of France, to restore himself after a considerable illneit is said, preparing himself for a peerage in France; the Duke Decazes, so long the Minister, and t, very rudely, as he told me, ordered to leave France, and to go back to England by the very road byon condition that he should not be received in France. Confalonieri, feeling his honor attacked by the head of the liberal party then existing in France, would have injured instead of helped her caus indirectly to ask for permission to return to France,—which of course failed,—Count Mole was obligeStates under the influence and with the aid of France; and that when Burr was in France afterwards, s one of the finest-looking men I have seen in France. He is, too, acute, and has winning manners. a year, including the dignity of Chancellor of France. The Marquis de Pastoret is now the legal guas of a memoir of the state of the civil law of France, considered in its relations with the economic[19 more...]<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
talked well on the subject of the Communes in France; of the manuscripts relating to the history of successive governments that have prevailed in France —in collecting from manuscript miniatures the distinguished of the present female authors of France. She is about five-and-forty years old, I shoies, and their most able agent and defender in France. He talked well. Before I knew who he was, Ihim much at large on the religious politics of France. He thinks well of the prospects of Protestanthat the religious principle makes progress in France, though the external signs of favorable changeey both thought religion is making progress in France, and that it will continue to do so. Several octed how much influence the drama exercises in France on public opinion, it becomes an important fachades of the political parties that now divide France; a state of things much worse for society, as bove everything else. . . . . Everything in France, its government, its society, its arts, the mo[5 more...]
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 8: (search)
people, showing sometimes a little sub-acid. It has always been said he will leave memoirs behind him. I hope he will, for who can write anything of the sort that would be so amusing? . . . . Before he left us Lord Lansdowne came in, and stayed above an hour . . . . He talked well. He seems to be something worried and annoyed by our bad behavior on the frontiers of Canada, and spoke a little with the air of a minister of state, when he came upon this delicate subject. Of the condition of France, politically considered, he spoke wisely, and was curious to hear what I could tell him, adding that he had known, from 1814, the relations of the two governments, and that, excepting when the Duke de Broglie was Premier, they had never felt, in England, that they could depend implicitly on the representations of the French government; an honorable testimony from one upright minister to another, which was creditable to both. March 26.—We had visits this morning from Taylor,—Philip Van Art
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 10: (search)
dness we received there, are too deep and sincere to permit us to neglect any opportunity of recalling ourselves to the memories of those to whom we owe so much. I am the more anxious to write to you now, because I wish to offer you a book published last year by one of my most intimate friends; the History of Ferdinand and Isabella, by Mr. William H. Prescott, of this city, a work which has obtained great success in England as well as in this country, and which is beginning to be known in France and Germany. Our friend Count Circourt published an elaborate review of it lately in the Bibliotheque Universelle, giving it great praise; and Hallam, Southey, and others of the best judges in England have placed it equally high. I wish to offer it to you, therefore, as a specimen of the progress of letters in this country at the present time, and I think it will give you pleasure to look over it. To Baron Lindenau I send, by the same conveyance, a Commentary on the Mecanique Celeste of La
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
e were thunderstruck here by the convulsion in France, nor were you less so in England. It seems ime separate States—cannot be made effective in France, where there are no historical foundations on One more strict or severe than now exists in France can hardly be imagined. But whether it be ablution since the declaration of the republic in France. Germany is perhaps in a more convulsive statyed as they were in last February and March in France, I take it to be certain that they can be recof the ancient, from struggles not dissimilar. France, in the course of a thousand years, or in someuly popular government, and they saw little in France that reminded them of their own experience, anis part of America, have judged the changes in France rigorously, but rightly, from the first; predionarchy, has been for the moment victorious in France. In that country, liberty is not so much whateverywhere the Austrians as deliverers, and if France does not mingle itself in the contest, things [4 more...]
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 13: (search)
cause we can reprint them so much cheaper than the English publishers can furnish them to us. . . . . One thing more. France has made an international copyright treaty with England, and the cases of France and the United States in this particularFrance and the United States in this particular are so nearly parallel, that, if it is for her interest to have such a treaty, it can hardly fail to be for ours. For France prints great numbers of English books; England prints hardly any French books; nothing so many as she prints of American. France prints great numbers of English books; England prints hardly any French books; nothing so many as she prints of American. If reciprocity be desirable, therefore, it is much more nearly to be attained between England and the United States, than between England and France. Moreover, this principle of reciprocity between us and England tends every year more towards an eveFrance. Moreover, this principle of reciprocity between us and England tends every year more towards an even balance, for the English print ten of our books now, to where they printed one a dozen years ago. True, our books are now protected in copyright, by a recent decision of their courts of law; but true it is also that if we do not give equal protecti
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 17: (search)
trouble and anxiety in England, including the Russian war, and has been sent here now,—much to his own satisfaction,—on account of the preponderating influence of France. His wife—whom we also knew in Dresden, though he was not then married to her—is a Polish lady, very rich, and by her talent fit to do half the work of his Embasshould break up in one and the same convulsion. For what is the condition of Spain, or even Austria,—both really bankrupt and dishonored,—and how stands your own France, with its vast resources and yet unspent energies, leaning on the most extravagant financial projects that have been imagined since the days of Law? Indeed, it sres one to believe, and even to guess, at all the great and good qualities attributed to her. with whom he had been so intimate during his first youthful visit in France. These friends, with their delightful coterie,—Doudan, Villemain, Madame de Ste. Aulaire, M. and Mad. d'haussonville, and others of the Duc de Broglie's f
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