Paris, I was unable to add my signature to those of my colleagues in the Tours delegation. In the Republic Mr Bradlaugh is, and always will be, our fellow-citizen.
"Emanuel Arago."
"I have just read with extreme interest the report of the meeting at Newcastle. The cause of France and of Peace could not be in better hands, or pleaded by a more eloquent voice. Let me once more express to you, sir, all my feelings of gratitude for your generous initiative, and join to it the assurance of my high consideration and profound esteem.
"Ch. Tissot."
[145] M. Reitlinger, "le Secretaire particulier," of M. Jules Favre, is, I believe, the person here referred to.
"London, 4th February 1871.
"My Dear Mr Bradlaugh,—No folly, no stupidity, on the part of M. R. can astonish me. But I avow that I have felt keenly, and that I will never forgive him this to which you make allusion. Like you, I ask myself whether he has not gone mad.
"As to myself, my dear friend, I can but acknowledge here, as I have done already, and as I shall do on every occasion, the debt that we have contracted towards you. You have given your time, your energy, your eloquence, your mind—in a word, the best part of yourself. France, whom you alone have defended, will never forget it.