[90] Souvenirs, II. 453.
[91] Ibid., III. 29.
[92] He had held office in the Provisional Government, had attempted to stem the tide of insurrection in the summer of 1848, and, having failed, had retired into private life, occupying himself with the writing of books and articles on political and economic subjects. After the war he returned to politics, and was Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1883.
[93] Quinet and Michelet had both recently published histories of the Revolution. The appearance of these volumes ended that close friendship which until then had united them. For each regarded himself as having said the last word on the subject; and according to Mme. Adam, who disliked Michelet, the latter could not forgive his sometime friend for not having mentioned him in his book (see Souvenirs, III. 314). Michelet was astonished, he wrote to Quinet, “at this amazing neglect of one qui seul avait frayé, les voies.”
FOOTNOTES:
[94] See post, 209.
[95] Souvenirs, III. 123.
[96] Souvenirs, III. 131.
[97] Ibid., 133.
[98] Armand Carrel, editor of the National, killed in a duel by Girardin.