FOOTNOTES:
[254] Souvenirs, IV. 286-7.
[255] Souvenirs, V. 276.
[256] p. 140.
[257] Souvenirs, V. 163.
[258] The extremists were led by Ranc, who was a much more sincere admirer of the Great Tribune.
[259] Souvenirs, V. 165.
[260] Souvenirs, V. 166.
[261] I am greatly indebted to Sir Sidney Colvin for having taken the trouble to send me these reminiscences, and for permitting me to use them.
[262] Souvenirs, V. 144-269.
[263] Ibid., I. 169.
[264] Souvenirs, V. 183.
[265] Souvenirs, V. 185.
[266] Ibid., 283.
[267] Ibid., 383.
[268] Gambetta’s speech at Havre. See Hanotaux, Hist. Contemporaine, I. 406.
[269] Souvenirs, I. 278.
[270] Souvenirs, V. 173.
[271] Ibid., 167.
[272] Here are published to-day the Echo de Paris, L’Intransigeant and many other well-known journals. It was in a café at the corner of this street that Jaurès was assassinated in 1914.
[273] Souvenirs, V. 214.
[274] Souvenirs, V. 304.
[275] Souvenirs, V. 76.
[276] Ibid., VI. 212.
[277] MacMahon had succeeded Thiers as President of the French Republic in May 1873.
[278] Souvenirs, VI. 92.
[279] Souvenirs, VI. 473.
[280] Ibid., VII. 5.
[281] Ibid., 49.
[282] Souvenirs, VII. 6-7.
[283] Ibid., VII. 78.
[284] M. de Freycinet’s two volumes of Mémoires should be read by all who are interested in this period.
[285] Souvenirs, VII. 245.
[286] Ibid., 185.
[287] Souvenirs, VII. 187.