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HEINE
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NOTE, BY ELIZABETH
A.
SHARP.
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187
217
236
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98
.
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PREFATORY NOTE.
OF
earliest dates
exclusively.
They
viii
Kahldorf"), which
gives an idea of the curious social conditions in
"
Germany prior to the Revolution of 1848, and Berlin
Sketches."
It is
("
and the
"
later writings.
The
"
Berlin
were written when the author was twentytwo years of age. They were addressed to Dr. Schulz,
the editor of the Rhein and Westphalian Journal, who
printed them in the literary portion of his newspaper.
Sketches
prejudices.
He
is
he
always spontaneous
not tipped with flame, as
;
is
not
but
his
sarcastic,
irony is
brilliant,
is
lished
in
divers
German newspapers
in
Stuttgart,
ix
is
acute
expected, he
is,
as an
might be
is
continually suggestive.
notes
sent to Augsburg from Paris
daily
during the June days of 1832 were jotted down in
the midst of the short-lived Revolution, as were
"
the Letters from Normandy," which describe in like
The
manner events
in
of
Louis Philippe.
my
bestir
my
itself.
soul
Yes,
has not
drooping and an
my
am
suffered
athirst,
mortal
hurt.
It
is
in truth,
was productive of
little
persistent attempt to frustrate the artiof the enemies of Democracy, who, for their own
Germany, a
fices
profit,
ties.'.'
exploited international prejudices and animosiHeine lived in Paris twenty-five years, and
his action:
PREFATORY NOTE.
shortly after the appearance (in Germany) of the regrettable decrees of the Confederation, whose aim was to ruin
me
financially,
by
Germany,
on
be produced by
my
pen
all
my
with
trial,
Young
on
intent
of
my
to
me,
despoil
fortune and of
my
resources."
"
from which
interesting
and, in
its
characteristic
satire
thoroughly
with
which, moreover,
ment;
brief introductory note
biographical
may
fittingly
end
fragthis
"...
fact,
is
nevertheless
know what
lazy or
xii
the
My
silence
confirmed the
and
political adversaries in my
literary
own country, and many very influential intimate enemies
here, in Paris, were also deceived ; they believed that a
error.
amiable
conflict of affairs,
to their
own
as
costly.
is
He
naturalised strangers,
rights they
is
duped and
who
have acquired.
worried, especially
by
one day to
fulfil
in secret terror,
this
during
my
act.
am
my
The revenue
and
My
dignity
and
fat
sinecure before
my
enlisted to
xiii
men have
enough to push
me
in
that career.
me
took
my
President
still
resound in
my
ear; I
still
xiv
breast
counted, and ever towards morning there came a saddening coolness, accompanied by yawns and endless scoldings.
Thus we finished our union with a separation. But matters
could never
a single thread of
my
'
I,
am
there-
copper nose, may, in order to snatch the post of schoolmaster, renounce a country which knows nothing about him,
1
A play upon the word. The civic nickname of the Berlinese is
"the
bears."
xv
will
German
It
lyrics.
curds,
is
as
insupportable
to
me
as
its
metre!
can
it
is
then
be contradicted
he carve on the tomb these words 'Here lies
by no one
a German
if
"
poet.'
our
HEINE.
AND MEYERBEER.
ROSSINI
WHAT
hours
is
last
of music
music?
is
wonderful
my mind
for
The
asleep.
very existence
Its
I might even say miraculous.
night before I
fell
between thought and phenomena. Like a twilight mediator it hovers between spirit and matter, related
to both, yet differing from each; it is spirit, but spirit
subject to the measurement of time; it is matter, but
domain
is
still
better
we know what is
do we know what is bad music
;
by
their analogies,
impression produced.
means necessary
tion
is
it
The
an experimental science,
z
HEINE.
know nothing
less edifying
written
criticism,
in
certain
argot,
interlarded
with
of people.
Just
as
my
friend
Detmold has
written
The
a Foetus.
as
beautiful
one
melodies
from
Robert
le
Diable.
Thereupon
first
pute at
all
this
ROSSINI
AND MEYERBEER.
I content
3
myself with
perhaps
in no
second, that is merely from a personal sentiment, and
sense involves an attribution to him of superior merit. Perthere are imperfections in him that have a close affinity
haps
to corresponding imperfections in me.
I incline
by nature
my length
far
on a flowering mead, thus to contemplate the quiet procession of the clouds and revel in their lights and shadows.
Chance has often willed that I should be roused from this
delightful dreamland by a hard dig in the ribs from Fate.
I have been constrained to take part in the sufferings and
struggles of my time: my participation therein was honour-
to a certain dolce
how
able;
to explain
not less impetuously, and fell on the enemy as mercilessly with my sword, neither the fever, nor the lust,
nor the agony of war took possession of me.
My mind was
oftentimes disturbed because of this inner serenity; I found
that my thoughts often tarried elsewhere while I threw
Thus to
myself into the thickest press of the party fight.
I
myself seemed like Ogier the Dane, who fought against the
Saracens in his dream wanderings.
Such an one as myself
would naturally prefer Rossini to Meyerbeer, though at certain
times he would render enthusiastic
homage to the music
of the latter without
yielding undivided allegiance to it.
For it is on the waves of Rossini's music that the distinc-
tive joys
gently:
HEINE.
4
and
soul.
isolated
is
emotions of the
solitary
characterised by a predominance
direct expression of an isolated
sentiment.
whole
people.
launches
On
this
itself joyfully,
harmonious
when absorbed
the sufferings
race, and in touch with the
in
spirit
tive
blase
and Napoleon would not have appointed him bandmaster to the grand army, a post for which
communal enthusiasm was a first necessity.
Poor swan
of Pesaro the Gallic cock and the imperial eagle would
antipatriotic melodies,
ROSSINI
AND MEYERBEER.
a great commotion
angels
in
and kings
yes,
matters to attend
to,
Robert
listened
in
enthusiastic
accord.
This
is
and time, who always knows how to choose its own, raised
him amid tumultuous sound upon the shield, proclaimed
It is
his reign and celebrated his triumphal entry.
not a wholly comfortable position thus to be carried in
For, by the misfortune or awkwardness of
triumph.
a single shield-bearer, one may find oneself perilously
balanced if not seriously injured; the crowns of flowers
that fly at one's head may sometimes hurt more than
if
indeed they do not soil when they come
gratify,
from
This
is
a great gourmand.
Meyerbeer is exactly the contrary: as
with his outward appearance, so in his pleasures he is dis-
HEINE.
6
cretion
itself.
good
table
is
invited friends.
went to
Many have
case.
he
This
miserly.
himself.
outlay upon
pretended that he
He is miserly only in
is
is
not the
To others
generosity incarnate ; unfortunate compatriots, in particular, have benefited by him almost beyond reason. Charity
is
is
in particular,
not in vain.
is
hang
its
help-seekers,
woman
all
the
is
and
the happiest
rumour of her
await
life,
company
of Dr.
met him,
Marx, who
remember,
those days
in
&
f-
in the
belonged to
ROSSINI
AND ME YERBEER.
merely to
fill
up an interregnum, but
also
to blast
the
whom
when
I related to
Meyerbeer was
at
He
had
early brought
escaped to Italy,
sunny
life,
of Italian
is
gilded
stronger
He
wrote
sensuousness;
over
scents.
in
in
life
anew, and
This was
But
all
this
sort of home-sickness
awoke
suffice a
in
him
German
nature.
HEINE.
his
over him; while the zephyrs of the south wafted about him,
he thought of the dark chorale of the north wind.
It
Germany with
its
on
mind during
Robert
the horrors of that period.
not exactly know what he
who does
wants and
I say
opera, this masterpiece of cowardice.
of
view
of
the
cowardice, not only from the point
subjectFor
the
that
the
execution.
also
of
but
matter,
all like
this
trust
fully
to his genius,
dares
not
'
ROSSINI
timid genius.
himself, he
He
bowed
AND ME YERBEER.
lacked
of belief in
the compulsion
to public opinion.
The slightest censure
flattered every caprice of the people,
He
frightened him.
gave the heartiest hand-shakes indiscriminately right and
left, as though he recognised the sovereignty of the people
and based
in music,
his rule
who
reigned as
king absolute in the empire of music by the grace of God.
He has not wholly freed himself from anxiety in the affairs
all
of private
least
contradistinction to
in
this
had
life;
Rossini,
is
at
le
Diable has at
no longer hampered
work, that he composes with
he
is
much
wherein
all
work
Meyerbeer
in
citizenship
has
the
won,
eternal
never
city
of
again
fine
to
lose,
his
in
the
minds,
The
it
better, the
the one
knows
most
HEINE.
.10
and arabesques
architect of
When,
men
of olden times
other
artists.
J. 1
upon whom
which beats
discern
struggle
between Protestants
ROSSINI
and Catholics
gious
in
are
convictions
Les Huguenots.
not
convictions.
Unlike other
ariists,
with a
AND MEYERBEER.
precisely
His
However, these
political,
religion
is
still
merely
artistic
less
reli-
negative.
benedictions which could not be accepted without committing an equivocal action, or one certainly the reverse of
magnanimous.
its
Whereas other
artists are
content
created
He
mind
reveals
itself
with
equal
clearness
to
the rest of
mankind, till the whole public is edified by his music, till his
operas have poured into every heart the sentiments which
he wishes to preach to the whole world ; in short, till he has
As with
put himself in touch with the whole of humanity.
an apostle who, in order to save one lost soul, fears neither
weariness nor pain, so also Meyerbeer, if he learn that some
one denies his music, will unweariedly waylay the renegade
until he has converted him.
And this single saved lamb,
Music
is
cause of
all
and
is
perhaps the
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so often allows to
When
a smile.
and
represented and
torments him-
been
He
still
listened to
from those
at
When the
assuredly dearer than life.
cholera began to rage in Paris, I counselled Meyerbeer to
quit as soon as possible ; but he had business to attend to
for a few days more, which he could not forego; he had
him above
all things,
to arrange with
le
Diable.
the
herein
appear.
In the opinion of
ROSSINI
AND MEYERBEER.
13
Les Huguenots. It
has gone furthest.
is
in
The
precedented manner, they express themselves like individuals, and have overstepped all previous traditions of
Since Don Giovanni there has certainly been
the opera.
no phenomenon in music so great as the fourth act of
made my
heart beat as
an
This
idyll
comedies
r HEINE.
14
born
in the lap
artist
has been,
how comes
it
man
that this
has never-
experienced,
the musician
of the
artist.
The
artist
his falling
that
is
tears
child
were
of
pearls.
whom
Alas
fairy
!
the
Melody
is
When com-
fight unnoticed*
after
How many
the
manner of
their
ROSSINI
AND ME YERBEER.
But
shown
results of
it
in Italy is
an ensemble, for
the opera as a complete work of art ; an indifference which
manifests itself so naively, that, when no aria is being sung,
the occupants of the boxes hold receptions and talk, if they
the indifference
much knowledge
and shape it with the sure hand that a creasuch as Les Huguenots required.
But it is a question
whether or not the gain in breadth of conception and clearthe material
tion
ness of vision did not involve the loss of other points of view.
Culture destroys in the artist that fresh accentuation,
that vivid colouring, that
impulsiveness of thought, that
directness of feeling, so often to be admired in circumscribed
HEINE.
i6
boys
and
girls
she
sees
playing
in
the
streets,
little
and
How
1837.
in
more
flourishing condition,
or,
to speak with
more
celebrated
M. Veron, whose
principles
have
since
art
go
to the
find
The
great
to the
HEINE.
i8
much
at Franconi's.
find as
The
unobtrusive, and under the name of Opera gave only spectacular pieces; the other, the public, could now go with
as
it is
pre-
most marked
contrast.
Have you ever seen M. Ve'ron? At the Caf6
de Paris, or on the Boulevard de Coblence, you cannot
have failed to meet that fat caricature of a figure, with
hat on one side of a head quite buried in an enormous white cravat, and a collar well up over his ears to
conceal a conspicuous mark on his neck, so that the red
jovial face and small blinking eyes are hardly discernible.
He
in the
consciousness of his
19
and
would much
like
French public
that the bells of his black cap ring with sighs, or when he
colours the design of a new costume for the "Falcon," or
when he
book
to see if Taglioni
will
...
or
...
Academy
elite
aristocracy,
birth, fashion,
and
leisure,
melody
still
flow,
HEINE.
20
two
The bent
poser has already produced uncommon things.
of his mind is towards the fantastic, blent not with sentiment
but with sentimentality;
there are
marked analogies
be-
is
parodied
with the most terrible and savage buffoonery.
It is a farce
wherein all the hidden vipers we carry in our hearts hiss
s
joyously aloud.
tive
My
neighbour
young man, pointed out to
in
me
my
at
we
21
There, in one
every time that her look met his, he struck his kettle-drum
like a maniac.
Since then Miss Smithson has become
Madame
Berlioz,
and
it is
When
husband
at the Conservatoire
symphony, he again
sat
met,
fury.
who
Liszt
of
all
The
love or to hatred.
is
the
and
guileless.
The
tendencies of his
mind
able.
grossed with
all
manner of
which are occupied with the solution of all the great questions of heaven and the earth.
For long he was an ardent
upholder of the
world.
Later the
of Ballanche
beautiful
Saint-Simonian
idea
of
the
mist;
now he
is
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over
enthusiastic
the
Republican-Catholic dogmas of a
hobby-horse
But
this
unquenchable
is
tracted by all the sufferings and all the doctrines of the day,
impelled to concern itself with all the needs of mankind,
inclined
to
poke
its
nose
into
every
pot
wherein
the
placid player of the piano to peaceable citizens in comfortable nightcaps, is easily understood.
When he sits
down
to
the piano,
when,
after
stroked
having
back
am
and becomes
visible to
my
inner vision.
last
My
time
brain
still
heard Liszt
suffering princess
(you certainly
who
which nevertheless
is
is
confined.
23
is
so
in his
to satiety,
which an
HEINE.
24
this
scandalous
mined
two heroes of the day deterthe same concert, one after the other.
strife
to play at
the
whom
eously recognising and appreciating their particular diversities, accorded to them a generous and merited approbation.
is,
indeed, sufficient to make a single comparison
between the musical temperament of each composer, to be
convinced that there is as much of hidden malice as
of narrowness of mind in the endeavour to praise one at
the expense of the other.
Their technical proficiencies
counterbalance one another; and as regards their spiritual
character, no more striking contrast could be imagined
It
demonstrate the
pulate
artistic skill
language,
nor
suffices if a
instrument
felt
all
is
domain of
and dancers on
the
cost
of
much
that
all
the
at
difficulties
noise,
vanquished,
and relegated to
and on
eggs.
25
made
must
brenner
would be an
he
How
heard
Kalk-
the
new
injustice
on
my
part were I on
this
enjoyment.
His fame
is
of an aristocratic kind,
" I allude
In the original edition this sentence reads as follows:
and he serves well as an example to show how it cannot
to Chopin,
and are applauded by people who hear not only with their
but also with their souls.
He is the favourite of the ilites" etc.
servants,
ears,
HEINE.
26
as
is
it
dis-
in
sorrows; France,
Germany, her profound
He
acceptation of the term, must be allowed to Chopin.
is not virtuoso only, he is also a poet, he can make us
Alas
still
do they
still
my
The
?
trees,
"
.
27
the peaceful quays, the tulips, the myfrowen, the clay pipes,
and china cups of Holland. .
"Amsterdam! Amsterdam!
.
when
shall
at
decken
hope, dear friend, that these letters will find you cheerful
and happy, in the roseate flush of life, and that it will not
I
happen to
are
letters
me
to the Flying
usually addressed to
as
Ah
while
those
life's
stars
no longer
are
passionate
dreams
circles.
seize
me
fixed
in
in
the heavens,
move
but
in
shut
their
You
how
yet
me
in
my
sleep.
its
way
first
and banners-of-
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28
the-cross,
monks
then
in
priests in bright-coloured
in the heights round the
dome
little
The
robes.
procession
in a terrible
by
little,
finally,
moved
and mysteri-
while I below,
woman on my
in the
more mysterino
tall, pale
longer young,
whose face still bore the signs of a great beauty. She
directed her measured steps towards us, almost like an
In her hands she carried a bouquet of
opera-dancer.
black flowers, which she presented to us with a theatrical
gesture, while a real, terrible anguish seemed to weep from'
was inexpressibly mournful, and, what was
woman marched
ous, a
still
in front,
ashes.
And
at
last
my
in
a vast
feet
came up upon
it
29
in dolorous contemplation,
when a
together upon
his
art.
It
"What
is
art?"
asked
him.
Or
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1831.
ETC.
is now closed;
after the exhibition of the
there
from
held
the
Scant
beginning of May.
pictures
attention has for the most part been bestowed upon them,
Salon
for visitors'
anxieties.
the
first
time.
Confused as
was with a
admission into a
little
were
filled
The
and
in
touched
ful despair.
youth-
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31
What wholly
same words,
at
canvas
is
long-suffering.
to his
what
own
sort
individuality.
It is
sometimes produced.
The French people, who undeniably possess sound judgment, have not failed justly to censure these abortive efforts,
and at the same time to recognise genuine originality, to
fish
the
pearls
The
differs little
from
my
own.
And
as
much
as practicable
will
avoid
A glance at the
of seeing these pictures.
the
subject-matter and importance of
particular work will
opportunity
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32
suffice.
As a
conscientious
critic,
then, I will
make
first
mention of
ARY SCHEFFER.
This painter's Faust and Marguerite were the chief attraction during the first months of the exhibition; that is,
before the works of Delaroche and Robert were hung.
Indeed, whoever has never seen any painting by Scheffer
would at once be struck by his style, a style which finds
His enemies
expression in a peculiar scheme of colour.
declare that he paints exclusively with snuff and green
I do not know how far they do him an injustice.
His brown shadows are not infrequently too artificial, and
fail to produce the intended Rembrandtesque effect of
Most of his faces are of that terrible colour which
light.
has at times startled us, when, by chance, we have caught
sight of our own face, wearied with watching and out of
humour, reflected in one of those green glasses still to be
found in old inns where the diligence stops in the morning.
A closer and more careful scrutiny of Scheffer's pictures
reconciles one to his manner, and reveals the genuinely
poetic quality of his treatment ; a warmer feeling breaks
through these sombre tones, like sunrays through the
That morose, solid brushwork, those
clouds of mist.
exhausted colours have nevertheless a good effect in the
Faust and Marguerite pictures. Both are life-size, three-
soap.
falls
In spite of the
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33
1831.
and faded
still
lips,
the
preserves traces
its
moonlight.
Yes, this man is a beautiful human ruin ; in the furrows
over these weather-beaten eyebrows brood owls learned in
at
man.
Marguerite
a faded red
is
her side
in her
in
which
is
dis-
its
is
figure.
thus obtained
bodice is one of
effect
not
The
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34
the crown of her head, and from both sides hangs her shining
smooth golden hair. Her oval face is noble, touching, and
the features are of a beauty which would fain hide them-
She
more heavily
idealistic
Perhaps she
is
is
sweet
trifles.
described.
... In
She
is
Marguerite cannot be
more a sentiment than a figure. She is
fact, Scheffer's
murmur
to
Marguerite
demand
it
clear,
ample, his
is
wholly
warm,
little
displeasing
tones.
brilliant
canvas in which
is
in
subjects
There
is,
which
for
ex-
depicted a dance of
may be
indeed, however
much
originality
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35
1831.
conception
in
this
his coloration is to
respect
me
what was
evident
there
was
illusory.
He
has
is
the
man
the smile in
lying has
diplomatic
little
of this false
man,
whose face the artist has painted the forty false oaths with
his hemlock colours, then the thought shivers through me,
"
For whom in London is his latest mixture intended ? "
Scheffer's Henry IV. and Louis Philippe, life-size equestrian
barricades,
his
the
first
glance.
saw him
in
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36
of soul,
like
all,
mad
a constrained
horse,
A dethroned
"
fir
It is
though
is fairly
successful, a
good
likeness
this
Scheffer's portrait-
painting.
Portrait-painters
may be
are those
who have
rendering
the
There
and
features
so
that
to
the
unknown
spec-
tator
is
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We
meet him.
37
1831.
a distinguishing merit
of the old masters, notably of Holbein, Titian, and Van
Dyck. In their portraits we are struck with that directness,
which is an unmistakable guarantee of their verisimilitude
"We could swear that
to the long-deceased originals.
to
find
this
is
We
French
and English
we say
manner of painting
artists
in
involuntarily
among
who concern
portraits
particular,
These
portraits are especially beloved by well-born parents and
tender spouses who show us their family portraits after
dinner, and cannot sufficiently impress upon us how lovely
the little darling looked before he had worms, or what
the face
original.
acquaintance
Brunswick.
we
are
to
make when
he
returns
from
much more
The subject
home-coming
army passes
by,
and Leonore
fails
the
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38
of Voltaire.
to that
Scheffer's Leonore,
bygone age of
belief,
we men,
are
Marvellous age
But
knights of the cross, who, in
conquer a tomb.
we not
all
who
a drooping
flower,
blaspheme.
Scheffer's picture
position;
the
will
wither,
but
who
will
not
much
me
to
HORACE VERNET,
who has by no means invariably sent pure gems to
the Salon.
The most remarkable of his exhibited
is
a Judith in
the
act of
killing
Holofernes.
decorate
canvases
She,
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39
1831.
\
farther verge of
face
is
lightly shaded,
terrifying grace.
The
on the hated
he is not especially
He
nevertheless he seems to be bon enfant.
attractive;
heathen.
In
truth,
still
move
Intoxicated
as
though
they
were bestowing
and
with
kisses.
with
wine,
certainly
happiness
without any interplay of suffering or illness, Death sends
him by the hand of this beautiful angel into the white
land of
eternal
annihilation.
What an
enviable
fate
When my hour
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40
is
carried in
The Pope
and
is
almost
obliterated
in
the
white
background of
held high
above him.
But the crimson-liveried bearers of the pontichair are sturdy figures, full of character, with their
tanned faces framed in falling black hair. The faces of
fical
three of these
ably painted.
admirto
the
is
in the
figures.
remind
me
Anne of Austria.
The composition permits almost
order of
There
steps bearing the princes' swords under his arm.
are the three groups, posed naturally, and harmoniously
to one another.
Only a man on the highest steps
the
of
staircase of Art could have such high-stepping ideas.
allied
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1831.
Camille
Poor fellow
Those were the joyous green days
of Liberty, when you sprang upon the bench and threw
open the window to Despotism, and tore up the lanternLater, the joke became very mournful; the foxes of
posts.
!
the Revolution
became befogged
leaders,
little
collarettes,
the two
hung
abdomen,
and those vests of the days of terror, with the broad overturned flaps, which have again come into fashion among
the republican youth of Paris, under the name of gitets
a la Robespierre.
Robespierre himself appears in the
picture,
prominent
smart
and
interior,
in
his
faultless
As a matter of
manners.
fact,
attire
and dandified
his exterior
was always
his heart,
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42
and
invariable
as
of the
blade
the
guillotine.
This
me
the
many-sided
jects,
artist
battle-pieces,
everything hastily,
traits,
life,
animals,
landscapes,
por-
maker of pamphlets.
I
now
turn to
DELACROIX,
The
work
is
among whom
is
THE SALON,
She
43
1831.
strides
combat.
her face
bold
in
profile,
off
me
hated
yoke.
force
of
the
people
it
this street
Venus,
is
pistol in either
hand,
probably not soiled with
Holy July-days of
will
Paris
Holy July-days
How
down upon
their
to
become
citizens of Paris
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44
they are, they feared lest at last men should reach too lordly
a height, therefore by means of their subservient priests
its
heavens.
much
in
Nevertheless,
this very
drop of water,
fulness, reality,
veritable
seems to stamp the picture with truthin short, one finds therein the
originality,
all this
Among the
visitors,
there were
either taken
who at any rate had been specwhat had happened, and these critics could not
" Matin"
a shopkeeper called
sufficiently praise the picture.
"
" those
like
A young lady
out,
gamins fought
giants
observed that the Polytechnic scholars were omitted,
though they were to be seen in all the other representapart in these very "days," or
tators of
painted
"
How
truthfully all
man who
lies
is
is
depicted
on the ground
alive
is
"
" who is
the dirty
Papa," exclaimed a little Carlist girl,
"
"
woman with the red cap ?
Well, certainly," sneered the
noble papa with a sweet smile of superiority, " certainly,
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45
1831.
its
own
creators,
especially those
praised, almost
they wished to
and
it
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46
last
looks
linger
with
pleasure
on
the
beautiful
city
French poet was right who proposed that the July festival
should be celebrated by a symbolical marriage.
Long
ago the Doge of Venice went once a year, in the Bucentauro, to
wed
who, while he excites general attention, appeals so peculiarly to me, that his pictures are to me as coloured echoes
of the voices of my own heart; or rather, as the sympathetic colour-tones which are in accord with what
my
is
in
heart.
DECAMPS
the
name
of the artist
I
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47
1831.
sleepily quiet.
It
plified in his
"
Patrouille turque."
In
this picture
we
see the
ignorant,
turban.
He
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48
every new
its
seurs,
the studios,
Exhibition, has sought to decry this very picture in a supplementary note in Lc Figaro. It is his intention to ridicule
modesty
that he
when he
man who
is
their conviction
by means of reason
He
little
The
only.
knows how
dear
correctly
man
he has
described himself!
It
is
not
fitting that
the
first
works of
this
of realisation.
all
garden shears.
to
is
follies.
heart,
Alas,
it
is
THE SALON,
The
critic
great
The
the artist to do
"
"
would be more correct thus
What
"
"
do ?
or even
What must the artist
question
the
will
error lies in
"What ought
49
1831.
artist
do?"
This question, " What ought the artist to do ?
is the
formula of those art-philosophers who, devoid of any
innate poetry, have tabulated for their own use the char"
who have
down
every
own
They
principles.
criticism
new
aesthetics.
judged by
his
own
intentions.
HEINE.
So
he
is
the
artist.
But is
simple grouping into a beautiful and fresh bouquet.
such accord always possible ? is the artist always wholly free
the choice and disposition of his mysterious flowers ?
does he choose and blend them in obedience to an
in
or
inner impulse?
I
answer
this
question
of
mystical
dependence,
in
The
the affirmative.
in
them
into a
until she
Selam of whose
awoke.
each flower,
His heart
and laughed
bounded with
till
joy,
he kissed
down
his
long beard.
I am neither follower of the prophet, nor possessor of
Solomon's ring, neither have I a long beard ; yet I can affirm
that I have understood the beautiful Selam,
which Decamps
all
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51
is
In matters of art
modern
professor of ^Esthetics,
who
ought to find
plastic artist
in
nature
all
This
his types.
supreme principle of
plastic art, has given no thought to one of the most
primeval of these arts, I mean to architecture, whose types
man has vainly sought to find in the leaves of the forest and
These types do not lie in
the grottoes of the rocks.
external nature, their birthplace was in the human soul.
professor,
while
extolling
this,
his
which
and
answer that his paintto the truth of phantasy and to the intuitions
ing is faithful
of a dream.
As a matter of
fact,
when sombre
figures are
perhaps to be treated in a
less
material manner.
more
airy,
The blending
more
fanciful,
of animal and
is
and
human
yet another
Romans knew so
well
how
LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY Or IIMNAIft
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52
chimerical
on the
centaurs,
etc.
Against
the
artist is sufficiently
is,
artist, is
of crude colours.
spectacle to
them
we
more thoroughly
me
LESSORE,
involuntarily
the
on a miserable bed,
lies
little
sick lad
whose suppliant
to
THE SALON,
dejected,
downcast
with
His
looks.
material.
it
The
jacket
and
yellow woollen
scarcity of furniture
great
short
coarse
53
1831.
poverty.
This subject
to,
and
is
treated in
Murillo's beggar-boys.
The sharply-defined shadows, the
firm
and appropriate, the colours laid on
powerful strokes,
with their glittering frames, this painting must have been all
the more of a surprise, inasmuch as its frame was old and the
gilding was blackened
and wholly
in
artist's
who complains of
strokes,
cold
and
SCHNETZ
is
name of repute.
Art-lovers
who
Madonna
for miracu-
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54
is
is
many
Strenuous
In the nature of his studies and choice of his subjects Schnetz has certain analogies with a painter whose
is
who
this
the
name of
ROBERT
this painter.
"
Is
he an
historical painter,
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55
1831.
This separation
the
first
spirit
there existed so
The
many gifted
The
for
the
women, a
brilliant
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56
For example,
furs,
or, still
more frequently,
carry in
(little
dog)
The negro
all
an Oriental
artists
fairy-tale.
When,
after
its
Sympathy with
painting was completely dead
subject.
even
in Catholic states;
religious
and
mythological
too,
introduce
parody.
a
Not long
philosopher
this
matter with a
Prussia
who
en-
man was
The
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1831.
supplement of the
Artists
shape.
race,
who
and we
find in
Germany a whole
school,
certainly not lacking in talent, ceaselessly occupied in rummaging through the wardrobe of Catholic and feudal middle ages,
men
chosen
to
waves of
civilisation.
Hence
mountains which we
Munich painters. This region lies at their door, and the
costume of these mountaineers is more picturesque than
that of our dandies.
human forms
those
full
Italy.
of the
"Then he
is
Guild exclaim;
who promptly
and
know one
lady-historical-
turns
HEINE.
58
its
would be
now
work which is
produced, of which Delaroche
Rome.
The
unless I am mistaken,
of
already
lithography, was exhibited this year, and represents those pipers of the Alban
mountains who come to Rome at Christmas to play a holy
Pifferari,
by Robert, which
is,
ness about
like
THE SALON,
its
bier,
in
59
1831.
The
its grave by the Misericordia Brothers.
members of the confraternity, shrouded in black, and wearing
a black mask with two holes out of which the eyes look in a
carried to
On
mysterious manner, advance like a procession of ghosts.
a seat in the foreground, facing the spectator, sit the father,
mother, and young brother of the deceased.
Poorly clad,
sunk in grief, with bound head and folded hands, the old
man
sits in
silent
for there
no deeper pain
is
He
is
pale,
seems to lament
in
very
and
to
is
therefore
all
the
more
The deceased
appears
have been the eldest son, the support and pride of the
pitiful.
Still in the
the Corinthian pillar of the house.
gracefulness of youth, contented and almost smiling, he lies
family,
on -the bier; so
known how
nevertheless
still
greater
The
earth
is
is
by the dying
before us.
fires
is a
lies
stretched
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60
buffaloes,
and laden
to hear the
To
il
youth
seems
bel vino
"
left
mand.
to spread the
charm of the
figures, all
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61
1831.
with the most brilliant and joyous tones, while the contours
Some of the heads
are nevertheless definitely outlined.
seem
to be portraits.
But the painter has not copied
nature after the stupidly scrupulous manner of many of
his fellows,
As a
minuteness.
clever
and
their adorers;
Helen remains
where
for
Romeo and
is
not
my
grace.
intention to establish a parallel between
jection of matter
sin
it
in
whose aim
is
to spiritualise earth, or
sacrifice to heaven.
still
more, to offer
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62
wherein Catholicism
is
extinct.
bat between spirit and matter, which does not forbid man
the sure enjoyments of things terrestrial while at the same
time promising him celestial joys in Infinity; which prefers, in a word, to assure blessedness to man on earth, and
takes the sensuous world to be as holy as the spiritual ; for,
Whatever
is, is
tinually without
pictures,
for
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scntation awakes in
63
1831.
them a keen
interest.
can explain
furnished
deal with religious subjects, whereas the pictures representing scenes from Sir Walter Scott's novels alone, number
over
thirty.
therefore,
can,
in
speaking
of a French
of any misunderstanding.
DELAROCHE
This painter has no
the Corypheus of these schools.
predilection for the past in itself; solely for its representation, for the reproduction of its spirit, for the writing of
is
its
history in
The
colour.
greater
mention.
In the
for instance,
sister-arts, also,
in
so
brilliantly exemplified by
of the French in the
Victor Hugo.
Science of History, and their great results in the actual
writing of History, are in this respect no isolated phenoas,
The
poetry,
latest
efforts
mena.
Delaroche, the great historical painter, has contributed
Two are from French
four canvases to this year's Salon.
history.
The two
first
are
of,
small
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64
dimensions, what are called easel pictures; vivid, nevertheOne represents the
less, in figures and striking detail.
The
artist
has
coloration
is
the sombre
towards
kingdom of
death.
nevertheless,
The
glittering
It is
golden rays of the sun are only a parting greeting.
must
Then
a
wane
ere
blood-red
dayset; that, too,
long.
stream of light
comes the
will
night.
Not
the last
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1831.
boldly upright and do not bend with every breath of courtwind. The men's hair still falls in natural curls over their
becoming frisure a la
Sbvigni. True, the garments of these dames already indicate
a transition to the tastelessness, to the long trains and wideBut the bodices
spreading skirts, of the following period.
retain a na'ive grace, and white charms emerge thereshoulders,
and the
from like flowers from a horn of plenty. In this composition are seen only pretty women, only pretty court masks;
the smile of love on their lips, and perhaps a gnawing bitterness in their hearts
them a wicked
little
and sensitive
and a lady playing
three cavaliers
perhaps, an excellent
Gottingen, and
courtier, clad
at
game
which
nose.
On
the right
cards, at lansguenet
that I have myself played at
once won
six thalers.
A noble
gives to the
In the background
pale as a languishing star at twilight.
the retinue of chattering courtiers, probably relating to
one another important backstairs State secrets, or wagering
is
that
Mazarin
will
be dead
in
an hour.
And
man seems
HEINE.
66
At
head.
this
moment
The
from
and are painted with greater simplicity. One canvas represents the two princes in the Tower whom Richard III.
caused to be assassinated. The young king and his younger
brother are seated on an old-fashioned bed; the little dog
runs to the door of the prison, and seems by his barking to
The king, a
announce the approach of the murderers.
boy on the verge of adolescence, is a pathetic figure. The
idea of an imprisoned king, as Sterne so rightly felt, is of
itself
king
a
is
sufficiently pitiable
of a
weakly flower.
All
this,
as I have said,
is
all
is
treated
the
more
powerful.
Poland
stood once
who had
recently died,
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and of how men
friend himself
67
1831.
Alas
the beloved
we
has cost so
tears
many
a corpse in
its
coffin
the second,
full
of
life,
We
first,
raising the
lid
in
his figure
costume
is
is
is
thick-set
and broad,
puritanically devoid of
his
bearing
is
His soldierly
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68
brown velvet under a yellow leathern jacket; high ridingboots that almost wholly conceal his black hose; across his
breast a sash of dirty yellow, whence hangs a sword in its
sheath; on his cropped dark hair a black hat turned up
with a red feather; round his neck a little turned-down white
under which a
bit of his
king lies.
Faces of dead
this
man and
flower of mankind.
Life in
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laughing colours.
69
1831.
when
window at
I feel this
soul not equally deeply affected when lately, for the first
time, I passed over the terrible spot where Louis XVI. was
done
to death ?
I opine it was because he, when he died,
was no longer a king, and because he had already lost his
head.
King Charles lost his crown only when he lost his
head.
He believed in this crown and in his absolute right;
for these he fought like a lissom and daring knight.
He
poor Bourbon did not deserve this glory; his head, before
his death, had been uncrowned and profaned by a Jacobin
cap.
He
had no
faith
in
himself;
he believed
in
the
his judges; he protested only of his inwas an honest, rather portly paterfamilias;
virtues were genuinely bourgeois.
His death has a
competence of
nocence.
his
He
the
Place
makes the
be erected
marble, for
what
I
he added
know
well
the cleansing
mean,"
"you
The death of Louis XVI. is the
with pathetic innuendo.
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70
when
all is it
his
Faubourg
Germain, when the old emigrant-coterie still
lament with hypocritical sighs over the late Louis XVI., as
though they were his own belongings, as though he had ever
St.
equally
with the
is
perhaps
fitting,
on the one
that while,
common
side,
we
people to participate in
to
be
mischance which
befalls
royalty as
side,
though
it
were their
who,
nowise
slill
in their logical
call
them such
fain
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1.831.
_
Of a
together,
will
it
is
played
Many
As
me
one of
"as
if
me
a pain in
that
his
as did Charles
I.,
who
first
of
all
quietly
pronounced
his
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72
The
heard.
heavenward
exalted
words
that
of that
them
caused
information
is
be
to
date,
Charles
wholly useless.
words
Nevertheless, these
are
in
another
Cromwell and
between
Napoleon.
venture
of bloodshed;
for
the execution
of the
Duke
In the
life
is
is
by means of love
the stain of blood
the stain of
oil.
intrigues.
in the life
Both, however,
felt
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73
rooms of the Tuileries, storming and reviling. In the morning, tired and pale, he appeared at the State Council; and he
complained of ideology, always of ideology, that pernicious
ideology, and Corvisart shook his head.
If, too, Cromwell could not sleep quietly, but walked
restlessly through Whitehall all night, it was not, as many
devout Cavaliers believed, because he was haunted by the
spectre of a bleeding king, but by the fear
of flesh-and-
if
French pretender
The one
should,
prototype, return straightway to his fatherland. Well, let
him come
I prophesy for him the reverse of the fate of
!
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74
Saul,
the youthful
a crown;
a crown,
father's asses.
this picture of
man by
dumb
statue.
According to the
other tradition, he opened the coffin in daylight, quietly considered the dead body, and said, "He was a strongly
built
he stands, a strong,
self-reliant figure,
"brutal as a fact,"
powerful
without
pathos,
He
many
it
lies
crown
"
Do
Ah,
its
beautiful foliage,
fatal
axe
and with
its
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75
1831.
when
fully
Moreover, the
and
gives
the
Otherwise, the
picture
painted with masterly excellence, with the fineness
of Vandyck, with Rembrandtesque boldness in the shadows.
is
me
reminds
number of
Flemish school
shall
offers
burly,
of those
light,
more
return
pacific reapers,
with their finest
if
we
still
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76
we
the other
picture
we
see
how
steadfast
earth remains, with what love she brings forth her golden
fruits, even after she has been trampled under foot in the
great universal tragedy of Rome, with all its gladiators and
It is a history without
Emperors, and vices and elephants.
man
the history of
humanity!
Of a truth this vicinage of Robert's picture to that of
Delaroche was salutary and wholesome.
How often,
have gazed at Cromwell, and so identified myself
with him, that I could almost hear his thoughts, hard
monosyllables grumbled and hissed in that deplorable
after I
ing from
Ah
Roman
lips.
it is
men
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77
1831.
"
I find it very
Death to the Prussians
difficult to remain quietly at my writing-desk, and bring
my peaceable art-news from Paris to a conclusion. Yet,
if I go out into the street, and if I be recognised as a
Prussian, assuredly my skull will be battered in by one or
other of these July-heroes, and all my ideas upon art will be
the Russians
fused
sinks to the ground, and, dying, looks at me with the wellknown glance of my friend, with that intensity that is
The dead Charles, too, wears quite
peculiar to the Poles.
who
Hurrah
and I
God be merciful to us
For I
thought in my heart,
knew the Sarmatian proverb, " You must kiss the hand that
rejoiced in
the
spectacle, shouted
"
"
Ah
his left
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78
seized the
sword, and
them
I feel
afraid.
to us
God be
merciful to us
Our
last
stands
smiling
I
to his Cromwell, a
is
work on a pendent
Helena, and that he
at present at
Napoleon
moment when
at Saint
Sir
Hudson Lowe,
the
Tory
ordinary
one
life,
clamour
in
the streets
is
really
on
life
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1831.
colour-poems,
It
is
misery.
to an undisturbed enjoyment of art, and I feel strongly
at this moment how more than usually difficult art
is thereby
rendered.
Yesterday I was totally
unable to proceed with these notes after I had walked
through the Boulevards, where I saw a man, pale as death,
criticism
fall
is
dimmed
value.
Artists,
of universal turmoil.
is
hear
Morning
in Berlin
Chronicle the
Reform
times,
wall.
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80
am
went
Madchen
in
than
should
disappear.
would
The
feel
fall
would end
that
at his grave
made concerning
the end of
at Goethe's cradle
began
seems to be nearing
it
The
its
and
fulfilment.
life-principle is
Roman kingdom
of the past.
Wherefore, like all decaying survivals of that
past, it remains most unregeneratively antipathetic to the
It is this antipathy, and not the troublous times,
so harmful to art.
On the contrary, troublous times
As of yore in Athens and Florence, so
are salutary to it
present
that
now,
is
in the midst of
absorbed
lives,
the
man and
the artist
were carved
afflatus.
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81
1831.
fall
of Freedom.
Surely these
new days
new
art-powers
and colour, self-intoxicated subjectivity, individuality, and divinely free personality must
use to the uttermost the joy of life which is far more
profitable than the dead phantom of an old art.
Is
Or, do art and the world draw to a sorrowful close ?
Until
then,
with sound
that spirituality,
all
European
literature,
Europe become
demanded of
is
butterfly.
soul
82
THE SALON,
WHEN
I arrived in
caused
me
then open
1833.
that Salon
is,
contributed
upon the
series
Salon;
upon
art
by a Frenchman.
He
"The
commences
in
THE SALON,
83
1833.
same manner as the contemporary politics and literature; in like manner it attains to a certain accomplished
development, and its decline dates from the day of the
the
universal downfall in
France.
that
commences with a
'
Oh
has denied everything, railed at everything, profaned everything, that has believed in nothing;
for that very reason it was all the more capable of its great
!
However,
movement, they
nevertheless followed with unequal strides.
Thus, painting
in the eighteenth century lagged behind.
It produced its
it
strength.
"
libertinage it never shows that transport, that enthusiasm which carries us away, dazzles us,
Throughout
all its
and compensates us
affectations, its
for its
faded
bad
taste.
artifice affect
Moreover,
its
cold
us painfully where, in
lady stretched on a
little
and
Watteau
and
Boucher
Zulmas,
with their coquettish shepherdesses and their idyllic abbe's.
"Favart, though he made himself ridiculous, worked
The painters of that time were
nevertheless in good faith.
less affected than any one else by the ferment that was
sofa, plays lightly with
his
is
her fan.
permeating France.
The outbreak
of
the
Revolution
HEINE.
84
the
Alas
When one
terrible.
reflects
that joyfulness,
had beckoned
to
them from
afar with
its
among
its
as
useless,
dallied
until the
it
last
regarded
moment
its perfumes
of musk, its shepherdVien and a few others realised that it must
roses,
esses' frolics.
was
in the
know
that
same dilemma
he went
to
as these artists.
Rome, and
Nevertheless
we
THE SALON,
"It was
later only,
85
1833.
antiquity
was preached, when publicists and philosophers recommended a return to the ancient forms, whether social,
political,
or
literary,
it
unfolded
itself in all
its
hand he dragged
fumed sheepfolds into which
sant
it
had
fallen, to raise it to
commenced
in painting."
We
who
con-
another
if
he
That Salon, in the judgment of all, was the most extraordinary that France has ever seen, and it remains memorable in the annals of Art.
In particular, the pictures which
I
come, and
my writing
the history of painting.
I have been able this
is
summer
to
convince myself of
HEINE.
86
.
Was
among them
scarcely
we observed
mad
the
French nation
Was
after
this year's
strongly.
Scheffer
has
another
produced
Marguerite,
is not an
It
is
the
same
more
Horace Vernet
and
of
himself,
for
he
has
an
historical picture.
hair
paintings chiefly of
excellent ape painting
sent
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87
1833.
in praise
first
he
is
in
Angelo.
fact juste
In his
milieu
The
metrical, even
and
his children,
borne on
its
fitex's
Cain,
when
have alluded
further to the extraordinary advance which in our day we remark in sculpture, more even than in painting. The Spartecus
and Theseus,
at present
Tuileries, excite
my
exhibited in
thoughtful admiration
every time I
HEINE.
88
The
usually supposed.
in temples.
the
new
Thus
far,
and the
effect
is
very
are seen in relief against the fresh
It is very amusing somegreen foliage of the chestnuts.
times to hear the nurses explain to the little children who
beautiful
when they
play there,
what
is
the
in the
latter's
itself
have
Since so
many
when
art
rains.
it
Then, in the true sense of the word,
would be protected under the umbrella of the citizen-
king.
Artists
complain on
of the king.
all sides
It is said that, as
Duke
THE SALON,
active interest
in
the
arts.
89
1833.
It is
murmured
that orders
Nevertheless, with
the exception of the King of Bavaria, he is the chief art
connoisseur among the princes.
To-day his mind is too
wholly absorbed
arts as formerly.
sculpture
lias
alike unsatisfactory.
by
politics
If,
for
however,
and
built.
being
the Louvre
and
at the Tuileries.
Library is as
the Madeleine, the old
Temple of
monuments
to
commemorate
the
horrible
events
it,
and
previously
enacted here on the 2ist January. Though that hieroglyphbedizened messenger may bring thousands of experiences
with
post,
lantern-
middle of La Place
Concorde, has seen things incomparably more remarkable ; and the old, red, primaeval stone-giant will pale and
de
la
HEINE.
90
trowel
tion.
Thus, a craze
for architecture
may be
"The whole
so that they
may make an
active resistance.
A new
insur-
old institutions,
terribly shaken.
if
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91
1833.
earth.
Alas
it is
im-
possible to read in his face the thought of his heart; for this
younger branch seems to be as much the master of dis-
No
much under
control,
our citizen-king.
to play
He
is
intellectual
and
skits
becomes
The number
daily
greater,
make him
of these caricatures
1
No
pears are to be seen drawn on the walls of the houses.
has
in
ever
been
so
scoffed
at
his
own
as
Louis
prince
capital
Philippe.
it
is
1
But he
not you
who
'Who
HEINE.
92
those
first
who
still more
This man is capable of anything; who
gravely.
knows if he will not one day throw down, as gage of combat,
the glove which has become so dirty with all those indis-
criminate hand-shakings.
He is not lacking in princely selfesteem.
He, whom I had seen with felt hat and umbrella
shortly after the July Revolution, had suddenly changed
when I saw him on (he 6th of June last year, after he had
He
was no longer the goodnatured, pot-bellied bourgeois, with smiling fleshy face: even
his corpulence gave him an air of dignity, and he held his
head as boldly in the air as any of his forefathers had ever
His weighty presence was majestic, he was every
done.
a
When, however, he perceived that the crown
pound king
did not
a manner at the
detached
forts.'
THE SALON,
93
1833.
It is
instinctive
correctness,
whole plans,
if
not the
The
when
Every one
feels that
The crown
still
smoulders in
openly
Why
of this flame? It
this
does he
still
The
it
concerned
his
head
their irrita-
The
HEINE.
94
it
worth while
that, in order to
and
children,
all their
onlooker
ruined.
secured
in
Grocers,
many
profits
provincials,
who tremble
hostile to a project
which
for
and
their
house
rents, for
will
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and
men
95
1833.
institution
vividly recalls
citadel could
man
in
there
is
caprices with impunity; he would be far more untrammelled than any of the kings prior to the Revolution ; for
they could only clap malcontents into the Bastille whereas,
if
he
of those
who by cunning
and
forts,
whence
But another
apprehension than these objections manieverywhere, and disturbs even those who hereto-
far weightier
fests itself
eternity, or
even rase
it
HEINE.
96
merely state the opinion of Frenchmen who are convinced that during the first invasion the
foreign troops placed themselves at a greater distance from
the cannons.
In this
enormous population
abandoned?
That
is.
known only
of God,
who
is
sees
The Holy
supreme importance
For, in
the
first
in
is
is
the
Oh
call
yourselves
He
has sent a
Napoleon.
it
is
man
to the kings
who could
moment when
THE SALON,
Jacobinism had taken
its
axe in
its
1833.
97
to
destroy the old monarchy: let the princes kill this man and
then God himself cannot help them
He sent Napoleon
Buonaparte and Louis Philippe of Orleans: by these
!
of government is neither convenient nor profitable, nor reAnd I, too, share this opinion.
vivifying for old Europe.
When,
monarchy
sidered
it
that last guarantee of our society, I cona duty to express myself as I have done in the
itself,
True, since
foregoing pages regarding the 2ist January.
the 28th of June of last year, my royalism has turned a little
sour
yet,
I repeat,
do not
feel
am
98
"
Strange
I
Were
I the
Dey
of Tunis
dubious an event."
KLEIST, The Prince of Hamburg,
at so
and
my
eyes.
still
the legions
the serious
of Varus
and
"
inhabitants
of
99
here I
am
as
if,
who
so
are
at work.
shall
embarrassment
there
is
much
One
added
of ingenious inventions
a certain Truffle-ice; another will be delighted to hear
that Spontini, at the last Ordensfest, wore coat and
to his
list
HEINE.
ioo
mass of material
my
aid
Begin
at the beginning.
I will, therefore,
once again,
in Konigstrasse,
that,
-I
taken to
hear you ask, " Why is the post office not in Post Strasse,
and the Black Eagle ' in Konigstrasse ? " Another time I
will answer these questions; at the present I am going for a
'
We
irony,
my
dear friend.
moment and
tail
of the horse
is less
But
thick.
I see
Look round
!
That is
and where
On
the right
is
has coloured
it
you,
now,
is
And
101
over the
victory
beautiful;
here,
packed
seated,
enjoyment and
"
together
like
Bears," comfortably
and smack
"
VJTe
at
"
never mind it ;
Ah, good heavens
The garden is a square surrounded with a
irony again
double row of poplars. We stumble here upon a marble
statue guarded by a solitary sentinel
It is the old Dessauer. 1
He wears the old Prussian uniform, in nowise
though ?
you
ask.
point
them out
to
wear
Roman
Here we are
on the Wilhelmsplatz.
you on the
first
occasion
there are
:
the two
the
exterior
The
HEINE.
102
told
W.
Last
summer he took
Witzbold
learned
there."
And
Paulus.
That
is
New
in small esteem.
am,
theless,
1
is
mustered.
in truth,
I
The above
means a
is
an untranslatable pun.
Canon of
the Cathedral.
103
Prussian officers
to
the
cially
among
great part,
common
Doubtless this
is
respects it is
against the danger of
In
becoming effeminate.
many of the
States less
as in Holstein, for
example
politically
clerks, poets,
Do you
inclined
presents arms
He shoulders,
is silent.
We
HEINE.
104
is,
No
ambassador.
There he
is,
in
"
"
He
a fine man,"
He is the best of husbands,"
answers sighingly her older friend. " Ma foi" growls out
the officer of the huzzars, "he is the best rider in our
returns every one's salute ?
"
whispers a little fair one.
Listen
is
army."
How
spacious.
The famous
sit
105
nymphs who
skip past,
must burn
"
self,
Happy people) They are going to see Eunike play
the part of Seraphim, or Milder that of Iphigenia."
"Apol"
is the inscription on the Opera House, yet
lini et Musis
must the sons of the Muses remain outside. But see, the
lecture is at an end and a crowd of students saunter to-
A
fear any perplexity as to who they are.
moment's glance at their faces shows that no tailor soul
lurks beneath the short coat.
Many of these Sarmatians
of affability and worthy
well
as
models
serve
might
reason to
and Thusnelda.
HEINE.
io6
lent
The
The
known
association
as
and Febus,
fell
as
it
there were
two
Professor.
"
of words was
marked 4; and,
number from the
seats
this
and
this slight
exchange
that
promenade of so many
ite
great
in Berlin has
trees.
Here
lived
strolled the
great Fritz,
also its glories?
Do
universities.
107
scans you with his eye-glass, smiles, and curls his hair.
look at those fine ladies
What forms I grow poetic
!
"
But
!
Thou
assembled together.
They bloom,
A poet,
Sweet wandering
What
What
What
flowers.
beautiful
How still
more
"
I
point, puts
his
hand
into his
watch-pocket, and
looks upwards.
My dear, we are standing exactly below
the Academy clock, which goes better than all the watches
in
Berlin,
his
by
it.
so that
It is
an amusing sight
for
fails
to regulate
not
in that building.
cannot
procure you a ticket; indeed the president himself, Professor Zetter, is said not to be very complaisant when
such requests are made to him.
But observe that little
brunette,
And
it
is
HEINE.
io8
so
is
too
here.
Near by
is
Teichmann, the
much
This
is
On
good things crowd together again.
the one side dwells Sala Tarone; the Cafe du Commerce
is on the other ; and, finally, there lives
A Sun
Jagor
is affixed above the door of this Paradise.
Characteristic
in
What
this
sun
excites
the stomach
sensations
symbol
Here
to the
left,
of a gourmand
Will he not neigh at this sight as did
the horse of Darius Hystaspes ?
!
is
not without
its
spots.
No
Jagor !
matter how
09
Often, too, the roast joints are old and tough; whereas,
my opinion, at the Cafe Royal, most of the dishes are
better prepared and more savoury.
But the wine
Oh,
in
If you wish to
why have I not the purse of Fortunatus
delight your eyes, I recommend you to look at the pictures
There
displayed in the glass cases on Jagor's ground-floor.
one sees, side by side, the actress Stich, the theologian
!
Oh!
the
kiss
first
if
to
violinist
How
Boucher.
Juliet
Romeo!
the
Beauty
music
"Grace
is
MILTON.
How
steps.
The
of Berlin.
is
fectioner.
Here everything is
marvellous manner; everywhere mirrors, flowers, figures
in marzipan,
in shprt, the extreme of elegance.
gilding
me
stale,
papers
that
lie,
is
all
and the
On
tall
Fraulein
who
serves
is
not even
no
HEINE.
We
pretty.
nor
will
silk curtains,
statues,
would
Here
fain
known
in Berlin.
is
fine,
particular to do,
1 11
finds a
in.
How many
Do you
to-day
Lindens
dinner
dinner,
there,
confident of their
my
loiterers
friend?
driver
Is
it
Do
nothing more?
you
it
is
like Berlin?
Does
not strike
it
you that though the town is new, beautiful, and built with
great regularity, it nevertheless gives a rather frigid impression?
"
Madame
de Stael made
remark:
of
its
Herr von
But you
is
Beyermann.
Now
he
is
what
I call
like
a host !
No cat's-back cringing, but
attention.
Polite
and
urbane in manners, he is
thoughtful
at the same time indefatigable in service ; in short, the
something
finest
splendid establishment
cafe in Berlin
inside,
it is
Let us go
in.
HEINE.
ii2
He is
big broad-shouldered man in the black overcoat?
the celebrated Cosme'li, who to-day is in London, to-morrow
in Ispahan.
Thus I picture to myself Chamisso'p Peter
He has a paradox at the moment, on
Do you see that other tall man,
Schlemihl.
his tongue.
cut
That
air
haughty
is
the tip of
with the
Wolf,
who has
Homer
And,
The individual
of the Chamber, who wrote Kater Murr.
with the upright, solemn figure, who sits opposite to him, is
Baron von Liittwitz, who furnished to the Voss newspaper
a truly classical criticism of Kater Murr.
Do you see that elegant with easy manner
a Courlander, and
tall
at this
man in
Schilling, who in
serious-looking
Baron von
moment
" dear
so disturbed the
who
a green overcoat?
the
little
lisps like
He
is
the
one
is
hungry.
How
splendid dishes.
" as music
sound,
emotion.
all
cackle.
"
My
You
shall
be
satisfied.
is
the news
"
113
We
shoulders.
is
in
the musical
world,
my
dear Herr
"
Nothing at all. The new opera by Hellwig, Die Bergknappen, is one of no great interest.
Spontini is at present
composing an opera, for which Koreff has written the
text
The subject is said to be taken from Prussian
We shall also soon have KorefPs Aucassin and
history.
Nicolettet set to music by Schneider, whose score, however,
undergoing revision. After the carnival we are
The
promised Bernard Klein's heroic opera, Dido.
ladies Bohrer and Boucher have announced their coming
is
still
When Der
concerts.
is
given, it is always
bass
procure
singer Fischer is here ;
he will not appear in public, though he sings a great deal at
Graf Briihl is still very ill ; he broke his
private houses.
difficult to
Freyschiitz
seats.
We
The
we might
him
; it would have
been no easy matter to find another theatrical manager as
The
enthusiastic as he in the interests of German art.
dancer Antonini was here ; he asked a hundred louis a
Adam Miiller came also to
night, but it was refused him.
Madame WoltBerlin, and Houwald, the tragedy-maker.
collar-bone.
mann
tions.
is
feared
probably
The
still
bas-reliefs
here
for
she
the
lose
still
HEINE.
ri4
she
will
reappear upon
Caroline
stage
Juliette.
in
has
a
novel
the
form
of
letters,
brought out
Fouque'
wherein she writes the hero's letters, while those of the
to-morrow
the
Romeo and
in
The
lady are written by Prince Karl von Mecklenburg.
State-Chancellor is now convalescent; Dr. Rust attended
him.
Doctor Bopp, nominated Professor of Oriental
languages at the University, has given his first lecture in
Sanscrit to a numerous audience.
From time to time
Kon-versationsblatte
are
still
Goerre's
confiscated.
latest
his
sensation.
mann,
Hoffmann
in Frank! ii it, a
allusions.
Professor
is
now about
book
to publish with
said to contain
Gubitz
is
still
many
Will'
political
with
occupied
his
modern Greek
translations,
ettes for
Blum
has recently
Klagelieder der Griscken,
C. I*
which contain may passages of poetic beauty. The gathering of artists at the Academy was a very brilliant affair j the
proceeds have been devoted to charity. Walter, the court
actor from Carlsruhe, has just arrived, and will appear
in Staberle's Reiseabenteuer.
here in spring,
when
Madame Neumann
will return
Der
Julius
neue Markt.
His
be
next
week.
represented
comedy, Quintin Matsys,
Prinz von Hamburg, by Heinrich von Kleist, will not be
piece,
will
given.
The manuscript
11
"
We must
of news, this
stick to him.
He shaH supply Westphalia with news, and in
whatsoever he may be ignorant Westphalia does not require
Is
to
is
he not
Kammermusikus
full
luckless reed
"
" Midas the
King has asses' ears
!
IL
I
HAVE
my
chief concern.
But
it is as possible to
to eat soup without
salt.
One can speak in veiled words, as our journalists do.
If they allude to a great North-German power, every one
figures
it is
knows
it
is
curls
as
long as
who
casts
n6
HEINE.
this
let
is
like
a young
who
"Berlin
I
am
is
irritable.
some feminine
lies in
am
infidelity.
believe
that
The time
is
fully to twist
perpetually in
hours of the
that religious
tender
soul;
vanity has
my
past
now
believe
only in
the
Pythagorean
117
My
He was
here yesterday
the only man in whose society I was never bored; the
only one whose original witty sayings could fill me with
cheerful serenity; while in his gracious features I could see
mortals,
Eugen von B
left
once more
my
my
spondent.
who
Boucher,
the
truth
when he
calls
Berlin
the capital
of
Music.
During the whole winter here there has been a singing and
a ringing enough to deafen and blind one.
One concert
followed close on the other's heels.
And upon
Played
the platform
many an
indifferent
melody."
an excellent
no
violinist, young, healthy, good-looking, yet
protege of
the ladies.
An ominous rumour had preceded him that
he is in no wise dangerous to the fair sex. I will not weary
you with the enumeration of all the musical evenings which
have delighted or bored us this winter.
I will say only
Baillot's,
HEINE.
that at
Madame
was
hall
filled
to
will play
Have you
No ?
heard
yet
man
Luckless
parts of this
opera,
the
von Weber's
Maria
Freischiiiz ?
have heard
at
least,
you
Lied der Brautiungfern,
But,
more
or,
to
shortly, Jungfernktanz
If you go from the Halle Gate to the
you are
Oranienburg Gate, and from the Brandenburg Gate to
King's Gate; yes, even if you go from the Unterbaum to
the Kopnick Gate you hear eternally the same melody
express
it
that
daybreak
"
We bind
With
We
To
silk
by that song
game and
dance,
Chorus.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, green virgin-crown,
With silk of violet blue, of violet blue.
That
in my garden grew,
does the bridegroom tarry ?
I can scarcely wait for him.
Why
Chorus.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful," etc.
awake
in
ng
The
little
The
one
sweet words
pretty
sits
Can
"
Why does
I
"You
"I
girl,
worm
in indescribable tortures,
"
"
soul,
Help, Samiel
my
Der
Freischiitz
so
And
ill,"
lisped,
go
and watch the
gay
HEINE.
iao
the
first
Brandenburg Gate.
garten.
I advise
ill
assails
you
that
is,
in
such
walks on that
He
and disdains
is
show.
all
lives in the
country and
noble dames.
Officers,
splendidly
number.
What a
trunk there
is
fine,
On
this
Full
is
suite, is
our Alexandrine.
21
Dressed in a brown
reflected in the
me
of
my
accursed song.
when
I sit
It
down
singer Heinsius.
"violet-silk."
On
Even
happiest moments.
served as dessert by the
whole afternoon I am strangled with
embitters
to table
The
it
my
is
is
ground
it
in the streets.
my
she caresses
me and
fondles
me
till
she thinks
am
falling
HEINE.
122
Mad
"
with despair
I listen
I tear
and
is
"
" But
You understand me.
enough's as good as a feast
The whole of Der Freischutz is excellent, and certainly
deserves the interest with which it has been received all
Here it has already been given at least thirty
over Germany.
!
and
it
is
An
Anti-Spontini
Do not
strange to you.
expression
suppose that it is a sort of political party. The violent
strife between Liberals and Reactionaries, as we see it in
party?
I see the
is
123
have pictured
to yourself, by the spectacle of the present day, what in
the past must have been the war of the Gliickists and
the end of
Piccinists
last
in
Paris.
But
easily
I see I
explicitly
is
the
my
As
Daily one
articles,
Seidler
is
excellent.
Briefly,
it
is
is
exquisite,
Are these
late
results
Weber?
Or
maintain
that,
since
the
complete
separation
between
the
<
HEINE.
124
am
much
too
He is a
Spontini is the greatest of all living composers.
musical Michael Angelo.
He has opened new paths in
the realm of music.
He has fulfilled what Gliick only
He is a great man, he is a genius, he is a god
So speaks the Spontini party. And the walls of the palace
resound with such immoderate praise
You must
presaged.
know
it
is
is
especially enthusiastic
of
all
upon
of him.
is
not German.
style.
my
when
Olympia was
Were you
represented for the first time upon our stage.
not able to hear the music of this opera in Hamm ? There
were no lack of cymbals and trombones, so much so that
one wit made a proposal that the solidity of the walls of
all
Berlin
this
summer,
Spontini's
new
125
this opera.
A lesser
wit
"
drawing a long breath, Ah at last one can listen to
"
All Berlin sharpened its wits over the
quiet music
numbers of trombones and over the great elephant in the
cried,
The
trumpet
"
Shortly afterwards
Berlin; his Freischiitz
He
now
com-
HEINE.
126
Freischiifz,
this
opera,
its
great
triumph.
The
the deep-set,
sparkling dark eyes, the black curling hair which half covers
the lined forehead, the half-melancholy, half-disdainful
figure
curve of the
tall stature,
entire public.
connoisseurs to
whom
music
is
quite original.
between
virile face
their
It differs
physiognomies and
the joyous,
amiable,
may
127
amused me
The sprightly
extremely.
the
with
such
tale, developed by
gifted poet
grace and
I
child-like simplicity, charmed me.
delighted in the
myself, this opera
by the
the privy
latter
we
and
Koreff,
come
to talk,
prose.
in
the
same way
HEINE.
128
beat time to
it
In
all
probability.
among
of
How
in
the
ward
in civilisation,
their
dancing,
modes of speech,
asinity,
129
ladies.
there
circumstances
it
is
collisions
are
translation of Scott.
anything, be superior
woman, so deeply
in
reflect
and the
were personated in their characteristic cosThis fete and these figures were talked about
Scott's novels
tumes.
HEINE.
30
Sir
This
apron which reached to the middle of the thighs.
has
been
an
officer
in
the
English Hussars,
young man,
made much of here, and enjoys his reflected glory. Where
Where are the sons of our great
are the sons of Schiller ?
poets, who,
if
about
shirts?
Where
Hush, hush,
that's
all
likelihood
our greater
not to be talked
are
our nobles
Far be
it
from
me
to detract in
gentleman's character.
a silken coat.
Quite recently he
displayed the greatest magnanimity towards his art-loving
compatriots, who, wishing to erect in his honour a monument in the noble precincts of Frankfurt, had called
Goethe
is
a great
man
in
upon
with applause
'
Give
And
The
To
ear,
children,
raise
131
And
A monument
his
to self has
Goethe
raised.
You,
The
whom
great man, as
is
well
to all
such
use Frankfurt
to
the
same
religion.
His counter
desk is
warehouse is his
is
is
novelties;
first,
is
is
his creed.
the
new
at
this
point
mention two
modelled upon
to
hall of exchange,
that of
Sachenhauser
is
little
town
An
signifies,
untranslatable pun.
word
for
Bethmann
(the
name
of a rich banker)
HEINE.
32
of the Jews.
But I will pass over both in silence, for I
have never been in the new hall, and the Jews are much
be forced
to revert to them when I touch upon
cult, which
has arisen here in Berlin in particular. I cannot do so
as yet, for hitherto I have neglected to assist even once
Neither will I write
at the new Mosaic divine service.
the
new
Liturgy, which long since
anything concerning
was introduced into the Cathedral-Church, and is the
too sad a subject.
Eventually,
it is
true, I shall
their
principal
subject
otherwise
my
of town-talk
at
new
moment; because
The
size of a book.
the
man
This
fiery
darts,
indifference.
priest in order to
the
"Notice"
or the
himself,
Some
others
It is impossible not
Klindworth, others Buchholz, etc.
to perceive the hand of a diplomatist in this treatise.
It
is
said
that
Schleiermacher
is
at
work upon
re-
and
it
will
not be
mouths of
difficult
for
133
this
powerful
That the
his adversaries.
to the Dictionary
of
on the
articles
stein, Attrition,
the
names
out
Akkum,
March
first
instalment, from
1822),
and
to
pounced with
Bomz
avidity
that
Arndt,
Begasse,
character,
fights so valiantly in
France
for
As everywhere
HEINE.
134
poetic a
to
Germany
to rest
on these
laurels.
now decided
It is
Hamburg
oder der
produced on our
Der Prinz
certain
is
am
von
not to be
told, that a
an ancestor
is
is still an apple
For myself, I am persuaded that it is as though written by the Genius of Poetry
herself, and that it is of more worth than all those farces
and show-pieces, and all those poached eggs of Houwald,
which are daily dished up for us. Anne Holeyn, a tragedy
circles.
135
very
little
and
As
to our Hoff-
Could
to account.
Der floh
will,
is
Hoffmann
In
my
next letter
him.
summer.
The
jugglers
play their farces before the Brandenburg Gate got into
Blondin is here,
difficulties, and have long since left.
who
and
will
marionettes dance.
studied theology.
Tt
He
HEINE.
136
much more
it
tricks.
He
is
glare
fifty
figure in the
spoke yesterday in the Cafe* Royal to the KammerHe imparted an amount of small news to me,
of which I have remembered only the smallest portion.
Understand that most of it concerns musical Chroniques
scandaleuses.
On the 2oth there will be an examination
at Doctor Stopel's, who teaches the piano and thoroughI
musikus.
whom
The
last-named,
who has
just journeyed
to
Prague, has
recently
und
Licht
137
von Berlin
Schaltenseiten
many
The manufacturer
invented a
Fritsche has
Many
candle.
coupons.
The banking
firm of L. Lipke
The new
here.
Berlin
&
to
an end
in
may be
Professor Bopp,
prepared for printing.
on Sanscrit are always a great success, is
now writing a great work upon comparative philology.
About thirty students, among whom were many Poles,
have been arrested on account of the democratic disturbances.
Schadow has finished the model of a statue of
that
it
whose
lectures
The death
of young Schadow, in
is
Italy in
May.
Kolbe
is
at
model of a statue of
Faith,
which
is
to stand in
well as the
now
one
Rauch
finished
statue
of Scharnhorst,
will
be
HEINE.
138
vinces
will, it
is
said,
be the
last to
be
called.
It is
not
been adjusted; there is even a possibility of our ambassador at the Court of Cassel being recalled.
A fresh Saxon
Graf
has
been
ambassador,
Lobran,
recalled; a
definitely
new Portuguese ambassador is daily expected. Our Prussian
ambassador at the Court of Portugal, Graf von Flemming,
the
nephew of the
still
here.
of the Swedish
much
discussed.
of our Crown
Nothing further
Prince with
is
German
princess.
Great
of
the
for the
Princess
two elephants
will appear.
The
in
Caschemir, in which
ministerial assemblies
do
Our
be pub-
comedy
The
lished.
librarian Spieker
The
now
Lalla Rookh.
is
is
who was
giant
be seen
to
Devrient
at the Pauseninsel.
Konigstrasse
convalescent
quite
Boucher and
yet.
139
wife
his
in
the
is
not
are at
The new
operas of
Karl Maria von Weber are entitled Euryanthe, with text
by Helmine von Chezy, and Die Beiden Pinio's, the text
by Hofrath Winkler. Bernhard Romberg is here.
concerts in Vienna.
present giving
Ah
heavens
Berlin,
in
because, though
it
How,
vinces.
first
it
is
and scrappy
it
interesting
in
the pro-
Diilmen
in
if
in duelis,
sist
taken at
It is
No
upon men
notices
write
of
whom no
lieutenant conflesh,
Why,
or of twoin
short,
notice should
be
all ?
easy to guess
special
etc.
description
is
all
ments.
Social
life is
into shreds.
HEINE.
140
grouped one
numerous
composed
solely of coteries.
circles,
contract
the
its
diplomatic
chants,
officers,
body,
etc.,
The
All
and the
commercial
civilians,
etc.
court
give
their
ministers,
men,
own
mer-
balls,
at
are
transinflux
of guests.
All the balls of the upper class strive with more
or less success to resemble the court balls or the princely
balls.
has
now adopted
nearly
or,
in
on
mosaic-like
utmost to
young lady
and
bedizened
garments,
patched
a distinguished bearing at
in a show, their
marionettes
balls;
pathetic, pitiful faces form a sharp contrast with the stiff
court costume in which they are attired.
strain
these
their
so that,
affect
like
There is one kind of ball which, for some time past, has
been open to all classes ; namely, the subscription ball, or
what is jokingly nick-named the unmasked masquerade.
It is
The
141
I cannot sufficiently
; indeed,
these letters to you on account of their insight.
This year the subscription balls were not as brilliant as last
charm of novelty. In comyear's, when they still had the
ties in
recommend
of the
pensation, the balls given by the great functionaries
State were especially brilliant this winter.
dwelling
of
mansions
a
number
of
is
surrounded by
princes
My
of whips.
As in all great Protestant towns, Christmastide
One
plays the chief part in the great winter comedies.
flit
like butterflies
and show
their taste
is
and themselves
But
it is
in the
at the
evening
aunt, brothers,
stall
to another, as
These dear
folks
though to the
pay their two
HEINE.
T42
groschen for
entrance
well-known personage.
I
wandered through
how
bosoms
"
he who,
it
is
is
The
perfectly at liberty to beat a retreat.
balls at the Opera-house are splendid and on a grand scale.
bored to death,
is
On
compendiums
they attract
143
and confuse the eyes of the onlooker, and pour their dazzling
shimmer on the brilliantly coloured, glittering throngs, as
they dance and hop and crowd together on the swaying
floor, till the sounds of the music are almost overpowered.
On these occasions every one must wear a mask, and no
one is allowed to uncover in the great hall. Indeed, I know
no place where this would be permitted.
Only in the
and
second
tier
of
and
in
the
first
corridors,
boxes, may
mask be removed.
the
crowd of femmes
too,"
is
the answer.
"
know
thee,
my
fine
masquer-
Each
HEINE.
144
one wishes
Mankind
masking
simple only at a
masque ball, where the waxen mask covers the usual mask
of flesh, where the simple " thou " re-establishes the
familiarity of primitive societies, where a domino hides all
is
necessary.
is
of the mask.
To me
When
enjoyment.
highest
trumpets
blare,
and the
the
is
cymbals
always of the
crash and the
and
violins
dance and run, and joke, and nod to every one, and laugh
and chatter whatever comes into my head. I was particujoyous at the
larly
on
my
my
head.
path I
Love
last ball
but to-day
God
" Thou
I will kiss
is
you
right cordially."
love, therefore
God
is
the
art beautiful
thou art charmpurest joyousness
Thou
art
of
heart
I
the
adore thee, my
ing
delight
my
These were the words that my lips repeated
pretty one."
!
the
brother,
love
145
Germany and
I love
III.
HAVE
just
with
His Royal Highness
Duke
of
Grand
hereditary
Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Princess
Alexandrine
the
facts.
It
was certainly
positively
I
alone in
this
opinion.
On
10
HEINE.
146
streets
carriages was
I
am
first
heard.
official,
nor an
officer,
equipages
liveries,
in
and
breeches
one
place.
The
servants
who had
admit-
many
beautiful
had on
their best
brightest coloured coats and kneewhite stockings they looked like Dutch
in their
with
North America.
But the coachman of the Duke of Cumberland carried
the prize.
oft
coachmen perched
But
of
half
a
he
wore
crimson
frockclothes,
consisting
to-day
coat, half an overcoat, and breeches of the same colour, all
His noble head, powdered
embroidered with gold facings.
management of
his horses.
14?
There was a
frightful crush of
It
The
court faces.
Berlin
women who
first
stood near
me
were
HEINE.
148
over there
mouth
cypress-like
figure,
hyacinth
her
locks,
a rose
home
He
to-day.
lies
upon the
sofa,
and
talking,
and
me
my
lips
little
tongue.
"The
a thin head
full
As a
who
the big
man
with the
my
The
barber,
his
who
new
became red
as a cherry, and
"
he ground his teeth:
O Saint Marat! so that lout wishes
to play the hero of Liberty!
O Danton, Callot d'Herbois,
fashion
musician's face
Robespierre!"
Burg,
hummed
the song,
149
"
Eine
feste
made
matters
worse.
plunged
The man
and chattered
of nothing but guillotines, of lanternes, of the Septemberbreaking of prisons; until by good luck I remembered his
" Do
ridiculous fear of powder, and I said to him,
you know
that twelve cannons will be fired off directly in the pleasure"
I had scarcely spoken these words when every
garden ?
trace of the musician had disappeared.
in
position,
to
princely bridal
be
pair
fired
off the
moment
in
which the
An
officer
One could
gathered.
with
that
members
The
the
poorest bourgeois
uses other expressions
our Alexandrine, our Prince Charles,
life
the
the
particular charade:
note
new
traits
HEINE.
150
name
You
tradictory emotions
have married
her,
it
is
but she
true,
"
me now
The face of my young neighbour
" As Duchess of
the
Mecklenburg, she
expressed
thought,
certainly does not rank so high as when she was queen of
is
all
lost to
"
our hearts !
" Ah would
read,
Suddenly
the
On
"
ladies
On
the morning following the nuptial benediction the newlymarried highnesses assisted at the service in the Cathedral
the gold coach with great glass
windows, drawn by eight horses, and were well stared at
If I mistake not, the
by an immense crowd of people.
Church.
They drove
in
On
151
composed
for
this
Spontini's
opera,
Nurmahal
festival,
difficulty in
One was
evening.
to
especially
I ought
given to me, but I did not go.
in order to describe it to you?
But do you
have gone
particular reasons, I
whence
emerged with
the
however, to
sort
point in
it
He
was.
it
is
limbs bruised.
my
went,
Kammermusikus,
an opera
of
all
"The
answered me,
no gunshots."
best
Nevertheless,
own
secondly,
Nurmahal
joyous acclamations.
spoken
It
of.
inserted in
it
is
is
no masterpiece.
certainly
extracts from his old operas, with the
many
is
said to
The splendour
be unprecedented.
have surpassed themselves.
theatrical tailor
in
this
com-
The
theatre-
must be good.
No
it.
The
new
opera,
and observed,
HEINE.
153
with Shakespearian
at
Magdeburg."
sorrow that
it
"These elephants
wit,
If the
am
my
Magdeburger
second letter, I deplore with
I
still
are doubtless
withdraw
it,
heartfelt
am
that I
in
the Rosenfest.
camels, and
still
Later,
later
balls in
my
former
letter.
The
only
no black dominoes
This
in
last
my
gratis.
I carry
stomach under the forms of the most perfect convenOtherwise, I might have conceived an unfavourable
opinion of these people when I saw at this free ball how
they pressed six deep round the Buffet, poured glass after
glass down their throat, crammed their stomachs with
cakes, and with so disgraceful a voracity, so heroic a
his
tion.
153
it
part, old
adhered to dates
letter
with
about for two whole days, and that is saying a great deal.
Everywhere anecdotes of Heim's life were repeated; some
are very diverting.
The most comical, in my opinion, is
that of the way in which he mystified his coachman, who
to cure people.
Many
took place about the same time, and, at Jagor, there was a
As
constant popping of the corks of champagne bottles.
Unschuldsgasse
crowned with
had
lilies
one
is
celebrated
and
roses;
her
jubilee.
She
sentimental
was
sword-
the
HEINE,
iS4
style
poetry,
which
in
love,
dove,
sang
"
What mean
You
my
side,
etc.
see,
sung.
in the circles of
certainly,
it
Not,
was long
still
little
on
their
bosom, heave a
They
songs.
and
lay
a hand
tremendous sigh of
say,
"
am
German
maiden."
I perceive,
me somewhat
cannot
do
otherwise.
My
soul
glows
too
Freedom
In my soul,
their ash-grey insignificance.
of Germany, and the reverence for German
magnificence, is too keen for me to chime in with the
the
in
love
who coquet
155
which surround
their heads, to pull the skin off the lion himself, because I
suspect an ass is concealed beneath it.
The
Again, I will say very little anent the theatre.
comic actor Walter has met with success here; but for my
own
part his
humour
is
not to
my
lies
taste.
On
the other
was perfectly enchanted with Lebrun from Hamburg, who, a short time ago, played some first parts here.
He is our best German comic actor, unsurpassed in jovial
hand, I
career,
is
fortunate that I
am
Circe
happy.
beautiful
platonic
woman
feels
comedy
entitled Kabeljau
und
Hiebe.
The
HEINE.
i $6
of
all
these men,
at his door-bell
and
had
does not
The
live here."
beautiful
woman
I
small iron medallions stamped with her effigy are sold.
tell you, the enthusiasm over Madame Neumann rages here
like
a murrain.
While
under the
ears the words
vividly than
Many
medical
so
much
seized with
men
also pay
so that she
woman,
the Venus of Medicine.
is
But
The
critical article
26,
'
all lovers of joyousThis piece has pleased many people, indeed everything that comes from the pen of this autlior receives
ness.
157
platze.
for it, has
.
is
same time as a master in the art of drawing. This versatility combines everything that is necessary for such ..a
But it is doubted if he will accept it, for the
directorship.
editorship of the Gesellschafter, to which he devotes himself
heart and soul, fully occupies his time.
This journal has a
large circulation
it is
Gubitz edits
it
and decency he is
Yet do not suppose him to be a
on
life,
frank, full of
so
marked a
We
itself
characteristic of his
poems.
have
who has
HEINE.
158
amazed
from
am
me and
ladies.
would not have taken refuge on the Hundebruckc; the beautiful maiden Fortuna has long since given
me so large an iron basket that I would scarcely be able to
Yet even then
fill it
with
all
all
the Spree.
,
kind
is
to
to inform
quarters.
and much
be seen
rare
you that
it
Columbus landing
is
59
in
how
Wilhelmstrasse
whereby
apace.
The
The form
is
is
to
be
scene
foundation-stone of
lengthened,
Lindens,
proceeds
of
new
magnificent arcades.
bridge has also been
laid.
is
absolute silence.
The
capital of music does the same as other capitals ; it consumes what is produced in the provinces. With the excep-
tion of the
the judgment of
all
me
unspeakable pleasure to
He
the youngest
in
my
has already
highest expectations.
connoisseurs.
that
are
things
praised by
ments by him
with great
will
success
composed many
Song-accompani-
met
and have been much sung in
the
HEINE.
160
society.
originality,
spc.ik
straight to the
heart;
He
way
to Italy.
of
Poststrasse,
wild
Kreuser's
very
well-written
pamphlet
first
Thereafter
came many
The most
important of
many
years.
am
sincerely as the
opinion
Berlinese, though
concerning
the
trial.
do not share
propos,
their
have heard
Those who
161
humpbacked
especially,
that
worth nothing.
legal
"What
"
the matter be
handed over
to
me;
my
I light
pipe, read
I,
man who
has studied,
Fries's course
men
own
import-
And
ance, because so much depends upon his yes or no !
the worst of all is this Code Napoleon, this bad statute-book
which does not allow one even to box a servant's ears "
!
But
He
mode
of administrat-
and would
here,
ing justice.
People resent
willingly free
the Rheinlanders from these " Fetters of French tyranny,"
as the immortal Justus Gruner
God save his soul one
it
May
still
!
ii
HEINE.
62
There
no
University news,
except that thirty-two students have been expelled on
account of the resumption of prohibited associations. It
is a fatal thing to be
expelled ; the reprimand alone is in
proselytisers
is
hope
this severe
sentence
I have no wish to
against the thirty-two will be mitigated.
defend these associations at the University ; they are the
remains
of
that
ancient
system which I
But I understand that
corporation
consequences of our
academical order, or rather disorder, which in all probability
not disappear until the charming and popular Oxonian
stall-and-forage system be introduced for our students.
will
About
here,
The most
ment
announced that Louis Tieck will soon come here, to
some lectures on Shakespeare. The 3ist of last month
It is
give
was the birthday of the princely State Chancellor. A deputation from Hesse is expected to settle our differences with
Hesse concerning the violation of territorial rights. A commission has been sent to Pomerania to make inquiries into
the various religious sects there.
The wool-market has
already commenced, and a good many landed proprietors
are here
who
sale,
The
Even the
streets
163
have awaked
is
now
to
now
At
this
moment
had
their
A steam
new
baggage
machine
bridge.
news, notwithIn
the central market of literature.
there
is
very
little literary
behindhand.
Thus
stir.
it
Von
who
An
possess wealth
signifies those
who possess
wool.
HEINE.
64
man
One
also
obscurity
Of
its
165
still
would
my
sweet-
who
who
has
run
hounds,
through
vigorous, lusty Venetian,
is
chased by a
all countries,
full
pack of
who comes
in
all
it
cannot be
new novel
entitled
Du
Verfolgle.
It
is
Of
of good poems.
We may expect some
good things in autumn, however.
Kochy (he is not a
who
us
some
time
Berlinese),
gave
ago a very ample work
upon the stage, is about to publish a volume of poems;
lack; the lack
is
highest expectations. They are instinct with pure sentiment, rare tenderness, a depth of feeling untroubled by any
bitterness
in a word, with true poetry.
Neither is there a
superabundance of dramatic
tation of the
young poet,
written several dramas that have been praised to
skies by connoisseurs.
One of these, Der Heilige
who has
the
talent; but I
Von
HEINE.
66
read from
much
it
discussed novel.
a single line
The title of the
that referred to
book
of
first
demagogic disturbances.
seemed to me very embarrassing; the mention
it
and
it
at
it
in society
(" Intercourse with Men ") (part iii. chap, ix., upon the way
to live with animals; chapter x. treats of intercourse with
citation profects
Hoffmann
I call to
mind
Mephistopheles
" There was once a
king
Who
had a big
flea."
however,
is
not a
flea,
but a
man
in a state of semi-
across
the Lord
of the Fleas, and carries on with him very diverting disThis last-named Master Flea is a really clever
courses.
fellow,
little
it
his thin
He
is
is said,
is
167
Zeherith,
in
Famagusta; he
is
is
in love
the Princess
The
contrast
with ordinary life, which the Indian myth thus forms in this
book, is not so piquant as in Goldene Topf (Golden Pot)
all
that the
gone mad
do nothing more
collected under the
devilish.
title
The
short stories,
of Serapion Bruder,
which are
HEINE.
68
Direktor
delicious creature,
and
there be a
if
it
is
because that
in a very burlesque
is
world of sentiment,
The
woman, who,
after
frightful
who recommence
but with-
In
my
easily
169
Regardless as to whether he be
rich through honorariums or whether he shall be poor, he
travels mute and self-centred; he observes the customs, the
passions, the
real
life,
times
sinister
(Fielding).
even
in his novels,
in
(Smollett),
true
titleless
he may
be.
and
by that
and
same, because it
But the poor
honorariums; he seldom has any private means, and therefore has no money wherewith to travel, or, at best, travels
late in
He
life,
title
middle
classes.
certain style.
him
to frequent the
shuts
the good
and bad
HEINE.
170
alike,
poetry
and in Germany,
Mysterious shades and spectres take
crowed
twice,
day is breaking.
flight to remote monasteries, to castles, to Hanseatic towns,
to all such remaining haunts of the Middle Ages.
The sunrub
our
we
the
cheerful
rays glisten;
eyes,
light penetrates
Reawakened life stirs around us, we are
into our heart.
amazed, and we ask of one another, "What did you do to
also,
"
our
German
fashion;
Not, indeed, over the
philosophised.
truth of things which touched us most closely, or which
would be highly expedient for us at the time; but we
that
is
to say,
we
philosophised over the reality of things in and for themselves, over the ultimate reason of things, and similar
Therein at
metaphysical and transcendental dreams.
times we were disturbed by the horrible uproar made by
our western neighbours, a highly inconvenient noise, for
not unseldom the French musket balls whistled through
our philosophical system and carried away whole strips of
the practical action of our neighbours on the further side of the Rhine has nevertheless a
It is singular that
it
on the Nobles."
is
entitled
introduction to
"
Kahldorf
HEINE.
172
it
dream
in their stead;
everything
that
could
not
pass
the
standard
of
that
From beneath
his steps
trembled
mysterious
spared by Kant's guillotine, or
that since then had blossomed forth unnoticed.
The
flowers
the
Then,
in the
new
and
of
idea:
mysticism,
pietism,
Jesuitism,
legitimacy,
self
173
he
is
creatures.
Now
that
we have
of philosophy,
it is
we observe a
questions cause
similar
heart
aught precious
to
were
to
it
apprehensively,
revolution, or one wet with blood?"
Aristocrats
ghastly
and
pictures
priests
ot
the
deceive,
was so
terrible
humane and
or
that of July
was so
Germany
first
revolutionary
existed, undeniably,
only
among
middle
an already formulated
classes.
outbreak
in France,
there
civilisation;
but
in the
noble endeavour.
among
Political culture
among
the privileged.
HEINE.
174
little
manoeuvres
heart,
court-etiquette,
in his sorrow,
that
"The whole
Rousseau, with a
had upraised
Voltaire, the
mad
life
sudden
lightning,
blood.
If,
had
175
and by every
is
speech of the
Demagogue of
all
its
That, precisely,
robs the bold
it
charm of
novelty, it
neutralises the passionate word by a counter-word as passionate, it strangles in their birth lying rumours sown by chance
in the bright
of the sun
people,
it
is
is
who does
The Censure
But
true.
it
is
is
much
none the
and
appreciated by the
less true that the
Censure, in lending
its
destroying
wherever the guillotining of ideas takes place, there the
censorship of men is introduced, so that the very slave who
itself,
HEINE.
176
kills
ideas
Alas
us
all
is
these
and the
spiritual
executioners
he
writer, while
make
of
criminals
and in this
pregnant woman,
condition very often commits child-murder of his thought,
precisely from a mad anxiety before the judgment knife of
in a state of grave excitement,
the Censor.
At
moment
this
reflections,
which
upon
myself
stifle
the patience
my
three heroic days slavery lay on the ground with its red
sergeants and its white lilies, and the holy tricolour, gleaming
Tower
of
177
the
it
he owed
this
suppress.
Thus the
delicious perfumes
injured its bark.
its
and
political culture of
depends primarily on
liberty of the press; how it should be our most
urgent wish that, by its means, a great flood of light be
spread abroad before the hour cometh wherein darkness
shall be more pernicious than passion, wherein opinions
and ideas shall work with more disastrous potency upon
the
words.
Civil equality, in
the
first
Germany
as in France, might
if
now be
Friends of the
HEINE.
178
the debate
On
the Nobility, to
dis-
regis,
Hamburg, 1830."
As a matter of
noble
seated
The
his
champion,
upon
tourney-horse, lustily
defends the ignoble saying of the Middle Ages, that noble
breeding produces better blood than burgher breeding; he
pleads for privileges of birth, for the right of nobles to
occupy the lucrative posts at Court, in the army, and
ambassadorial posts, as lawful recompense for the trouble
until
the field of
combat
is
strewn
more
to relate of
of swords, and
It is
him save
made good
179
blades.
me
to say that I
am
not the
and hereditary
the pretensions
lies
of the nobles.
impetuous
best friend,
who paced
with
count, my
the terrace of
we
superiority of
his domestic
me up and down
demonstrate to me the
a castle, sought to
noble blood.
While
committed some
How
little
were
slight fault,
disputing,
forth.
terrace steps.
comparison halted.
No less lame is an analogous comparison used by Count
von Moltke. In order to give an example of his manner
I will quote his own words:
"The
attempt to abolish the nobility, in whom transitory esteem incarnates itself in enduring form, would isolate
man, would raise him to an unsteady height void of the
necessary ties between him and the subordinate masses,
would surround him with instruments of his own caprice,
HEINE.
i8o
The high-minded
whole
life
was
it
was on
his
not
part
mere
virtue of a statesman.
first
or a fool ?
we
shall refrain as
much
to this comparison;
to certain well-known
capitalists
to
raise
might occur
themselves up
181
But here
aspect of the
practical
be discussed
an appropriate manner.
in
macy;
its
aim
is
to
is
central
subject
in
the
the
institution
ot
not
in
cracy, or
Since the
HEINE.
82
The
all
by reason
privileges
possessions, became the standardbearer of European aristocracy, and John Bull paid for
this post of honour with his best guineas, and was
of
and
its
also held
become
incarnate,
Revolution
is
vidual,
new
struggle.
The
English Bull
less
make headway
i3
against the
A radical
limbs.
for
is
But
and such-like
luxuries.
But the
Chamber
of Peers
is
In its
time will be done away with.
Strange revolution
distress the nobility turns to that state which till quite
!
enemy to her
who formerly
masque
HEINE.
1 84
bearer,
and he
is
importuned to become
its
champion.
liberty
ideas of a con-
fact,
with
all
precisely
his
know how
aristocracy
free and frank France.
his
Freedom
185
I write this,
little
German
maw.
grandmother's foolish
Therefore we must hold ourfill
selves prepared in
we are the
and
that
Korner's
Fatherland;
King,
Lyre and Sword shall again be imposed upon us, that to it
Fouque' will add some new battle verses; that Gorres will
again be bought by the Jesuits to continue the Rhine
ologists of Berlin pretend that again, as in 1815,
Saviours of God,
the State
as, for
example,
an
merely
exception; and if his very exalted colleagues do not put an end
to his bloody scandal, as they could easily do, it is
merely
so that
Don Miguel
he
is
HEINE.
86
them the more. Yet a good constitution has its good side,
and it must not be taken amiss if even from the best of
monarchs the people beg a written word concerning matters
of life and death.
A wise father acts very reasonably when
he builds a few salutary barriers before the precipices of
sovereign power, so that no misfortune may befall his
children if they one day gallop too daringly on the high
horse of pride in
I
youths.
for
know
nobles,
perilous jumps.
pacific burgherly
Saint
Hubert
companions.
I also
tale.
1831.
i8 7
JUNE DAYS.
r
THE
funeral
^opposition
of General Lamarque,
procession
as the Philippists
has
say,
la Bastille.
just
un convoi
left
the
in
file.
Among
most
nevertheless
When
and suggestive.
was rumoured yesterday in the Tuileries that the
Duchesse de Berry had been arrested at Nantes. If this
able
It
HEINE.
88
be the case, Louis Philippe will be placed in great embarrassment, for he cannot deliver up to justice the niece
of the Queen who has greatly importuned him ; while he
dare not arouse any suspicion of being in amicable relationship with his family at Holyrood. As to Marshal Bourmont,
it
is
gloriously,
and
less respected.
DO not remember
if I
mentioned
in
my
last
letter that
difficult to
is
terrible
still
outbreak.
commencement of
hostilities,
When
by most trustworthy authority.
Lafayette, whose presence in the procession had everywhere excited the greatest enthusiasm, had finished his
discourse on the Place du Pont d'Austerlitz, where the
funeral ceremonies were solemnised, a crown of immortelles
was placed on his head. At the same moment a Phrygian
cap was hoisted above a red flag which had already attracted much notice, and a scholar of the Polytechnic
School raised himself on the shoulders of his neighbours,
brandished his naked sword over the red cap, and shouted
" Vive la Liberte" "
" Vive
or, according to other reports,
many
quarters
la Re'publique
"
JUNE
DAYS.
189
opposition
arms
in
This
much
is
offered
certain,
that
when
their
their
old
and
faithful
friend
A
through the Boulevards amid tremendous applause.
number of workmen had torn young trees up by the roots,
and ran with them like savages beside the carriage, which
every instant seemed in danger of being overturned by the
It is said that two shots were fired at
disorderly rabble.
the cair'age. I can, however, find no circumstantial account
of this singular incident.
Towards
had spread to the Porte St. Denis, where the people had
thrown up barricades.
Many important posts were carried;
HEINE.
i 9o
who had occupied them defended themselves feebly, and ultimately gave up their arms.
Thus the
de Notre
The
Place
numerous
people gained
weapons.
the National Guards,
Dame
the
fighting;
Bank.
des Victoires
When
that all the shops were closed, I saw few people, and almost
no women, who, even in serious riots, are wont fearlessly
there;
ordnance
in the distance,
all
women, during
last night,
the
Republicans,
matter
is
people say.
very
the
the
"The blow
decided.
quarters.
the Place de
la
in
The
Citizen-King
is
surrounded
by
citizen
cannons
JUNE
"where could he
fare
DAYS.
better than in
191
the
bosom of
his
family?"
now
This is
four o'clock, and the rain falls heavily.
very unfavourable for the "patriots," who, for the most part,
have barricaded themselves in the Quartier St. Martin, and
It is
left
As
live
my
in
St.
heart.
It is
consequences.
PARIS,
As
Patriots
dawned
"
in
Bourse smiled.
rose ten sous.
'
HEINE.
192
am
it would be
This
whole
truth.
extremely
spot is, in fact, one of the largest and most populous
streets of Paris, the Rue St. Martin, which begins at the
gate of the same name on the Boulevard and continues to
the Seine at the bridge of Notre Dame.
At both ends of
to
ascertain
convinced that
the
fifty.
The number
There
tained.
is
is
more
being
easily ascer-
Add
Republique,"
Had
the people.
yet, to-day,
publican
know
my
throat,
because I do
not
admire
JUNE
DAYS.
193
I,
and
all
my fellow-moderates, had
died
The
There was scant light in the streets, because nearly all the
shops remained shut, as they had been throughout the day.
To-day, there is everywhere the usual bright animation; so
much so that one would think nothing had happened.
Even in the Rue St. Martin the shops are all open. Alvery difficult to pass along on account of the
torn-up pavements and the remains of barricades, yet an
immense mass of people streamed from curiosity through
though
it is
that very long and rather narrow street, with its unusually high
The shock of the cannons has broken all the
houses.
Lectert,
little
Many
13
HEINE.
i 94
St.
A young woman
to
whom
her grandfather.
" Till
then we had lived so contentedly; but when he saw
the red flag, and heard the cry of ' Vive la Re"publique,' he
He
La Montagne,
of Liberty
reawoke, and he wanted once again to dream the dream of
the
memory
of his
first
love
his
youth
its
good
la
Vendome, a
whom
they
etc., etc.
tailor
now
This
who ventured
own
wife.
This
IT appears that
and black
at
it
JUNE DA YS.
195
who
followed the
flag,
these took
flag,
asked
golden
flag,
that the
for several
For myself,
many
do not believe
black ravens
still flutter
it
will
made use
It is now a question
namely, the journalists.
whether "good- will" is backed by requisite force.
The
astounding victory of the National Guards who took part
ment
are hated
HEINE.
ia6
'
as popular as necessity
King
"
shouted, when
tall
itself.
Yes, I heard
"
Long
live the
fact;
The
my Germany.
is
moment
is
Just as formerly,
odious;
when the cholera raged here, one's alarm was increased
by an exaggerated death-roll, so now one is alarmed when
it
The
nowise dejected.
mous power
above law
reason,
it
sees in
its
own
hands.
It
"He who
has raised
itself
said with
good
is
JUNE DA YS.
of the
law."
The
reason
197
of Liberty condone present violent measures is that democratic royalty must of necessity strengthen itself from within
in order afterwards to act
was quiet
The rumour, which even
the
most
yesterday evening
trustworthy people were spreading abroad of numerous fusillades, has been satisfactorily
YESTERDAY
Paris
his
own
eyes; yester-
It is said
garments, accompanied by lamenting relatives.
that each one will be at once taken before a Council of War
all
directions groups of
men
at Vincennes.
many
Rue
the
The
HEINE.
98
itself feels
It
power.
hand wherewith
strong
wound
to wield
At the
it.
least stroke
it
fears to
itself.
This
Empire.
who
man
ministerial councils,
is
still
desire of the
at the
head of the
now,
is
and
in
fact,
his colleagues
the juste-milieu at
in
its
hands, and
asked of
it.
In
its
own
will
its
desperation
commit
But
it is
in
it
will
it
will
perhaps sacrifice a
order to alarm
it is
may do when
hemmed round
JUNE DAYS.
199
and Holland.
liberty
on paper.
post to-day (Sunday) goes at midday, therefore I
can tell you nothing of to-day's events
I must refer
to
is
the
Their
tone
more
you
papers.
portentous than
the things they say.
without
a doubt
Moreover, they are
Since early morning there has been a
again filled with lies.
press
is
sanctioned
The
My
servant
tells
me
It is
and
in particular
stretch,
him; he
will
be much touched; he
police will
for
not
fail
will
shake
many
On
HEINE.
200
how
the king
would look and how he would be received after such extraTowards one o'clock his Majesty, with
ordinary events.
his staff-general, drew near the Porte St. Denis, where I had
placed myself on an over-turned milestone in order better to
The king
observe.
right side, where the National Guards were ranged, and all
along the route he bent sideways from his horse in order
in
if,
consequence of
care.
The
sight of the
man
filled
me
much
he
suffers
The
ribs.
extra-
He
had,
fat friend-
sadness and
with deep
pity.
He
is
low upon
his forehead
happiness.
will
and
for
With
gave him an additional look of unhe seemed to beg both for good-
his eyes
pardoa
to perinto a
JUNE DA YS.
I
201
me when
seized
bitterness
Buonaparte
immovable
past with
eyes,
and
"
feeling of
this
in the ribs
his
often saw
marble
inaccessible
"
Napoleon
Caesar
face,
his
hands.
it
hours longer.
The different corps shouted a continual
exchange of compliments as they marched past one another.
"
Long
live
Line
the
"
"
"
They
Long live the National Guard
fraternised.
Here and there National Guards and soldiers
of the line were seen linked symbolically arm in arm; and,
as a similar symbolical act, they divided between them their
answered by
sausages,
disorder.
I must,
of " Vive
bread,
and wine.
slightest
full
breasts of
That
is
it
HEINE.
202
observe their Louis Philippe attentively, to assure themthat he is still the submissive courtier of their
selves
sovereign
to them.
that he
will,
Thus
it
still
may
well
PARIS,
THE
great
The
yesterday.
June
i2th.
topic of conversation
moderates see therein a satisfactory under-
do not
trust
citizens.
Many
discreet
ing bond; they predict a tussle between the king and the
citizens, and this may easily take place the moment the
of the
interests
To-day,
it
is
true,
those
of
the
shop.
they reciprocally support one another;
king and
The
observed.
that they
protested by
all
that
is
Louis Philippe
holy that this would never happen,
his power.
and
Equality:
many
place
confidence
in
his
words.
JUNE DA YS.
Impartiality compels
stances.
me
Yes, I confess,
somewhat
to
203
make mention
my
of these circum-
mollified.
The
It
because thus
has committed
it
The National
a degree;
it
is
in the
same
to be completely silent,
more than any other.
itself
plight,
and
freely.
loudest
Government.
M.
sought
and
it
Sarrut
is
under
for.
is
when
Yes,
exceptional tribunals were instituted.
that
M.
Thiers
was
it be true, as it is now pretended,
the author of this stroke of genius, he must certainly have
of
the
if
HEINE.
204
punishes
its
full
already
and the laudatory verses of Viennet, must certainly have
been completely deafened when the thunder of the cannons
him
It
men
is,
and
all
these
that
revolution because
another.
and
home-taking of Lafayette.
me
well-informed
man
assured
JUNE DA YS.
205
had given the police orders, in case of any insurrectionary outbreak, at once to seize hold of Lafayette so
that he should not fall into the hands of the insurgents
and strengthen them through the authority of his name.
also
Therefore,
when the
first
some agents
of
that
if,
on June
harmed
them
Republican party took part in it, and that the blood shed has
gained for them many new auxiliaries. What I have said
above seems in some degree to confirm this statement. The
party that represents the National, and is accused by the
perfidious Gazette de France as Republican doctrinaires, took
no share in these disturbances; neither did the chiefs of the
party of the Tribune, the Montagnards,
the matter.
mix themselves
in
PARIS, June
PRESUMABLY, the most singular ideas of our present situaby outsiders and foreigners, when they
still
HEINE.
ao6
The
air.
People laugh, mock, and
over
the
State
of
jokes
Siege, over the bravery of the
National Guards, over the wisdom of the Government.
make
heroism
lous.
and they succeed only in making themselves ridicuThey wish to be tyrants, whereas nature has designed
them
laws,
The groups
seriousness;
sick
beds, everything is
gun or a powder flask.
new permits of
all
at the
Prefecture of the
by the
JUNE DA YS.
207
of Louis Philippe.
Many have preferred to quit the town,
rather than give their signature.
Others signed after having
precautionary
measures, after
German
The most heterogeneous persons
the
pattern
of the
universities.
arrested,
some
Don
overflowing.
friends,
who
is
is
writing a great
work
researches.
of the Place de la
that
is
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than ever.
This
is
why
the threat of
THE
M. de
read
it
this
does
do not
proclamation better.
much
for the
Government
JUNE DAYS.
209
It
new
ministry in
game.
No
who
He
is
reported to be
ill
and
man, who
and jokes
Pope
infallibility;
of those unbelievers
he
is
thus, to a
whose luckless
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210
cause.
The
following
is
the
M. Dupin had
whom
When
latter
the king
became so
with
number of
this
event.
as
soon
M. Dupin
debates,
is
as the
many
Chamber recommences its
For he alone
jvste-milieu.
opposition in parliament, and, undoubtedly, the
itself will
Thus
be
far
Government
Prime Minister.
JUNE
DAYS.
2ii
whom
of
to him,
almost nothing
He now
very remarkable.
is
he
is
man
to
whom
itself
to
well that
it is
so.
reflects that
State of Siege
power.
who had
and there
is
cellars are
The
king,
who
down, great
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212
house
tragic
much
PARIS, July
4th of June passed tranquilly, without any symptoms
of the expected riot, announced by the police.
It was,
THE
however, an excessively hot day ; so suffocating an atmosphere lay over the whole of Paris, that the pronunciamento
did not attract the usual
number of
that spot.
A principal
riots.
was proposed
for
Lafayette.
after
traitor;
JUNE DAYS.
are traitors
And
it,
a 13
For
made
the reflection
in
this
excessive
my own
heat,
that
part
the
the Carlists wear green caps with a white lily for their badge.
"
"
Vive la Re"publique
party shouts continually
the other shouts "Vive Henri!" The applause is unan-
The one
imous
if,
in wilder fury,
some one
levels insults at
Louis
in organising
The Republicans
any
riot
of a productive
moment
very careful
thoroughly.
To-day
is
HEINE.
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Next year he
will
be of
highest attainments.
For the first time the young Henri
represented with
proclamation ; hitherto he has
been depicted in the dress of a pilgrim, or of a Scottish
highlander, climbing crags, or putting his purse into the
sceptre and crown,
is
in that
etc.
Nothing redoubtable
from
these
miserable
efforts.
The Carlists are
expected
also in a very disheartened humour.
The mad temerity of
In vain
the Duchesse de Berry had done them much harm.
is
woman
that headstrong
upon
to
depart.
She
is
priests
if
will
so
no
much
Primarily
Diet,
agitation
the
it
is
is
which occupy
criticisms
visible
minds.
all
upon Germany
in
are to
JUNE DAYS.
215
liberty;
German
many
and therewith
edified
hearts.
Next
to
with those
German
affairs
of Belgium
we
and
becoming more
it is
his father-in-law,
available
much
"
in
"
is
the refrain of
man
all
perpetually
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216
know how
to
sufficiently
Then come
measures, and that they may still expend.
daily to the castle the diplomats who feel their pulse and
make them put out
their
their tongue,
may be
difficult to
decide.
is,
moment do
not
French youth
is
as
The young
217
THE
solution
is
rulers.
It occupied my thoughts constantly during my
excursion in the north of France.
But, as concerns public
than
who go
for inspiration
The
many
d'ceil,
rogated thereon ? Youth, alone, enthusiastic in the promulgation of ideas, expresses itself in unveiled language upon
what to
and the
it
is
an inevitable event
Carlists,
who
HEINE.
2i8
numerous
in this region.
This is explained by the existence of a particular predilection, the attachment to certain
"
favour of the people.
That pretty little woman is certainly
not as bigoted as the others," it was said; "see with what
devoutly as the priests could wish; and, with this taper, she
sets light to the civil war in beautiful France
as the priests
wish.
come from
all
such
219
many people
theless,
This
in Paris.
is
Rue
crowd of the
faithful,
the animals
of
and
some time
for
is
now
set
et Apostolique.
frankness and
integrity.
On
candid.
They
that
he
is
not
persuaded that he
upheld
in
order that
They
the
sake
of
the contrary,
right
are,
man
they regret
however, thoroughly
that he must be
;
the
repression of
that all
is
praises of his
fear
all
war only
in the interests of
to a complete stop.
commerce, which
is
firmness
result of the
HEINE.
220
competent to run
and to endure all hardThese men fear neither
Austrians nor
They
The moment war is declared they will
flag, no matter who may be its bearer.
am
either
by conciliation
become
against
or
by
force,
that
France
would
own
the
the
first
Government
The
king
is
find, perhaps,
momentary power.
This
221
With regard
to
is
who
who
The
last
its
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222
not possible to give an idea of the impression produced upon the lower classes of the French people by the
IT
is
the
against
curious that
recall
on
man who
the
Vende'miaire."
people
i3th
when misfortune strikes a
against
It
is
man we involuntarily
him of which we have
Man
hangs
in every cottage,
and perhaps,
exists
Napoleon spread through it. Wherever I went I found unimourning among the people. The grief of these people
was sincere; its source was not in the self-interests of the day,
but in the cherished memories of a glorious past. Especially
among the beautiful Normandaises was great lament made
versal
223
all is at an end
For them Napoleon is nothing but a name, like Alexander
of Macedon, or Charlemagne, whose issue likewise perished
But for the Buonapartists, who believe in a resurrecearly.
tion of the
In
certain
respects
Napoleon
was
saint-Simonian
men
His
of
honour
were
a
whose
was
posts
army
hierarchy,
occupied
by reason of personal merit and capacity. The meanest
son of a peasant could, equally with the heir of the most
ancient race, obtain the highest dignities and win gold and
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224
This
stars of honour.
is
why
is
in the
when
image of
this
Emperor should
the
man
reign again.
own
In the
who worship
greatness.
We, who
expiation
in
Napoleon on
St.
Helena.
The Emperor
there
endures
Revolution
with the
prosper, and we now see that the only fruit of this fatal
marriage had no life-principle in him, and that he died
deplorably.
225
the others in
farts
it
if
it
the
culottes
may
Buonapartists to
but
them,
phosis.
It is greatly regretted that the
beloved
relics,
the sword
As to the staff
next time they again wish to run away.
walked
about
at
with which the Emperor
Jena, I doubt
much if it is to be found in the Due de Reichstadt's
legacy,
and
believe
the French
have
it
still
in
their
hands.
was the
journeyings of the Duchesse de Berry that chiefly I heard
After the
it
The adventures of
this lady
15
HEINE.
one would think they had bsen
hours of leisure by the grand nephews of the
Fabliaux poets.
The wedding of Compiegne has also
furnished ample material for conversation ; I could impart
a perfect ant-heap of bad jokes on this subject that I have
heard debited to a Carlist castle. For example, one of the
orators at these festivities seems to have observed that the
Maid of Orleans was made prisoner at Compiegne, and
that it was even in Compiegne that a new Duchesse of
Orleans also was put in chains.
Although all the French
papers noise abroad the intimation that the influx of
strangers is here very great, and especially that the life
are told so poetically that
woven
in
at the baths of
is
on the
it
spot,
are not
Dieppe
have found
I,
here
There
more than perhaps fifty bathers altogether; everysad and dull, and the Baths which had attained
thing is
to so high a degree of prosperity, thanks to the visits paid
every summer by the Duchesse de Berry, seem irretrievably
ruined.
in
It
is,
At all
there are many rabid Carlists here.
would be calumniating Dieppe to maintain that
why
it
all
has,
striking
His
Louis Philippe is here neither loved nor detested.
maintenance on the throne is looked upon as necessary
to the welfare of France.
As
to his government,
it
does
LE TTERS FROM
NORMAND Y.
227
ROUEN,
I
WRITE these
I7//4
September.
Dukes
spirit
by
and Voltaire ;
Lion
from
this
soil
named by men
the heart
the Cceur-de-
Norman
But
day;
chivalry.
land of
Normandy ?
think I
The
am
among
HEINE.
228
and despise the Bourbons, but love, at all events the lesser
number, the gigantic remembrances of the Republic, and the
greater
number
The
the brilliant heroism of the Empire.
are
active
than
more
vanquished party,
who
the Philippists,
it
may be said
feel
make
great sacri-
Normandy.
indefatigable;
These
latter,
by
little
expend
its
comes from
229
wicked,
full
perfidious,
and
of useful
advice,
of malicious
who
often displeasantries;
tribute them gratis, and perhaps give money in addition
to the readers, naturally find for their wares a greater
I
sale than the moderate mouthpiece of the juste-milieu.
papers,
consider
from
them
in
recommend
sufficiently to
superior point
of
these two
view, I do not
to the cause of
On
action
old
as
the
world.
We
La
on
their
a serpent as La Gazette, it nevertheless hides its wickedness less; that its hereditary rancour betrays itself in
every word; that it is a kind of rattlesnake and itself
La
Gazette, unfortunately,
HEINE.
23
and poison.
This editor
is
I have seen
grey-haired figure of about sixty years of age.
him in Dieppe, where he had been invited to a Carlist
council,
With
characteristic loquacity, a
"
C'est un
whispered in my ear,
feted
little
by the noble
clique.
Carlist, nevertheless,
231
of which
alas
Carlists,
work
utterly the
especi-
The
is
trail,"
practically
"
declared,
if
enthusiasm."
And when
he assured
asked him
if
we could be
certain of victory,
me
man
of
suddenly
God
in front of the
The drums
HEINE.
there
the
followed
Philippe
has
cry
from
les Carlists
full
Les
"Vive Louis
throats,
Carlists
lanterne !"
la
proverb,
"
Taken
together,
this picture of
armed
citizens,
showed him
when they
Thus, in the
have made previous mention, I saw a farce
performed by a select few, which in the most burlesque
fashion represented how Fip I., king of the grocers (tyiciers),
castle of
which
and paternally
Grand
instructs
not allow
233
himself to be enticed
by theoricians to see the citizenkingship in the sovereignty of the people, and still less in
the maintenance of the Charta; that he must give ear to
the babbling neither of the right side nor of the left
of no consequence whether France be made free at
it is
home
ragamuffin."
How are
"
cochon
what
is
?
or,
you,
synonymous,
"
"
are you, citoyen ?
Yes, it is synonymous," answers the
the
and
Carlists
king dryly,
laugh. Grand Poulet wishes next
shakes hands with a citizen he
"
man Vieux
will also
ask him,
How
with
men
Although
in
certain
HEINE.
234
daylight,
I,
stars
The house
itself
so
glory of
its sins,
235
France,
to this
of
life
became
daily
more insupportable.
Their conversion
death was a repulsive spectacle; the perfumed corruption was an offence to every honest nose, and one fine
after
whether he meant
it
seriously.
the
servile
genuflection was
formerly
Louis Philippe, if he
the symbol of feudal sovereignty.
preserve and transmit to his children his throne and his
As
the
first
he preserve
his
Philippe,
if
sentiments,
but that
is
citizen-king
Louis
236
1846.
influx
The
little
temporary
valids.
Late-comers could scarcely find even a miserable
shelter for one night, and were obliged to turn away with
all their aches and pains.
The greater number of the
visitors are French military men, who have earned laurels,
lancer-thrusts,
and rheumatism
in
Africa.
few old
cause them so
There
is
also a
things to have bathed out of him, yet who, until the present
moment, has in nowise taken leave of his senses; who, still
shut up in a lunatic asylum, as a Berlinese correspondent has stated in that very praiseworthy Leipziger Allgemeinen Zeitung. We may, of course, be mistaken. Heinrich
less, is
at liberty to
is
But what we
come and go
as he pleases, which in
all
237
Then
there
is
file
After
to
his shorn,
way up
HEINE.
238
One
me
vividly of
Decamp's
masterpiece which hung in this year's Salon, and was criticised with unjust severity by many, even by The'ophile
The shepherd
Gautier, who is so learned in matters of art
painting, a veritable beggar-king in his tattered
majesty, tries to shelter a poor little sheep under the folds
of his cloak from the torrents of rain ; the bulging, stormy
clouds with their damp grimaces, the shaggy hideous dog,
in
this
is
The
Augsburg
them.
In
Gazette,
with
this painter's
his
penetration, awards to
also truth to nature is to be
fine
work
emphasised too
The costumes of
it is
whom
is
an abomination.
The head
which
falls
especially picturesque.
is no more charming picture than that formed
a
by
goat-herd thus clad, seated on a high-saddled mule
with the old-time distaff under her arm, advancing with her
black-horned flock over the summit of the mountain, where
There
239
The
beauties of nature
keeping
with
its
the
unattractive exterior
is
in
sombre,
with stone baths that are
sinister
interior;
thorough
cells,
like
crossed.
is
able make-shifts,
called
piscines,
men
are
bathe
in
together
occasional contacts
that
is
to
say,
narrow
Thus there
upright position.
which are far from agreeable.
Turk or
sound health."
II.
BAR&GES, August
I
to speak authoritatively
jtA, 1846.
on the
thera-
Perhaps nothing
peutic value of the baths at Bareges.
It
is
definite can be said on the subject.
possible
the
waters
of
a
spring, and to tabulate
chemically to analyse
exactly
how much
sulphur,
salt,
or butter
it
contains; but
this
HEINE.
2-jo
The
result
is
guaranteed to
effect
an
of the patient.
from the same
Just as
it is
with magnetism,
re-
them
as a treatment only
we once mas-
the Leine. 1
Nevertheless, I must not omit to mention that we have
enjoyed two very pretty balls, at which the dancers
town
II.,
is
river
King of England.
name
The
university of that
241
though they were riding on asses. Among the Frenchwomen shone the daughter of the celebrated Cellarius,
who what an honour for little Bareges danced the polka
here on his own feet
Also some young nymphs from
!
the
Grand Opera
at Paris
of those
who
dint of pleasures
at last
becomes
so fatiguing, so overpowering, all pleasures there are productive of so exhausting a tension, that one can hardly
contain oneself for joy at escaping at last from this treadmill of pleasure.
Yet scarcely have we been away from it
to the
young
1
from our Ge'rman Student Landsa short term spent in Paris, complain
fellows fresh
tide
time.
1
Association.
16
HEINE.
242
Ah
that
money
it
at
Bareges
how
to
The expense
of a sojourn here is beyond all comprehension, more than double that of any other baths in the
Pyre'ne'es.
mountains,
roll
of bread.
member
mended
We
243
.ill
whose
qualities
in a
form of
apprehension of the
masses.
and sought
inner nature.
to discern
I
244
HEINE.
remarkable contrast.
The Due d'Orle'ans was at once
nonchalant and knightly; the other is rather something
of the fine patrician.
The
Nemours
is said to be a good soldier, in point of coolheaded courage, rather than of warlike zeal. 1
If he succeed to the Regency he will not allow himself to
be so easily allured by Bellona's trumpet-call as his brother
1
pronounce
blessed
245
saries
III.
BAR&GES, August
YES, the
Due de Nemours
is
patient.
2oth, 1846.
That he possesses
am
He
failli
attendre
"
understands
how
to wait,
that
comes here
daily, usually in
Gavarnie
HEINE.
246
winter,
was scandalised
little
Frenchwoman who,
to see these
gendarmes every-
mournfully when it
was related to me how disagreeably affected the Prince was
with the surprise which the servile officiousness of the
Prefect had prepared for him on the top of the Pic du
I
Midi.
if
Poor Prince,
smiling
you suppose
give vent to your enthusiasm.
You
it
grows daily
which
of social distractions
duller.
is
It
is
247
not the
insupportable,
but
thoughts.
music of
The
shrill
Bareges
late at night.
Then, when bad weather sets in,
morning
and the mountains, drunk with sleep, draw their mist-caps
over their ears, the hours lengthen to a wearisome eternity.
Then the goddess of Ennui in person, her head enveloped
in a cowl of lead and carrying Klopstock's Messiah in her
hand, walks about the streets of Bareges, and whomsoever
she yawns at feels the last drop of his life's courage ebb
till
our future
we would do
better,
great
work of
faith of
of Cologne
Cathedral,
that
our fathers.
Every time that I converse with English people concerning my country, I observe, with profound humiliation, that
HEINE.
248
way
in the
One
diversion
in
our dulness
has been
afforded by
even
The
Opposition has once again suffered a defeat in the DepartPyre"ne*es, which could easily have been
for
The
many
other so-called
heroic characters, conviction, properly speaking, is only arrested thought, and perseverance only a physical weakness.
Such people are faithful to the principles for which they have
so much.
The
Chamber
of Deputies.
Heaven preserve me from divulging here any particulars of
the elections of the persons therein concerned.
The man
is
who
with
constitute a majority
The elected
on the green
249
seats of the
member
Palace.
civil equality
of the Israelite
is
measure.
a long time past, law as well as public
France has recognised the principle that all the
opinion in
sentiments.
But tolerant as
this
may
sound,
I detect in
it,
Two
of
the
from Abraham
until
my
shall,
doubtless,
HEINE.
25
M. d'Eichtal.
Honi soit qui mal y pense!
so as to avoid
all
my
owes
it
God which
The Jews
and
squandered
gods, and had put it out to interest, they would have become
as rich as the Jews, who knew how to invest their gold and
their silver to the greatest advantage, perhaps in Assyrio-
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