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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 5: political studies abroad (search)
he German people had been defeated for the present by the rivalry between Prussia and Austria and the distrust of the other principalities, order was not yet fully re-established. Italy and Hungary were still in a state of turmoil. The pope had not yet returned to the Vatican nor regained his freedom of action, and yet the revolution was everywhere on the wane. Peace reigned throughout France, the long agony was over, and the new president was quickly though prematurely inaugurated on December 20th, installed in the Elysee National, and surrounded by a cabinet, of his own choosing. Dana, in describing this ceremony, says: The president-elect was dressed with unusual elegance in a black coat with a white waistcoat and white kid gloves, much as if he had been going to a wedding. His heavy, rather sensual, and very ordinary features, relieved by a thick moustache, were at the same moment animated by the emotions natural to the scene, so that there was really something remarkab