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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 2: (search)
teries. Austrian and Bavarian Alps. Munich. Lausanne. Geneva. Turin. General la Harpe. Count Balbo. Pellico. Manzon sight always of the mountains of Savoy, from Lausanne to Geneva . . . . We stopped to see the Chateau at Coppet, which we te alone, but otherwise the enclosure was never opened. Geneva, September 6.—. . . . Geneva is extremely changed in all rGeneva is extremely changed in all respects, and bears everywhere the marks of its increased wealth. . . . . Society is no less changed. Sismondi is in Italy. ., etc., are all gone. . . . . Indeed, it is apparent that Geneva is becoming almost entirely a place of commerce, and its p is the most intimate friend of the De Staels remaining in Geneva, and the last, a man of letters attached to her household.passed some time, most happily, nineteen years ago. At Geneva, having met Mr. Horace Binney of Philadelphia, travelling entative of Italy in the Board of Arbitrators which met at Geneva in 1873, to settle the claims of the United States against
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
1.—. . . . I dined to-day at the Duke de Broglie's; a dinner made in honor of the Baron de Barante, and the Count de Ste. Aulaire, French Ambassadors at St. Petersburg and Vienna, now here on leave of absence. It was, of course, a little ceremonious, and a good many of the principal Doctrinaires, Guizot, Duchatel, etc., were there. Barante, however, was missing, and was waited for half an hour; and when we sat down at table it was plain that it was a political dinner; for, except Eynard of Geneva and myself, every individual was of political note. The whole conversation, too, was in the same tone, and was curious, since it turned, for some time, on the character and prospects of Thiers, whom, I must needs say, they treated with great generosity. Ste. Aulaire has all the acuteness and esprit he used to have; but he is grown very old, and looks, more than anybody else I have seen here, like a genuine Frenchman of the ancien regime, his hair powdered, and his physiognomy belonging to