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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 29: (search)
Chapter 29: Leaving the White House. the close of Grant's Presidential career elicited a remarkable comment from the great French statesman Thiers, who was at that time, though no longer President, perhaps the most important personage in France; almost controlling parties in his own country and watching with an acute and iest the great political crisis on this side the seas. General Sickles was then residing in Paris and in the habit of meeting the ex-President frequently. To him Thiers declared that no country in Europe could have passed through the situation which agitated America without a serious disturbance of the state. He thought it possi he knew of no other country that could have withstood the dangers of a disputed election, when the parties were so nearly matched, and so soon after a civil war. Thiers did not hesitate to attribute much of the good fortune of the United States in this emergency to the wisdom and courage and moderation of Grant. I have indeed
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 45: (search)
nterested in French affairs and intimate with Thiers, the famous ex-President of the re-established Republic. Thiers, however, had fallen before Grant went abroad, and McMahon was President, with a rench politicians had learned this fact or no, Thiers addressed Sickles and asked him to proceed in ondon and explain the situation to Grant. For Thiers took it as certain that Grant's sympathies woun as possible made his way to the residence of Thiers to communicate the result of his embassy. Thettle sleep. Thus, when Sickles was announced, Thiers was lying on a sofa behind a screen at the further end of the salon, sleeping; but Madame Thiers received the envoy. She wished at once to wakento this lady, and while they were talking, Madame Thiers also dozed. Then came in Barthelemy Saint Hilaire, once the private secretary of Thiers, and afterward a member of his cabinet. He also wished to waken Thiers; but still Sickles said, Let him sleep; and during this discussion Madame Doche f