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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ence relating to the eighteenth century, particularly the letters of D'Alembert, Diderot, La Harpe, and Grimm. He exhausted, I believe, the public library of the town. He was also delighted with the Tableau de la Litterature du XVIII ieme Siele du Villemain, which I had recommended to him. He was present also at the lectures of Maudot on Spanish literature, and of Germain on Roman history. He was an habitual visitor at the Municipal Library, where almost daily he read for some hours French aulway station as the latter left Paris for Geneva. Parker's powers of endurance were at the time greater than Sumner's, and their friends who saw them then thought Parker more likely to be the survivor. Sumner met again in Paris Montalembert, Villemain, the Mohls, the Circourts, and R. M. Milnes. The Grotes had passed some time in the previous summer at St. Germain en Laye. Mrs. Grote, in a letter to Senior, described a real jolly day, Aug. 3, 1858, in which she took Sumner and M. and Mad