This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...speaking rapidly. He had the greatest contempt for French volubility and artificial warmth, which he termed the thunders and tempests of the opera. He never lost sight of the gravity of a senator, and it was a defect, perhaps, that when he commenced a speech there was always a slight appearance of preparation and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...speaking rapidly. He had the greatest contempt for French volubility and artificial warmth, which he termed the thunders and tempests of the opera. He never lost sight of the gravity of a senator, and it was a defect, perhaps, that when he commenced a speech there was always a slight appearance of preparation and pretension. What Mirabeau and the Marquis tie Dieux-'Brei From sculpture bv lules Iialou one of the finest gifts of nature, if it were not made an improper use of; and what I have just heard does not induce me to alter my opinion, ' etc. "Among his personal advantages he counted his robust frame, his size, and his strongly marked features seared with smallpox. 'You know not, ' said he, 'all the power of my ugliness;' but he considered this ugliness very handsome. He paid the greatest attention to his dress, and wore an enormous quantity of hair dressed in the fashion of the day, and which considerably increased the size of his head. 'When I shake my terrible locks, ' said he, 'no one dares interrupt me.'... He was fond of standing before a large pier-glass to see himself speak, squaring his shoulders and throwing back his head. He had also the mania of those vain men who are fond of hearing the sound of their own name, and derive pleasure from pronouncing it themselves. Thus he would suppose dialogues, and introduce himself as one of the speakers, as, for instance: 'The Count de Mirabeau will answer that, ' etc." Probably the most famous of Mirabeau's sayings is his reply to Dreux-Breze at the meeting of the States General. The States General, which consisted of three orders or estates of the realm, --the nobility, the clergy, and the commons (called the Tiers Etat, or Third Estate), --had not, when it was convoked by Louis XVI., on June 23, 17...
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