Works
He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1899, his most notable works being:
- Orateurs et hommes d'état – Frédéric II – M. de Bismarck – Fox et Pitt – Lord Grey – Talleyrand – Berryer – Gladstone, Calmann Lévy, Paris, 1889
- Figures de femmes (1889)
- La Décentralisation (1895), La Question sociale (1898).
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“His works are not to be studied, but read with a swift satisfaction. Their flavor and gust is like what poets tell of the froth of wine, which can only be tasted once and hastily.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.”
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“The family that perseveres in good works will surely have an abundance of blessings.”
—Chinese proverb.