211.THIERS TO HUMBOLDT.
(FROM THE FRENCH.)
(FROM THE FRENCH.)
(FROM THE FRENCH.)
Paris,May 14th, 1857.
Paris,May 14th, 1857.
Paris,May 14th, 1857.
Paris,May 14th, 1857.
My Dear M. de Humboldt—I take the liberty of commending to your goodness shown so often to myself and to Frenchmen generally, M. Duvergier de Hauranne, who goes to Germany to show it to his young son.You know our country too well for me to tell you what important and always honorable part has been sustained by M. Duvergier de Hauranne in our assemblies, where he has ever been faithful to the cause of rational liberty; and not faithful alone, but eminently useful. Having returned to private life and devoted himself to study, he goes to see your excellent country, and I thought I could not do better than to recommend him to your kindness. To his young son it will be an imperishable recollection to have seen the illustrious savan who does the greatest honor to the century, and whom we Frenchmen have the vanity to consider as French, and belonging to us no less than to Germany.
I do not write on current affairs here, for M. Duvergier de Hauranne knows them, and can make you acquainted with them better than any other man.
Accept the renewed homage of my respectful attachment.
A. Thiers.
A. Thiers.
A. Thiers.
A. Thiers.