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Guizot, Lamartine, and Beranger -- Public opinion at sea with regard to the real Guizot -- People fail to see the real man behind the politician -- Guizot regrets this false conception -- "I have not the courage to be unpopular" -- A tilt at Thiers -- My first meeting with him -- A picture and the story connected with it -- M. Guizot "at home" -- His apartment -- The company -- M. Guizot on "the Spanish marriages" -- His indictment against Lord Palmerston -- An incident in connection with Napoleon's tomb at the Invalides -- Nicolas I. and Napoleon -- My subsequent intimacy with M. Guizot -- Guizot as a father -- His correspondence with his daughters -- A story of Henry Muerger and Marguerite Thuillier -- M. Guizot makes up his mind not to live in Paris any longer -- M. Guizot on "natural scenery" -- Never saw the sea until he was over fifty -- Why M. Guizot did not like the country; why M. Thiers did not like it -- Thiers the only man at whom Guizot tilted -- M. Guizot died poor -- M. de Lamartine's poverty did not inspire the same respect -- Lamartine's impecuniosity -- My only visit to Lamartine's house -- Du Jellaby dore -- With a difference -- All the stories and anecdotes about M. de Lamartine relate to his improvidence and impecuniosity -- Ten times worse in that respect than Balzac -- M. Guizot's literary productions and M. de Lamartine's -- The national subscription raised for the latter -- How he anticipates some of the money -- Beranger -- My first acquaintance with him -- Beranger's verdict on the Second Republic -- Beranger's constant flittings -- Dislikes popularity -- The true story of Beranger and Mdlle. Judith Frere 249

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