The Days of a Man 



prominent French educators, women as well as men. 

 In 1915 Buisson came to San Francisco as a delegate 

 to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, at which time we 

 became quite well acquainted. But of him and his 

 delightful brother I shall again speak. 



Baron d'Estournelles de Constant I visited at his 

 Constant home beside the ancient moated castle of Creans on 

 the banks of the Loire near La Fleche, in the old 

 province of Maine. This brilliant publicist was then 

 as now a senator of France. He had served as judge 

 in the Hague Court, was the leader of the peace 

 movement in France, and one of the most prominent 

 advocates of international good will in the world. 

 My visit laid the foundation of a friendship which 

 still endures. Madame d'Estournelles, an American 

 woman by birth, presided graciously over her pleasant 

 family, lodged in a recent structure, but guests are 

 privileged to sleep in the modernized rooms of the 

 tall old castle tower. 



In 1909 D'Estournelles visited Stanford Univer- 

 sity, where he gave three addresses, awakening and 

 sustaining interest in international problems. Two 

 of our young men, John Hilton and Errett Shelton, 

 were afterward guests at Creans, when their host 

 called a public meeting in La Fleche at which he in- 

 vited them both to speak on America's feeling toward 

 France. The war and all its consequences brought him 

 terrible disappointment, and he felt embittered by 

 the fact that his varied efforts for conciliation be- 

 tween France and Germany had been rendered futile 

 by the blind arrogance of the German government. 



On our way from France to Belgium I arranged 

 with Dr. Otto Seeck, professor of Ancient History in 



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