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would see each other, so I did not tell them I had made 

 up my mind to leave France, where I was called a 

 heretic and blood drinker. I wrote to them after I 

 got settled in Astoria, and a few years after we were 

 settled in Albany. I sent them our Photographs of 

 all of us, nearly one dozen ! ! as specimens of pro- 

 lific ! America ! Since, I have only seen France once, 

 in 1878 ; and only from Dieppe to Paris. I have not 

 been to the city where I was born, where I would not 

 have known anybody (43 years), and I was not an 

 " American uncle" and nobody would have recognized 

 me. I was to go, but I missed a train I wanted to go 

 by ; I had to wait three hours for another, then I made 

 reflections so sad! that I gave it up. 



I do admire " France." She has produced that 

 " colossal! that " immense" revolution of 1789 ! whose 

 revolutionary commotions have shaken morally the 

 whole civilized world. She has compelled all the 

 Potentates of Europe (England excepted ; she is a grand 

 nation also) to pass under the " Furcse Caudines," i. e., 

 the yoke of the revolutionary patriotic and emancipa- 

 tory genius of France ! and that during many years, un- 

 til her "first evil genius " Napoleon I caused her to be 

 twice invaded in one year ; and, many years later, her 

 " second superimus evil scoundrel genius Napoleon III, 

 had her drowned in an ocean of ignominy .... To all 



