Word: geffroy
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...supreme laurel wreathing his brow he has felt it perhaps superfluous to emerge from well earned retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight to secure the freedom of Captain Dreyfus...
Seemingly much moved, the aged "Tiger of France" declared: "It was the express desire of my departed friend that I should speak here. My words will be few. M. Geffroy asked his friends to avoid vanity and worldly honors at his funeral...
...Then, with the first evidence of emotion which M. Clemenceau is known to have evinced since the moment of Victory, in 1918, he concluded somewhat brokenly: "Death is a magnificent purification of life. . . . Geffroy left behind him a good example for all Frenchmen: courage, labor, method and will power; lofty hopes which were not all realized. My last word here is: as long as we live, M. Geffroy has not died. Would that the same could be said...
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