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Exclaimed Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau, once to his secretary Jean Martet: "I have never known a King who had the soul of a King!" Of the British Royal Family he added gently: "They are admirable people, what can one expect...
Drunken Priests. "Have you ever read anything of Claudel's?" Secretary Martet writes that he asked Clémenceau, referring of course to France's present Ambassador at Washington, M. Paul Claudel, poet and dramatist...
Here, obviously, is a Clémenceau "just talking," smiting the conversational anvil for the fun of seeing sparks fly. Of Greece?the grand, spiritual inspiration of Clémenceau's life, almost his religion? Clémenceau could say to Martet in humorous vein...
Such stuff is mere badinage?yet here and there among Martet's anecdotes for cooks is a bit of Clémenceau thought as hard and fundamental as anything in Grandeur et Misere...
...Greece, Martet! You must travel by way of Greece to get anywhere you're going. I believe that humanity reached its highest point there, easily, joyously. . . . There's nothing beyond Aeschylus, nothing beyond Plato, nothing beyond Socrates. . . . It's a pity there ever was such a thing as Christianity! One might have lived so well worshiping Jupiter, Mercury, all those gallant deities...