CHAPTER XXIX. AS COMMISSIONER TO THE PARIS EXPOSITION--1878

Previous experience on the Educational Jury at the Philadelphia
Exposition. Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil; curious revelation of
his character at Booth's Theater; my after acquaintance with him.
Don Juan Marin, his fine characteristics; his lesson to an
American crowd. Levasseur of the French Institute. Millet.
Gardner Hubbard. My honorary commissionership to the Paris
Exposition. Previous troubles of our Commissioner-General at the
Vienna Exposition. Necessity of avoiding these at Paris.
Membership of the upper jury. Meissonier. Tresca. Jules Simon.
Wischniegradsky. Difficulty regarding the Edison exhibit. My
social life in Paris. The sculptor Story and Judge Daly. A
Swiss-American juryman's efforts to secure the Legion of Honor.
A Fourth of July jubilation; light thrown by it on the
``Temperance Question.'' Henri Martin. Jules Simon pilots me in
Paris. Sainte-Clair Deville. Pasteur. Desjardins. Drouyn de
Lhuys. The reform school at Mettray. My visit to Thiers; his
relations to France as historian and statesman. Duruy; his
remark on rapid changes in French Ministries. Convention on
copyright. Victor Hugo. Louis Blanc, his opinion of Thiers.
Troubles of the American Minister; a socially ambitious American
lady; vexatious plague thus revealed.


CHAPTER XXX. AS MINISTER TO GERMANY--1879-1881

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