Victor Leclerc 14 "


M. Empis is elected. The election was decided by
Lamartine and M. Ballanche.

On my way out I meet Leon Gozlan, who says to me:
"Well?"

I reply: "There has been an election. It is Empis."

"How do you look at it?" he asks.

"In both ways."

"Empis?---"

"And ~tant pis~!"

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March 16, 1847.



At the Academy to-day, while listening to the poems,
bad to the point of grotesqueness, that have been sent for
the competition of 1847, M. de Barante remarked: