Rivales

Excerpt from Rivales: Illustrations de Moisand, Gravees par Ruffe
Le moins impressionnable des touristes etrangers amene par l'agence Cook, en ulster a carreaux, son Baedecker a la main, eprouve ici une emotion solennelle; il songe au Grand Roi et au Grand Empereur. Il admire, parfois il envie. C'est a cette vieille France-la, qui possede de si durables et si imposants temoignages de sa gloire, que devait penser M. de Bismarck a Ferrieres, quand, a l'avocat Jules Favre implorant la paix au nom de la Republique et demandant un peu niaisement: Enfin, a qui faites-vous la guerre?, le haineux Allemand repondait: A Louis XIV.
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