— Beginnings. —
He might have spent the rest n his days in the United States and by this time perhaps been a senator if it had not been for the Franco-German war, and the break-up of the Empire. These events brought back to Paris from many a distant corner of the earth the men who had f ought the Empire in its day of glory and omnipotence. Victor Hugo rushed back from Guernsey ; other good Radicals came from the pooi schools or the high colleges in which they had been earning their living as teachers ; and M. Clemencean, packing up his portmanteau, gave a lifelong farewell to Massachusetts ; and was once more in the capital of his country.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 70
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117—Beginnings.— Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 70
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