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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 41: search for health.—journey to Europe.—continued disability.—1857-1858. (search)
y St. Hilaire. N. W. Senior gives an account of conversations at this and other dates where Sumner was present. Correspondence and Conversation of A. de Tocqueville with N. W. Senior from 1834 to 1859, vol. II. pp. 160-170; Conversations with M. Thiers, M. Guizot, etc, vol. II. pp. 114-139. the conversation was chiefly in French. A topic which interested me was about public speakers. M. de Tocqueville said that Odilon Barrot was the only one he had known who absolutely spoke without preparere material points of resemblance between Sumner and Royer-Collard. whose name was great, always placed his written discourse on the tribune before him, being unwilling even to seem to do what he did not, for he carefully prepared what he said. Thiers sometimes improvised a speech of five minutes, but his effects were all studied; so also with Guizot. Lamartine sometimes exercised the privilege of correcting the reports of his speeches, even so far as to introduce bravos and applaudissements