Gustave Flaubert
Image Attribution: Nadar (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Nadar (Public domain)
Frederick arose. There was a buzz of approval made by his friends. (…) Sénécal asked whether anyone saw any impediment to this candidature.
"No! no!"
But, for his part, he saw some. All around him bent forward and strained their ears to listen. The citizen who was seeking for their support had not delivered a certain sum promised by him for the founding of a democratic journal. Moreover, on the twenty-second of February, though he had had due notice, he had failed to be at the meeting-place in the Place de Panthéon.
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