[92] He had held office in the Provisional Government, had attempted to stem the tide of insurrection in the summer of 1848, and, having failed, had retired into private life, occupying himself with the writing of books and articles on political and economic subjects. After the war he returned to politics, and was Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1883. [93] Quinet and Michelet had both recently published histories of the Revolution. The appearance of these volumes ended that close friendship which until then had united them. For each regarded himself as having said the last word on the subject; and according to Mme. Adam, who disliked Michelet, the latter could not forgive his sometime friend for not having mentioned him in his book (see _Souvenirs_, III. 314). Michelet was astonished, he wrote to Quinet, “at this amazing neglect of one _qui seul avait frayé, les voies_.” [94] See _post_, 209. [95] _Souvenirs_, III. 123. [96] _Souvenirs_, III. 131. [97] _Ibid._, 133. [98] Armand Carrel, editor of the _National_, killed in a duel by Girardin. [99] See _ante_, 100. [100] Afterwards President of the French Republic. [101] Hippolyte, see _ante_, 68. [102] 1851, at the time of Louis Napoléon’s _coup d’état_. [103] See _ante_, 76. [104] _Idées Anti-Proudhoniennes._ [105] See _ante_, 48. [106] _Souvenirs_, II. 236. [107] See _ante_, 102. [108] _Souvenirs_, III. 136. [109] It was said to have been bombarded during the _coup d’état_ of December 2, 1851. [110] _Souvenirs_, III. 249. [111] _Souvenirs_, III. 193. [112] _Souvenirs_, III. 251. [113] _Ibid._, 307. [114] _Ibid._, 261. [115] _Ibid._, 363. [116] _Souvenirs_, III. 364. [117] _Souvenirs_, II. 373. [118] _Ibid._, 416. [119] _Ibid._, III. 309. [120] Later Prime Minister of France. [121] _Souvenirs_, III. 311. [122] _Ibid._, 312. [123] _Souvenirs_, V. 143, 154, 156, 161. [124] _Souvenirs_, IV. 309. [125] _Histoire du Second Empire_, chap. v. p. 412. [126] _Souvenirs_, III. 315. [127] _Ibid._, 317. [128] Pierre de la Gorce, _op. cit._, 418, and the speeches of Gambetta, published by Joseph Reinach, I. 5-17. [129] _Souvenirs_, III. 318-19. [130] _Ibid._, 409-13 _et passim_. [131] _Ibid._, 412. [132] _Souvenirs_, III. 412. [133] _Ibid._, 410. [134] _Souvenirs_, III. 345. [135] Pierre de la Gorce, _op. cit._, V. 483. [136] _Souvenirs_, III. 358. [137] _Ibid._, 361. CHAPTER IX HER FRIENDSHIP WITH GEORGE SAND 1858-1870 “_Ma grande amie maternelle a été mon guide._”—Mme. Adam, _Souvenirs_. To have been intimately associated with George Sand during the last fifteen years of that distinguished woman’s life, Mme. Adam regards as one of her greatest privileges.