VIII. MONSIEUR LE ROUÉ 114 IX. FRENCH LIFE AND THE FRENCH STAGE 122 1. M. PAUL BOURGET, THE REACTIONARY PLAYWRIGHT, AND M. PATAUD, WHO PUT OUT THE LIGHTS OF PARIS 2. M. ALFRED CAPUS. “NOTRE JEUNESSE” AT THE FRANÇAISE 3. M. BRIEUX, “LA DÉSERTEUSE,” AT THE ODÉON 4. PARIS, M. EDMOND ROSTAND, AND “CHANTECLER” X. AFTER “CHANTECLER” 187 XI. AU COURS D’ASSISES. PARIS AND MADAME STEINHEIL 192 XII. THE LATE JULES GUÉRIN AND THE DEFENCE OF FORT CHABROL 216 XIII. DEATH OF HENRI ROCHEFORT 235 XIV. ROYAL VISITS TO PARIS 246 XV. AT THE ÉLYSÉE. MESSIEURS LES PRÉSIDENTS 260 1. M. LOUBET AND PAUL DÉROULÈDE 2. M. ARMAND FALLIÈRES. MOROCCO AND THE FLOODS 3. M. RAYMOND POINCARÉ AND THE RECORD OF M. LÉPINE XVI. MADAME LA PRÉSIDENTE, M. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU AND THE UNFORTUNATE M. PAMS 296 PREFACE This selection from the writings of the late John F. Macdonald—between 1907 and 1913—finds, naturally, and without any arbitrary arrangement, its unity of character, as the middle volume of the book, in three parts, that it was this author’s ruling desire—rather than his deliberate and predetermined purpose—to spend many years in writing. The first volume of this book was _Paris of the Parisians_, the last was the posthumous volume recently published, under the title of _Two Towns—One City_. In order to convey a clear idea of the motive and ruling method that give literary and spiritual unity to this long book in three volumes, which stands for the accomplished desire of a brief life, let me quote the author’s own account of this desire given in his Preface to _Paris of the Parisians_, where, at twenty years of age, he described himself as “a student of human life, still in his humanities”: