[The Red Lily by Anatole France]@TWC D-Link bookThe Red Lily CHAPTER III 12/40
Anti-Semitism is making fearful progress everywhere.
From Russia my co-religionists are expelled like savage beasts.
In France, civil and military employments are closing against Jews.
They have no longer access to aristocratic circles.
My nephew, young Isaac Coblentz, has had to renounce a diplomatic career, after passing brilliantly his admission examination. The wives of several of my colleagues, when Madame Schmoll calls on them, display with intention, under her eyes, anti-Semitic newspapers. And would you believe that the Minister of Public Instruction has refused to give me the cross of the Legion of Honor for which I have applied? There's ingratitude! Anti-Semitism is death--it is death, do you hear? to European civilization." The little man had a natural manner which surpassed all the art in the world.
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