The invasion cry, for instance, I really can't qualify it; I can't comprehend it with motives all good and fair.

I throw it over to you to analyse.
With regard to the sudden death of French literature, you all exaggerate that like the rest.

If you look into even the 'Revue des Deux Mondes' for the year 1852, you will see that a few books are still published.
_Pazienza._ Things will turn up better than you suppose.

Newspapers breathe heavily just now, that's undeniable; but for book literature the government _never has_ touched it with a finger.

I ascertained _that_ as a fact when I was in Paris.
None of you in England understand what the crisis has been in France; and how critical measures have been necessary.