Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1904 — French Conceit. [ARTICLE]

French Conceit.

Etienne Dumont, writing in the early part of the last century, said; "The prevailing character of the French is that of conceit. Every member of the assembly considered himself capable of undertaking everything. I often said that if you proposed to the first hundred men you met in the streets of Paris and to the same number in the streets of London to undertake the charge of the government ninety-nine of them would accept in Paris and ninety-nine would refuse in London.”