State of the Union Addresses of John Quincy Adams
This eBook was produced by James Linden. The addresses are separated by three asterisks: *** Dates of addresses by John Quincy Adams in this eBook: December 6, 1825 December 5, 1826 December 4, 1827 December 2, 1828 *** State of the Union Address John Quincy Adams December 6, 1825 Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: In taking a general survey of the concerns of our beloved country, with
two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature.
In "The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris" some likenesses were
imagined: Jules Janin in Etienne Lousteau, Armand Carrel in Michel
Chrestien, and, possibly, Berryer in Daniel d'Arthez. But in the
present volume, "Beatrix," he used the characteristics of certain
persons, which were recognized and admitted at the time of
publication. Mademoiselle des Touches (Camille Maupin) is George
Sand in character, and the personal description of her, though
applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily
recognized from Couture's drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude
Vignon are sketches of the Comtesse d'Agoult, Liszt, and the
well-known critic Gustave Planche.
The opening scene of this volume, representing the manners and
customs of the old Breton family, a social state existing no
longer except in history, and the transition period of the
/vieille roche/ as it passed into the customs and ideas of the
present century, is one of Balzac's remarkable and most famous
pictures in the "Comedy of Human Life."
K.P.W.
This eBook was produced by James Linden. The addresses are separated by three asterisks: *** Dates of addresses by John Quincy Adams in this eBook: December 6, 1825 December 5, 1826 December 4, 1827 December 2, 1828 *** State of the Union Address John Quincy Adams December 6, 1825 Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: In taking a general survey of the concerns of our beloved country, with