HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.
From childhood I always associated
the French language with the idea of
distinguished birth. And I found that
a Parisian market-woman spoke better
French than a German canonness with
four-and-sizty ancestors.
FRENCH MANNERS.
In France the desire to please is so
great that every one strives zealously
to cause pleasure, not only to his friends,
but to his enemies. There is thus a
continual posing and display of fine
manners, so that women are put to their
wit's end to outdo men in coquetry
and yet they succeed.
THE TEUTONIC CHARACTER.
Faust is the tme type of the Germans,
of the race that satisfies its passion
through knowledge rather than through