From: Chapman billy
Date: 24/07/03 19:43 GMT Daylight Time
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In article 20030722055232.04994.00000338@mb-
m26.aol.com, -remove- says...
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IMO, there are too many mavericks posting unorthodox, to put it politely,
views.

No bias in *your* view of history, then...

You are perfectly welcome to take seriously programmes
that consider Munich a triumph for Chamberlain. I give
them as much time as I give the Flat Earth mob: none.


Subtantiate this, if you please.

I have read nothing of the connection between Heine and Thiers.

And I thought you could do almost anything with Google.

You write that the latter arranged a pension for the former.

Here's a quote from "Heine" by Francois Feijto (trans.
Mervyn Savill; published 1946 by Allan Wingate).

"His financial resources dried up just at the time when
he was abandoning his bachelor existence. In addition to
the money which his French publications brought in, his
only income was the allowance of four thousand francs
from his uncle Saloman. Under these circumstance,
Princess Belgiojoso, to whom Heine confided all his
worries, interceded through Mignet with Thiers, who
appreciated Heine's works, to subsidise him out of the
secret funds for Foreign Affairs."

(page 196)

Why should that be "Hard to believe" (*notwithstanding* the cited later
oppression)?

Heine was trenchant in his criticism of the French
political situation. This happened under both Thiers and
Guizot, who also continued the subsidy.

"When Guizot succeeded Thiers at the head of foreign
affairs he informed Heine, who had attacked him more than
once for his reactionary opinions, that he would continue
to pay him the subsidy."

(page 197)

"Heine continued to attack Guizot's home and foreign
policy just as violently. The majority of Heine's German
biographers - even the most indulgent - could never bring
themselves to understand how French statesmen, capable of
distributing a considerable pension to a foreign writer
without a quid pro quo, could possibly exist. In Germany
it would not have been possible."

(also page 197)



Uh huh. What's your point, exactly?