Where was Georges Clemenceau? The day of the French election had arrived - Sunday, April 26, 1914 - and the newspaper Gil Blas announced in astonishment that the seventy-two-year-old former prime minister had disappeared from Paris. "His departure does not fail to cause surprise," reported the paper. "Is this vigorous polemicist no longer interested in the political battle?"
- From Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
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