WITH AMERICANS OF PAST AND PRESENT DAYS BY J.J. JUSSERAND AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE UNITED STATES NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1916 Copyright, 1916, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published May, 1916...

This day, thirteen years ago, a new French ambassador presented his credentials. The ambassador was not very old for an ambassador. The President was very young for a president, the youngest, in fact, the United States ever had. Both, according to custom, read set speeches, and there followed a first conversation, which had a great many successors, touching on a variety of subjects not connected, all of them, with diplomacy. In which talk took part the genial, learned, and warm-hearted author of