Mark Twain

Archibald Henderson

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Published
10 September 2010
Pages
100
ISBN
9781162672830

Mark Twain

Archibald Henderson

Nevertheless, the observation of M. Forgues is just and authentic–the Attic flavour of l'esprit Gaulois is alien to the loosely articulated structure of American humour. The noteworthy criticism which Mark Twain directed at Paul Bourget’s ‘Outre Mer’, and the subsequent controversy incident thereto, forced into light the racial and temperamental dissimilarities between the Gallic and the American Ausschauung. Mr. Clemens once remarked to me that, of all continental peoples, the French were most alien to the spirit of his humour.

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