Translations:CP 02844/26/en
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- ↑ Frédéric Masson, in an article entitled "L'art sans patrie" (Art without a homeland) that appeared on the front page of L'Écho de Paris, 17 September 1914, said this of Richard Wagner: "Parisians, insulted by this gentleman for not having applauded his music sufficiently, dragged through the mud by him, have drowned out this wretched rhapsody, The Meistersingers, with their bravos, a piece in which they were not even able to see the broadside he was directing against them [...]" In an article printed in the same newspaper on the following 12 October, under the title "La Drogue" (The Drug), he asserted: "[...] Wagnerism being the thorough expression of German culture, the French people afflicted with Wagneritis are voluntarily surrendering to Germany." Frédéric Masson, a historian specialising in the 1st Empire and member of the Académie française since 1903, contributed to La Presse, the Revue de Paris and L'Écho de Paris. [PK]