The King of Kahel by Monénembo Tierno & Elliott Nicholas

Author:Monénembo, Tierno & Elliott, Nicholas [Elliott, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2010-11-01T21:00:00+00:00

He spent the next weeks writing his travel narrative and giving interviews and conferences all over France. Newspapers in the most remote provinces sent journalists to meet him. Some even came from Belgium and Germany. The halls of geographical societies were crowded with young men in gaudy vests and frock coats with wide lapels and society ladies in tulle dresses, mantillas, and wide-brimmed hats who had come to listen to him. In Bordeaux, Montélimar, Dijon, and Angoulême, he received a hero’s welcome; strangers threw their arms around him and offered him flowers while crowds chanted “Bravo!” People vied to be photographed with him. In Toulouse, a group of young romantics received him with cries of “French Fouta Djallon! French Fouta Djallon!” At the end of his conference, a young boy handed him a small chest:

“What’s this, young man?” he asked.

“Why, it’s for your railroad of course!”

He was so moved he had difficulty hiding his tears.

“Ah, if only they were all like you in the ministries of Paris, my boy,” he cried as he lifted the child in his arms, “France would be saved!” But his visits to Paris continued to prove utterly fruitless and his constant barrage of increasingly agitated letters remained unanswered.

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