Note 14 — Chapter VII · THE NATION'S SORROW. THE LABORATORIES: "SACRED PLACES"
Charlotte Kellogg translation
From the great number of letters and telegrams of condolence, I quote, as examples, these lines written by three great scientists, today no longer living.
From M. Berthelot:
"MADAME:
"I do not wish to wait longer without sending you the sympathetic expression of my profound grief and of that of French and foreign scientists on the occasion of the common loss with you that we have all experienced. We were struck as by lightning by the tragic news! So many services already rendered science and humanity, so many services that we awaited from that genial inventor: all this vanished in an instant, or become already but a memory!"
From G. Lippmann:
"MADAME:
It is while traveling, and very late, that I receive the terrible news. I feel as if I had lost a brother; I did not know by what close ties I was attached to your husband. I know today. I suffer also for you, Madame. Believe in my sincere and respectful devotion."
From Lord Kelvin:
"Grievously distressed by terrible news of Curie's death. When will be funeral. We arrive Hotel Mirabeau tomorrow morning. Kelvin, Villa St. Martin, Cannes."