April 22, 1847.
Reading edition
Election of M. Ampere. This is an improvement upon the last. A slow improvement. But Academies, like old people, go slowly.
During the session and after the election Lamartine sent to me by an usher the following lines:
C’est un état peu prospere D’aller d’Empis en Ampere.
I replied to him by the same usher:
Toutefois ce serait pis D’aller d’Ampere en Empis.