Note 32 — Chapter IX · THE IMPERIAL FAMILY IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE WAR—OUR JOURNEY TO MOSCOW (AUGUST, 1914)

I cannot say that the Czarina had any personal affection for France, a country with which she had no ties and no particular temperamental affinity. She did not understand the French mind, and took all the literary acrobatics of our “immoralistes” quite seriously. On the other hand, she thoroughly enjoyed the great nineteenth-century poets.