(As the opposite of the German inexperience and innocence which is not too remotely associated with the tediousness of German intercourse, and as the most successful expression of genuine French curiosity and inventive talent in thisdomain of delicate thrills, Henri Beyle may be noted; that remarkable anticipatory and forerunning man, who, with a Napoleonic traversed Europe, in fact, several centuries of the European soul, as a surveyor and discoverer thereof: it has required two generations to him one way or other, to divine long afterwards some of the riddles that perplexed and enraptured him this strange Epicurean and man of interrogation, the last great psychologist of France).