# Richard Lepsius, a biography

Author: Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898; Underhill, Zoe Dana, 1847-1934 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74815

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## Summary

with the remark that Weidenbach might look for some other employment. Thereupon Lepsius replied to the high official, who was a man of strict piety but little human feeling, and whose ministry has long been recognized as pernicious, “So you think as Talleyrand did, who to the appeal of a suppliant “_Mais il faut pourtant que je vive_,” replied: “_Je n’en vois pas la nécessité_.” Lepsius knew how to procure the desired situation for his protégé, in spite of Raumer, and Weidenbach filled it admirably to the end.

## Chapters

- [v. Raumer, coolly refused the petition for this very deserving artist,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-lepsius-a-biography-74815/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 1: Criticism of Authorities.] Berlin, London, Paris. 1849. 4.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/richard-lepsius-a-biography-74815/chapters/2/index.md)