| Émile Mayrisch (1862-1928)
"With his intelligence and his vitality, he appeared to us as a sort of demigod, rustic and powerful, not entirely like the Centaur of the Latin world, full of impulse, appetite and wisdom, not either entirely like the Germanic Nibelung, king of the ore and the forge, but as crossing of these two races, with the vitality of the first and the perseverance of the latter, a being friendly to humans, which takes their defence against the caprices of Heaven, a being made of the same material we are made of, obeying to the laws of this material and which could only succumb for having wanted, on a hastily day, on a road, to overcome these laws."
Jean Schlumberger, speech pronounced on 4th June 1928 in Baden-Baden as a last tribute to Émile Mayrisch.
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