The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE U.

NOWHERE is the ail admirari philosophy better
understood than in Paris. The keen-witted people
of that city—we don't speak of the Court tailors,
the gamblers on the Bourse, and the milliners, but
of the independent classes, the liberal professions,
and the skilled artisans of the Faubourgs--
are not easily moved to vulgar excesses of enthn-
skarn or curiosity by the appearance of crowned or
titled personages in their streets. The intellectual
atmosphere of the French capital is a destructive
solvent of artificial dignities. Under the mac-
adam and the asphalts which have made
barricades impossible the fires of the Revolution
still smoulder, and even under the sultry calm of
Imperialism there lurks the eager and biting air
of Republican impatience and contempt. Who can
be surprised at this? Modern France dates from
the Revolution ; and any French government other
than Republican exists only by virtue of its assimi-
lation of some revolutionary elements, orcomes and
goes as an eclipse. No doubt there may be found in
that mixed and nomad multitude of Paris all the
baser idolatries and servilities that are never
wanting to highly civilized countries ; but
in the real population of Paris—that is
in the purely French population, if we ex-
clude the bourgeoisie of the counter who in all
countries represent the moutons de Poiturge that
hatred of ideas and adoration of all factitious
aristocracies which on this side of the Channel is
the most flourishing of " native growths" exists, if
it exist at all, only as a fungoid curiosity, of foreign
vegetation. Of course there is a serrom peens in
all countries, but we speak of the heart and the
brain of France, and we are inclined to believe
that in spite of symptoms of lassitude and consump-
tion, the nation which produced the Encyclopte-
dista is still superior to all its neighbours in its
emancipation from many of the respectable and gre-
garious hypocrisies which are so diligently cultivated
by the average Briton. After all, let our Pari-
sian friends be fully persuaded it is not by the
unsurpassable valour of her armies that the true
sovereignty of France is sustained. The great
soldier to whom they owe the First and
the Second Empire was not a Frenchman.
VOLTAIRE in the last century, VICTOR HULA in
the present—these unacknowledged legislators
of the world are the men who proclaim and up-
hold the supremacy of their country, became in
them the genius of the Revolution lives and burns.
Nay, even in the most frivolous and ephemeral
productions of her literary market the supremacy
of the French intellect is beyond dispute. To be
the chief cook, dancing-master, and milliner to
all nations, may not be the highest ambition of
a people ; but to speak and write a language
which is the crucible and the mint of human
thought, to scourge superstitions and false pre-
tences with a wit as bright and as deadly as the
arrows of APOLLO, to laugh despotism to scorn
before its face, and make it enjoy the operation—
this is a privilege which belongs only to a people
whose malicious mockery under the mask of a
buffoon is the best of sermons for a German
Monarch or a Czar. The Duehesee de Gerolsfein,
indeed, may please the King of PRUSSIA as an argu-
ment for the unity of Germany ; but when mo-
narchs shake their sides at that exquisite fooling,
we remember how keenly BEAUMARCHAIS'
famous comedy was enjoyed by royal and
noble audiences on the eve of the Deluge.
A people with such irresistible weapons in their
hands do themselves a ridiculous injustice when
they affect to be jealous or afraid of frontier for-
tresses or of needle guns. " Chauvinism," as
that aggressive military spirit is called, is ludi-
crously unworthy of a people whose wit is sharper
than any two-edged sword, and more penetrating
than any conical bullet of chilled steel. Surely
it would be unworthy of a people who can make
their moat august visitors sit and laugh at the
monarchical principle exhibited en dishabille by
the most charming and audacious of actresses, to
forget for one instant the decencies and
the courtesies of hospitality towards the
Sovereigns of powerful, perhaps of rival States,
who come to pay their part of the uni-
versal homage to the seductions of Parisian
civilization. No one will accuse Liberal France of
having forgotten Poland, or patriotic France of
having succumbed to Germany, because the Crest
and his Royal Uncle are treated as guests, or, let
us say, as captives. The rights of hos-
pitality are sacred amongst savages, but
the most refined civilization is not disho-
noured by observing them. These monarchs
come to France to assist at ax international
festival of peace, and their presence at Paris on
such an occasion is in itself an earnest of con-
ciliation and good will. At all events it is good
taste, good feeling, and good policy to interpret it
in this sense. The Revolution will not be dis-
honoured by emulating the chivalrous traditions of
the old Monarchy. It would be a sadly illogical
sequel to a Conference to " mob " the pacificator..
If only as the heroes of the Malakoff, and
tho conquerors of Sebastopol, Frenchmen