The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-03 00:00:00

on the path leading towards perfection. He revealed
himself upon the instant, like a daring and happy impro-
visator, who, upon a well-chosen platform, had no cause
to shrink from any competitor. Ho frankly scoffed at
those who assumed to be orators without possessing his
spontaneous facility. You academicians,' said he, you
always require to dress up your words beforehand.
You are never ready when one has instant need of
you.' As to himself he was always ready upon any emer-
gency, and it was always a delight to see him, there, bound-
ing into the tribune as into the saddle, reining up and mas-
tering his position upon the instant, with the ease of a perfect
cavalier ! To see him also, there, taking in hand the most
complicatedqueations, challenging the most redoubtable ad-
versaries, such even as M. T biers himself, dominating the
tumult, leading on and enchanting the wandering attention
of the assembly, instructing and charming those even whom
ho found it impossible to convince. liis eyes sparkling,
his head erect, his voice resonant, he seemed always as
though he ware sounding the charge while speaking. lie
martialled arithmetical figures, facts, and arguments, with
as much dexterity, force, and genius, as if he were direct-
ing his Zouaves. Supple and impetuous, bounding like a
panther, he moved round his adversary, as if seeking the
vulnerable point before leaping upon him to his overthrow.
Rarely did ho descend from the tribune without having
profoundly moved his audience, without having thrown
light upon a question, without having dissipated a
misapprehension, without having repaired a defeat, with-
out having either prepared or justified a victory. Never
has that famous saying of Cato, about the Gauls, been
more fully verified than in the instance of Lamoriciere.
Rem militarem mere et argute loqui. Under this aspect as
under so many others, he was the most French of the
Frenchmen of our age."

In vivid contrast to the foregoing let us now give
one fragmentary passage from a later portion of this
remarkable paper upon Lamoriciere, subsequent to
M. de Montalembert's scathing description of the
deadly influence of the coup d'itat of the 2nd of
December. He is speaking of the griefs, the degra-
dations, and the ignominies through which Lamo-
riciere, in common with so many of his illustrious
contemporaries, had to pass during several years of
intolerable exile and of what must have been to them
that yet more intolerable inaction to which they were
thereby condemned no continues
"No bitterness was spared him, and I speak here of the
bitterness of the heart and of the soul, of all griefs the most
poignant and the most incurable! Nothing was wanting to
him in the shape of misfortune! And yet after the loss of
his position, of his career, of his country, of the life of his
only son, of hispower, of his opportunity, there still remained
to him one human possession that he might lose—one last
plank saved from the shipwreck! His old popularity among
his contemporaries, and his companions in that shipwreck,
among his old political friends, in the bosom of that party
which he had not only served and defended, but, beyond
all, had honoured and protected by his glory ! This
popularity he hazarded all at once in:the service of the cause
of all others the most neglected, the most contested, the
most reviled. Ho risked it, and ho lost it. A priest whom
ho had known as a soldier, upon the soil of Africa
and uudar the banners of France, prior to his becoming at
once his father and his friend, came to him to offer in the
name of Pius IX. the opportunity of running into these
new perils with the certainty of being vanquished in a
desperate cause. He eagerly accepted it. Immediately
a long cry of insult and derision arose from the bosom of
all that which calls itself European Democracy. He was
dragged through every ignominy, ho and that young baud
of heroes who followed in his footsteps. A hideous
clamour, drawn from the depths of human baseness,
from the banks of the Thames to those of the Arno, pur-
sued with its invectives, with its derision; with its
calumnies, that devoted band and its heroic chieftain. And
when the final work of subjugation and of spoliation was
accomplished, he returned to France to be derided by those
who insulted him at his departure."

Finally, we must content ourselves with one portion
at least of the noble and touching peroration of this
funeral eloge upon Lamoriciere. Says the Count
de Alontalembert :

"All this said and done, after having thus sounded
the depths of the abyss, the oppressed soul finds consola-
tion in contemplating the grandeur and the glory of ad-
versity. Let us recognise the truth and say—Lamori-
ciero victorious and successful, marshal of Franco, con-
queror at the Alma or at Magenta, followed wheresoever
he went by the eager curiosity of the multitude, pam-
pered and intoxicated by prosperity, would not have
emerged from the brilliant crowd of fortunate soldiers,
would not have attained any other glory than that military
distinction of which France has been always so fond and
with which sho has been, so to speak, so completely satu-
rated. His effigy, placed in its proper rank in the galleries of
Versailles, in the midst of so many others, could then have
awakened in our souls no more than a passing emotion.
But Lamoriciere, betrayed by fortune, disgraced, pro-
scribed, insulted—Lamoriciere, the conqueror of anarchy
and the victim of the Dictatorship—Lamoriciere, con-
demned by honour to the ordeal of obscure inaction—
Lamoriciere, vanquished at Casteffidardo and cap-
tive at Ancona Lamoriciere, submitting himself to
the ignominy of his lot with a modesty and a
gravity perfectly ehristian—fi...lly dying, alone, but erect,
and with the crucifix iu his hand—behold there, indeed,
a personage who emerges all at once from the ranks of the
vulgar throng of heroes to ascend the grandest summit of
human admiration. Behold a glory altogether apart, which
rejuvenates the soul, which exalts it while purifying it, and
which one would exchange for no other ! Behold a spectacle
such as history rarely offers to view, and one of which we
have now the sorest need, we above all, we Frenchmen,
we Catholics, too docile adorers of Force and of Fortune.
Yes, this glory is enviable, and enviable beyond all others.
Nature may rebel, but reason and faith unite in proclaim-
ing it."

Enough—if we now add that the paper to which we
have here referred, and from which we have taken
the foregoing extracts, should, as a matter of course,
for its due appreciation, be read in the original and
in its entirety exactly as it appears in the pages of
Le Correspondant. Brief though it is, it may take
rank at once among the choiCest of the literary
masterpieces of the Count do Montalembert.
As such, however, it is far more than a mere
work of art simply—it is in its character
as a funeral oration, or posthumous tribute of re-
verence and affection, more than a rhetorical wreath
of immortelles—it is, of its kind, a very lachrymatory.
It adds yet another to the many enviable titles long
since won for himself by Charles de Montalembert !
For, this champion of Liberal Catholicism—this
annalist of the Monks of the West—this delineator
of St. Elizabeth, with a pen as subtly beautiful in
its every tint and touch as, in the employment of
actual pigments, was the pencil of Fra Angelico
—this advocate of Poland—this Biographer of
Lacordaire—has he not now also won our admira-
tion anew as the commemorator, of all that was pure
and heroic in the pure and heroic nature of Leon de
Lamoriciere?

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question had not been asked by the public, as they consi-
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