New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-01
Foreign Correspondence of The Tribune.
Den an6 1nk PORTRAITS .
FRANCE.-..M. BERRYER.

FRANcE.-.-N. BERRIER.
PARIS, February, ls47.
About the year 1922 cause was on trial at
Bhis. and the advocate who had undertaken the
dstence seemed to be actingupon the principle that
10 gain time was to gain everything. he talked
long and heavily until the Court and the audience
became equally weary and wished he would be
done. His chd-a little boy of less than three
wears old-was in court with his mother, and, par
taking the general feeling and losing all patience
with the speech, he sprang up and, turning 10 MS
mother. cried out so to be heard throughout the
room Mother enough OF that 1t bores me- Let
a. 60" "The cause is heard said the Judge
laughing "put up your Papers-the tribunal VIII
consider them
II any one wishes to see an advocate who com
menced his career by speech so short and effect
i've he may go any day to the Chamber OF Depu-
ties and on the Legitimist benches he Will remark
q man of medium hight whose broad shoulders
and full chest are in due proportion with the other
parts of a most athletic form-wbose full face, were
II not for slight French expression about the eyes,
would be thoroughly English-whose thin hair is
carefully brushed forward over half bald and i'm
mense head-who wears his coat buttoned up
close in the neck, and, like His Excellency George
N. Briggs of Massachusetts, dispenses with the
e1travagance Of a shirtcollar; that Is the man
the first orator of the French bar-the leader oil
the Legitimist party in the Chamber-the man
who said 81 have consecra.ed my life to the de-
fence of the ancient alliance Of royalty and liberty
ii, is NJ. Berger
PIERRE ANTOINE BERRrER was born at Pans
90 the 4th of January, 1890 His father was an
eminent barrister. The old man was much more
prudent than many of his brothers oil the law aho'
though he deplored the wreck Of ancient privileges
he knew enough to keep quiet and save bis head
while at the same time he brought up his son IN
the love of those institutions which were passing
away-until in the boys mind as in the dreams
Of the Poet the Present wore only commonplace,
vulgar and repulsiye aspect and all the slores o'
time gathered in golden brightness around the SET
eng of roy alty--around the Past, which is ad'
-4ired because it is the Past. Berger is bour'
bonist therefore, almost Of necessity.
After the horrors of the Revolution had little
subsidized, young Berger was sent to the College
Of JULY, where he proved himself to be equally
intelhgent and Representatives, working hard but
oftener not at alone Of the poorest Greek and Latin
scholars in the establishment, but at all times capa
bic of writing or speaking most beautifully and
srciby in bis own language. In the estimation
ofhs monkish teachers, however, he was redeemed
by the fact that his piety was so fervent and his
admiration Of moral philosophy so ardent and pro
6and that he could scarcely be restrained from be
coming an eccelesiastic He insisted that he would
be preacher and it was only after infinite trouble
that he was kept out Of seminary into which bis
shostly teachers would willingly have thrust him.
What a preacher he would have made Lacor
dare would have been shorn of half his giories
and the Church reused TO activity for good or evil
o. the power Of great genius only can rouse such
sensual sleepers. But Berger was destined TO
play anothe AT on the stage Of life and the man
agemcnt woniG not change the role to please him.
From the afaence Of this early educstion Der
ysr has nevt VdAped. Crowded with business
living in the s. : msterialism and inhdety-
surrounded by a. ptstioas to dissipation oil all
sorts, his convc.ocs have always remained deep
and clear his faih anwsveing and his heart fer
vent. But his rcl zion is tile too much like that
Of the I,alisn-since-s ercsgh but altogether too
eonvsnient-quite ~, lsrle AID quite too capable
Of allowing any very DESIRABLE enjoyment without
much respect for its character
Berger was made e; ls,wysr and his circum.