New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-16
n.,noo,,uc Feeling. ln the French Army.



r.s above al lAings, necessary that 'ons7'
- .-----ef sIag1lt announce the genera ie-il9
~ The French army. FOR o ID At subject inArh Il
'---.'-.....r- as zone abroad. On the genera
c,aEr~ u me French amy depends ihe pra1' =
F,srca and OF Europe, and the EngAsn ga = -
WHO 1o.sa11reherds or mistakes the oiI- ~ -
r.ef-. ~ tho French army. might De g1liy Q,
o,sya srI vr.ev01s errors In political co'o4c' ~
o-s,;,r II has ever been our Own console 'l,o1i
o,-,..,tior-an opinion formed on as macn ana -
o,.f f- .s~~.-!-ee with renchmen. o. al c- ass7
e-Usto the lot II most u possess IA o. Al
lie elements Of opinion 10 France the army y 0!
lar the 1ost rad.csll7 democranc-
Previously % l7-s the army, as Is s-...ay
k,o,Tn vyss offered by the noJlesse and gentry
b,. mo- n. birth breeding polIsh, and brs'ery-9y
rea distinguished, in great degree Df M
.tgb,loss III " ~ the UfeU( cotr. oiuce 4''-'
- no army. " h the incons.derame eXceP-
,.,- ,f rom r-l5 20 $50 has been othcereo rom
the treat BODY o' the nation and reor-.'eu ''oli
n-ietsres snd farm laborers rom the aT's as au1
small sh0pkeepers Of towns ana 's-I47'' -,
-,,o-a the men xho IN the space Of twelve ears
ave % France fourteen armies hspVDlcah ~
s.,.i.oart and Democratic II OPINION arm z,
~ ove~ran and conquered nearly the "D"' 20
EuroDa When BonApare, deYouren %! P1'sD-. .
an bitior sought % change the form OF 'p'e' n w.
tho chief difficulty and the most strenuous OPt
49,, he met was 10 the army The army tIom
80, . go, "a. tborpuehy democratic and no
ssC,ioo Of IL more democratic than tne army ol
r.. g. ,rb'~b Napoleon himself belonged ANA
-, {, must be admitted the future Emperor
f,ood tools AID instruments among the "hcers ne
commanded SEE. il can never also be orSotten nat
ovey,. one NJ the c0nspracies leveled against has
power proceeded from that arm Of the pubic force
10 which Doe himself belonged. For years Berna-
dotte. Moreau. Msssens, Augereau. Lannes' lie.
courbe. and Gouvria 81 Cyr. were FTondeHrs, II
not something more than FroHdDuys Ccracchi'
Diana Arena and TopinO bcbrun. were mutary
copspirators and Msiet Guidal / ahorie' and ooi-
Oudet. al c9usplrsiors belonged " VIC an!
While therefore W. admit that even the most De
roo0rstc o. the army became for time dazzled
and drunk with victory yet 1914 ard 1919 ioand
that branch OF the public service with political ieei.
pgs not very different 10 those which PrevaheG
from 1893 ~ 1870. Operations. or, as We shoud
saw dsm.ssas Of officers and snD0ihcers' from
lsl5to 1890 no doubt rendered the French army
much less democratic much less popular 10 eeling
and sentIment-but what was the result Con
spiracies and secret societies from l-lo to l-3o
n story hear. witness 10 the affair OF Paul Dider
a, LYONS and Grenoble IN l5lG-to the affairs OF
La Rochelle Bei0rt Saumur, and Iouion' AL con-
Quoted by military We need but che the names
Of Berth. Caron. Bories, ltoullX' Goubin ana rom
mier. al Of the iJth Regiment Many other regi-
nents were implicated in that chGrboHHr'1e, pro
noting cause Of the revolution OF 1880
A vast body of the officers and sonS othcc's OF the
French army were long antecedently 70 1880 de
sirous Of change Of Government In the army
the earliest psrtsans Of the Duke Of Orleans were
found ~ the army also were soon discovered The
b.tterest enemies Of the cx King Louis Philippe
The SocieiS des Dro,tS do 2 Hommc, Of the Amis d"
PeD5le the Socief( Gaukoisc, were extensively re-
cruitcd from the army, aud m every instruction
and conspiracy some sous oDfoerS were found
Thus the sentiments and opinions, the tradition OF
1924 and 1875 survive in that branch OF the public
,orce and il is The greatest Of all mistakes TO sup
pose that the French army is not essentially and
radically democratic in tone and feeling, whether
serve Monarch, an Emperor, or Republic