New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-08
FRANCE.
The President Charivari-Margaret Fuller
and Professor Philarete Chasles-Fire-
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Correspondence Of The n. 7. Tribune
PARIS, Thursday, April p, 1852.
The President has left us, and is proba-
bly, at this moment miles and miles away from Paris
Do not give way to needless exhilarston, for he is
coming back again tomorrow. He took bis departure
last evening by special train upon the Orleans road in
company with the Ministers OF Public Works, Interior,
and Justice upon tour of inquiry in the ancient prov
ince of La Sologne This unhe althy district half of 1t
parched to a degree of ardity almost without equal and
the other half marshy that the unwary bogtrotter Is
engulfed at every STEP has long been praying for
ystem of drainage which may relieve its most pressing
needs The President and M. Lefebre-D uruhe have
zone to see whether it is possible for the State to
dertake the digging of canal through the tract for the
purpose of diverng the moisture from the bogs into the
desert 1t is probable oo that the President will make
speech after which they will return to Paris highly
edited with the results of their tour.
The Chartrdri received on Monday " warning from
the Minister Of Police, account of an article pub.
lshed in the issue Of Sunday translate the article
entire 1t forms part of series of supposed extracts
from Paris journal of the year of Lord 1902 and
represents the state of society and the pass that we
shall have come at that period The extract paricu
ary incrminated by NJ de Maupas is entitled Inaugu.
ration of the statue of Hippolyte Fortoul" Now Hip
poyte Fortou Minister OF the Marine Is ut present
Minister of Public Instruction
"An imposing ceremony took place to-day.
The statue OF Hppoyte Fortoul was inaugurated In
presence OF an enormous crowd collected upon the
Place du CarrOusel.
alt is well known that this great Minister, struggling
no nj me
the darkness of Greek and Latin and opened to new
civilization the path in which 1t has ever since marched
"Fortous statue is made of wood. Sculpture In
stone, marble bronze, which was very well In prim
tive ages 10 not up to ideas. Wood comes nearer
to nature which is the end and aim of all art Inc
frock coat Of the Minister, his pantaoons and hts waist
coat are all painted with the most scrupuous hdelity
his watch chain is gilt two enameled eyes initiate the
humsn orbs with and an ingenious
mechanism the interior OF the statue opens and shuts
them from time to time Fortoul can also lit his TWO
arms. :,
"The Minister s in the attitude of hero tramping
bachelors of letters under foot, while Latin dragon
to burst his etters and Greek
in vain with his innumerable heads
"No discourse pronounced on this interesting oc
casion. Public loquacity has gone out OF fashion A
serious and practical nation like would find no en-
tertainment in listening 10 string OF more or less 30
norous pt We longer live, happily, in the tune
of the orators When the veil was withdrawn from the
statue the crowd gave three cheers and struck up
frantic rigadoon around the monument This Is better
"Courbet the painter who has done so much toward
the point where we see it todsyhe inventor of real
ism present at the inauguration Although almost
hundred years DID, Courbet yet enjoys perfect use OF
his faculties and expressed to the builder OF the statue
the q scaton he felt at the completion OF his work
ave must permit ourselves one single reflection
Why did not the sculptor engrave the following Latin
inscription beneath the monument
ERresi0 ct fortissimo FOrtOuI
Instructions pubce Minisuo.
Civilizations rtstuutort!
Latiai rictori 4rdcique debeltdtori
Ann. MIXH
ave publish this inscription which nobody can read,
IN order give idea of the whmscaities that arc
'ometimes hid in the brain of artist We trust that
the authorities will Immediately give the necessary
orders to eace this inscription or at least have trans
lated"
The article then goes to enumerate the various
blessings which will have accrued to society from the
partial innovations Of fifty years ago. The papers of the
18th of April 1902 that the Paais des Quare
Nations 10 to be demolished the Academy being
abolished there is no further need for It, The well
known reading room the of the Rue Vivenne
s to be converted into chop for the sale of brandy
plums. The statues of politicians authors artists &c
ornamentne the facade of the Hotel de Vile to be
removed These ancient idols to be replaced by
mementoes of gentlemen who have really benefited
society such Lantimeche the inventor of the mag
netoelectrc India rubber greacoat Cabassa the dis
coveIer of purgative chocolate; Verdural well known
for his hybrid vegetable entitled the tomatoartichoke
The Sorbonne is to become a mandatory OF lamp
black troupe of Chinese actors Is performing at the
Coincide Franchise, the Grand Opera is giving exhib
tons of pugnacous eas and the Government Is getting
up bulL6ght
Now all this seems to me goodhumored extrava.
ganzs upon the results likely to flow from NJ Fortouls
presence in the Cabinet l have given the article At
length, that your readers may what in times
constitutes "dela de presss" One warning and
the Charirari Is wound UP.
NJ Phiarete Chases professor of pedantry. and dis
appointed candidate for the Academy having received
two votes at the late election has published in the d.
bats review of the life, early education and works of
Margaret Fuller. N. Chasles well knows that Madame
Ossol was lost at sea- not much year ago, and
persisted with her infant In her arms 1t seems to me
that this amentabe end ought to protect her time
yet from the brutality Of the reviewer that until the
narrowing details Of that shipwreck in some
ure forgotten, the memory Of desolatng a catastro
pie Is in some degree deadened, neither her eccentr
cines nor her shortcomings properly become sub
jects for the iippant pen Of critic like Phiare.e
Chases. give you sundry extracts from the article in
question. and your readers judge whether it il in all
respects worthy Of publication in the first journal Of
France:
THE United States wanted Madame de stael
Three persons of wit Of Boston invented one That n
to say II is all . modification
Margaret Fuller not = Christian and she was
more than Catholic She was not European yet she
was more than French woman She despised Amer.
ica, and she was more than Democrat Pride, that
ungovernsble cholera which has furnished so many
modern minds. and ruined many superior ntellects
withered and corrupted her in her very essence de-
sroyed her lie and what talent there in her. and
without leaving her the time TO produce good book,
handed her over to miserable and obscure DEATH with
al thatshe loved
We shall Miss Fuller rush by turns into all the
folies Of mind gone asTay preaching philosophy 70
up public lessons upon conversation, mixed with punch
and spOnge-cske searching the aesthetic first cause