Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1855-07-17

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the muses. and ihe age Of Phidas nnd Pr5xi-
,eles. = s'ik ,,'1
A glance at the Louvre alone would show
the vast superiority ol France in the fine
arts. II is collection Of musetms ofssat-
uary and painting. England has her Yer.
non, Dulwich, and Flaxnan galleries; her
Royal Academy, British Institution and So.
ciety Of Arts-but they viii moi bear com. !.
parison with the Louvre. One fqti tpeaks
volumes; neither in the Vernon Gallery,
The British lns,i,piion, nor ihe nq Qal Gall
l6ft di iStll az,iE, N y ID is sIlile
ii ibe Louvre must have sect mol less
than fifty, all 50 earnestly engaged Initiating
the old masters that they seem moi to observe
the passing crowd. o@ re VIA, ett'8a''i
The French are q tickle people. This is
apparen. from their religious hisbfy. When
Clovis turned from Pagahism to christianity
he baptized ih blood. The Franks lat first
devoted Catholics showed symptoms Of re-.
vol. as early as A. D. 996, when Robert, son
OF Hugh Capet,, was divorced and excom-
municaled, and obliged TO see tie mass sus-
pended, the sacramehts deniedto the sick,
and the dead unburied, because his Kingdom
was placed under an inteidict- -cfueliies
from which sprang a feeling ID the South Of
Frnnce that has never been ex,ingnished
In 1887 Louis VII quarreled with the Pope
about The nomination. of arehbishops. In
1880 his son, Phillip II, established The in.
QUESTION, and prosecuted a barbarous cru.
sade against the Proiestants Iof Languedoc
and Gascony. In 1883 Phillip the Fair re-
fused to obey the summons Of The Pope to
march against the Saracens, denominated
him hereto imposter and Simonac, be-
cause he asserted his authority over the kings
and Kingdoms Of the earth, and having con.
trived to secure his person, subjec,ed him to
The most humilia.ing indigni,ies. We rec!
olect the Pragmalic Sanctions under Charles
VII; the conspiracy against the king and
the Guises; the conference Of Poissey,
granting toleraton; the violation Of its de.
cree; the civil war; the massacre of ST. Bar.
lholomew; The subsequent granting o. liber-
ty Of conscience; the ediSt Of Nantes; its
revocation, which razed the temples, exIl4d
the minister's aud suppressed the worship
Of Proleslants. and required renunciation
Of their religion on pain and death. Next
comes, with the revolu,ioh, the overthrow Of
all religion-a blow from which the French
Catholic Church has meyer recovered. In
1889 she had 100000 clergy, and drew an.
nually from the treasury one hundred and
eighteen millions Of fraucs; now sho has
but 10000 clergy, sus,dneG by an allow
ance Of only thirty.four million Of francs.
The same thing is sSen in the political
history Of France. The English crown
has descended in an anIunbroken line from
Egbert TO Victoria. Tie French have had
four separate dynasties in the same period:
the Merovingian, Caaovingian, CapeIian.
and Bourbon. Since the organization Of
the present government of the Omitted States.
the French have passed successively under
fifteen different formI OF government: in
1888 Louis XVI was On the throne; in 1889
we find the States. General, which gave
place in the same year TO the Constituent
Assembly; in 1899 the National Convention;
in 1898 the Reign OF Terror; in 1885 the
Directory; in 1899 he Consulate; in 1904
the Empire; in 18l4the monarchy restored;
in 1880 the reigning family overthrown and
the crown transferred TO younger branch;
in 1848 the Provisional Government and
the Republic; in 1851 the modified Repub-
lie; in 1852 the Empire restored,
Go into the Gallery Of the Versailles, and
perhaps you see a historical painting breath
ing the iercest lberty-.Slaies. General,
may be, with sit hundred uplifte1 right
hands and inllriated countenances, swear
ing for universal freedom, SO that you can
scarce gaze upon the canvas moment
without leaping from the ground with a
shoul! Move on! and 10! the next panel in
order is an emperor in robes, with pros.
Iraie multitude al ibis feet. AT the place OF
the Bas,ille yoh see the column Of July,
whose capital i surmounted with a gi,t
globe on which stands colossal figure Of
Liberty; in its fight hand is torch, in it's
left broken chain; 1t stands on one foo,
with expanded wings. On the western side
Of the pedestal, beneath a lion passant, we
read the following inscription. s''s r
A la glorie aes ci,oyens Francais, que
s'armerent ct combauirent pour la defense
des liberties publiques dams les memorables
journees des 2T, 28, 30 Juliet, 1880. .,e 4
To the glory Of the citizens of France,
" no armed and fought in defense OF the
public liberty on the memorable days Of the
eth, 28!h, and 29th Of July, 1890,
You fancy as you look that you are
among FREQ people, but IL amomentary
delusion; long since the chain was welded,
the torch extinguished, the genius put TO
flight. and the inscription made a mockery.
Standing in the Place de la Concorde you
are reminded that in 1863 il was called
Place Louis XIV; in l792 it was called
Place de ID Revolutions; in 1900 Place de Ia
Concorde; in 1914 Place Louis XVresior.
ed. In 1888 il was appropriated for statue
in honor Of Louis XIV; in l792, by order
Of The National Assembly, the staue wa;
melted down into Republican cannon, while
a plaster figure Of Liberty took lis place, il
front Of which the guillo.ine was planted
in 1900 both figure and pedestal we're re
moved, and a model Of another column
erected; in l8l6'an order was issued fo
erecting the statue Of Louis XIV. Alter tn,
accession Of Charles X il was ordered tina
n stntua should aha y rayactad N II T.o,,is WI