The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-08-29
! Tha Frenchr charactar. I:

- The FRENCH Character. ra,..
- The French are enthusiastic Pos,
sessed Of less wit than sths sIrish,s less
genius thanathe English, less studious,
ness than the Germans, they have more
imaginationszthanl all of thems Y on
may see this in their rmilitary operations,
in which they are in strong contrsst with
their neighbors across. the channel
English soldiersssares characterized By
theircool intrepiditG--French by, ire,
resistible iu,petuesity. so, in their, at.
tachments, the English are distinguish
ed by Persistence the French sbyEardor.
While seated one morning in the of
fee of the American, Ambassador, Mr.
Mason came 10, and after the usual sal
utations, said, Did you ever get into
profuse perspiration and have q wet
blanket thrown over you 2" mo. 9
" I did yesterday. A lady come to me
with the following narrative am
from the United States, and have IN
care young lady who had been visiting
her friends in this country She is a
Protestant, and her father and mother
when dying, charged her never TO for
sake her faith, Of, marry a Catholic
She has, moreover, a Protessant friend
in the United States to whom she is at
tached. and to whom, on her return to
New York, she expects to be married.
While in the south of Franco she met
with French gentleman who was smit-i
ten with her; he procured an introduc
tion to her, and has been counting her
with unremitting attentions ever since.
She has used every measure to shake
him of, she has frowned upon him;= she
has told him she can never marry him,
that it is utterly impossible; that his
attentions are unpleasant, wearisome,
disgusting, even painful to her, and per-
emptorily ordered kim never to see her. ,
He replies, That is impossible till I
die. 1 cannot live without seeing yoa9
We came to this city in hopes TO es.
cape him, but he watched our move
ments aud came with us we sought to
hide from him here, but he has found
us oat.s3 We; have told him we shall
leave the country, and that he had be-
ter return home. sc No.. no, says he.
= vii 60 with 5 on when you 60, will
stop wAen you stop, / Iwil stay where
you put up, Twill live where you live,
I will die where yon4 die. ~ How can
anything be done to save US from this
annoyance ?ns Mr.. Mason sale. he i'm
mediatelys sent. for q 7orsfect of the po-
lice, and gave him the facts in presence
of the old lady. {" Your troubles are
at an end, y said the police officer >. the
young manswill see your ward no more.
Give me HIS name aud address ;gswe viii
him, and if he obey not we
have . way of making him obey Mr..
Mason returned with sthe-old lady to
her. lodgings, aud announced to the
young one the joyful news, Of her deliy-
erance frem the nnnoyance. to which she
had been subjected,s when, 10 with
gush of grief sheserieds4' O, you have.
been SO cruel as tosapply to the police
Yeuwwill wound the young mans feel
ings. O, he is such fine, such noble
young mar, i would suffer anything
rather than wound his heart" |" start
ed homeward." said Mr., Mason, q i'm
saying within myself, We have
been doing mischief; they will be marri-
ed as sure as the world. No resisting
French. enthusiasm. y .sz.ss-- So.
aAsswe were approaching Geneva,
French peer who was With US, put -li bis s
head out of the window announced that
Mont Blame was in view. As We look
ed at the sublime spectacle, in sight off
whiehsHe rode for hours, on calm sum
ner's evening, he cried out, " Napoleon
p At first we did not under
stand his exclamation but pointing to
he king of the Alps towering toward
leasen, he talked to US, till, like him,
the image of the hero reflected
rom the lofty mountain, There"
aid be, "a is his chapeau there is his
profile there his shoulders; there his
,ust there his epaulets. Don't you
zee him It isNapoleonf Napoisonf'l
What conception that God. before
he mountains were brought forth, had
lis eye upon the great conquercr, and
Shen hss upheaved the Alps he cut the1
profile on its lOftiest summit
in its mantle Of eternal
now, the continent he was destined to
Ilumine by his bivouac fires.
The love of Napoleon is, with the
french, an intense and all-pervadingl
in almost every house you en-
er, You find his statue or statuette, or
is likeness engraved or painted, or some
nemento of him. Here and there /
Ound manuscripts in peuciI=marks-in
rhioh. ] believe, be generally wrote
nd, found it carefully kept, elegantly
'ound, and valued above all other pos
ezsions of the family. Everywhere the
tfeets of Paris resounded with the cries
& men and boys selling descriptions of
yapoieon's tomp That tomb itself
peaks volumes. 7 have seen nothing
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