New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-28
FRANCE.
NAPOLEON AT THE THEATER.
PARIS, Wednesday, Oct.

NAPOLEON AT THE THEATER.
PARIS. Wednesday Oct. q, 1862
The city is quiet. The Emperor attended the
theater last evening and to-day returned to Com
pi6gne
THE PRESS AND THE PEoPLE-THE EMPREsss
UNPOPULARITY.
IFROA OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
PARIS Oct. fittings of strange audacity are
now said daily i'll the Paris Journals do
not mean of course, in the COnsttafORRel the
Pays the Patrie, that laughable little non
entity, the Journal O6GeL papers the sole end
and aim of whose being is, to lick absurd pomp
and crook the pregnant hinges of their knees where
thrift may follow fawning. but in temperate jour
nails, edited by men who have real public good in
view things are daily said that Louis Napoleon has
not for these many years that he has basked in the
sun of flattery and uncontrolled personal power
been accustomed to hear said with impunity. What
then do You think must be said in the newspapers
controlled by the irTecOncilables; where the Hugoes
all three with Rochefort Auguste Vacquere, and the
rest of that band of clearheaded keen witted fear
less haters of despotism and despots everywhere
but hating. most of ali, with violent, personal
hatred the man who embodies the despotism that
keeps its heel on the heart Of France-where such
men as these do all the writing and thinking, what
sort Of things, do you think, must be said But
wild as some of this writing is, and little too fond
writers in these journals are, there is, to Amer
can nothing to Justify the scOrnfu way in which a
few of the leading English journals speak of them.
For instance, the RGppel, the other day, spoke of
Eugene as Madame BOnaparte," and afterward
alluded to her as la femme de Napoleon ILL.," l. for
nv part cannot see what there is so mOnstrOus in
this that The London lines and Standard and the
French papers that limp after these august journal
istic TurveydTOps, trying in vain to initiate their
majesty should be angry at. First, LET them re-
member how English newspapers, without number.
used to speak about the good the blameless Prince
Albert, aud then let them ask who is Eugene that
she should be spared. She has no right to immunity,
even as a woman for sue continually Obtrudes her
self and her opinions into public notice. and IS
dOubly unpopular, both as being Spanish and as
being it is generally believed, at the bottom of much
of the petty despOtism of Louis AapOleOns reign.
Then, her attempts to unite the characters of Telig
nous devOtee-a book is actually TO be seen in the
shop windows called 1.-THE Empress as p Sister Of
Charity !"-with that OF leader Of fashion excite
only ridicue. We read in paragraph Of her buy
ing the most expensive of costumes from WOrth-the
man-milliner, the most expensive mllner, man or
womau in the worldly he Dozen and in the next
that on her journeys she has sooner reached any
town than she goes at TO the church and hears
mass and then to the hospital or the scene of the
latest accident where she gives away small sums of
money with ostentation, taking care that her left
hand shall read in the nex days newspapers all that
her right hand doeth
OF course the Rocheforts and Hugos are in costa
eies Of delight the conyOcaOn blunder. At first,
laundering Government and 1t is not to be denied
that, being thrice armed in having quarrel
admitted on all hands to be just the vigor with
which they are pushing the enemy to the WALL
is frightening good many timid people. At first
bo1u Of hat rallad he
VI the community laughed at the appeals of the
Rappel and the Rerel to the passions of the crowd
but they are now alarmed lest the crowd should
respond with too much energy and enthusiasm to
this appeal. which, after ALL has as much
logic as passion in il. Still, however sick
and weak and feeble in resolution Louis
Napoleon may be, he has shown such
q bloody mind in the past, and is known to have
supplied himself with such murderous enginery of
resistance TO revolution that few people are to be
found who doubt the end of any such revolutionary
proposed by the irreconcilables
But who that has American blood in his veins can
doubt any that it is better to die all at once
than to live the political life that il the only one pos
sbe in Paris to-day What other people is there on
earth match for these Parisans in learning in art
in the economies of the material life, in all that
makes what we call civilization And, with all this
what other people is match for them in downright
slaVishness and base spaniefawningG To
what it is 10 be attributed l am not
competent TO discover; but when one
thinks Of what the English did. at
Worcester and Whitehall. and what handful Of
Americans did at Lexington and Yorktown how
they achieved a noble freedom, which had been as
nObly won, and then, when looks at France with
out single great name TO light her past by its deyo
tOn 10 principle. and without single battle fought
and won fol national freedom he ponder deeply
on The problem. What Las ay2ledfo France this long
line Of jllustriOus writer's and thinkers these poets
and artists, these discoveries and statesmen whose
snulttudnous statues look down from the LOnyro
upon the Paris Of today. that enjoys It's easy care
less life under this BRIGHT and smiling sky. with
out the wish the courage 70 strike blow for that