The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-29

admitted to the bar soon after arriving
at age and during the reign OF Louis Philippe
devoted himself mainly to the practice of his
profession. 1t was not until after the Revolu-
ton of February, 1S4S, that he entered office
for the first time. lie then became Secretary
General to the Minister of the Interior and in
that capacity was called on to write the circular
to the Commissioners of the Provisional Govern
ment and the famous ''Bulletins" of 1S4S. He
was soon transferred to the Under-Secretaryship
for Foreign Affairs, and, being elected men,
Der of the Assembly, voted for the prosecution
of Louis Blanc and Caussidiere, for their
completely in the insurrection of June,
1S4S; refused to join in the vote of
thanks to General Cavaignac; and resolutely
opposed the expedition to Rome in December,
1S4S by which Louis Napoleon incurred the
hostility of the leading republicans with whom
he had heretofore affiliated. He opposed the
elevation of the Bonaparte adventurer to the
Presidency, and after that event became his
strenuous antagonist in the National Assembly.
The implication of Ledru-Rollin in the plot to
overthrow the Prince President rendered it ne
cessary for the leader of the Mountain" party
to seek safety in England after which Jules
Favre succeeded to the leadership.
By the coup detdt he was driven into retire
ment, as he refused to take the oath Of alleg-
OOhobiboplOh
member of the Conseil- General of Lore-et-
Rhone. He then devoted himself for some years
to his profession, and as one of the counsel of
Orsini, in October 1885, created an immense
sensation by the boldness and eloquence of his
defense of the reckless enthusiast who had
attempted the life of the Emperor. But he
entered the Corps Legislatif the same year,
taking the oath of allegiance to the empire
which he detested; and since that time, by sue
cessive reflections in 1868 and 1862 has sigma
lized himself by an answering antagonism of
the Imperial policy. He was one of the original
''fve" opposition members, has advocated the
complete liberty of the press, opposed
the Flaw OF deportation" fought against
French interference in the Italian war
of independence against Austria in 1852 and in
1864 severely assailed the ill-starred Mexican
venture of the Emperor. In 1887 he published
work entitled "Contemporaneous Biography"
| and since that time many of his famous speeches
| and several pamphlets have been given to the
| public in q permanent form. In August, 1860,
| and again in 1861, he was elected bGtOnnier or
| president of the order of advocates at Paris,
fitting recognition of his high standing in the
profession; and in May, 1861 he became mem
ber of the French Academy.
| When Napoleon showed signs of yielding
something to the pressure of public opinion
| after the general elections of May, 1869, NJ.
| Favresname came to be mentioned prominently
| in connection with Ollivier's as the head of the
responsible ministry which was about to be
installed. But he soon dispelled the possibility
OF the scheme by declaring his dissatisfaction
with the proposed constitutional regime" $50
long" he wrote in September last, 'as the press
is amenable to judges only, and not to jury;
so long as there is no guarantee for individual
liberty so long as elections are not free,
! and the mayors are not elected by the
| populations; so long as an enormous
standing army weighs upon our budget, we
should be the most contemplate people on
earth if we were satisfied" So he succeeded to
the position vacated by Olivier, on the atter's
accession to power.
On the 25th of June last just before the war
cloud gathered over Europe, NJ. Favre delivered
famous speech in the Chamber, in which he
was as unmerciful to the first empire to the
second. While supporting proposal of the
Left that the municipalities should be allowed
to elect their mayors, he asserted that the inhe-
rent rights of the municipalities, recognized as
early as the thirteenth century, had been
stamped out by the first Napoleon. Dazzled
by the glitter of his military glory, France
was still under the influence of his
tyrannical ideas, under the false impress
sion that q genius had saved her from
ruin, while in reality he had ruined her and an
initiated her liberties. This plain speaking
created great uproar, and when Granier de
Cassaignac, one of the most servile tools of the
third Napoleon, interrupted him with the decla-
ration that the first Napoleon covered France
with institutions; you and your friends with
ruins" NJ. Favre referred TO the humiliation of
France through foreign invasions, which would
have been averted if liberty had held command
of the army instead of despotism, declared that
there was not single. man in the Chamber who
would venture to assert that liberty existed
under the first empire, and continued:-"I an
Uindicating The glory of The country against he
unconscious UOtdries of despotism, lohO are
anxious to reUioe traditions ,ohic, ,oould once
more bring about our degrGdGtiOnP
These stirring words uttered scarcely three
weeks before the declaration of war agains
Prussia and before there was sign of the ap
preaching conflict, were unconsciously pro
phetic.
The rise of the HohenZollern difficulty founC
NJ. Fayre fully prepared to lead the assault upor
the Olivier Government. On the Sth of July
when the ministry attempted to secure a post
ponement of the discussion of the question, anC
refused to lay before the Chamber the docu
ments relating to it, he declared that the objec
of delay was to afford an opportunit,
for stock jobbing on the Bourse, and wher
the final declaration of war came, tool
his stand by the side of Thiers and Gam
BETA, and insisted upon the production
of all the correspondence with Prussia declarin!
that France could not make war on the autho
: rity of mere kilograms. But after the Frencl