New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-04-02
VOL. XXIX.....No 9,044.
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
COUNT DE MONTALEMBERT.
,vpoM orr own CORRESPONDENCE

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weeks ago relative to the Council. he speaks OF MS
,,alodv ne incnrable: but near he felt he was 10
his ord 90 strong was his spirit, so undauhted
though calm his Christian courage and so active MS
interest in all that was taking place about him. th9'
death whom he had long learned to look upon as
friend must have come unexpectedly 10 MS DedS'ue'
90, all He passed last Summer, as usual at his
country seat. Chateau de Ia Roche, Cote dor. aud
Co.. a few months after his return, seemed IN better
health but his Improvement was only temporary.
n,ortbcless in the intervals of pain, he continued
,,I,orS mon the work. The Monks of the West"
,,.;.,o;re DIES Moines d'OcodeRt-tO which he had
81 many years of aflectiOnate study, aud
I'll no boped 10 complete before his death, and
- able beside, 10 keep up with the liter
80, M the dav allowing no important book pub
,tod in France in England. or in Germany TO es-
ao,, hi, notice. He spoke both English and German
s.rfsctly: whether he wrote German do not know,
o., ,b,.e who are acquainted with his works are
-. that he wrote excellent idiOmatic English.
1Io was also able to understand Polish and Swedish
hen spok,l and 10 translate books written in those
,rcuaccs A. if his time were not sufficiently taken
mn with his literary pursuits and his studies he was
= most hospitable host-receiving almost every
Tin, either at his table or in his family circle
visitor, from al nations, and giving cordial well
,o,,s 70 every one who had any claim upon his
i~fy hi, eager appetite for knowledge. He kept up,
80 an active correspondence-in short he led most
3rs+riIus life aud, like Sante Beuve. may be almost
I,r,lIv said TO have died with the pen in his hand.
Montalembert's day was methOdically arranged
,l,bor In the morning the newspapers and his
ltsrs were brought 20 his bed and he occupied the
srt hours after waking in reading them. AT
O'clock. after his breakfast was finished, simple
sroucli meal consisting of a chop, or, oftener OF
,rpe bowl Of SOUP taken in bed. the invalid rose,
or3 was assisted into his library where ms Secre-
co. NJ CamuS awaited him. and where he worked
until o'clock. when he dined. After dinner lie re-
c,ved hi. friends and his family in his library and
remained with them cOnVersIng until nearly md
night But his nights were often sieepless, IN conse-
orrce Of the terrible pains he had TO endure aud in
those long wakeful hours he did much reading. The
,i,er Of charity who watched with him placed every
evening upon the table by his bedside. books news
uap.r.. magazines and three pencils of different
colors-one red, another black, another blue. lie
made notes with these pencils according to the i'm
preston which was made upon his mind by what he
read and thus his feelings his opinions about
any book in his library may be roughly
gathered in turning over the leaves Only once
after bis return from the country did he leave the
house and that was on a day in February when he
wen aco,, the from his hotel TO hear mass at
tue old Church Of Saint Thomas Aquinas. But so
alUrely did he suffer from his malady that he was
obliged TO leave the Church before the service was
finished and be returned to his house never again TO
ouit. alive. On the evening Of Saturday, March
l. be received a considerable number of visitors and
do not leave the room until II o'clock Even after
L Lad gone to bed, he read hour or two in book
which the author had sent him the proof
acets that day, and then slept; was still sleep
A,.V..s 10 In
for nearly a year. had succeeded Sister Celes-
tine IN the charge of the invalid, lett him,
Al o'clock to 20 10 mass On her return he was
awake and composed, and listened as every day. TO
te pIayers which she read at his bedside Sudden
bhe struck his head with his hand and cried "Oh,
ny sister, my sisterw The Countess was called the
docio- and the priest were sent for, but the Count
Vas dead before they could arrive
Isuppose you have long since given your readers
ssketch of Montaemberts life. His death is an I'M
portant point in the history of this stormy time; 1t
removes one of the strong of the liberal Catholic
movement. one whose whole life had been devoted
10 the highest interests of the Church. which he be-
heyed could only become truly Catholic by becom-
lug truly liberal, and who. In pursuing TINS end'
sought as many both in the Church and out OF 1t be-
heyed, chimera. To him, however, 1T was
no cbimera. but a clear light from
Heaven that he followed and he hunted the dragon
OF Iltramontanism as if it had been real dragon,
aid lie SAINT George. "N'espoir ne peur" was his
motto if read il right on the escutcheon over the
church door on the day of his funeral lie had'
perhaps. no hope of living TO see the dragon van
eushed and the Church restored to that supremacy
which the Romish bishop would arrogate 10 himself
but them he had no fear of the foe ne iousnt Will
and no fear either that some other mana Oro power
hall n
H. than his would conquer it In time WIN al the
fiery zeal that made him even like an old Crusader
md he WAS indeed descended from that stock and
pond Of the strain he had peculiar genteness and
sweetness that made dis death regretted even by
those who had bitterly and angrily commended with
him in life Even the Cnirrs" newspaper that
coarse and brutal sheet which the Veullos made so
,hameful an exponent of a debased creed, put itself
INTO mourning on Monday for the man 1t had
naligned on Saturday. Sante Beuve said that, one
day. Alexis de Saint Priest, after listening long
tine 70 Montalembut, in some drawlng-room, deVcl-
opng one or another Of his absolute theories, with
that child-like air Of his and his drawing voice.
taid 10 him laughing "MOntalembert, when listen
10 Won | think am listening to Torquemada In his
young davs.0 ,,. Call. ..,oo+
II is often called because she was 50 iona Oh u
that in her exile she is recorded TO have eAcaiueu
81 would rather see the gutter OF the rue gu Dac
than Lake Lcmanw Those who want to see one OF
the most Characteristic streets in Paris must come
soon for a little bird is singing. or sobbing IN the
that the noble Pont Royae is to be destroyed ana
then the glory of the rue du BAG will be gone IL
had its name from the fact that IT led TO Bac or
ferry 10 the old old times, ferry which was re-
placed in 1854 by the present bridge, the Pont Royae'
Tie finest of all the bridges of the Seine to my eye
and which would as soon destroyed as the tower
Of St. jacques, But am told. the vandal word IKE
" many other vandal words, is gone out from the
1uileries and there is no help for 1T. The rue du