The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-24

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refm knowing that Gsn. Tfoeha
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proposed 70 BIN be- ioniented him.
self with giving him one oi most
nhimvurtaui commands IN The eoun.
Try. We ell know the history ol
General Trocbu's career aucc thu
breaking out Of the present war
When the incapacity Of the favor.
itet es The Court of the Second I'm.
pre- became sclfovhlent, the Gov.
erhmcht callcl upon him, iatdily and
reluctantly, ioorganlSe the new army
that was to assemble at the camp of
Chalous. Amidst obstacles almost
insumountable, he performed his
arduous task In n manner calculated
10 gain the enthusiastic admiration
and applause Of his countrymcn, and
the respect Of his adyersarics, the
Generals Of the German forces.
A still more difficult task was then
intrusted TO General Trochu. lie
was appointed Commander-in-cbief
of the TROOPS in Paris, and he was
commissioned to take all steps ne
cessary to prevent the enemy from
forcing his way into the Capitol of
France--a herculean task a task
from which the humbug Generals of
the second Empire would have shrunk
in dismay, but which the gifted, in.
domitable and lndefatigable General
Trochu Immediately went to work
to perform. lie did wonders in tn .
respect; he restored the courage and
confidence of the Parisians; he chan
ged their dependency to ealmness,
and filled them with the determina-
tion to die rather than surrender the
great city of France to the foreign
invader.
The compliment that was paid to
General Trochu upon the overthrow
of the second Empire was perhaps
the most aattering that has been be-
slowed upon n prominent French
General. The Radicals who took
charge of the Government not only
appointed him Minister of War, but
also made him President of the Pro-
visional Government.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs in
the new Provisional Government is
the ilustrious Jules Favre, the great
est lawyer, the most brilliant orator
of France. Gabriel Claude Jules
Favrc, born at Lyons, March 81,
1909, was prosecuting his studies for
the bar at the outbreak of the revo-
luton of July, 1880, in which he took
an active part. lie soon afterwards
commenced practice, while the indie
pendcncc of his character, the bitter
irony Of his address, and the radical
ism ofhis opinions, made him a rep
utation, and he has remained the
constant champion Of French Re
publicanism, in the press, in the diff
ferent National Assemblies, and at
the bar. After the revolution of
February, 1S48, he became Secrcta-
ry-Gencral of the Ministry of the
Interior, end was the author of the
circular to the Commissioners OF the
Provisional Government, as well us
of the Bulletins " of the same year.
He officiated for some time as Under
Secretary of Foreign affairs, voted
for the prosecution Of NM. Louis
Blanc and Caussidierc for their
complicityin the insuerection of June
1s4S. He became the strenuous OPP
ponent Of Louis Napoleon, after the
latter's election to the Presidency,
and the leader of the Montague on
the flight of Nj. Ledru Rollin, Flee
ted after the coup d'etet Of 1861 to
the General Council of the Loire
et-Rhone, herefused to take the oath
of the new constitution. His de-
Tense of Orsini in 1858 created al
great sensation by its boldness and
eloquence. In the same year he
became a member Of the Legislative
body I; since which time he has die
tinguished himself by his speeches
in favor Of complete liberty Of the
press, against the law Of " deporta.
tion,n the war with Austria OF 1869,
and 1854 by an attack on the policy
Of the Imperial Government in the
Mexican war. NJ. Favre published
in 1887 work Untitled "Contempo-
raneous Biography" Many Of his
most famous speeches and several
pamphlete have peen published. lie
was elected batonaier Of the Order of
Advocates at Paris in August, 1860,
and again in 1861, and a member
of the French Academy in 1867.