Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-07
Roehcfort and tho Commnnis,.

The San Francisco Bulletin has letter from
Paris, dated July 1, from which we take the fol-
lowing:
an. Naquet, the hunehback deputy of Paris,
was member Of this radical deputaton to the
president. He profited by the occasion to de-
mand an amnesty for political prisoners and
proscripts. NJ. Theirs promised shortly TO pro-
mitigate one. He agreed that order being re-
stored, there is no longer any need for draconian
severity. He informed his new allies that he
had given orders for the cessation of arrests in
Paris of citizens accused Of belonging to the
commune. In answer TO question from Louis
Blanc, the president said that Rocbefort, owing
to his bad state of health, would not be trans
ported to New Caledonia, and that everything
had been done to mitigate in his favor the
prison regime to which, as a political convict
he was necessarily subjected. Books, writing
materials and files of newspapers had been at
Rochefort's request sent to him, TO enable him
to complete his history Of the second empire
which NJ Theirs believed would not be read
with pleasure by the Chiselhurst exiles.
"Since RocheiOrt was condemned by the Yer
sallles court martial, he has employed his pen
to good effect. One of his literary efforts in
prison is revised edition of The Memoirs of a
Vaudeviliist, by his father, the late Marquis A.
de Rochefort. There were strange points of
analogy in the des .iny of the father and son. A.
de Roehefort relates that he was not only born
IN prison during the reign of terror but that the
two first years of his life were passed in Jail
with his mother, woman of strong intellect
and lndomitabe courage. She had been made
widow by Tonquet Tinyile, and her own head
was menaced by Robespierre. When she left
prison she found that her family was ruined. A
COUSIN who managed to cOnciiate the Mountain
took possession Of the Lucay estate, on which
the commune Of Enghein les Bans has since
sprang up under the consulate, the wild
owed marquise found means 10 obtain a
course for her son in the college of
orleans, bnt nervous malady with which
he was born, united to a gastric affection, pre-
vented him from prohting by this opportunity.
AT the age Of fifteen the marquis obtained
through his mothers Influence a place in the
ministry of the interior He had no salary to
begin with, but was promised one of 1000 francs
in three years Meanwhile he had shelter, a
comfortable fire and nothing to do. AS pas
time, he took to writing a Vaudeville, which
caused the other clerks to regard the young au-
thor thereofas black sheep. The second playwas
written, and what was more acted in some OBJ
scure theatre. Bonaparte, who hated letters,
saw a satircali allusion in it to his govern
ment, and ordered de Rochefort to be chased
from the ministry of the interior, just as his son
was turned out of the Hotel de Vile for bring
ing out Vaudeville and contributing articles on
art subjects to the Figaro and Charivari. The
Marquis de Rocheiort, who was born in 1892,
died during the Commune instruction Of 1871.
When on his death-hed, he was told of the ex-
cesses Of the commune, he cried out, MY ca
Teer Is ended. ! came into the world under one
reign Of terror, and | am to leave it under an.
other. Let us hope that will be the only mem
Der of the family whom destiny will treat harsh
ly this time Rochefort declares that had il
not been for his fathers illness, he would have
never been IMPLICATED with the commune"