The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-11
BRIM0NT'S BREAD.
The Descendant Of a "French Crusader" vs..
The Paris American Register and Preprie.
TOR Of tic New York Herald.
BRIMONT AS HE rs.
The American from French Point
Of View and the Frenchman from
an American One.
SARDOU AND THE UNIVERS AS MORALISTS,
How the French Spent Thousand Millions
Of Dollars and How the Americans
Spent Three Thousand Millions.
THE MATRIMONIAL SPECULATION
The Enterprising Business Successes Of
the Crusader at the Mont dc Piete.
MADAME De BRIMOET PLEDGED"
The Scene in Court and the General
Aspect Of French Lawyers.
The Scene in Court and the General
Aspect of French Lawyers.
FRENCH LOVE OF JUSTICE.
The Members of the Court Who
Called the Herald Gun
Journal Anglais."
That $1,000 Verdict" and Its
Market Value.
PARIS, July %, 1873.
AiNi,y Sui
A COMPARISON,

A COMPARISON.
The Paris Untrers discussed, the other day, the
Legion of Honor and found itself unable to round
Anal paragraph without this reference to Ameri-
ans:-"But we are not Yankees, who know no
other God but the dollar; we are Frenchmen, the
sens OF the Crusaders, stirred and excited with
the OF honor" In the pretty little picture OF
human life therefore, that this Partisan journalist
has in his fancy, see how the parts are drawn
0Ow the type of all that is base, poor and con.
temptlbe is the American, and the type OF all that
Is lofty, noble and admirable is the Frenchman.
Such pictures and such comparisons, with the
parts drawn in the same way have been done
before. That thoroughly trustworthy historian,
profound philosopher and infalble logican, the
author Of "Uncle Sam,n has even shown that
This is the common conception of the French mind
IN this subject He himself has deigned TO present
few sketches showing how all Americans meanly
crawl and wriggle through pitful lives, and how
All Frenchmen honor the earth by walking on 1t.
now THE FRENCH USED A THOUSAND MILLION OF
DOLLARS
And yet II Is but little while since these heroic
Frenchmen agreed to pay thousand million dol
lars to buy of an enemy whom they no longer
dared to face in battle, while the pitiful Americans
spent three times that sum in the prosecution of q
war to defend and save their country. Would 1t
be lmpertinent to ask which was the more heroic
and which the more pitifui OF these examples?
The Partisan Journals estimate Of the French
character and M. Sardou's picture OF it in "Unce
SAM" naturally noat before the fancy as we sit
down to write an account Of a case in which one
Of these typical Frenchmen prominently figures.
BRIMoNT.
One ofthese gentlemen OF France-these admira-
bic types OF humanty-has lust sued the proprietor
OF the Paris american Register and the proprietor
Of the NEW YORK HERALD for defamation OF char
Rcter on account OF paragraphs published in these
two journals respectively. 1t is case in which
the facts are few and simple, though
VULGAR AND UNCLEAN,
Ms we understand vulgarity and uncleanness in the
United States but when one is French gentle
man, and son OF the Crusaders, perhaps, and has
been brought up in good society in France, he has
peculiar ideas touching uncleanness and vulgarity.
And who shall deny the right Of such dis
tinguished member OF the human family to have
peculiar ideasY But the few ana simple facts,
when the case is once determined, are seen TO be
the least important points in the story; and the
story comes to have interest only in virtue OF the
glimpse IL gives OF what views OF life are enter
tanned by the class OF men whom the Untpers and
Mr.. Sardou so much admire-sons OF the Crusaders
and others. 1t Ia only worth reading because 1t
presents their notions OF moral and social obliga-
tiOn Of their generous and manly relations to their
wives and families and their lofty views Of per-
sonal independence.
NJ. CASTOR DE BRIMONT,
q Frenchman by BIRTH was described in Court as
the son OF the Baronne de Brimont, whence IL is
>probably safe to assume that q baron Of similar
name was his father. II he nherits the title, which
does not appear he has evidently not yet come into
possession, and II he ever inherited anything else
ne seems to have gambled it away years since. In
the year 1868 this person was apparently looked
upon by an American lady as all that was neces-
eary TO make her happy. American ladies' are very
apt TO lake their notions OF mems characters
ready-made from the pages and pictures OF gentle
men like Sardou, ana OF course in cases OF that
nature characters like the man before us
are framed to satisfy the female heart Only
fancy Frenchman Of thirty, who might In the
hands Oh sKilful tailor be made passably good
looking and dstingue, whose mamma is a Baronne
and to whom, therefore, very good society seems
q natural element and who Is desperately In debt
and in love. Here all the requisite points for
most successful matrimonial career. II the man liz
not actually handsome the young ladies' say he is
distingue, and they like that better; II he is not
actually baron why he will be, or ought 10 be,
and, OF course, he is high born, since there is a
fitle IN the family; II he has fortune he s but
che more certainly rec from vulgar moneymaking
associations, while the possession OF heavy debts
proves equally the possession OF many such charm
lng attributes IS indifference to pe, disregard to
mean details, careless, generous magnificent
spirit.
THE FATAL DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
II cannot be wondered at, therefore, that there
was difference OF opinion between the romantic
young lady and her careful father as to this lover.
Papa certainly could not fancy the notion OF SON.
in-law Who without fortune, was also heavily bur-
Aop iaIv
doubtless reflected on less serious sides OF the SUBJ
tect. They were married despite all objection, and
fne father promised $4,000 year TO his daughter.
Ipefe was no contract, as there usually is In
france Tor the father was not disposed TO sign one,
hno she son-inflaw was not in position to insist,
inssmuch as his own financial state would
no. pear too strict an inquiry Ten Thousand
Solsss . ysaI therefore, aspeaaeut On the