Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-30
FRANCE: AND rTS NEW E'EeE3ss-
Ess,N'E.


France has lust had another rev0Iu-
ton and thus far Il bloodlcss one.
President Theirs, in spite Of the many
and honorable services he has rem
dercd to Franco, found himself on
Saturday last compelled to resign his
high position because of his demand
that the government be at once and
definitively declared Il permanent Re
public, This Irnequivocal act OF ALI
ance with Republicanism at once com
bined all the factions opposed to it
and arrayel them en- n'assc against
the late President. B0urbOns and Or
leanists and Imperialists at once made
common cause against the Republic.
What will be the ultimate result Of
this temporary fusion of discordant,
conflicting and hostile factions. or how
long it will last no one can say. The
immediate result was the election of
Marshal MacMahon, Il man fully iden-
titled with the late Empire as the sue
cessor of President Theirs, his accept
ance Of the high trust cOnfided to him
and the appointment of new minis
try. As we have said the revolution
thus far is a bioodlcss one, and peace
and good order reign throughout the
country. Indeed the election Of Mar
shall MacMahon is an earnest that
the laws will he obeyed and good order
maintained.
\ brief outline of the principal events
| of the life of the man who now stands
so prominently before the world Will
not be out of place.
! Maurice De MacAIahOn, q Marshal of
! France, and Duke De Magenta, q de-
. sccndant of q noble Irish family, was
born at Sully in the year 1893, and is.
! to-day, the foremost soldier IN France.
He entered the military service o. that
country in 1925, at the school OF ST.
+ Cyr was sent to the Algerian wars III
1922; took part i'll the expedition to
Antwerp III 1912 as aid lc-camp to
| General Achard. In 1888 he attained
the rank Of Captain, and after acting
as aid-dccamp to several Generals in
Africa, and taking part IL the assault
Of Constantine, was nominated Major
OF fC0t-chasseurs III 1910, Lieutenant
Colonc! Ct the Foreign Legion il 1912,
Colonel Of the Forty first Regiment OF
the Line i'll 1916, and General OF
Brigade in 1918.
In 1850 when General Canrobert left
the Crimea, General MacMahon, then
III France, was selected by the Empe-
ror to succeed him in command of q
division; and when the chiefs of the
Allied Armies resolved on assaultinp
Sebastopol, they assigned to General
MacMahon the perilous post Of carrying
the works of the Malakof For his
/ brilliant success on this occasion he
was made a grand cross of the Legion
of Honor, and i'll 1856 was nominated 4
knight grand cross of the Bath.
General MacMahon took a conspic1l-
Gus part in the Italian campaign OF
| 1859, received the baton of a
Marshal, and was created duke of Ma
! genta in commemOration of that vic
tory. He represented Franco at the
coronation of William of Prussia, in
November, 1861, was nominated to the
command of the 3D. corps d'ul27ce,
18th October, 1862, and appointed
aforementioned of Algeria in 1864.
The part he took in the late unfor-
/ tr1nate war, in which Prussia so sig
nally humbled the power and pride of
France is too fresh i'll the recollection
of our readers to need repeating here.
The army of France, to the supreme
command of which, he was appointed
under President Theirs Administra-
ton, is said to be entirely devoted to
him.
France needs, above all things,
peace and rest, and It may well be
] doubted, therefore, whether in the ex-
listing condition of affairs Marshal Nc
Mahon is not now the right man in the
right place in that afflicted country.
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