Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-07-17


rendered brief. He was sincere in his
professions, but he was surrounded by
disappointed emigrants and old royal
lists, whose imprudence injured him in
the public estimation, while against
him he had "a formidable Bonapartist
body. a conspiracy was hatched
against Louis. Bonaparte returned
from Elba, and Louis, forsaken by all,
retired to Ghent.
THE FIFTH EERoLU-ION
was the return of Napoleon and his
entry into Paris on the 30th OF March,
1915. The return was accompanied by
the acclamation of the military and
the lower classes, but the great body of
the citizens looked ON silent and as
founded. He was recalled by q party
but not by the nation. A few months
after Waterloo followed, and that put
all end to the great Napoleon.
THE SIXTH REVOLUTION
followed Waterloo, for that battle OPEN
ed the way for Louis XVIII. to return
to Paris. By this time he appeared as
an insulted and betrayed monarch
Those officers who, in spite of their
oaths to Louis, had openly favored
Bonaparte's usurpations were tried and
found guilty of treason. Some were
shot and others eziied. Louis in the
course of time showed that the old
Bourbon leaven was in him. The law.
Of election was altered, the newspapers
were placed under a censorship, and
! other measures of retrograde nature
adopted. He died in September, 1924,
and, having left no issue, was succeed
ed by his brother, Charles X, whose
first act was to abolish the censorship
of the press, which lgave him mo-
mentary CLEAN of popularity, but his
after efforts to tie up the liberty of the
periodical press brought storm around
his ears that cost him his throne.
THE SEVENTH REVOLUTION
occurred on the I'd of August, 1920,
when Charles Y. abdicated the throne
and retired to England. The ordinance
against the periodical press brought on
the crisis of the 9th of July, 1850,
when the first encounter took place be.
tween the troops and the people. The
fighting next day became more gen.
eraI. The National Guards joined the
people, the Hotel de Vile was taken
and retaken, the Louvre and Tuileries
attacked, AMI on the 30th of July the
revolution was virtually ended, and
Louis Philippe was proclaimed King
of France.
THE EIGHTH REVOLUTION
was the memorable one of 1S4S, when
''the citizen King" had to fly jnconti-
nently to England without his shaving
utensils. His reign was a period of
corruption in high places. The heart
of the nation was alienated from their
King, and when trifing disturbance
in February, 1913, was aggravated
into popular riot, Louis Philippe
felt that he stood alone and unsupport-
ed as constitutional King. He shrank
from employing soldiers against his
people, and he fell in consequence. He
fled in disguise from Paris to the coast
of Normandy, and, taking ship, found
refuge again in England. There was a
republic once again. Lamartine was
the man of the moment, but his popu-
larity was short-lived, and in the gen.
eral election of 1S49 Louis Napoleon
walked over the course.
THE NINTH REVOLUTION
was inaugurated in the bloody and eel
ebrated coup d' etat of December, 1851,
and Louis Napoleon made himself EN-
peror and strangled the infant Reput-
lie. His career was splendid for al
most twenty years, until the fatal
blunder of declaring war against Prus-
sia, and then the gigantic bubble of his
Empire collapsed. The news of
the disaster at Sedan ended the
imperial regime The Empress fled to
England. and new form of govern
ment, quasi civil quasi military, took
its place.
THE TENTH REVOLUTION.
With the fall of the Empire all the
worst elements of the huge city of
Paris were liberated, and though for a
very long time degree of exemplary
order reigned, the storm that finally
burst and wrought its fury on the fair
and devoted city could not have been
wholly unanticipated. Under the reign
of the Provisional Government des-
perate efforts were made to restore the
lost prestige of the French military
name, but the fates were unpropitious,
and things went from bad TO worse.
On the 10th of March, 1871, the troops
faithful to the Provisional Government
left Paris, and then followed the reign
of the Commune.
The ELEVENTH REVOLUTION
was the worst and bloodiest of all, for
it warred upon all things, human and
divine-upon life, property, art, sci
ence, literature, and all things dear to
the heart of society-and it substituted
nothing enobling, nothing civilizing,
for what it sought to remove. Paris
was pandemonium and slaughter
house for several months. The forces
of law and order finally triumphed.
THE TWELFTH REVOLUTION,
or the establishment of the Republic |
rational over the Commune crazy, fol-
lowed next. M. Thiers has been the |