The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-21

elected to the Academy at the time when popular
enthusiasm was most rampant about him; that H.
IN January, 1870. In August Of the same year all
the enthusiasm had vanished-he was turned out
OF once,
FORCED TO FLY THE COUNTRY.
ana MS inaugural address, which, in the due .
ooufse oi thlngs, would have been delivered In
november, was perforce adjourned until after the
peace But even when peace was signed it was
NOT 'hought expedient Immediately to receive
inc man WIN the Light Heart" Public opinion,
winch was making military scapepoat OF Bazalne,
was resolved TO make political scanecoat q,
Olivier People laid the blame or the whole cam.
paign and Its horrible disasters on his shonIders.
and, though It was well known by accurately in.
formed persons that Olivier was emphattcally a
man OF peace and had been all along onnosea RI
the war; Frenchmen in general would listen TO no
Justification. II Olivier had reappeared in Paris
he might have been
STONED IN THE sTREETs
SO, time after time, his reception was postnonea
until, public rancor having got blunted az last it
was decided the other day that ne might now be
received without danger. But hereon occurred
the hitch which has resulted In the indefinite
adjournment OF the reception, In the address
which ne had written reviewing the career OF his
Observation-Disclosures passage warmly
euloglzing Napoleon ILL.,, and when the address was
submitted, according to usage, to a committee OF
the Academy, NJ GulZot demanded that this pan.
egyric snould be stricken out. This Emile Olivier
declined.
THE INCRIMINATED LINES
were, ne said, trlbnte Of gratitude and respect
he paid to the memory OF a sovereign who had been
maliened, and he would not alter a comma OF
them. They we're, In truth, spirited lines Al
luding to the fact that Lamartine had never ap-
he had learned in the end to respect him, Olivier
wrote :-"But ii he had known MN as did If he
could have witnessed his gentleness and quiet dig
nifty his readiness to please, mis- constant anxiety
to govern Frenchmen according to the best OF
our interests II he could have seen how noble
minded and kindly he was, now generously just
and heartily patriotic, he would have done more
than respect hlm-he would nave loved him."
M. GUIZoT
and the Orleanist, legiumist and republican men,
bers OF the Academy could not, OF course. stomach
these hines; and, forgetting how often he mad
made the Academy vehicle ior court speeches
against Napoleon ILL, NJ. Guizot now had the pre-
sumption to argue that the Academy was no place
for political disconrses and that he must confine
himself to purely literary matter. After a stormy
correspondence NJ. Guizot was reduced TO silence,
but the matter was then referred TO the whole
Academy, sitting in private committee, and the
learned gentlemen, fearing the excitement that
might attend the pubic reception after all this
preparatory wrangilng. decided to support M.
GuiZot Accordingly Emile Olivier was informed
that since he refused 10 do as he was hidden his
reception would be adjourned sine DIE.
THE MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMY
voted this resolution by sixteen votes to six, so
that only twenty-five took part in the division
AS it vii. interest American readers to have
THE FULL LIST ACADEMICIANs
give them in the order OF their seniority accord
ing to date o. eectiOn:-
NM. Timers, Guzot. Mignet, Victor Hugo. Patln,
Count de Rtmusa' Duke de Moaies Msara
Falloux, EIlile Angler, De Laprade, Jules Sandeau,
Duke de Brogle. Octave Feuil,et, Carne, DIian e,
nard, Count d'Haussonvllle. Count de Champaign,
Auguste Barbier. Jules Janin, Marmler, Duvereier.
De Hauranne, Duke d'Aumae, Llttre De Lomene,
ST. Rene, TaAandier' Alexandra dumas, caro- and
Mezieres.
leave Emile Ollivier ont OF account, though he
cannot be excluded eternally. Should Napoleon
". be restored it is more than probable that the
/ Academy will think 1t prudent to rescnd their
anti Bonapartst resolution, and the Prime Minis
ter OF Napoleon Ill. Will then be received with
Difference. For the present the whole affair Is cal
culated to
DO EMILE OLIVIER GOOD
the ultra Bonapartists VINO had hated him be.
fore, axe touched by his feay now, and are rally
ing round him. In fact, reaction produces sucn
strange results In France that one must be gu te
prepared to see 'The Man with the Light Heart"
returned to the Assembly by some BOnapartst
constituency and perhaps, in course OF time, be
come Cabinet Minister again. l may add that
Emile olivier is slight, lean man, with a pale
face, thin whskers, squirting eyes and very sheeny
spectacles He does not look made OF the stun
from which statesmen are generally moulded; but
he has that indomitable perseverance and
tenacious oostinacy which mark Frenchmen OF
the very ambitious sort, aud also beautiful be
lief IN himself