The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-24
FRENCH NOTABLES.

PEN PICTURES OF THE LEADING MEMBERS OF
THE FRENCH ASsEMBLY-OLD FATHER
THEIRS AND HIS CoMPEERs.
The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Journal has been writing up a visit 20 the
French assembly in an entertaining way.
He thinks that the assembly is delightfully."-
informal, and somewhat reminds one of a
New England school ia summer, when tie
teachers back is turned. Ii the members
did not know that it is undiguiied TO make
faces at the honorable president when ne Is
not looking, fear they would do it. The
boyish manner in which they revolt against
his attempts to preserve silence is the same
as of old. Nothing has been gained in deco
rum since the assembly left Bordeaux. Old
Father Theirs comes in, swinging down the
aisle, or sliding in by side door, with his
familiar shutting gait, and stays perhaps
half an hour or an hour daily. He winks
knowingly at this deputy, shakes hands
with that one, converses moment with a
third, snubs fourth, chats with the cabinet
minister, hobbies up 10 whisper few words
to the Duke d'AudiffreI Pasquler, who pre-
sides, and then, unless there is an important
vote, goes home. There is not more demo-
America than Theirs. Andrew Johnson
would perhaps rank next, II be did not
often appear self-conscious, and as If be
We're PLAYING the role of humility. Around
the tribune from which the members speak
one may, on a field day, get glimpses of
many men who have been very promin-
emit during the last few years. NJ.
Prevy, long president of the assembly,
shows his bald head and genial face daily.
He says little and works much. He was the
ONLY man who ever succeeden in absolutely
controlling La French assembly;
the Duke d'AudifrRt, Pasauier,
although a fine orator and man
of much magnetism, can not do it. Jules
Favre's luminous features are often seen in
the front of the house; he has grown gray
and old, and looks sad and weary. Picard
is as jovial, genial and satiric as ever; even
when he is serious people hold their breatbs
as if they expected TO laugh. He is large
face, scanned and wrinkled with lines Of
thought, is really fine when lighted up with
humor or rendered thoughtful with pathos.
Old Wallon's
BENEVOLENT CoUNTENANCE
beams from conspicuous position now and
then, whenever there is any talk on educa-
tional measures, or on that portion OF the
constitution which he had the honor OF
framing. WALTON looks like anything but
man capable of originating project of law;
he might be easily taken for a country
schoolmaster. Yet he is one of the most
useful, perhaps influential men in France at
present. He is minister of public instruc-
ton; lsbors intensely at the improvement: Of
educational facilities in the provinces; hears
thousand conflicting opinions daily; gal
lops from his ministry to the assembly and
back at hottest speed; gives receptions
and audiences late in the afternoon,
and grand parties in the even
ings, and so withaI so overcrowded
that he is a perpetual wonder to lazy men
He has always been a man of sternest prin-
ciple in politics, and IN May OF 1850, when
the assembly restricted universal suffrage,
he resigned. In IS4S he was much interested
in the movement for the abolition of
slavery, and has ever since taken