New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-16
LIFE IN PARIS.
LgTrEp PROM ApsESs HoUSsAYE.

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| iFRou nEGuLAs CORRESPONDENT OF nIB T.IDuNE-i
| PANS, August, 187G.-Why is not the Place
ST. Georges now called :be Place rhiersi So long rs ~
Tiers power be could not properly accept COM
plhncnt frcIh tho City OF Paris that he Is nothing
more than President OF Human Intellect. the City OF
PARIS fJrgcts Lin. We know from Horace himself an
about bis howcry dwelling; but we have no descrip
ton OF that Of Taetus Cicero also delights to celebrate
! his home but how that OF Lvy eonstrrctedi On
this point history has word for US In regard to the
two great Roman historians. For national historian
at least the Future will be better instructed aud pos
terity win know In detail the physIognomy and the In
! terror of the houss Of ". Theirs.
II not burned down by the Republic but the Com
muno wanted 70 demolish IT, very fine federal decree
which win remain immortal in the annals of pillagc and
petroleum. announced one morning that the mansion OF
NJ Theirs situated the Place Of ST. Georges, was TO be
Immediately RACED to the ground by the dragon OF the
Commune. st. George and the Dragon That Is
subject for Raphael :" cried painter fresh from Cour
bets tavern At session Of the Committee OF Public
Safety the 3Oth OF April 1871 pardon mo III ought
to have said "the 29th Germiua year 79"l, the five
members OF that celebrated and ephenera Committee
decreed: "Art. 1.-The personal property belonging TO
Theirs shall placed In charge Of the Administration OF
Domains. Art 2-Thc house Of Theirs, on the Place
George shall be razed to the ground" The citizens
Fona!ne and Andrieu charged with the immediate
execution Of this order.
In the session OF May IL pardon, the goth FlorealD
the Commune received request from these two citizens
that delegation might be sent 20 witness the transac
tons at the houae of Ters third citizen, Leo Meet
by name, Qupstor Of the Commune spoke IN favor OF
the request. NJ Courbet 1.-THE panter) then said: M.
Theirs has collection OF antique bronzes ask what
shall be done with themP The Citizen President an
swered: LET the Citizen Courbet express TO us his
views upon this subject" Courbet "The articles in the
collection of NJ. Timers worthy to DC placed in the
Museum VIII you allow them to be taken to the Louvre
or the Hotel de VILE i-if not viii you have them pub
lcly sold beg you TO notice that he small brOnzes
represent value of perhaps 100000 francs"
Citizen Protet Minister OF Justice, here interrupted the
speaker, his good rght al sm friend OF Art.
but my opinion that all the pieces which represent the
Orleans family should be sent to tho Mint" Then Citizen
Pasehal Gronsset in his turn "There also articles
belonging 10 archives In the house OF NJ Thiersthe
most curious things Imaginable. 1t would be well to
have historians and literary men in the Committee"
Herewith, the barbarians OF the Commune made
nuish precisely as Omar ordered the burning of tho
library OF Alexandria. The Communic assembly named
FIVE members as p TbiersdelnolitiOn Committee: NM
Courbet Demay C6mence Pascbal GrOusset Felix Pyat
-connoisseurs, II you pleased They went to WORK me
vehicles Of tho ex-Impogfa establishment impressed
into the service the removed articles were transferred TO
the Garte-Meuble the Quay D'orsay. There, sort
OF classification was made the furniture, the drawings
and engravngs the watereOlor copies of the Vatican
frescoes remained in the store-houses the bronzes
stauettcs and basreiefs first sent TO the Louvre
but they were aferWard placed In the Tuileres, in the
succeed saloon between Pavilion Of the Medeis and
the Pavilion Of Flora.
The miseries and misfortunes Of war, as Cabot says
daily experienced by the COMMUNE the causc that
only the upper story OF the house Of NJ Theirs was de-
molshed But II was the story which held the uarves
The architects have rebuilt IT, and we see The biu-
scum again, IL AprOpOs OF this restoration NJ
Charles Blanc has written little book which viii live
the artistic history OF the national writer. Others have
painted VI. THEIRS standing at The head OF France; sit
ting head OF the Ministry front face, At the head
OF historians. " Charles Blanc has skeched him inti-
nateiy in his attitude Of rcpose amateur In Art. NJ
Theirs never had the time 10 sit for bis portrait neither
TO 90 intimate artist Fandrin, nor TO 80 intel
lectual an artist Ingrvs. Nevertheless how would
both have translated and yyed him with their brushes,
n the model had allowed artist eisurely to read
his pbysognomy look into his eyes, and watch the work
ings OF his mind Our age has hardly a head so
lned "a his when there such equal depth and
VARIETY Orator. journalist, historian, minister Presl
dent Of the Council Speaker Of the Assembly he is as
guctuating and versatile Montaues heart cond de-
sire Even LaIuarilne said that he poet; h. once
called Tcrs History Of the Empire the book Of she
age" From historian to historian, this is the most
naive and generous of euiogies from politician 70
politician, Il IL the largest and sincerost expression OF
respect-for Lamartnc had the truth Of grand soul
The latter did not write the history OF tie GirOndns In
yan Lamartine set his poetry everywhere, just as d.
Thiers sets the political element. His literary work
oycrGows with It, He is ono of those who enter the
French Academy keep alive the sacred fire OF politics,
If need be 10 rekinde H. Once, before the Academy
ITSELF CANT Beuye declared that the French Academy OF
the nineteenth century. in Its relation TO political con-
ditons tended ana more TO distinguish itself nom
the Academy OF the seventeenth century He recalled
Chateaubrtnd Who succeeding 10 the chair Of the con-
yentonal Cbenor under Napoleon L. made the first at
tempt 10 In oduee politics into letters by an inaugural
which, however he was not allowed to utter
The Academy often recalled and refers 70 this signal ex
ample OF politics. and above ali OF political opposition
Eyon under the Restoration tho Academy had its MEM
CRADLE political day, when, in 1897 IL protested against
Minister Pcyronnets project of press law. little
later II called Roger-Coard TO It's benchesfor then
there were no longer armchairs from day TO day,
seal became more;of platform. The session hed at the
reception OF " THEIRS in 1885, established the fact that
the Academy may be at the same time literary con-
cIaye aud electoral college.
Now when NJ. Timers was elected by the Academy,
for his history OF the Revolution, and because he
already THEIRS he gave entirely historical and polit
cal character his discourse When he became Minis
ter people forgot the nature Of his literary talent and
reproached him for having carried politics Into that
pacific domain He simply spoke-wth that earessnS
and penetrating voice OF hsaccOrding TO HE position
as a statesman developed from man of letters. d.
Ihiers the writer having become Aoademican, did
not wish TO make Literature mere subject OF disserta-
ton mere question Of STYLE He has always appFe
cated Il otherwise-th;t, in political and popular
manner II he il necessarily sayantj he Is none the
less necessarily patriot.
Was IL not the duty OF the Academy OF Arts, ALSO to
elect ~ Theirs The who, Minister OF the Interior
gave employment tie artists who had been in Italy
studypg the masterpieces OF the Renaissance, and who
finally made for himself a museum on the Place st.
Georges He would hsye received every vote,-Grst of
ali that Of Delecrox who revealed by NJ. Thiers at
the salon OF 1922 Do you not hear who It is that cries
ous while fgosseism IA still wholly dominant No pie