Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-09-13
Death Of EX.PresiGieRt Thiers. of
France---Sketch Of his Life.

Ex-President Theirs, OF France, died
suddenly, September 8, of apoplexy.
Louis Adolphe Thiers, ex- President
of the French Republic, was born
April 16, 1877, at Marseilles, where his
father was working locksmith; OBJ
tanned admission to the public school,
in which he made rapid progress, and
studied geometry with q view to the
military profession. His friends deci-
ded to bring him up to the law, and he
was sent to AK, where he studied un-
der M. Armand. In due time he made
his appearance at the bar, but with
very Indifferent success, and this dis
appointment induced him to turn his
attention to literature, and he accord
ingly set out for Paris. By great per-
severance he gained footing in liter
ature, and having obtained an intro
ductiOn to the conductor of the Co,lsti-
tutionet, was engaged to write political
articles. The first volume of the "His-
tory of the French Revolution" ap-
peared in 1923, and in the tenth, com.
pleting the work, in 1882. In the No
tio1aGE he opposed the unconstitutional
proceedings. OF Charles x. and his min
ister POlignac, and after the revolution
of July, 1880, held various minor off,
ciai posts, and was made Under Secre-
tary of State under I.afitte's admins
tration. About this period he was
elected Deputy for AK, and distin-
guished himself by his financial ability
and oratorical power. In 1882 he was
appointed Minister Of the Interior,
which he soon exchanged for the port
folio of Commerce aud Public Works.
In 1886 he was President of the Council
and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
in March, 1910, again held that Office.
1t was during his ministry that the
Syrian question assumed, through his
manouvres, such threatening aspect
as nearly to involve France in war
with the other great powers. The
King soon afterwards requested his re-
tirement. He employed his leisure in
writing his "History of the Consulate
and EMPIRE" in continuation of his
former work, of which the first vol
ume appeared in IS45, and the twenti-
eth, COMPLETING the work, in 1862. The
revolution of February, lS4S, found
him unprepared, and when the Re-
public was proclaimed, Theirs was a
member of the National Guard, with
musket on his shoulder. His talents
and caution, however, secured him a
position, first in the Constitution, aud
then in the National Assembly. On
the elevation Of Napoleon to the Presi-
dency, it was thought by many that
Theirs, whom the Prince had pro-
claimed as his Minister, in the abor-
tive expedition to Boulegne, in 1910,
would take Office; but though he pro-
fessed to accept the Republic heartily,
he was banished during the coup detat
of December I'd, 1851, and after living
some time in Switzerland, was permit |
ted to return to Paris. M. Thiers busi-
ed himself exclusively with painting
and the fine arts during the first twelve
years of the Empire. though it is not
easy to discover why he should not I
have become one OF Nspoleon's Minis
tiers. Napoleon III, who was one of
his admirers, did his utmost to achieve
In pOliticts, the arts and in municipal
matters all he had seen attempted
by nj. Theirs; and it has been asked
whether 1t was the emperor or M.
Thiers who was unwilling to form an
Whatever may have been
the cause Of their estrangemeDt, NJ.
Thiers did not enter the Chamber till
1868, when he was elected Deputy for
the Department of the Seine by the
Liberal OPPOSITION. He. was made
Grand Officer Of the Legion of Honor,
April "a, 1910, and had received sever
II foreign orders. His career during
The anco-Prussian war, in which he