New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-09-22
GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS.

GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS
LARGE AssEMBLAGE At HIS LATE RESIDENCE on THE
| MORNING or THE FUNER,I-vICToR HUGO AND
GAMBErTA AMONG THE CALLERs-THE AMERICAN
LEGATION RESPECTFUL AND CouPLIMENTARY-
THE FUNERAL PROCESSION SOLEMN AND IMPRrss-
IvE-A SILENT AND RESPECTFUL MULTITUDE
ALONG THE ROUTE.
IRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or TIE TRIBUNE |
PARIS, Sept. 9.-The funeral of NJ. Theirs took
place yesterday. OF the great which wit
messed and made part of the ceremony not less than
$4,000 persons came TO Paris expressly To testify
Their respect for NJ. Thlerss memory That motive
was perhaps the main one with me for making the
journey from London. But being here, l will under
take to say something about what saw and heard
In company with two friends | reached the Place
St. Georges at half-past II, the house which NJ. ST.
liaire had indicated the day before All the streets
by which the Place can be entered occupied by
troops police. Our carriage allowed to drive
on till the horses heads looked over the knapsacks
of file of redtrousered infantry, through which
passed foot. The orders respecting admission to
the house strict but not in all cases strictly OBJ
served at the gate. No one was to enter without n
card. had card but it was not asked for; my
friends had none, and nobody objected to their going
in. A Frenchmin might have found more difficulty,
day, il seemed to be taken for granted that party
of foreigners could hardly go wrong. The court
yard was crowded. We passed in between throngs
of friends and invited guests, none others being
allowed inside the gates. Nothing could be more
gloomy than the aspect of the place, and the ap-
breaches to the house The rain poured steadily
down. great part of the people protected by
umbrellas, but not few were without, and stood
patiently beneath the torrent. The walls were hung
with black. As you passed in at the porte-coch6re,
the black hangngs stretched along your path
either side, the black throng of people, also. The
carriagc-way uns directly Though the house and u
the rear of il, AID there are DOORS to right and 20
left. We are invited to iusciIbe our names, and
having done TINS. and seeking to enter an opposite
ROOM we are for the first time desired to produce
our cards. There il moments delay for the
polite usher is clear in his own mind that one card
viii not answer for three persons. NJ Calmon
luckily comes by; one of the four friend, who have
acted for the family in all the arrangements; tine
older three beng VI. Bart 6emy st. Hialre, NJ.
Jules Fayre, ard NJ. blignet. The moment
81. Camon hears that an ex-Mnster of the
United state, is present to Offer his homage to the
dead. all doors ly.opcn aud every attention that
the atencss Of che hour VIII permit is offered to Mr.
bigeiow. and to Mr. Tildcn who is with him. The
receptions of Madame 1hieT are over, but cards OF
invitation are brought, and they pass into The ball
aud thence into the salon. where The Senators, and
Deputies and Academicans are gathered. We had
supposed should be early, but we were, in fact
among the last TO arrive. The three or four salons
opening into each other on the ground floor in front
were completely filled, and il was not easy to make
ones way about at all. The rooms were hung with
dark green paper. The woodwork nearly white the
general effect certainly not good. Mile. Jacque-
mart's portrait Of TIMERS, hanging IN the middle
room, was almost the only thing | had
time to remark-a good portrait in lis way,
but distinctly inferior TO that 10y Bonnat,
exhibited in this years salon. OF when etching
by Bonnat himself has just been published and is,
on the whole the most characteristic likeness that
can be had
But, on the whole, it was not art nor upholstery
that most occupied ones mind. The dead body of
the master of the house at that moment passing
for the last time of it's doorway, and almost inn
mediately the summons to form the procession was
heard. Nadine hers her sister Mile. Dosne and
her niece Nile de Grommeda, have already left by
a SIDE door to drive to the church. The drums and
trnnpets from the palace announce the placing of
the coffin on the hearse The chief usher. or master
of ceremonies who stands in the door of the first
ROOM calls successfully 10 the Senators, the Depu-
ties the Diplomatic Corps, the Academicians and
Members of the Institute to pass out Other guests
and friends follow. Here rs in the street
and the church there are two men on
whom, above all Others, all eyes are bent,
Victor Hugo and Gambetta. As we stood
in the hail. the great poet twice passed us white
haired eagle-eyed sqnare-faced, square-shOnldered,
short of stature firm Of gait, with look at OF
intense watchuness and intense INSTRUMENTATION;
seeing everything about him at once and never
IL. .,Ic
hest worth seeing of all. Gambetta is of much the
same height, but unwieldly in bulk, and walking
ike man whose flesh is a burden to him. There is
a burden on his face. also, weary air, unlike as
possible the fresh alertness of which still
marks the veteran Hugo, who is almost twice his
age The immense responsibilities of Gambetta's
political life have told his body, hut the single
eve burns with "a hot and clear flame as ever.
There is the same of the head from time TO time,
as if to free the arteries of the neck from
pressure aud feed the brain with full flow Of blood
from the heart. Something animal about the man,
no doubt, as about most men, but from the shout
ders upward the physical expression, If 1t be animal
in any sense is lion-lke. II you see Gambetta for
the first time, you are disappointed ut the want of
dignity in his proportions, but You end by percelv-
ing a pride of bearing and a revelation of mental
power and personal force which triumph over all
disadvantages. There is "A want of refinement in the
features but there IL vigor in every line and
tain spendor Of Impotence in his face, which makes
you admire more than ever the self-contro and the
iron will which for the last five years have snbdued
the Impotence and kept his own soul IN subsection
70 the necessity of calming the fears of his country
men.
As the last deputies fall into line, the rest of us
follow. II still rains, and the middle of the street.
with it, pools and mud, is by no means an agreeable
promenade TO the church, however, the walk is
L., q .hnrt nne The services are anpointed to be