New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
GAMBETrA ANDTHE PEOPLE
"REMINISCENCES OF HIS CAREER.


lFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORREsT oNDRST OF THE TRIBUNE
PARIS, Sept. 25.-Gambetta has made in all nine
teen Oratons III the South. 1t was no wonder he
became hOarse and broke down before he reached
GrenOble, where he was to have delivered a closing
Grafton on the 22d instant. That date is a red
letter one in the calendar of French Republicans,
and has been celebrated by them with unusual eclat
in Paris and the Provinces. 1t was on that day.
five years ago. Gambetta made speech at GTenobe
which proved the death warrant of the Versailles AS
sembly, and III which he insisted on the accession,
to political power of the people, He was on Sunday
TO have shown what ground has been gone over
since then. Thiers at that time was almost prs-
Oner in the hands of the reactOnary majority Of the
Assembly, who, remember, talked of nothing less,
when the report of the speechreached Paris,
than of having the orator who made it arrested,
tried by a court martial and shot. The writer OF
this letter at the Eys6e the night the Ministers
and crowd of Deputies ran IN TO hear what the
venerable President had to say about the matter.
He was spending a short parliamentary recess In
Paris The frst news he had of Gambetta's bold ut
terances were through dispatch to The Daily Neos,
which was detained for day at the Ministry Of the
Interior Thers was at first irritated at what
appeared TO him Gambetta's rashness, and before
the evening was far advanced was Overborne by the
reactonists. Then and there, they wanted to
prepare demand for the Assembly to authorize
prosecution for q soditiOus attack upon that body.
IL the application was made they did not doubt OF
capital condemnation. A lady, who was a
friend of Gambetta. and who was present at this
stormy sOlree, lost no time in finding Nj. i. lie
GOff, who had been q secretary of the Tribune at
Tours and Bordeaux. and informed him of what
she had heard. She said: There are Two things to
a.. - Uhn
not like rival so near the thrOne' and the second
is to lead the Reactionary party to break with him.
You used to correspond Dy cipher with Gambetta.
Do you think he remembers the key which enabled
him to read your messagesp lie Gof thought he
did, and risked a telegram in which he said;
Lante neanng the LADY, has been at the great house.
Trcmgn does storm about speech. Vcrsaillsts IN
sst upOu your being treated when you come back as
C"mnunard. Host at great house very angry but not
bOudnTsty. Create an opportunity to make another
speech which fell need OF praise VIII be bestowed
Oh bin.
Gambetta received this dispatch at Annecy,
understood it, aud hastened there to deliver another
grafton, IN which he covered Theirs with compi-
mens and limited that if grateful country offered
hlm in reward for his patriotic services life estate
in the Presidency the Tribune, far from showing
himself hostile, would approve. One fthe phrases
which he made of in laudng Thiers, was
" &c VieIldrd ST erperimen6 et st arise"
The Annecy Grafton what Gambetta has since
termed the Coup de ldHcee 1t let loose the humOrs
which had been accumulating; and by leading the
Reactionary party to suspect Theirs of secret con-
nivance with Gambetta, brought them 10 dec lare
Ineessant war upon him. In consequence OF I'%thelr %
settled hostility, he was obliged to ABANDON
"A waverirg policy, and To throw himself COM
pletey INTO the arms of the Republicans.
Gambetta's speeches in the south have Immensely
enhanced his popularity, but they have also given
angles of vantage TO his opponents to attack HIM.
II the Marshal has the boldneSs and the power to
attempt another dissolution, there are things which
Gambetta said that may be relied upon by the Con-
servatIves to prrcipItate MacMahOn's action. In
nv oplnion it would have been better not 20 have
presented so distinct programme. The time had
not come To speak about Semluarlsts being sub
ieeted 10 the common law Of military service. IL
was also worse than useless to have descanted oh
the moral Obligation under when the Marshal Hes
To remain until the close of the Septennate IN the
Presidency However, as a piece of business ora
tory, the Romans speech, which was the re-
sumo of all the other eighteen, deserves TO be
casSed among the best ever made OS GahIDeIta
After setting tre to the Rhone Gambetta has re-
tired Co the Chateau do Cretes. in Switzerland, TO
lie by for week or ten days. 1t Overlooks the
Lake Of Geneva near Clarens, aud was built by his
friend the late NJ. Victor Dubochet, who was to
have gwen the Republican orator line in his tes-
lament, but forgot TO do so. The fortune accumu-
lated by The Swiss capitalist in Paris, where he
lived from 1913 to the beginning of this year, was
in his lifetime roughly estimated at Sl9,OOO,OOO
Since his decease bls niece and nephew, Madame
Guichard wife Of the memorable Deputy OF the
Yonne and NJ. Jules DubOchet, to whom 1t all fell
had the satisfaction to learn that it exceeded
S25. 900 900. Now, Madame Armand lde PArlegeD
widow Of q Republican Deputy who enjoyed
the esteem Of his political friends and
enemies, is the only daughter of Mad
ame Guichard. Her mother has apportioned
10 her IN her own life time $8,0OO,O0O out of the
splendid DubOchet heritage, along with the Chat-
eau of CreteS. Madame Armand Is the heroine OF a
chapter in "P Historic d. I'M Crime" deVout
Catholic workman, also q Jealous Republican.
Thought the Archbishop of Paris might stop the
massacre of December by issuing with his clergy In
their sacerdotal robes from NOtre Dame, and going
to the Elysee TO demand in the name of human and
Divine laws a cessation of the carnage. He went to
his idea to Arnaud de Arlege, with
whom he was IN perfect sympathy, both as Cath
oIic aud n Republican, and asked him to communl-
cate il to Monselgneur which, as deputy, he might
do with some authority. Arnaud was hiding from
Louis NapOleOn's agents. His young wife, who
had married him for love in the stormy
days of June. resolved that this straw
should De CluJClltu dJs Dho Sdiu w
that IL he wrote the letter which the blouse
suggested She would take it to the Archlcpisc0pal
Palace. But terrible objection presented itself TO
the mind of the two men. What # the dauntless
lady were taken and searchedf with so conpTo-
missing document upon her she would certainly be
bntchered If she fell into the hands of Louis
Napoleon's myrmidons. 1t will not be found
quietly replied Madame Arnaud who had then the
fall elegant figure of a Diana and the soft Taces Of
a Madonna, A penuiless beauty she had little
more than a year previously married for love q
icTv Of the Assembly delivering the only speech he
ever made, and said to herself, That is honest
man, with whom should be proud and happy to
pass nv life" In the lobby she asked her father
br' Gnlchar, of the Yonne, to take her up 10 him.
When she was introduced she wrung the hands of
Arnaud who was not much older than she was, and
burst into tears. Her beauty was dazzling and her
snfTnsed ewes were irresistible. Victor Hugo does
not ,npution this love passago, which had from the