New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-27
CURRENT TOPICS IN PARIS.

BETrA AND SIMON RIVALS.
frRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBusE.l
PARIS. Dec. OIL have been favored by NJ. r. LIE
gofT with the manuscript OF his work on Theirs,
witch translated by Theodore Stanton. the Put
mama are to bring out III New York. The style Is
light lucid and easy, and tho matter often welghty.
Like the Society" journals Of London 1t IS III
tended for men and women. lie or she VINO rues
in street OF railway car NAV read and understand,
this book Most of what is read of 1t VIII be iouhu
worth remembering NJ. Legof. on the whole Is
favorable 10 NJ. Timers, but be takes him win
moro than q grain Of Attic salt. Theirs is Ia
his ewes the type and incarnation of that
bourgeoisio which conquered the ano EN-
monarchy and nobility, and is being conquered
after short period of supremacy, by Gambe'taS
new social stratas. NJ. LegOf, accompanied DY
Carfat. the photographer, and with the permission
of Madame Theirs, has been this week to Inc
historical mansion of the Palace 81. Georges 10
photograph the now historical study and library IN
the top of the house. and the bedroom OF 81
Thiers, which are kept exactly as they ere wren
he was alive, and the fac-simile of the Manifesto
published soon after his DEATH The widowed lady
would not allow this document out OF her sieht'
She followed with great interest N. Cariaps
operations and was communicative in her
conversation with NJ. LegOff. sympathy draws
out sympathy. NJ Legof came away with
the impression that Nine. THEIRS Is great
through the warmth of her heart and her uncom-
mon need of common sense" In the course OF con-
versation, Moritz Buschs work Oh Bismarck was
mentioned. NJ. Legoff asked would IL he too great
liberty to ask her TO communicate to him NJ
Tbiers's personal estimate of the German Chan
ceilor She well understood how interesting
her answer would be to the readers of the work.
and that il could not but rebound to the credit of the
late illustriOus statesman. Nine. Theirs replied
that the time had not come to dvulge IT, The re-
lations between France and Germany were, and
must be for long course OF years, delicate Bis
Inarck had the irritable of man of genius,
andthe less said about him for the present the bet
ter. 1t was pity no had not the same regard ior
other peoples feelings Herr Morltz Busch's work
should not have been published for the next ten or
fifteen years, and Madame Theirs regretted that
when 1t was in the Chancellor power to stop its
publication he did not do so. she then gave
the conversation another turn by saying
how much pleased NJ. Theirs would have
been to think that the first careful biography OF
him was to come out in the United States. The
longer he lived the more he admired American in
stitutons He was fond of saying that he went to
England for a constitutional monarchy, and trans
planted it TO France. but that it did not thrive
When he crossed tire Atlantic for republican syS-
TEN and brought it back. 1t struck root with so
much vigor that in three years 1t could not be torn
up by the parties hostile to 1t.
Count Won Beust has presented his letters
of credence to the President of the Repub-
lie, and Germany is Obliged to hold her
peace. The Count expressed the satistac-
ton 1t would give his Apostolic Majesty
to hear with what cordially he had been received
by his Excellcncy the President OF the French Re-
public. $50 long as thou doest well unto thy self "
wrote the wordly-wise King David, "men will
praise thee" The French Republic has kept out of
Result Her favor is now cOurted by his Apostolic
Majesty the Kaiser, and the Prince of Wales
Judges it polite to draw away from his BOnapartist
friends and show himself an admirer of GambeGta.
am sorry the Prince found an opportunity in the
silly duel with NJ de Fourtou TO manifest his SYM
patty with the Republican leader. ApropOs of that
affair of honor the wags of the Boulevards propose
that Plesss PiqHet shall be henceforward called
Plessis koarit.
Everything is possible in France " wrote, in the
seventeenth century the Due de la ROchefoucauld.
Yesterday this maxim was exemplifed in notable
manner at the Elys6e, where the six Ultra-Republi-
can UNDERSTANDINGS of State and NM. CREW
and Duclerc were entertained at dinner. The
former group of politicians ale Lepere the virtual
head of the Ministry of the Interior, department
of which he will probably be the nominal chief next
january F; Cookery, the able and energetic Director
of Posts and Telegraphs, who accompanied N.
Theirs from Tours Paris and back III the October OF
the "terribe year,; Savary, who used not to be so
Republican as he is; Grerd who has been all his
life consistent Radical; Sadi Carnot, grandson of
"the Organizer of Victory" and son of the honest
Carnot who from lS42 to 1869 was at every gem
era election returned for Belleye, and lastly, Cas-
imir Perer MS. MacMahon was IN high spirits and
talked and laughed away with NJ. Jules Grevy, who
sat next him. The President of the Chamber of
Deputies is excellent company and fond of spicing
his conversation with amusing stories. At
ter dinner the Marshal sent for box of
Cuban cigars which he had received as a
present from King Alfonso, and handed them
around in the smOking-room to his guests.
To Cookery, who is a neighbor of his in the coun-
try. the Soder-President had much to say about
shooting and agriculture. "He was very good-na-
tured" said an Under-Secretary of State this
ing 10 me 81 think the old soldier who is more
knowing than be appears, looks forward to Dufaure
going b fore 1880 to AbrAham's bosom to Gam
BETA, Grevy and Jules Simon fighting with each
other abont, the Presidency, and to being
M nSHaeq Of w War On he would be, after
all the best available fgurehead He is respect
able focy, who certainly knows how to keep up
the dignity of his country when foreign prince or
potentate visits Paris. Since the Conservatives
have turned against him he is without party. and
if be could do no evil 10 the Republic with Reac-
tionary majority in the Senate, what can he do when
tho Rights are in a mnortyf asked what
the Constitutional amendments which my inter-
locutOr judged expedent. The first was to place
equitable footing at the Senatorial elections.
AS things stand. Fouilly les Disc, which has
been drawn from Obscurity by caricaturIsts, and
made the type of BGOtIan rustcity, is equal with
Paris. Tho second alteration would DO TO reduce
the Presidential tenure of Office from seven to five
years.
NJ. Jules SIMON is spoken of as the coming Ambas-
sadOr to Vienna. For part do not think lie
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