New-York tribune., 1880-09-26
TOPICS IN PARIS.
GOSSIP FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE.


FoIru-TuE PROSPECTIVE HEIR TO THE THRONE
or sPAIy-wUATs IN NAMEf
lrpoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
PANS Sept 1-Madame Theirs continues to
consecrate herself to the great memory OF NJ
Thiersn She is back in the Place st. Georges.
from the seat of the Marquis dc Boulhet, IN
Auvergne. and is busying herself with prepara-
tions for the unveiling of NJ. Therss statue at ST.
Gernain-en-Laye, where he died three years ago.
II would appear that she is hurt at NJ. Gambetta
having sent an excuse to the invitation ne received
to he present at the ceremony lie excused himseli
on tbe ground that he was engaged, some days
before the date fixed for its accomplishment, 10
meet some friends and colleagues OF the Chamber
at Crctes. the residence of Nine. Arnaud on the
shores of Lake Lsman. Madame Theirs thinks
that with an old and intimate friend, such as
Nine Armand Gambetta might take the liberty OF
resembling his engagement. The true. reasonIwhy
be has not TAX such a liberty am now going to
explain.
"REMINISCENCES OF THE COMMUNE.
4 strong reaction not exactly in favor OF the
Commune but against the ycrsallists, has set in.
The atrocities practised in the improyiscd las OF
that city, and in the galleys of New-Calcdonia,
upon Communist prisoners, are being shown up.
captain named Marceron, whose natural junction
seems TO b., that of torturer and plunderer of the
He was in command of the prison of tine Chantiers
at Versailles during seven months, and obtained,
when he retired from the army, rather snug
berth rs police commissary at Vinccnnes. In all
the records of crime which have read never met
with ANYTHING so internal as the acts and deeds
laid to the charge of Marceron by men and women
who were his victims. and attested by numerous
witnesses. He is not-nor is any Versarllist who
committed, as such, common-law oifences-white-
washed by the amnesty. Those only are blanched
who received a special and individual pardon
from Grcvy before midnight on the date OF the
possing through tie Senate of the last amnesty
bill. for so willed the Conservatives there. They
did not foresce that their friends were to fall
info tbe nit they were digging. AS Marcerons
otrocties were committed within stones throw
of the Presidency of Versailles and under the gov
ernlnent of Theirs the OF that great states
man and hjtori2n is involved IN the odluh Oh
Marceron's waniony cruel actions. Marceroh
defence is that he had before hi, the example OF
C,lIifet who was promoted after he had ordered
the cold. bloode,l execution of numerous gangs OF
prisoners and that he had himself received in
structions to rule his captvcs at the ChanterS
with n rod of iron. For short time such insruc-
tious were given. Before I ever heard of Captain
Marceron listened to an apology. voluntarily
offered by Thers himself, for the stern treatment
which the Communist met with at Versailles Ill
the early part of tls month of June. 1871. There
were 20 600 prisoners there. There were only
company of gendarmes. handful of police and
few dozen soldiers to guard them Theirs SAID that
if they had known their own strength and the
weakness of the forces ut the disposal of the Gov
ernment. nothing would have been easier than for
them to have broken ont seized on the ammunition
and arms of which there were large stores, ana
massacrcd their guardians. He afraid that agents
80 Innia Nh
enlghten them about their real situation and he
consequently ordered that sentries should shoot
strangers who attempted. through windows or
otherwise to enter into communication with the
prisoners. Clean straw was given to them TO sleep
on but they were systematically bulled, TO de-
press their spirits and to COW them They were
also led to believe that they might. If submissive
hope for pardon. Groups were not to be allowed to
form in the sheds to which the prisoners re relc
gated. And if there was the slightest sign or IN
snbordination, those who made it were to be
riddled with grapeshot fired at them almost point
blank In looking back at that dreadful time
Theirs wondered that there had not been one of
the most terrible mutnes Europe had ever wit
messed. He attributed the escape OF France from
such disaster to the long period of starvation
which the Communists had traversed during the
siege and the consequent exhaustion of vital or of
fighting force Bismarck Suspected when he heard
20 600 prisoners Mt Versailles, that Theirs had
massed them there with the secret intent OF turn
ing them against the German forces To calm his
suspicious they wero drafted rapidly to the hulks
OF Cherbourg and of Brest.
Gambetta would not, in the present state of feel
ing in the French capital about the versaillist
crueltes venture to eulogize Thicrs in whose name
too many of them were perpe.rated. But his
strongest reason for not witnessing the unveiling
of the statue is his dislike to find himself cheek sby
iowl with NJ. Simon, who is to make speech. The
enmity between him and the President of the
Chamber is intense and tends to grow moro deadly.
I have already informed you of the origin and
the progress of this feud.
.'BoULHEr TO THE VANGUARD"
read in a London society journal that the
French nobcman whose hospitality Nine. Theirs
has been enjoying in the Highlands of Auvergnc is
a grandson of that Marquis dc Bouille held up to
public indignation by Rouget do PIsle in the Mar
seillase This is not so. The Auvergnat noble who
has been entertaining the widow of NJ Theirs and
her sister at his picturesque seat in the mountains
of Central France is not a De Bouille but De
Boulhst He is of very old family. His ancestors
were ever ne is proud to reflect, in advance of the
generation to which they belonged. Their motto
was Bouhet to the vanguard" and they lived up
to it. The actual Marquis is Republican, and not
of recent date. He has taken to high farming and
gardening as pastIme and has turned wld
country INTO earthly paradise. The waterfalls
which abound on his estate set hundreds of iron
hands" at work in fields. woods and gardens
Nine. Theirs and her sister. still in deem mourning,
were not at the gay fetes and middle-age cavacade
of Clermont. They visited some factories and
schools and everywhere received with SYM
pathy.
In Holland great will be tho reiocings in
al. of he Princess WilheImiuo