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balks him. His readiness Of wit is de-

llSHuul 10 ll6 1f1enOS as 1t Is embarf8SS-
ing to his foes. His intellect has natural
grasp, but suffered from his deserving
Themis to dance attendance on the EN-
press Eugene when she was in power,
and her ladies, who took as much pleas
ure in his sprightliness and phenomenal
person as the Brobdignaglan sovereign
took in toying with CULVER. Since the
overthrow of the empire, M. Pinard has
lived IN an atmosphere of intrigue
He was behind the baron St.
Paul, who, at the Elysee, was behind
Marshal and Marechale MacMahon; and
when the baron died, the Gen. Tom
Thumb, who cast the bullet which the
other fred, wrung his hands and tele-
graphed to Chiselhurst that fate was IN.
duoitably on the side OF the republic. AS
matter of historical fact, Mac ahon re-
signed soon after the death of his old
Nancy chum, st. Paul, who had hurried
him into sending to Jules Simon, on the
10th of May; the letter which, anticipat-
ing conflict between the Senate and the
Chamber, the Due de Broglie had drawn
up and lett with the Marshal, in order
that he should promulgate it when such
conflict might declare itself. NJ. Pinard
attended all the conciiabule held at
Chiselhurst. He and Gen. Fleury sent
the Marechale Canrobert to live at Wind
sor so as to create frequent opportunities
tor the Prince Imperial to meet the Prin-
cess of England. At the fifteenth of Au-
gust masses, Pinard was always to be
seen beside M. Rouher and Paul de Cas-
sagnac in the church of st. Augustine.
When Bonapartists got into trouble he
defended them. He also defended the
honor and consideration of the Countess
de Montijo when a judgement of Span
1sh tribunal, proving that lady's child
lessness two years after her husbands
death, was published by the Republican
journals. So long as the Prince Imperial
was alive, M. Earnest Pinard was bitterly
hostile to "the Palais Royal party and
to ''the cousin Tiberius,' the sobriquet
he gave to prince Jerome. He rapidly
saw, after the 18th of June, that Prince
Napoleon was the only available pretend
er for the Clericals, and he lost no
time in making his peace with
him. His (Pinard's) energy, activity,
and talent for intrigue ale now engaged
in the service OF the ci-devant PaiIais
Royal Prince, to befriend whom the En-
press Eugene has been brought to see is
her duty as Catholic. M. Pinard is a
man of diplomatic address. Prince Ma
poleon was embarrassed by his own Vol.
tarean antecedents and Good Friday
sausage banquets. The astute hop-o'-
my-thumb spoke to him IN this wise
"Never mind Prince what is done De-
part from it boldly, and it will be the
same as though it were undone. You
were when you did it in opposi :ion.-
Now you are-which is just the reverse
regnant, at least in theory. Take up the
Carlovingian tradition. Charlemagne
has a fine name in France. To call your
self his imitator will be to hold out the
olive-branch to the Papacy, for whom in
return for the moral aid it gave him
against the legitimate heirs of Clovis, he
subjugated the Lombards. That people
were the voltaireans, Prince, of the Dark
Ages" Prince Napoleon is taking the
advice of M. Pinard, and so also are the
Clericals, single natable representative
OF whom was not at any of the Chambord
banquets Michealmas Day. The fusion
[ remember, in 1873, was solemnly
blessed by the Bishop of Orleans. The
editor of La Correspondence Cataozique
supported the united House OF France in
that and four succeeding years and
termed his autographed sheet Royalist
one. He has been since the Zululand
tragedy very reserved in speaking Of
"the Princess" and has sarcely noticed
the legitamist feast. The Unsoers, on
the other sand, predicts that God will
soon raise UP a new Charlemagne to res
cue Catholic France from the grasp of
the Republic.