Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-07-15

u ls Called on n. Rochstte, Newspaper
kohllshsr, and What Came Of it.


u y Called on N. Rochstte, Newspaper
kohllshsr, and What Came Of it.
~ sword-thrust which laid
11elort on his back upon his bed
exile has called public attention
~ to the once famous Paris
11uolist. It has also had the un.
0olod result Of demonstrating
1ond indulgence of the French
@6o for this spoiled child of Jour.
Ism. Neither the intemperate
1onoe Of his writings nor his po-
IA adventures have succeeded
Wholly alternating the affection
4he French public.
be 6rst cause OF this Indulgence
IT. The admiration always felt in
4 I1noo for Wit and talent. Fifteen
S111 ogo Rochefort was the chron-
4. locoty of the Figaro. Some one
] lEoduced him to the author OF
II Dame aux Csmeiias." "Ah!
x rouoieur,n cried Alexander Du-
+ Ies, II have just been reading
~ mr. chr0Miques. What . talent
X ~ baveln After such a common
51(on from such mouth, "a French
+ ~ can commit . great many
~ without losing favor.
Eoclher excuse for the indul-
& 1uco Of the French where Roche
& ~ % concerned Is his hot-headed-
~, bis chivalrous, blind courage.
4 quality which will always com.
k6nde Gallo sympathy. In fine,
~ good nature of the man, his
Weetuess and 0bligingness with
40 fsiends, his madcap behavior,
AYE always made and kept him
s Do6ulaF.
Cham, the caricaturist, who had
RFoat admiration for Rochef0rt's
~, could never understand his
ondPs violence and exaggerstions.
p one, !" he said in the Lanterne
& ~, twill ever be able to con.
)noo me that R0chefort il not car
~ Oh every night by masked
ose dreadful things, pistol al
(kRoot.u
There IL one other popularity Of
oohefort's character Of which the
&ouch people give him the bene-
& - 90 alternating circumstances
- the midst Of @ universal skepti'
614m be has always been q fanAtt'
\ al bolleysr In the family, showing
= pessIonats tenderness for his chill
tiS1n. which gave him . UNIQUE
1nee among Paris journalists. 1t IL
lXouoor fact that ali his more seri
- duels. like the one to which hs
G1eo his latest wound, and perha pt
T opgoIongation of exile, have grown
ut Of this exalted sentiment ol
Infhorly devotion. When, In 1869
~ had to take refuge in Belgium,
ofhf from that Boulevard which
0os his life, 1t was his love for his
(: 1kuRhter that made him an exile,
The story Is q forgotten one, and
Waa very badly told at the time
OK the four persons who knew the
truth, Rocehfort has never deigned
s 10 open his lips; Victor Noir was
murdered soon after by Prince
E Pierre Bepapsrte: Rochelle, the
peinter. In prosecuting Eochefort in
She courts OF the Empire, gave u
VeFslon Of the facts that was favor
able 10 himself, and the fourth, NJ
Blevet. . Paris journalist, was moi
{ allowed to testify on the trial. Blu
. ~ hiss told the story since, an.
hero it IL as we have 1t from hi
3 l1Dos
"a that time the first nine mum
hem Of the Lanterne had appeared
~ rstoAisbed success had brouch
( mo The field a hundred yould.b,
fffvals that lacked nothing saw,
Rochefort's sovereign popniarit,
4. ANA nerve to achieve like fortune
One Of these ephemeral pub licationl
Was the InJaexibie, in which mer
4 ~ the passe police abused Roche.
Z fnrt Is the worst OF malefacto rs.
one Of the writer's was Marchal,
ialIed De Busy, who died drunk
|<pfa a. slley way, Villemessaut, who
had 1t one time employed him as a
4 ooiiecting agent, pronounced over
him this characteristics funeral ora.
11op: tsTo-m morrow they are going
- plant him. The other writer
III q pole, q Count de Stami.
: roWskI. known as Stamir. Dipgy
fe3lows, the pair OF them.
One morning Victor Nojr ant
Btavst, who were then writing fol
FIGARO, were eating breakfast to-
\ xelher at restaurant. Suddenly
& En- face pallid, his eyes starting
1. cut OF his head. Rocbefort bursl
lnto the room. In his hand he
Mold the last number of the In.
loejble.
Tread il!n he said to his two
4 xflends In sharp, curiousIy jerky
voice,
!, Ashley read, the blood mounted
( e. their forebeads and disgust Ia
1 1hoir lips. The paper was one long.
vifIo1nous dIatribe apainst Roche'
lbrts daughter. O child of twelve
vnarn.
~ hen I raised NV eyes.u saws