New-York tribune., 1881-09-25
GAMBETrA IN NORMANDY.

" GUlSED PRlNCESS AMONG HIS HEAHERS AT
HoNFLEUR-THE OLD AND NEW TOWNS OF HON
"A FLEUR-CoMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF FRANCE
AND ENGLAND-GAMBETTA ON THE TARIFF-Ins
POLITICAL FUTURE PROBABLY TO BE THE
z LEADERSHIP OF A GREAT CONSERVATIVE
PARTY.
H FROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.l
y PARIS, Sept 9.-Gambetta has broken out in
new place. His tour in Normandy will prove,
X judging from his speeches delivered there. pv-
litica change of front He will hereafter lean on
N the prosaic conservative part of the nation, which
n is disposed 10 stand by the Republic because it is
an accomplished fact 1t to this class of French
K citizens that the Emperor Napoleon appealed for
support. Theirs also went over TO it when he for
E SOCK. after the Revolution IF 1880. the democratic
y doctrines with which his mind early imbued.
y and which gave direction to his pen. This class
wolds considerable voting power II is pretty solid
q IN its friendship, aud being absorbed in making
money and investing it is glad to be relieved of the
Il trouble of attending to the affairs of the
u nifty. 1t wants puhlic spirit, and presents in some
features of its character analogy to Wucl1 axe in
q tho Pilgrims Progress, who too busy gathering
Il up straws and rubbish to the glorious crown
3 that was suspended above his head This portion
n of the French people has been refractory to repub
"a lican ideas. But having accepted the republican
!, form of government under which it finds it can
$ make money just easily under the Empire,
y and enjoy liberty, it will not be easily led
y away from ~. I1OWcNtT ueTculltCy III
I. uence lead it to seek for man of political capa-
city who NAV become the incarnation of the prin-
ciple which tho Government is based, and be
q central handspring of administrative action. There
y is really more JacobInism in this inert than
in the Radicals of the towns, who are for giving
local self-government trial. To the deriment of
n that State authority which was founded by Henri
w. consolidated by Richelieu, carried to its apoeee
q by Louis Quatorze allowed to decline by Louis
ii Quiuze, fell to nadir under LOuis ize, and was
q renovated by Napoleon, and gwen C9sarish form.
n Gambetta's speeches, of which he has delivered
n five, in Normandy were of IA lukewarm tempcra-
n ture, and meant chiefly TO TICKLE Norman ears.
8 They of Left Centre dlapason. HIS own
journal, La Republque Hdncdise does net hesitate
& thus to characterize them The series commenced
at little town in the beautiful Department of the
z Eure, which is richly wooded, hly well watered,
n bright with verdant gens and valleys, and busy
industrial hamlets in which rapid streams impaIt
Y motive force to the machinery of factories. Neu-
n bourg is the name of this little town. 1t the
"a birth place of who chiefly remarkable
for the integrity of his political and private life
Y This virtuous citizen Dupont de rEurel, the
x friend of Lamartne. and the president in SIS. OF
n the temporary Government which was improVised
at the Hotel de Vile in the days of February The
late NJ. Edmond Adam was a native of the Eure
b and protege OF Dupont, who loved him for his
singlcness of mind and generosity of disposition.
4 Madame Edmond Adam, in memory of her late
z husband, has foI some time busted herself in OBJ
tanning of Government n retrospective act of re-
cogntion Of the services rendered by Dupont to the
Il Republican cause. Sho wished also national
attention to be called TO his probity, for which
y reason she proposed that memorial statue should
be erected and that its unvelug should take place
Il under the highest State auspices. NJ Grcyy was to
n this end approached 10y her; but he excused him.
= self. She then pressed Ministers and Republican,
Deputies and through MSpuller of the deputies
of Paris and an editor of la HePublipie frdncdse
q obtained "A promise from Gambetta that he would
deliver speech Mt the uuveilIng of the statue
euoglzng the virtues of Dupont (de PEurel. As he
had been Minister OF Justice it was also decided
4 that the present tituar of thai office, NJ. CaIot.
was to go down too To NeubOurg.
Madame Adams influence was also exerted in
b procuring for Duponts sister old maid who s
h going on toward her centenary, pension which
n will with the granted her by the late VI. Adam
keep her for the rest of her days IN afuence Her
poverty greatly to her honor. Her brother. whose
memory she Tevere-, twenty years her senior.
B and tender father to her. In has old age
she devoted herself TO him. Family affection is a
virtue which hnds congenial atmosphere IN
n France. Mile. Dupont dresses IN black cashmere
q gown. made very plain. shawl to match. and
wears the muslin cap of respectable peasant
e woman of the Eure She was present at the nn-
yelling Of the statue, leaning the arm OF Nine
h shock which the fall of the platform caused her
IS she has since kept her bed. No doubt also the emo
tions of the iete were trying to the health of a
Il nonagenarian who has lived thirty three years in
absolute retirement. She was with her brother in
Paris in lS4S, and witnessed the Revolution of
& February. Dupont de PEure, were he now living
would be 10 years old. lie died in 1855
\ The Eure of the departments IN which
Imperialism was most aggressive, because the late
q Due de Broge and many of his personal friends
& who shared his political opinions had chateaux
there. On the day of the honest old Republicans
n funeral, police conmissares sent to Noubourg
4 from Paris. They ordered to suffer no pohti
cal manifestation hostile TO the Government at the
funeral Armed force sent from Evreux and
police spies were disseminated in the village
When the coffin was borne into the church the
Prefect, who had also from Evreux to see for
himself and TO take energetic measures, ordered
e the doors to be closed. His object was to prevent
The lntermlnable line of mourners from entering
Inc parish priest who was a man of civic courage
had the spirit To so himself and unbot the doors
winch he threw wide open. He said that he was
master IN his church. and that the Catholic religion
made 1t rule never to exclude from her sanctu-
aries those who came to the souls of the dead
X by praying for them The Prcfect was overawed
by the noble hrmness of the priest and Welded
h Remembering this, sorry that Dupont. who
was liberal Catholic, should be represented sit
ting with his back turned toward the old church
door in which, as he said himself he was taught nv
the venerable eccesastic who baptized him To live
by the light of conscience and Of faith in Dyine
justice
Gambetta from Neubourg went 20 Tfavre wbence
ho was taken over in II steam :ug along with his
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