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IN PARIS.
THE STORY OF The REVOLUTIONS
BEING REToLD.
rical Speculation - Victor
Hugo's Monument.
PARIS. July 80. lSSl

1HS uSNoIuelOu VI %, WHICH we nave All
been taught even in the free country of
America to look upon with horror, is grad
ually being metamorphosed from the abject
creature heretofore represented to divin.
ity from whom has emanated those liber-
ties and grand and patriotic ideas which
to-day are the glory and pride of the
French nation. They are at last privi-
legged to say what they think of it, and so
sublime and universal was the idea of hurl-
ing thrones into the past, and with them
the unworthy principle of one human being
tyrannizing over millions of others, that
even the horrors which followed brought
on by renewed tyranny and Injustice, seem
modified and even justified. This train of
thought is suggested by the perusal of a
book which has just been published en-.
titled journal dune Bourgeoise Ed
ward Lockroy, one of the most brilliant
journalists of Paris, and the son in-law of
Victor Hugo, has discovered among his
family documents
JOURNAL
Written by his grandmother. This Journal
is daily account of events which occurred
during the revolution, and connected with
incidents therein described, as though
through instructive duty and realization
OF the solemnity and importance of history
at that moment, are numerous letters
written by the good dame tc her husband,
her children and loved ones, to whom she
opens wide her patriotic heart. Patriotism
from the heart and mouth of man is GER
tainly grand, but on the part of woman
it becomes divine, as was the case, for in.
stance, with Joan OF Arc. Some of this
same sublimity and exaltation is found in
these letters, which are perfumed through
out with virtue and honesty belonging
to woman who performed her duty in
life with religious faith, and whose
perfect nature renders her more ca
pable Of compromising the heartbeats of
nation, as well as giving a proper
Interpretation to those sentiments as re-
Elected from the purity of her heart and
mind. She wrote what she saw and what
che felt, and through her one may Judge
of the feelings of the bourgeois at that pc.
riod of history, How intense must have
been the public feeling to have penetrated
so deeply into the soul of woman whose
sole ambition was to be good wife and
mother. Her noble and inspiring words,
intiamed with patriotism, were sufficient to
arouse the Indifferent and excite her hearers
to grand and lofty deeds, and by listening
to such speak, we at last comprehend how
strong must have been the current which
led to the revolution, how intense were
human feelings, the excitement which un.
steadied mems brains and what force was
necessary to stem the tide. 1t must not
be supposed that the good dame made use
of rhetorical art to charm her hearers on
the contrary, her language is simple, of
that simplicity which comes from the heart
and proves the most effectual eloauence,
Mingled with recitals of public events are
the accounts of home incidents of domestic
joys and trials, which are touching
in the extreme and prove how much
at that time home and patrie were COM
bined. The book is opportune, and arrives
at moment of public rejoicings over the
grandest souvenir of the rev0lution-the
destruction of the Bast;le. Michelet, be-
fore his death, began an abridged history
of his " History of the Revolution" H.
tended for the youth of France, but his
end came too coon and prevented its COM
pletion. To-day that same history is pre-
sented TO the public by his widow, who
herself has added the pages which were
and has performed the work as
no other living person could do, for in all
the great historians labors she was ever his
helpmate; in fact he performed no work
without her assistance.
NINE. MICHELET
Is highly esteemed for her noble character
and her strong devotion to her husband |
and his memory, and much of the admira-
ton and glory which surrounds the de-
parted historian envelopes her. She is said |
to be woman of very amiable disposition i;
yet she possesses great strength of char
acter, for although Michelet formally
demanded before his death to be
buried without the aid of priests.
and desired that he should
be buried from Paris at Pere la. Chaise.
his children by his first wife, who were de- |
votedly religious and were altoge Their I'm.
der clerical influence, took possession of
the body and had it inferred according to
the rites of the Catholic Church, and his
wife was obliged to appeal to the law. She |
devoted her entire time and energies to the |
performance of her husband's dying wishes. |
and when she succeeded received the con. |
CALCULATIONS of other valiant spirits. Niche
cts remains were then brought to Paris,
where universal honor was paid to his
memory, all the students Of the different
colleges forming portion of the cortege,
md the Prefet de Police went to the
widow to beg her to choose the route the
procession should take, thereby paying her
hat honor and Difference due to her.
A FEMALE MANAGER.
A woman has rented the Gymnase Thea
er from the middle of July until the lst
# September, for the express purpose of
having her own piece represented during
hat time-an excellent idea for unappre.
lated dramatic writers to act upon.
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