New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-02
THE RED ARISTCCE1CT.

From Tie L0ndon Echo.
Mr.. William Black in his Sunrise has given us
the portrait OF mild and refined young English
noblcnan. who Is one OF the agents and members of
a powerful internatIOnallst revolutionary society
We doubt If there are many such TO be seen IN
HYDE Park in the flesh but in Paris il is different.
That city appears 10 possess inst a large con
tingent OF titled Rev olutlOnists, whose blood is
very blue. bui whose political principles are very
red. Indeed, they have become common enough to
20 bS the general name of LES GCntilsnOWmes
Kouges" We take up the jHtylnsaegni. and We
find that its leading article is written by Monsieur
Ie Marquis de Rochei0rt. We turn TO its " chronl-
Gle " Of daily events; il is signed l. GrammOnt."
This bitter writer who RACES against the times, and
calls the attention of the laborng classes to the
ltistre from which nothing bat the stIll future
Social Revolution can free them, is really duke.
His fnll title Is the Due de- GrammOut lie is very
1ounp gentleman as aniabe as Mr.. Hacks English
revolutionary peer and. IN spite of his fierce talk,
is supposed to be incapable OF iniurlng a fly. He
will probably die of consumption II report he true
but Ii is his ambition to fail at the foot of harTi
cade sacrificing his life IN conflict Tor tho liberia
ton OF the people from their tyrants--whetheT
Kings, ImperOrs or EcpubIcan OppUrtunists.
Whrn the Duke is not writing his imaginary chroni-
cleS he is said to employ his pen in the c0mpC siOn
OF delicate love poems. His genuine capacity may
guessed from the fact that he the inst plize
for the ode to Victor Hugo
The favore paper Of the wives and daughters of
the French operatives is the Rcreii, on account of
the entertaining reading IN ITS literary supplement.
We are told that IA married workman VINO wants to
please bis wife and daughters takes home copy of
the RncH. The leading articles are siencd
Z" LancsSan.' NJ. Lancssans name will be fresh in
the memory OF many English readers on account Of
tine prominent part which he Las lately taken in
the Chamber of Deputies rs the Parliamentary
champion of the workmen on strike. II might 10
supposed that he is a sclt-made man-afLer Dr.
Sunless type OF pacific heroes. On the contrary, he
Is baron IN his own right, ana belongs to one OF
the oldest aristOcratIc houses of France. To our
thinking the Rcreii is not lively paper 1t docs
not exhibit the fiery glow which characi erzes the
HGdlcdt, for instance, one OF the most instructive
specimens OF an organ of French dcmagogy- which
j. quite a different thing from French democracy
The editor OF this demagogic print calls himself
Henri MaTet,' and he sits and votes in the Cham
Der under that name. Doubtless he has right 10 il
but il is only paIt Of his full designation, which is
gwen at length upon his yisltingcarls-" lie Due
de I}aSsamO- Alarct.' There is no doubt whatever
10 the authenticity Of his ducal title. Ills two
cousins. Ernest and Rome are aristocratic men of
society Journals rs "ornaments OF the Iaubourg
Salnt-Germain.'
1t is singular social phenomenon aud well de-
serving of serious study that no less than three t
the principal revolutionary journals of Paris should
be edited respectively by marquis. a baron and
duke-cach OF whom, considc ed from the geneaO-
party of Red AnStocrats, or "GentilshOmmes
Rouges" is most fully represented IN the Not
dOrdre. Edmond LepolletieI, ITS famous editor IN
chief, chooses to be known to France and the world
merely by these Two words; but if he were 20 sub
scribe his article with his complete designation his
signature would require two lines for he is Ed
mond lie Vicomte de Bcuheier Lepelletior Baron
de Saint Fargeau." The reporter of Ian in the
columns of the Same journal, who seems to delight
demeanors signs himself andre" lie also Is
nothing smaller than Niscount--Andre, Nicomtc
de Gosset. The third in that aristOcratc-revoIu-
tionary Joint stock company which conducts the
Mot dOrdre is the Marc DO George. These de
CLASSES of the French noble families are said TO be
the most taking and popular agents IN socialistic
agitation. The spirit which has driven them to
seek alliance with the revolutionary agitator is
doubtless AKIN TO that which drove their ancestral
kinsmen to put on the coarse dress OF te Benedic-
tine or to live on the spare meal of the Trappst 1t
is "A spirit of revolt against the tyranny, false
hood and sham which make the deadening laws OF
the fashionable world so lntolerable 10 any young
man who retains an atom OF seriousness moral ear
n stness common human tymDathy. II ia ready |
plunge into Any extreme If 1T can thereby save ITS
own soul from {" the pomps and vanites Of this |
wicked world" The modern duke, marquis, baron |
or viscount becomes "A Socialist or Nihilis as 1t
seems to from exactly similar impulse to that
which drove so many a MEDIEVAL duke, marquis, |
baron or yiscOunt to become O monk.