New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-24
TOPICS IN PARIS.
BRAvLING pATRIoTs-THE FATAL DUEL

continue to make noise. It's respectable io2y
members show their dsapproyal OF NJ. raul
Devoulede by sending in to the secretary, NJ Meyer
their resignations. Good Henri Martin the MS
torian bushes for shame; Admiral Pothunn re-
fleets back his bushes; and the War Minister Ten
eral BillOt. has asked General Lecolntc tho 'oV-
eruor of Paris, how he could have ever been so
foolish as to Join patriotic association headed by
young fellow who has gone mad with vanity
General Lccointc. whose membership In the League
was alluded to in q conversation between Prince
UohenIobe and the Premier NJ Duclerc, has OF
cot rSe resigned also.
The last feat of NJ. Dcyoulede Was that of low
rufIian Not content with having driven the Turn
Ycrein from the Cafe st. Marc, he went ana
thrished Jew whom he supposed to be German
in the balcony OF the Odcon Theatre. The Hebrew
in question is Il clever. unprinciPled man. VII" deaiS
IN Radic:, politics of the irebraud species. his
name is Meyer and among other Journalistic enter
prises he conducts the LG0icrRe. I'm some eXtraor-
binary manner he gets into tho heart OF police mys-
ferries and has been the terror OF four successive
Projects of Police Gambctta has long cassed
him as n "rcpfilcn of Bismarck, and the secret
organizer and leader Of the ant('ambctt1st kadlcal
press subsidized by tie German Chancellor. NJ
Meyer was the first to say that the AFFAIR OF tue
Rue 1T. Marc Cafe was Il mangnyTo OF inc Uaul-
bettsts to precipltate France into war. My Idea
| is that it vas a "rcpt.lian" eXpedlent Inc
Patriotic League is infested With Jews OF German
| origin and it is known that it was one OF their-a
Mcycr-who set on Paul DevOuledc to GET no the
cudgelling expedition against the IHru NeroIh'
| Tb, Editor of the Lanterne moreover. dcrded the
| bad grammar and imperfect rhyme which are prom-
nent defects of the dramas and SONGS of NJ. Devou-
lede This exasperated the poet. who wrote an
| oyerbcarne letter to hIs ili-natured critic and
| demanded its publication in the .LddfrRe Meyer
was twitted with cOwardice. bad faith ami Win
| having some OF hi marcks gold IN his pockets lie
declined to give the letter IN cltcnsO but published
enough of 1t 10 enable his readers 90 understand
| what the fun he made of it was about. VI. TauI
DeyOulude was thrown into state ot frenzy by the
| cool imperiineuce of the Jew. couple OF arlsto-
| cratic and Bonapartist members of the Patriotic
| League offered 10 aid him III chassihg Meyer
They ascertained that he had taken a box at the
| Odcon TO witness new play that is coming ont at
that theatre So they all three agreed to fall upon
| him there. To fortfy their resolution they dIned
| pleasantly together at restaurant and drank
| freely of EXPENSIVE wines. The dinner was pro-
! longed to a late hour They entered the Odeon To-
ward the end Of the third act. scout shower
them where Meyer was and at tho fall OF the cur
| tain they went up TO him in the balcony, called him
"A vile Prussan," and proceeded to assault him.
! He is a sma-sized adipose Jew. Deyoulede Is
very tai. and muscular. lie laid his cane with force
across the Editors shoulders. In the scuIHe thaJ
ensned lady was Knocked over ana uauP'cu
rron Never attempted to defend himself. The
other Patriots rushed upon him. The lady screamed
- You towards! You are three to one against an
unnrmed man" Her invectlyes we're repeated by
those around Devoulede and his friends cried that
| ALI was fair in war; and that 1t was impossible for
| too many Frenchmon to rise up against the Ter
mans
Never still refuses to fight, but prosec ues Devon
| lede for assaultng him. lie denies that be is
Prussian and technically he is and always has
| been French His father was born in part OF the
| Rhine district which belonged TO France under the
| first Empire and retained his French nationality.
! This particular Meyer drew his first breath NJ
| Cologne where he was brought up and educated.
But on reaching mans estate he came to farIs' anu
being liable to military service, took part III the
war of ls7O-71 against the invaders. lie IS much
less German than that Benjamin OF the Gambettst
party Reinach or that other satellite OF Gambetta,
Hecht NJ Dcyouledc is almost chum OF Reinach,
at whose table he read ms rhymng pane2yrlc OF
fine Opportuuist chef which the LaDtcrRe rendered
4 cause OF mirth TO !hc readers OF every journal
which reproduced its notice of this ehuslon AS
the victim of A. Devouledes patriotic frenzy is not
"A German in law. Prince Ilohenohe cannot interfere
in his bchalf. Bat the scene in the Oueon Theatre
will if the Judges show any lenlency to the ag-
pressor he taken in bad part at Berlin, anu indeed
throughout Germany. Already NJ DucleTc felt
ohliqod 10 make humble excuses for the action and
then the indcton OF the police in the Rue st. Marc
affair. General Blllot after his interview hastened
70 the Frauchr Comic to inspect works of defence
ot which the geaie are Engaged. and to see that no
time il lost i'm completing them. He will IN lew
dovs after hurried tour round the forts OF Savoy.
RIM on 10 Calais to stimulate the GENE there to re-
newcd exertlons.
II is only lust to the French nation to add that
II disapprsycs of the mad ru,taulsm of Deyoulede,
whose heau is turned 10y the incense that Madame
Adam ana his mother burn under his nose. The
Lditress of Aourole Rerac thinks him the hand
soonest and most mani looking man that she has
ever seen lie is her bean ideal of q soldier-port,
and she tells him So 1t was in her drawing room
that he read his pOtico- patriotic Biblical drama,
IA NOabltc." His mother wOrships him rs
hero The young man rather likes being wor-
shipped Gy her and the enchantrcss Madame
| Adam
! The fatal duel between VI. lie Massas. the founder
! and editor of % Jeyouste organ lie toHbGf anu VI
Dchard. tho MANAGING editor OF Lc Petit CdPor0, a
Victorian paper will furnish bourgeois parents with
another argument against love matches. NJ. dc
Mas,as speculated upon Plon-Pon, and Mr.. Dichard
went i'm for that Pretcndcr's son. Victor, aud the
testament of the late Prince Imperial Although
NOT Corsicans their polemics had Corscan aspect.
| They "sanged - each other in a fearful manner.
| It vas imagined by distant lookcrson that
they shook hands behind the scenes and that
all the slashing articles wore for the gallery.
Anyone who had queer story to tell Of Nlasss and
took it tu lie Petit Caporai sure that it would
be received there and printed. IL tOmbGt was not
| behind its rival publishing tales which were not
ceditablo to Dicharl. In short do9 ate dog IN
most greedy ard ferocious manner. As MassaS en-
l,ont nm Iia iourpol IN money furnished