The Penn's Grove record., 1882-04-22
The Red AristocracY.

rise," has given us the portrait of q
mild and refined young English no
bleman, who is one of the agents and
members Of a powerful int~ernatienalist
revolutionary society. We doubt If
there are many such to be seen In
Hyde Park in the flesh but in Paris
it is different. That city appears TO
possess just now q large contingent of
titled Revolutionists, whose blood Is
very blue, but whose political princi-
Piles are very red. Indeed, they have
become common enough to go by the
general name of Lies Gentilshommes
Rouges." We take up the Lntrdnsi-
gednt, and we find that its leading ar
ticle is written by Monsieur lie Mar
quis de Rochefort. We turn to its
chronicle" of daily events it is sign
ed IL. Grammont." This bitter
writer, who RACES against the times
and calls the attention of the laboring
classes to the ntsere from which moth
ing but the still future Social Revolu-
ton can free them, is really a duke.
His full title is the Due de Grammon.
He is a very young gentleman, as
amiable as Mr.. Blacks English revo
lutfODary peer; and, in spite of his
fierce talk, is supposed to be incapable
of iDjuring a fly. He will probably
die of consumption, if report he true;
but it is his ambition to fall at the foot
of a barricade, sacrificing his life in a
conflict for the liberation of the people
from their tyrants- whether Kings,
Emperors or Republican Opportunists.
When the Duke is not writing his
imaginary chronicles, he is said to I'M
ploy his pen in the composition of
delicate love poems. His genuine ca
pacity may be guessed from the fact
that he won the first prize for the ode
to Victor Hugo.
The favorite paper of the wives and
daughters of the French operatives is
the Reve1, on account of the enter
tanning reading in its literary supple
ment. We are told that a married
workman who wants to please wife
and daughters takes home q copy of
the ReveiI. The leading are signed
"Lanessan.p NJ. Lanessan's name will
be fresh in the memory of many Eng
lish readers, on account of the promi-
nent part which he has lately taken,
in the Chamber of Deputies as the Par.
liamentary champion of the workmen
on strike. 1t might be supposed that
he is a self.made man after DR.. Smiles's
type of pacific heroes. On the con-
trary, he is 8 baron in his own right,
and belongs to one of the Oldest aristo-
cratic houses of France. To our
thinking the ReveH is not a lively
paper. 1t does not exhibit the fiery
glow which eharscterizes the Radical,
for instance, one of the most instruc-
tive specimens of an organ of French
demagogy-which is quite a different
thing from French democracy. The
editor of this demagogic print calls
himself Henri Maret,n and he sits
and votes in the Chamber under that
name. Doubtless he has a right to it;
but it isonly a part of his full designa
ton, which is given at length upon
his visiting-cards-"Le Due de Bassa,
mo-Maret." There is no doubt what
ever as to the authenticity of his ducal
title. His two cousins, Ernest and
Rene, are aristocratic men of fashion,
and were lately described in one of
the society journals as ornaments of
the F~aubourg Saint Germain."
1t is a singular social phenomenon,
and well deserving of serious study,
that no less than three of the princi-
pal revolutionary journals of Paris
should be edited respectively by a
marquis, a baron and q duke-each of
whom, considered from agenealogist's
point of view, is no upstart. But this
new party OF Red A~ristocrats, or Gen
tilshommes Rouges." is most fully
represented in the Mot d. Ordre. Ed
mond Lepelletier, its famous editor-in-
chief, chooses to be known to France
and the world merely by these two
words but If he were to subscribe his
article with his complete designation,
his signature would require two lines,
for he is Edmond, lie Vicomte de
Bouhelier Lepelletier, Baron de Saint
Fargeau.' The reporter of law cases
ia the columns of the same journal,
who seems to delight especially in Civ.
ing long accounts of sacerdotal misde-
meanors, signs himself "Andre." He
also is nothing smaller than a Wis.
eount-Andre, Vicomte de Gosset.
The third in that aristrocrstic-revolu.
ttonary joint stock company which
conducts the Mot a. Ordre is the
Marquis de George. These de classes
of the French noble families are said
to be the most taking and popular
agents in a socislistic agitation. The
spirit which has driven them to seek
alliance with the revolutionary agita
tor Is doubtless akin to that which
drove their ancestral kinsmen to put
on the coarse dress of the Benedictine
or to live on the spare meal of the
Trappist. 1t is aspi,it of revolt against
the tyranny, falsehood and sham
which make the deadening laws of
the fashionable world so intolerable to
any young mar who retains an atom
of seriousness, moral earnestness or
common human sympathy. 1t is
ready to plunge into any extreme if it
can thereby ave its own soul from
1.-THE pomps and vanities of this wick
ed world" The modern duke, mar
quis, baron or viscount becomes a So
cialist or Nihilist, a. it seems to us,
from an exactly similar impulse to