The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-05
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
PARIS. JnlY u. 1888.

long time to lie. They are anxious
for the second act OF the drama, that
where the Oonte de Paris, g thirty.
first cousin-the. relationship was
born about two centuries ago, OF the
dying King-Will have to render an
account OF his stewardship to the Re-
public, which like the Turk. will
bear no brother near the thror Q.
There are Journals who sWear by all
the gods OF Olympus that the Comte
de Chambord is dead since ten days,
and that tor political ends he is still
made to do duty, just as the Gid,
though a corpse, was placed on
horseback, il not to hutter the Vals-
clans at least to encourage his BRAY
es
Up to the present all the conse.
queDces resulting from the Comte de
Chambord mortal illness have been
to convert Pau! de Osssagnac to Or
leanism. The first monarchsl party
that will make breach in the bat
Elements Of the Republic will have
de Cassagnao for henohman. The
guillotine by persuasion will not an
initiate the Republic; il must be
grasped and throttled. THAT'S the
perfect cure, it seems, for the situa-
ton,
Now the last person in the world
to risk bis skin and his fortune in
such an adventure. is the Comte de
Chambord. A man that bushes
like a girl in her teens when spoken
to, will never seek any kind OF can
non mouth reputation. His Count
ess is as ambitious to be queen as
was poor Charlotte. wife OF Maximil.
ian to be Empress. And a revolu-
ton organized by the OrIeanisfs
would be laughter for a month and a
good joke forever. They will 1emain
the residuary Iegstees of the Repub-
lie, in the event OF the latter, an
event within the bounds of possibility,
laying violent hands on herself.
Your moderate Republican ia not
courageous creature; he will in,
Weigh by speech and writing, but as
for putting on war paint and feath,
ers, that is never dreampt of in bis
philosophy. Ii was not 30 when be
could obtain 8 substitute to replace
hiln on the battlefield. Now he has
individually to pay the blood-tsx,
and that reduces his roaring to the
gentleness of the sucking dove. The
same remarks apply to your consti
tutioRal monarch man. I do not
mean that the French would not de-
fend their country as stoutly az other
patriots, we're il invaded, but she has
Lost, happily for herself and the
world. the taste of war for the sake OF
glory's thrill. And it must be borne
in mind that France could not now
inglobe whole nations as her soldiery.
When she invaded Russia her rank
and file included sIl the duellers be
yond Mesopotamia. with eprinkling
OF French to the manner born.
Louis XIV gangrened at tbs age
OF II, was three weeks dying, and
displayed during that period cour.
age that no battlefield could parallel
He regulated all the details as to biz
wishes and funeral, as if drawing ar
list of guesss to be invited to Marty
or Foutalnebleau. And that demi
god. that Sun,KiRg, whose features
regulated those o! his courtiers, seem.
ed 10 walk TO Eternity with the trsn-
quill mojesty as il be were promensd-
ing the gallery OF Mirrors heore tht
bow ed heads of his nobility. H
was buried at st, Deuis--to avoid tht
sight OF which royal cemetery d,
built the palace OF Versailles, ENID
the hardly concealed execration G
the popuIace, who, abiding to BIZ
heart and viscerae having been re-
moved for embalming, needs remark
ed tba. be was buried as he lived
"Without heart and without bowels. ,
The poor Comte de Chambort
passed all his life, the foot in stirrup
| ready TO ride into France. But b.
would not sacrifice his white fal
ideas; for him, France was not wortl
tricolor. His ancestor, Henri w.
nevertheless considered Paris to b
worth mass. If. as il lie rumored
the CJmte de Ghambord insists OF
tie white flag being adopted by tn
Oomte de Paris, the laugh agains
the latter and that Psrthisn AFRO,
| will be general.
Examining santinp every arailahl