The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-06
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
The Weekly Review of French
Facts and Fancies.
Something of Provost Paradol
and His Views.
The Divorce Laws Among the
Parisians.
Special correspondence of THz HER.LDl.

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PARIS, JUNE 18TH, 1884.
Now that the fit of territorial ex-
tension is still strong-With the gov
eminent perhaps more than the peo-
pie. OF this country. 1 had the curiosity
to look up Provost Paradols Nouvelle
France. published in 1868. and which
made at the time. something like a
great sensation. It ran through six
editions in as many weeks. NJ. Para,
dol was the crack political writer in
the De6ats, and made
UNeoMPRoMEING WAR
onsths Second Empire. He was the
champion of Orleanism and an AGA
demioian. His political and econo-
mical writings, had always very
great sale. and influenced public
opinion. He astounded every one by
accepting Office under the regime be
bad for years been anathem atizing.
He was nominated ambassador to
Washington. when in July. 1870,
depressed by remorse. he shot himself
before mirror. Only the last two
chapters of that authoritative work
were perhaps not 80 much read az
devoured. And they are as full OF
interest, instruction. and advice
to-day, as in June, 1868. M Paradol
points ou', it is to France that
Germany is indebted tor her unity;
she countenanoed the dismember-
merit o! Denmark when England
formally offered to resist that act.
The Empire ignored that the causes
OF the decadence of peoples are
purely moral. After his defeat, Han
nibal cav with his piercing eye. the
humiliation Of Carthage. France
secretly encouraged Prussia against
Austria; result. could France hold
her own, not against coalesced
Europe. but against Prussia alonef
Napoleon III. having propounded
the doctrine of nationalities, Prussia
naturally kept her eyes on Alsace-a
sheep torn from the Tuetonio fold two
centuries previously. German unity
remember he wrote in 1861 accom-.
plished, implied the fail OF French
grandeur; and valiant Holland,
despite its proverbial sagaeity and
numerous souvenirs OF glory, ia in.
evitably destined to become q mari
time province of the redoubtable
empire.
FRANCE CANNOT RESIST
the superior numerical millions OF
united, concentrated. disciplined. and
educated Germans. Let her renounce,
Paradol continues, then, to stop in
advance tho annexation of Holland,
which will undoubtedly be the first
step of Germany anitGire exterierily,
and that will be accomplished witha
out obstacle.
England would do we'll to keep this
truism before her eyes: there is no
middle for q nation which has known
greatness and glory, between the
maintenance OF her ancient supre-
macy and complete impotence.
Paradol lays down, that England
and the United States, rivals though
they be in all sense, make only one in
point of race. language, manners.
and laws, are destined to dominate
the world, outside Europe. France
has forfeited the place that England
the Anglo-5axon-hss conquered
by blood and language. Destiny has
90 irrevooaoiy pronounced. To-day,
book published in English is read
by infinitely more human beings
than ii ii were written in French,
and it is in English that the navigator
is saluted upon almost all points oil
the navigable globe.
The author states, that