The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-11
FROM FRANCE.
The Partisan Craze for Erecting
Statues.
Further Particulars Of the Strike in
the Anzin Mines.
A General Talk About TOnkin
Troubles.

Special core .pondence of THs HER Id
PARIS, APRIL Is.
In the craze which now sffl let
France for statue-erecting, it is tn
pace which kills. Fortunately tn
"boom" has set IN. when the govern
msnt has a superiority OF old cannon
lon its hands, that can be meltet
down, thanks to the Chinese soldier
in Tonkin abandoning their guns, ant
with greater rapidity than Egyptian
warriors. The municipal council ha'
decided to set up statue to Dole:
on the Place Msubert, Boulevard St.
German, where he was burned, in
August 1915, after being hanged. Il
Paris were to honor all the victims oil
parties and sects, the capital would
surpass Munich in atues. Why do
not the Free and Accepted Masons
put up monument say TO their G. w.
NJ, a noted black prince, with as
many skulls and cross-bones on his
apron as on the uniforms OF regi-
ment Of Black Brunswickers, who
was barned on the site where at
present stands ion the Pont Neui,
the monument to that amusing old
sinner and King OF Opportunities.
Henry w? That unfortunate was
"burned before being hsnged"-a
preliminary drop Of eight feet has
thus an advantage.
Dolet is to be honored, it seems, as
an apostle of Stree thought" The
fact is, he was an advanced Catholic,
and had for a best friend all his life,
Cardinal de Fournon. He was so
little q Calvinist, that he wrote
against Erasmus. In one respect he
resembled Voltaire little, he attack.
ed the abuses of his age, and tina.
was an age when strong blows were |
exchanged. and striking below the
belt ranked as fair ;play. Dolet was
8 printer, and was viotimised by a !
trade conspiracy. He was born On |
the Srd of August 1909. at Orleans,
and was executed on the anniversary
Of his birthday, thirty-seven years
ater,. at Paris, with the consent of
that strange Father OF Letters"
Ffanois l. Dolet contributed largely
10 the intellectual renaissance OF the
'ixteenth century.
Dolst's parentsge was poor. Some
aid be was the natural born son of
Francois l., the king protected him
Il all events-ssve from the gallows,
By the kings bounty he was able to
rsvel in Italy and study law at
Toulouse. But he was of a passions
tie temperament; he qusrrelsd with
lis fellow students, and they accused
lin of heresy, because he knew
1reek and Hebrew. Rsbelais We
NOW suffered for having Greek
authors in his select, convent library.
Having attacked the parliament of
Toulouse, that city became too hot
or Dolet; be fed to Lyons, where he
TILED a schoolman, an artist in a
treet fight: be escaped to Paris and
through influence, was pardoned by
he king.
He returned 10 Lyons and set up as
! printer; his presses turned out beau
iful classical volumes; be published
lis own translations from the Greek,
Ilso, Latin dictionary, with satiri.
,sl commentaries on convent events.
BE commenced writing this work
when a lad of sixteen; it is q monu-
nent of learning and OF Benedictine
,stienoe. Having secured monopo.
y, by superior skill, OF all the print
ng in Lyons. his fellowcraftmen con-
pired to ruin him: they did net bresk
ais machines, nor attempt to blow up
lis office. or waylay him and whack
him to death. They sent elegant
of his printed translations OF
Plato, discussing the Immortality OF
The soul, to the inquisition. That
body found him guilty of haresy, but
after fifteen months' Imprisonment.
10 was handed over to the Secula;ians
and by influence he was again par.
Toned. The ca dinal stood to him.
Resuming printing. a fresh con-
'piracy was Matched by his Co trades
men. They made up two large
bundles of his works: one, of volumes
thoroughly orthodox: >he eecond. in
closed envelopes of the books con-
1emned by the Inquisision. The
parcels were sent to Paris: Dolet was
arrested, brought to Paris, tried az q
hereto, and condemned to be fret
hanged, and then burned along with
hls books sentence fully executed.
On dis wag to execution be made the
epig!am for the sympath'zing crowd.
Non dOtet ipse Dotet: sed pia turba
delet. Dolet was a cynic and ambi-
tious of glory: hs retracte6, when
called upon to retrsct. But be bad
neither the conscience, nor tbs ooar-
age. nor the faith OF a martyr. Hs
was not an atheist. for he believed
in the Immortality OF the soul: he
was not immoral for he was q model
husband and doting father. and the
little volume of "Counssls'' be wrote
ses up and printed with his own. hands
for the guidance OF his son. ia
treasure OF sound morality and praoti-