The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-20
FROM FRANCE.
An Interesting Sketch Of Theirs and
Mignet.
The Laundry and Laundresses-
Campi, The Celebrated"
Criminal.
Especial Correspondence 20
PARIS, Msrch q, 1884

soOrlQues gwen 10 messrf. nieSs ALI
Mignet onlp in death they
we're divided. Bo b were from
Providence. Their prototype
were said to like horse rearing ant
boxing sports that never entered tn
heads OF either Theirs or Mignet. Tia
later was an editor and historian; Il
these Theirs united the politician
and statesman. Both graduated q
AK for the bar, and it was while read
ing for it. that they swore eterna
friendship. They practised at TIT
bar for eighteen months and then
carue to Paris to seek their fortune
in 1922. They were poor and resided
in the alley Montesquieu. where they
rented two back rooms on fourth
story; a riokety, old deal table, wal
their writing desk; when they hac
money, they INDUCED in the extrava'
garce of a dinner at % sous; wher
there was no corn in Egypt. they OBJ
served Lent, though the festival haG
long been passed by the almanac.
Mignet soon became editor of 6
newspaper, where he displayed
though very young. solidity, determl-
nation, and promptness OF decision
He was ardently attached to tins
liberal principles of 1889; be detesteC
the Bourhons, al! found in Tally
rand. an sdmirer. and encourger,
and protector.
He has died in his 86th year; be
was the senior academician, having
teen elected in 1886; Victor Hugo
now succeeds to that honor by right
of his election in 1S41. Mignet was
the type of a perfect gentleman in
thought, conduct and dress. His
hair seemed to bs blond, rather than
white: he was silent and cold, and
with his blue necktie with white spots
his smartly rolled up csne-um brelIs.
faultless hat. and tight-buttoned coat
he looked az Juvenile as Auber. He
was not a fop, he was not made up
like General Changarnier of whom 1t
was said, il you tou chad he would
fall to pieces. He told old stories 80
we'll as 10 make them as charming as
if new. Yet that modest gentleman,
whom Dumas Fills said, he might
make love to any lady in drawing
room despite his yesrs. without being
signed the protest, and 80
staked his head against the Ordon-
nances of July 1880 and which killed
aud buried the Bourbon.
Mignet in early life had been Tilted
~ an Italian lady, bat instead of
tearing his heart with his nails, as
did the poet Musset who experienced
8 similar calamity. he said to himself;
"well, since passion makes me suffer,
| shall put an end to passion" Then
be arranged bis life for the passion OF
literature. He occupied apartment.
in house owned by Theirs, and
where he died calmly as an infant
falling asleep, in the rue d'Aumsle.
Every day his knife and fork was
laid-thou2h he was rich-st Theirs
table. and his absence would be re-
garded as calamity. He was the
guide, philosopher and friend fer
rhiers, though ever resting in the
wings Of public life. He liked youth.
spring, nature, and the author and
giver of all good thinga. His delight
was--half century sgo-to have
run in the suburbs with Thiers and
BersDger, take their ease at an inn,
and singing, lead butterfly life OF
few hours. This was different from
the raking Ssin!e.Beure and Cha
sesubriand patronized.
Mignet had q specially Tor general
izstioD, for resume. He was ell
thought and research. III his histo.
ries he gives Us the osteology OF events,
none of the small talk and gossip OF
the times, like Theirs. BE was "a
exact az Henri Martin; 90 srduous as
Michelet. In his history o! the French
revolution from 1889 to 1914. and
published in 1924, he treated tnat
epoch Of human history for the FIRST
time. methodicslly, scientifically, and
philosophically. It was Immediately
translated into several Languages, for
it eliminated everything approaching
TO party spirit. In style, Mienet COM
bined that OF Guizot and Macsulay.
He was an accomplished esssyist as
we'll as historian; as for example, his
Lives of Marie Stuart, Franklin, and |
he Able Sieyes and other Portraits
IF the Academicians. Only be did |
act paint, but sculptured. He pro-
iuoed, not pictures, but statues and
ousts. Mignet. while taking note OF
he present, lived in the past. in bis
Cuvenirs, unlike Roger Callard, he
ead-as we'll as re read. Nothing he
Ietested more than improprieties in
bought word and speech. He alb
orred anything approaching dirti>
less of eoUl. FOR Mignet. nobility lay
q virtue, and benevolence was the
'gowd" of the gentleman.
Doctors differ; NJ. P. L. Boileau,
be first economical opinion ia
rance, asserts, despite all make
niits, the budget for 1876, will
g in deficit by 180.0O0,0OO to 2OO,-
10000 francs; others estimate it
,wer; NJ. Rouvier, a ministerialist,
there will be an excess
My he does not prove it. The fact
Franco hoo arrived at the opd al