New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-05
ANARCHIST AND ROYALIST.
TWO POLITICAL TRIALS IN PARIS-N1LS-
SONS HUSBAND

rynon THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT THE TRrBUNE1
PARIS, Aug. -.
I,ouise Michel has again got the nimbus OF mar
tyrdom we'll around her head She stood her trial
Yesterday for Exciting 70 murder and pillage" in
speech delivered by her in the Theatre du Chateau
d'Eau at a meeting held there to express sympathy
| with the Decazevle colliers when they were on
strike. The " Red" prophecies surrendered herset
| to Justice. She to have appeared along with
| squad of advanced" journalists. to wits Gnesde,
| Suslni and Paul Lafarque son-n-aw OF Kari
| Marx But as they made default, she was alone In
the dock with NJ Mariote, the Editor OF lie fstori'
| tomahawk kind Of Royalist pictorial journal.
| Louise sat in the dock with as much satisfaction
pictured in her countenance other ladies might
feel if raised to an Imperial throne. She was In
rusty mourning for her mother. When the pro-
| ceedin9s opened the usual questions were put to
| Louise Michel and Mariotte. But the President
skipped In her case the one relating to age.
| Mariotte is Jew of Italian origin. lie Pilori has
| NOT long been in existence and has been distn
guished since the expulsion of the Princes
| by yolleys of abuse Of tho Government
One Of its incrimnated articles was on the occasion
| of the Dccazevie riots and against the Republic
and the race from which NJ. Mariotte himself has
sprung On June 10 last it fired broadside at the
Government under the heading of "Vive lie Coup
d'Etat." 1t was a peculiarly expressed and vigor-
GUS article aud although of an eccentric style the
| product of no feeble writer II ran thus:
The door OF exile is Three hundred and ntteen
have decided nat the princes the pros
Unity OF Bonapartes and Bour0oDs and IKE dogs enaw
near them. The conclusion to draw from this Is that
they're afrad They expe because n.,, the . GSuS
t!. f nsnsd to have done with them They
sy n se Gs dS vi.
their mered c.stisaon Is not ,am her IN tS az
who freed her and enaOleu ner 10
impose her laws Europe VINO ever saw on tno sane
sco%D@re.m dsiisSts u.s. It delight. US because the
path OF exile leads to ultimate Lic no .st. Of tho
Republic and spewed out IKE male tney WI. re-
in We .as have e'sn' s Sse'ais @
expressing our cOn nngeS TS the 'f sw
ss1s a1ps S we reply BY 1--WE coup
Etat Tue Coup d Eat is tho state delivered from the
impeus being given TO business affairs and the restora
ber Old rank in Europe the Coup Il Etat is public sal
the applause OF the whole Nation
| On NJ. Mariotte being asked if he owned to the
authorship of the article, "No." was the answer
by whom then. is it 7" Victor Hugo" How
so ~ "Victor Hugo wrote it after the Coup d Etat
have only substituted the words Coup Etat' tor
'Republic' and Princes for Republicans" In the
article on the Chateau d Eau meeting NJ. Marlotte
| said he was altogether with the " Reds OF the Cri
du Peapla They were right IN saying that the
only way to solve the social question would be IN
thr0ttling all the upper class Jews and hnancsts
and making them dsgorge. The millions of the
Rothschilds, the Erlaugers, and the Ephrussis and
of the whole international ghetto had he said, been
drained out of the pockets of Frenchmen, who are
now reduced to poor-devildom Rip open the
Jew and copper silver and gold coin will pour from
him in q strong cascade. To rip open the jew is not
| to piage nor to spoliate, but to restitute
| If we would deliver the poor artisan from famine
we should empty out the Jew, who is the father oil
| the Republic of 1870 which he has turned into n
gigantic machine for robbng the French people"
| The Jury made up of small tradesmcn and artists
who probably had known what 1t was to be IN the
hands of usurers seemed to enjoy this diatribe
which, NJ Marlotte said spoke for itself ana
needed no defence. He thanked IN few words the
! Government for having prosecuted hin-a rare
| good fortune now for journals and journalists.
After the jury had elaborated three quarters OF an
hour il returned d" not guilty" verdict all the
counts Those who win may laugh; and Narcotic
laughed most heartily as he was being liberated
1t was then Loulse's tnrn. While the jury was
celebrating she surrounded by young advo-
Gates with whom she carried on a lively converse
ton Each of them anxious TO be her conn-
sell but she said she wold defend herself. There
was no Indictment. but bill against her. which
was read I'm 1t was an alleged report OF her speech
in which she was represented to have said In speak
! ing of her political adversarles: Robbers should
he arrested and assassms executed by the people,
When asked what she had to say for herself she
delivered short and gracefully turned speech
which all the young lawyers. who were Tor her TO a
man, applauded. She felt 1t duty to herself to
declare that she never said what was set down to
her in the bull. She neither cried out nor shrleked.
Certainly she was for violence. but never dylsed
| it in the coarse vulgar and insensate manner as
cribed to her. She was also an Anarchist, and did
not mind beng condemned for preachl ng
her ideas But she flattered herself that her
anarchica sermons in grammatical French
| There was much laughter III court when Police
Commssary Veron, no was then called, was de-
posing against Louise. He talkei az II by rote: In
trying to repeat her speech his memory sonetlm@s
failed him, on which she prompted him. ms at
| last Hurried and upset him and then he tOld tne
court that he had his deposition written out and In
his pocket and would prefer reading to recitlng
it. The Acknowledgement was not very c nhia
IN his summing-up on the Red SyOll.
But Louise demanded leave to make reply. IN
very well pitched melIitinous and yet strong voice.
of which she quite the mistress, ana III very
natural and yet chaste aud elegant language, she
gave sketch of her Socialist doctrine Ihere
was notwithstanding the simplicity or her words
a cadence in her phrases most agreeable 10 tnc ear
tier last words were " Condemn me If you choose
for my principles, which have just avowed. But
do not attribute to me the ungrammatlcal and
coarse nonsense which has Just been set down to
my charge" AS you have been Informed by cable
she condemned TO four months Imprisonment
and to pay line OF S2O
Christine Nilsson is to be known as the Countess
Angel de liranda. Her future husband belonged
to the gded Bohemia of Paris when ne came here
in the train of the exiled Isabella IN 1868. lie was
appointed when Alphonso returned to SPAN TO a
post at the Spanish Embassy created Tor nm. III
was to make OF his old relations with the press
here getting 1t to support the restored mouc
archy. Angel de Miranda WAS on the stan OF
lie GaulOs in 1870 aud arrested at Versailles oy
the Prussians spy. 1t was said by French ana
Germans that the arrest was comedy lie was
promoted at the Embassy and then recalleu 10
Madrid. His daughter was the cause OF wsut,
the exactnature of which l do not quite remember.
| believe that he Is not in law her father. Al
any rate she is charming woman anu
| ,nnst Indu | shnnld snu sha l. ahnut three