National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-07-23
Tho French Republic.

individual, not excepting Louis the Four
tcenth, than that Comte dc Paris, head Of
the Bourbon. Orleans, or younger branch of
the Bourbon family, who is at present an ex-
lie in England. lie is now 4S years of age,
and has led a stirring laborlous, aud event
full life. lie is an excellent chemist, dill
gent student Of the political and social
problems of this century, aud model gen
tleman In private life. He is known in the
United States as having served with dis
tinctlon upon the staff Of Gen. Mcclellan,
and as the author OF brilliant and impair
tial history OF the late civil war.
Until within very few months no rumor
ms to his plotting against the French repub.
lie gained popular belief, aud along with
his uncle, the Due d'Aumale, he has been re-
garded as perfectly loyal to the existing
order. However, he has had to suffer for
the sins OF his ancestors, aud the French
government, without any personal malice
toward the honorable sciOns Of a disreputa-
bic and historic family, has felt compelled,
in the interests of the republic, to Danish
the leader OF the Oreanlst family.
Many good people deplore what they
consider cruel edict, and assert that the
expulsion OF the princes is significant of
the utter feeblcness Of the republic 1t is
not necessary now to go into this question
again, but It may not be unintoresting to
take birds eye view Of certain facts.
One special cause for the sympathy with
the French princes is that they iel0Rg to a
Family Which has rcigned in France for
nealy three hundred gears! This sort of
reasoning reminds us of Fagln, the jew:
"Have you anything to say why the SEN
tence Of the law should not be passed upon
you?" said the Judge to the abandoned
ruilian before him. "Nothlng, your lord
ship" replied Fagin, "only that am very
old man." "Just the very reason why you
should know and do great deal better,
and why shall give you the benefit Of full
punishment" answered the wise judge.
An easy, convenient, and fairly satisfactory
way Of arriving ut the results obtained by
three hundred years Of Bourbon rule may
be found in two small books-Carlyle's
"History Of the French Revolution" and
Dickens's "Tale Of Two Cities" 1t is not
even necessary to account for the influence
of VoltGire and Rosseau, II an ordinarily
indolent reader will contemplate the Incl
dents OF Sydney Cartons life and the un-
seXed character Of Mime. Defarge. This
british woman, rather than DantOn or
Robespierre, is the incarnated result of
Bourbon rule for three centuries, and it can
scarcely be wondered at that the first symp-
tom Of causes which produced Defarge
should be treated as deadly poison to the
body polite.
"But," the fawnlng crew, who dislike the
French republic for any or every reason, will
still say, "perhaps the Bourbons were bal,
but just look what Louis Napoleon did for
France. The second empire made France
the wonder and admiration Of tue world
and Paris the most beautiful of cities.n To
this we will reply In the words of an Eng
lishman, the son Of a duke, who did not
love "the people" of any country, and who
had had the advantage for our present
purposO-of residence in Paris for ten or
fifteen years, "In 1885," says our author,
SHY far the greatest effort ever made in the
history Of humanity, the whole French ma
tlon rose to shake Off the abuses OF fifteen
centuries of oppression. Exactly twenty
years afterward came the first OF the Bona
parties and confscated to his own profit all
the boons which that revolution had yielded
and called himself pr0videAtidl man. IL
1880 the French nation rose up again tc
complete the work which had been bu
commenced before; and twenty years latel
there arrived the second Bonaparte, also
prOrideHtidt man, who perpetrated {
second conilscation, and called the Who'll,
world to witness that he was the
savior Of society. The glorious results
of the first Bonaparte's reign may b,
summed up in two lines-a million French
men slain, two invasions, three provinces
lost, and n hundred million pounds tagged
on to the national debt. The second Bona
parties legacy is not less commendable
Two provinces lost, communist revolu
tion, and the national debt increased by
five hundred million pounds! To those
who like figures 1t may be interesting tC
compute how long 1t must be before France
thanks to her two provldental empires
will repudiate her obligations and becom,
bankrupt; and to those who are simply FOND
OF speculation 1t may prove pastime /,
inquire how far the increase Of four thou
sand million dollars debt in twenty years
the loss Of provinces, and the loss OF homo
are set of by the gift to the nation Of hal
dozen bouleyards, and NJ. Garnier's oper
house,
And now, as a set-off to the Bourbon anI
the providential bonaparte, let us glance a
the man that republican France, last De
cember, deemed worthy of re'electlnl
president for another term of seven years.
Francois 7. Jules Grevy is almost Frencl
fac simile Of the American Abraham Lin
coln..s. He is seventy-three years Of age, ye
he is hale and hearty, and his face has al
the freshness Of youth, Born Of humble
but well-to'do farming people, in tht
department of the JuIa, ''he wa,
brought up In the sternest ant
purest manners, and nourished with
coarse food and keen mountain air." lie
was one Of the slow fellows at school, but
managed to graduate respectfully and wen
TO Paris to study law. Tho revolution
of 1880 broke out just as he had finished hi
three years. law course, and, throwing dowl
his code, young Jules took up his muske
and went out to fight on the baTicades
where, during the whole struggle, he helC
front rank among the assailants. Whel
order was restored he went back TO his la0
Office for eight more years, and gained
much glory-with little money--by his dc,
fense Of those who we're prosecuted fol
political opinions, His American bogra
pher, Edward King, says TINT be had to,
much respect fol- himself TO plead fol
CharlRtans, and the journalist or liberal whC