New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-25
A BIRD-LONING PRELATE.
TIE LATE ARCHBISHOP GUfBERT AND
HIS SUCCESSOR.

Cardinal Guibers, Archbishop Of Pari: died this
week of old age than perhaps Of the di,oase Of
tho heart With which he was for many years
.aectea. Before he lost consciousness he asked
somc Little Sisters OF the Poor to pray that he
might die on the festival OF tho Sacred Heart. hs
having long clung 70 the notion that God created
the universe with His intelligence and maintains
and brings it mp to higher Righteousness BY tho
yivifying power Of His heart. The prayer. how
ever. was not granted. But tho obsequies are to
take place on the Feast Of the Sacrs Ceur aud tho
body 10 to rest ~ tho vault under Notro Dame
reserved for tho Archbishop of Paris honsigneur
Cuibert Vas born ct AK. In Provence. in the
same year a. Victor Hugo Of whom he WA ono OF
the earliest admirers and TO whom when ho dying
be offered In the most respectful and ancctionate
manner bis pastoral minstrations. At AK he knew
N. THEIRS and was connected with the family Of
Miyuet, Theirs caure. at the law school, Mgr.
Guibert alta ied theology at Marseilles and Rome
and was ordained priest in 1928: that 10 to say
at . time when Europe was in the chill At Of
Absolutist reaction which followed tho defeat Of
Bonspsrte and tho Congresses Of Vienna and Verona
The ideas then rife in tho ecclesiastical world had
an effect upon him. But he was too much in SYM
patty with the friends Of his youth evei to hat,
tho ideas to which they were devoted; aud to
reconcile fealty to Rome with loyalty to them he
finally determined to give politics aud what nc
consldered profane ideas 20 place in his mind. and
threw himself into pious meditatiOns and ascetc
PRACTICES % far 40 the needs of his body allowed.
When frat saw Monsigneur Guibert at Tours
where he WAS Archb,shop-ho was sixfy-eight
years old and still a man Of noble presence. he
was tall gaunt. had strongly formed features and
DOW erfully marked black eyebrows beneath which
burned dark eyes expressing habits Of abstraction
from the external world and the solemn ecstasy OF
one who had largely experienced those religious
lows which pass understanding. The forehead juss
above tho eyes Was developed that one might
bave tbought he was q man Of quick and searching
perceptions and vast memory. Perhaps he might
have been TO- were it not for the religiosity OF
his disposition which led bin to commune with his
own heart and TO live aloof from the busy world.
whose activities his friend Theirs enjoyed 40
intensely to his last In speaking MOnsiC.eur
Guibert did not fnd his tongue ready servant
He often hcsitated to search for the word he
wanted. His oratory was dry and wanting in nnc-
ton. Bat be was . strong. simple writer when h's
letters werc addressed to intimate friends and
some of his Pastcrals az noble in spirit rs they
are severely beautiful in form
In 1870 the Revolution threw into the hands OF
q Jew-M Crcmeux-the portfolio OF Cults and
Justice. When therefore the Government went TO
Bor,lssux NJ Creu.ieux asked the Archbishop il he
had any spare rooms at hs palace In which he
could lot him irsta his clerks and secretaries and
lodge Madame Cremieux. his son in-luw. daughter
and their children The Archbishop. his vicar
general and the other members OF his pastoral
household betook themselves to the attic ADD let
Gre mieux and his following occupy tue ground and
first and second floors. was often NJ tho palace
when they were there Madame Crom,eux was
very stingy in ssmc things and caused the family
linen to be Washed in an Clubhouse OF the palace.
and clothes-nes to lie stretched IN the courtyard,
where is vas all hung out to dry. The highly
respectable and conventi0nxlly religious bOur-
qeo,sie and arstocracy Of TOursino greatly
shocked to 500 tho clothing displayed there
From the time Of N. Crsmsux's soourn in the
Archbishop's palace tho difercnt Ministries which
he headed became Jewish stronghold The
purlieus II the cathedral swarmed with the jewish
clerks and their families who were employed in
the palace, aud Monsie Guibert to avoid seeing
them in the hall and garden and on the grand stairs
used To come in and out of bis attic by tho suuless
backstairs. which d. Theirs in the terrible yenr
often mounted aud descended The Ministerial
councils were held in the Drelxte's dung roOn-a
nObl. chamber lined with oak, seulptnred when
oak carving was high and uch-cultivated art
Madame Cremicux and her family occupied a
stately saloon in which there were Louis Vuatorze
furniture aud tapestry that the Revolution BY
miracle had respected: The bishops bo1 WA IKE
ANTIQUE hearse Tho predecessor: n, OF aonsx
the palace snug. ! noticed some wonderfully lean
tfui paintings Of Holy Families and miraculous
.oes in the lives of saints Of the Italian school
Madame Creniieux said IL was o pity to leave them
in the rcsi ience OF provincial bishop aud thought
that they ought when M0nslgneur OuiDert d'ed 10
he transferred ~ tho Louvre. She SAIL cachette
or hiding place was teDg made for them so that II
the Prussians came to Tours they would not be
able to lift these works OF art.
Among the bishops Affections at Tours wero the
patrlotc Manifestations, which we've generally OF
radical kind. winch took place IN hts garden;
witnessed there y manifestation in honor Of Cen
eral Uiich after tue capitalization OF Sttasbure lie
and Madame Bazslne-then staying in thc t"nven :
or the " n.:: r"""--"1.o :..- i..ieony oyer the
hall door with Crcmieu1 between them The lat
ter was little, pug nosed old man with timex
head Of curly gray hair. bright black eyes and
southern facility OF speech giit Which no ' ,1
multitude he presented Crich as the Forions
thomgh unsuccessful defender of Strasburg nnd
Madame Razaine the wife of the noble NJ arShal
who was brcastug the tide Of Pineslan ,E"as.9n
Wien this VAR done CrericuI embraced the lady,
the general and the archbishop. whose face plainly
saIl: 0CcnfOund Your jewish inpujence"
Tho massacre OF the hostages by the Commune
enabled A. Thiers to advance his friend the AIch
si,op of Tours. the sex of Paris in the room Of
| Tho offer was at frnt declined. But when Theirs
wrote "Perbaps tho nitro that ! nrgo You to
accent will prove n martyrs crOwn." MOnsigneur
nilrrt Yielded. THEIRS thought 1t Of political i'm
nortance that he should he At tho head OF the
me,ropolitau see and later worlned cnt OF Inn inc
ryitimsts / heard the archbishop preach at
Notre Dame and saw him wash the feet Of twelve
o,r rr;T nreacher and as he never had thought of
sssatziur tho point of view OF thoss y bou be ad-
I,s.snd Was entirely devoid Of the pleaders art in
~ arguments But lie impressed one Al
| icing 4 man OF great character aud the highest
recttuds. ..., .. .,,,,,.d
1T ~ ycwlsh ,rrrin in tao Loire lnfereure.
,sa has however a good zeal Of Breton and
Ver5san blood il his veins lie has very lively
m.nmera gives the idea Of almost perennial Vita,
~. .,.asks with charming grace ard facility and
;syrather a coartier than . man OF acton tie 10
"lsn a persou Ut noble prcst uce aud has Al aseetc
IS .;. Tbouab virtually for ten years Archbishop
,t.vs Inc Il as not shown himself disposed TO realize
tho sopes he excted whom he accepted the post Of
coahlutor: t,,-.a ,h. ,reoch.
in - Gather Hyacinthe, but liked and respected