New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-14
NJ. CARNOT FIRED AT.
a NARROW ESCAPE FOR THE PRESIDENT
OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
a xApMAN DISCHARGES A PISTOL AT HIM BUT
MISSES HIM.

a xApMAN DISCHARGES PISTOL AT HIM boA
MISSES HIM.
Paris July l3-Consderablc excitement was
,aused to-day throughout Paris by the report tha'
y,,Sdept Carnot had been shot This rulhol
,,ssed upon investigation to be untrue, Dut NOV
baseless The President was present to-day al 'ic
ceremonies of the efcial opening of new 'nor-
ourhfare, the Avenue de la Republique, where ne
received an enthusiastic welcome. suddenly
man. wideyed and making insane gestures loi'e"
lis way through the crowd and pushed paSV VIC
soIS;ers on dutv about the spot where the cere-
monies were taking place. lie rusnea up u VIC
c,rriace in which the President had driven up 'Lc
new avenue. and fred pistol at NJ. Carno'' AS
be did so he shouted IN prove thSt UheIe "ie
more Bastilles TO be demolished
President Carnot was undeuo'euiy aiar"ieu Nv
what appeared to be a direct attempt upon MS
life. but he was unhurt, and soon regaiueo Ills
presence of mind.
the man who fred the shot was promptly
arrested bv the police, and such was the anger
~ +Lo crowd present that the officers had the
greatest difficulty in protecting their prisoner
from, the fury of the crowd. It required the
services of strong force of police to escort the
ua, in safety 10 the nearest police-Station Upon
arrival there an examination soon disclosed the
fact that he was a madman, and that he had
lust been released from conhnemeSt IN 1uhauc
asylum.
No previous attempt upon the life Of French
President had been made during the twenty-one years
hat the Republic has been established in France and
The pstoshOt Of yesterday cannot be cohSluereo dS
breaking the record On the contrary. the rough
treatment which the madman who fired it wouid have
received at the hands Of the infuated crowd shows
that pol,ticoI assassination is dead thing in Repub
Ucan France II shows that Theirs rGU when
no said: France will never be Ike the spanish
American Republics thus recOnclng the Cons rvatve
classes n the republican form of Government. He
and NcNabon ard Grevy, his successors in the su-
preme power were not made the target Of a<aSsins,
tbouch fhev had suppressed the Commune insnrrcc-
t,o, The only vengeance exercised against 1hierS
was the nearly successful attempt at blowing up the
s,atro which he'd been erected to his memory at ST.
Ge-n,aln The four Presidents Chief Magistrates
for Theirs was not formally President but only Chef
of the Executive power-whom France placed at her
head fulfilled their duties in strictly constitutional
manner and they were not he'd responsible for mis-
tabe, which NAV have been made more than queen
Victoria would be held responsible in similar cases.
Oniv two attempts at so-called Political murders
have been mad in France since the third Republic was
established there They were directed against Prime
Ministers Jules Ferry and De Freycinet. The man VINO
assaulted NJ Ferry was proved to be maniac and ded
In an insane ASYLUM. The other who fred a sot
In The direction OF VI. dc Frcycluets carriage on tho
bridge OF La COncOTc. admitted that ne an IT, not Wlt
intent u in for he purpcsely aimed 100 jHEt, Du.
merely 10 force pablc attention TO tie settlement Oh
some imaginary claim upon +hc Government. 40 10
the man no fired at NJ. CarnOt, II has been alfeny oio-
covered that political ncnt was hJl N us I@uu' @ iN i =
he had been recently roieased from confinement IN
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