The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-03


Il fs obvious that here the difheultles we're "a
greater. and we learn that in the beginning
the Emperor stood almost alone In his con
viction Of Its necessity. With respect to thii
matter. not only was he badly served. bu
scarcely understood BY the majority OF thos'
about him. Some OF them were governed By I
blind fear OF restoring what was styled the ole
regime: in the case OF others. their limited In
tellect did not permit Of their ooncedinR
mean between the old regime which theii
thouRhtless wishes would have recalled to life
and that OF the revolution which they held ir
execration. Nothing. IL seems was moro DIFF
! flcult than 20 make the men OF the
| revolution understand that the only way
Of consolidating and securing newly &C
| quired positions and fortunes against the
vicissltudes OF events was to make class dis.
tinctions do facto. II not de jurc, and to create
within the higher or lesser ranks OF the social
order n certain number Of those hereditarJ
institutions by which throne must be sur
| rounded II it is itself to become hereditary
Anomalous. indeed. was the state Of mind Of
| the men OF the revolution who had gone over
| to the Emperor They had fully accepted the
| idea OF an absolute power committed to the
| hands OF ono man. The altitude OF this power
| had become 40 prodigious that owing to the
| effect Of distance. Il no longer dagzlod their
| eyes Moreover. at the time OF oonsentlnR to
| serve under It they had known enough TO set
| high price on their services. But In order
that the throne should not lie for them a
source Of alarm. they would have liked to
see II standing By itself. and they were irri-
tated by the ranks which gradually interposed
! themselves between them and the throne. On
the other hand. the man who occupied the
throne was too shrewd not to understand that
anything which stands alone and unsupported
cannot last long in this world. He therefore
sought props In all directons securing them
from the old az we'll from tho new France. for
he was not the man to believe that ten long
centuries had been absolutely wiped out by
events that had occupied but ten years. It
therefore. in his opinion. became indispensa-
BILE TO bring about a fusion between the past
and present and. until such fusion took
place. II could rightly DO said that the new
work was not complete.
One long step toward such fusion had been
made by the Concordat and the reGstablish-
ment OF Catholicism as the State religion OF
France. minor move In the same direction
was the foundation OF the Legion OF Honor. A
more important step was taken when Napo-
leon resolved to give to France n new nobility.
and to set UP this nobility In the faco OF the
other which. although abolished by law. still
lived in the memory OF every one. The ele
ments were not lacking for the formation OF
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ferred on 1t. and. In oil times. the win
ners OF battles have easily taken rank
In the highest circles OF society. They
have always been the founders OF the
most illustrtous families. beginning with the
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,rith = ti,I. and r.vo-tsd 70 the .row, n a. a.
y, tha .Yt,nction ., tho ,naIa Iins ., tha hoidar
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.nS 20 that and bo oava N aII tho norsona -;
.nc,or+ r.ma who nod raIIIod rrdar bis Cov-
ernment titlas other than tbo.a which tbev
mad ,horna nravious 70 the RevoIu,io, and In
ani,. a, tba,r ranuo,,roa tbav 80 -,
nalled 70 accent them. NJ pasopier was an
except,on for no was mads n noraon. . t,tIa
which had exIsted in bis famIIvundar IN. nm.
Glen regime
To sum IN. in ,pIt. OF thu i.rrInes Insspar.
able from the beeinnInps OF an institution nv
which 40 many varion. Interest. wcr. AZ.
fected. and which. whIls satisfy,ng .oma
could hardly fail 10 ofrsnd otba,s-in .ni,a q,
the ridIculs attached 10 the mamma in which
some Of the new titles wsr. worm av.n amonc
those Of the highest r,nk-ths nav nobJIitv
was not long IN securing rscopn,tIon througL.
ont the country and n .Ynariancod a stm
abroad where 1t presented itself with the pres
tige oil military glory. In France 1t was espe-
cIaily military men VINO SET great value on this
newsystem OF rewards and showed themselves
most keenly aliVe TO It's advantages. Several