The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-16
KaIsEh WILLIAM.
The Emperer . Perfect French seh"'sf- His Criticism of French sovsls-rst'era' Appearance and Views on War


 Paris, July si.-The article most like iy 10 attract attention in to.morrow's number of the Revue de Paris is the little chapter Of his memoirs .eontribut' cd by N. Jules simon dealing with his visits to Berlin as one of the French delegates of the International Labor congress convened by the emperor. and containing some interesting passages which give an unusually attractive portrsit of the sovereign. From this article extract the following;
 q should like. before telling you the theme of our conversation, 10 describe the person Of the emperor. am not 50 sanguine as to my success, never saw him except in military uniform. in the street. at the theater, at various ceremonies. and even at that evening gathering of which I spoke. l do not believe hs ever wears any other cos tune. On the day of which speak he wore the uniform of the White Hussars and, as he Is very smart l took him at Q distance for a young officer, IL Is said that he gladly adopts the Hussar uniform to hide the immobility of his left arm. IL Is certain that l noticed nothing special about him. and that 1t never occurred to me to note whether he easily used his left arm. know only by common heresay the inarmity with which he is said to be afflicted. If had met him without knowing his quality l should have taken him for young officer trim and alert. His face Is agreeable. his air affable and full of kindliness. His chestnut hair has blond and golden gleams. Do not think am speaking In the style of the old passports, but I add, to complete the likeness, that the emperor had but little color. He gave me rather the Idea of one of our young Norman mo- sles. He had their affability and their gayety. To tell the whole truth, I thought that I detected behind the lmiable aspect something that warned you that 1t would not be well to differ from him in a serious matter. Per haps this idea came to me from the knowledge I had of his quality. think, however. 1t came to me from an attentive examination of his face, fea- lures and person.
 Where I was especially struck with his character was when I saw him amid great pomp in the throne room. We were grouped by classes in the neighboring salons, and as one class was called the members compos- ing it passed before the emperor and empress with low bows. Their majes- ties were on rather low. platform. standing upright in front of their arm chairs; You know the famous defini- tion of a throne--'four pinen boards covered with little velvet; he who sits there forms its strength. I be- lieve that the throne of this young prince was a solid seat and he made this evident two days afterward, when he broke like glass the chancellor who was said to be omnipotent and ever lasting. The empress was in deep mourning. The emperor wore his WhiteHussar's costume. But that eve- ming he wore it in all its pomp. He would not have been taken for a. sub- lieutenant, as I was once tempted to think him. He had under his arm a fur headdrsss, surmounted by an aig- rette attached with large diamond. The stuff of his mantle disappeared under the insignia of an orders of the world, It was quite the emperor saw there, motionless, impossible, stern, and as Saint Simon would have said, Ne renchaht pour personne..
 Before teiiins you his conversation I must say word about his way of speaking. He spoke French. Easily? Very easily. Correctly? Very correct ly. Had he an accent?, Not the slight est. The. one of us who spoke the most purely was he, for I have a little-a very little--Rreton accent, and the em- peror speaks like Parisian.- He asked me with smile how found hts pro- nunciation:. .,..,cs--e,,
 "'You speak, said l., like a. Paris lan.' -et,.,s,
 That Is not surprisipg.'. said he; T have g friend (he effects this term when speaking of his servitors) who was my professor for ten years. and who has remained with me He is Parisan and 8 purist. And have you heard, me use an expression hardly orthodox?' q am not only an Acad- emician, am a member of the diction- ary committee.)
 7 Once only,'' said |. and saw that he was little frightened.
 ' -"'But vbeh?' said he.
 "Just now, when your majesty said we shall return here to godailler.'
 ''Gndatller Is French 1t is in the Academy dictionary '"''
 "It is in the dictionary, but it is not used at the academy, nor in the salon of the academy
 CT shall remember; and it is the on- ly timer :,
 "I swear it: Your majesty is like your professor, a purist." He appeared to Do much amused at this little play of words"
 M. Jules Simon goes on to tell how thorough was the emperors acquain- taneey with French writer's how sur- prised he was to find that the emperor had time to read French novels, how the emperor assured him that his idea of >happihess was to dine quietly in his private apartments like "bon bourgeois de Berlin" with his wife, to whom he read chapter of novel be- fore going to bed; how the emperor liked M. Georges Ohnet and detested M. Zola. whom M. Jules Simon tried to defend as an incomparable ''conteur" and profound observer. He then goes on to the question of politics and writes as follows:
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