The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-26

who has remained with me. He is a
Partisan and purist. And you have
heard me use an expression hardly or
thodox?' q am not only an academician,
! am a member of the dictionary COM
mittee)
"'Onco only said I, and 1 saw that
he was little frightened.
But when, said he.
Just now, when your majesty said
we shall return here to godfather.
" 'Godailler is French; it is in the &C
ademy dictionary
g 1t is in the dictionary, but it is not
used in the academy, nor in the salon
of the academy.
az shall remember; and it is the
only time?
81 swear it, Your majesty is like
your professor, a purist. He APP
peared to be much amused at this little
play of words
NJ. Jules Simon goes on to tell how
thorough was the emperor's acquain-
lance with French writers, 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 happiness was to dine quietly IN
his private apartments like "bon bour-
geois de Berlin with his wife, to whom
he read a chapter of novel before go
ing to bed; how the emperor liked M.
Georges Ohnet and detested M. lola.
whom M. Jules Simon tried to defend as
an BILE Contour, and pro-
found observer He then goes on to
the question of politics, and writes as
follows:
81 should like to obtain from the en-
peror some words about politics. I
could not start such a subject without
indiscretion. l made several attempts
with all the cleverness of which
was capable, and all the innocence
which / could conjure up. but he
showed a consummate tact in not
hearing a word of what / said. l sue
ceeeded. however, in extracting from
him to phrases, which l heard not
without pleasure, in spite of their gem
eralitv. We were speaking of war In
the abstract.
81 have often reflected since my ac-
cession,' said he, and l think that in
the situation in which 1 am placed it
is better worth while to do men GOOD
than to brighten them And as l mar
rowed the question a little by speaking
of war between our two countries.
and by adding that France was for the
most part pacific, he said
L am speaking to you Win entlre
impartiality. Your army has worked
1t has made great progress. IL is
ready. If, to speak of the impossible,
it found itself on the field of battle
with the German army, no one could
forsee the consequences of the strug-
gle. That is why 1 should consider as
a mailman and a criminal whoever
drove the two peoples to make war. .
M. Jules Simon makes some very
striking reflections upon these words,
and finally says: ITO my mind the
pacific words of the emperor express
a reasoned and serious belief. He sim
cerely wishes for peace, and he fiat
tiers himself he has worked for 1t more
than any one." But he ADDS that
there is no falser doctrine than that
which bids men prepare for war IN or
der to secure peace. M. jules Simon
thinks that the emperor sent the En-
press Frederick to Paris In the inter-
ests of peace. and blames the French
artists who refused to listen to her
offers. He says that peace was
seriously menaced by that adventure.
and the fact that it was not disturbed
he looks upon as a proof that the
emperor is really a friend Of peg