New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-16
NJ. DURUY.
HISTORIAN AND PUBLIC OFFTCER-H1S
WORK FOR THE EDUCATION
OF WOMEN

OF WOMEN
Paris. November 80
There have been few recent years in which
death has been more active in clearing the stage
OF old players to make room for a new set. Presi-
dent Carnot. the Comte de Paris and Alexander
III have made their exit in the course OF 1894
The disappearance of each was a great event
The number Of minor players who were none the
less eminent personages who have taken their
final leave seems endless. In the course OF
this week two such performers LIES stage.
NJ Duruy and Doctor JOHN Chapman. withdrew
from IL forever
NJ Duruy was one OF the few men who rose to
high official honors under the Empire and who
did not share in its unpopularity when 1t fell.
The teaching body To which secondary and high
est instruction is corfded by the State stood by
him. and none of its members more than such
great scientists and writers as the late Claude
Bernard, Paul Bert. Renan. Berthelot and Taine.
He was elected member Of the Academy by
Republican. Bonapartist and Orleanist members.
at a time when political feeling ran high
Though the Empress Eugene had stood in his
way when he was Minister he, for the sake OF
the late Emperor who his benefactor. stood
by her and her in their evil days. He
never showed bitter feeling when bereft Of
brilliant situations He showed himself in them
modest kindly useful and influenced by high
standard Of public and private duty. NJ Duruy was
the Of one of those art:san-artists who weave
tapestry carpets at the Gobens. He was born
i'm 1911 and was the youngest of family or
eleven. He knew what poverty was and strug-
ged from infancy to rise superior to IT. The
way he found out Of Il as prize pupil at
a private school NJ Victor Duruy was taken in
for nothing as boarder at a school the pupils or
which daily taken TO the classes at the
I.ycee Charemagne. But it was understood that
he was to sweat his brain to win prizes there
For the glory Of the school he reaped high re-
wards as a prize boy and finally entered the
now illustrous Normal School for Highest Studies.
at which the teaching staff for the French
lyceums is formed There he also distinguished
himself and was graduated in three years so
creditably as to be soon afterward named by NJ
Cuizot professor Of history at the Lycee Louis
L. Grand None but the most distinguished
pupils Of the Normal School for Highest Studies
are given situations in Paris before they have
taught for time in country lyceums Inc
Henri " Iyceum in 1884 had great reputation
Louis Philippes two eldest sons, the Prince
ROYAL and the Due de Nemours, had been edu-
Gated there and the three younger princes DE
Toinville. D'Aumale and De Montpenser were for
the Henri VI NJ. Duruy was but ten years older
than the Due d Aumale whom he taught and
who was later his colleague al the Academy he
also gave lessons in history II NictOrien Sard)u
and ~ Prince Bibesco. He married young. His
first wife had some money. but not large for
tune They had many children. All the girls
died one II them lived 10 the age OF twenty
and was the fathers idol. Nine. Duruy had not
mind enough t. remain simple and unaffected
after her husband rose in the world. She had
not the case that mixing on equal terms with the
highest gives and had lively sense 81 her own
merits and the distinction Of her husband, which
she reflected
They lived before NJ Duruy became eminent,
near the Pantheon in an old dingy house where
there was a garden and large ground floor
room. once shop, which he had fitted up as
study his fellow professors eked out living
with lessons He took To writing classbooks.
which were then greatly needed. One hundred
and seyenty-three issued from his pen The
histories Of Greece and Rome will always be
standard works and have place in every good
French library The others, historical compen-
diums. have excellent prints. But so many
sources u Information have been opened TO his
torans since they were written that they no
longer hold a first place.
Hachet,e. and worked for him for nearly twenty
nv. vears He was recommended to the Emperor
by the late General Faidherbe Chancellor OF the
Legion Of Honor Faidh.rbe knew him as a pro-
f.s-or 81 history AT the Polytechnic School when
he was an undergraduate there. The Emperor
had employed F'adherbe TO study for him the
strategy Of Caesi r In Gaul as shown by the
places where he made camps He also asked him
to find for him some one competent 70 gather
materials for The Life Of Caesar, which Ma
poleon Ill wanted to write.
The officer ~ engineers had just made mark
AT Saigon and was in high favor. the Empress
not having heard that he was Protestant OF the
Unitarian or free thought type. He took NJ.
puruv To the Tuilcries t. present him. The En-
pcror was struck with his freshness and original
itv. the maturity Of his judgment and his frank
manner He at once employed him. The function
he discharged brought him in frequent personal
relations with the Emperor. who became at
tachcd to him and wished to do something LOT
him He named him successfully out not cunu-
latively To- three high situations in the Depart
ment ~ Public instruction. the last Of which was
the lnspectorship u Higher instruction TOT All
France. After this he gave NJ Duruy the port
folio Of Public instruction In doing so. the EN-
peror said the minister might hope for his sup
port in carrying out reforms ~ which lie "a'
often spoken as highly desirable.
NJ Duruy was heart with the nahua
laborers "A class from which he had risen MN
self lie began his administrative work by
widening the course Of instruction IN the COM
rnunal schools and siding with feminine candi-
dates for university degrees. y Mile. Daubec nad
thrice presented herself for the Is y. degree:
Tho doors 81 three examination halls were closed
against her NJ Duruy also decided that women
could become medical doctors II they underwent
the. same tests as men. he instructed professors
of the College of Medicine to encourage FEMININE
students and he sat for his portrait to woman |
painter Mile Nelly Jacqremart. VINO ala me !
likeness Of him which was hung on the Inc III
The salon He also licensed the holding OF classes
I'm Navoralties or other public buildings Tor girls