The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-06-27
The Sweet Girl Graduate.

Corps Legislatif This worthy left eight
sons, the two elder OF whom were re-
ceived into the French peerage, while
the third displayed his fathers CONNER
cial sagacity In many fields. 1t was the
fourth of his children, Casimir, who was
destined to establish the political fortunes
of the family on q prouder basis than
heretofore. He was man OF indomitapie
energy and strong but honorable amoi-
tion; in person giant, with voice OF
thunder, a bitter style of eloquence, and
coarse, even brutal, manner.
He played considerable part in
the Opposition after the Restoration, and
his policy as president OF the Council
under Louis Philippe is matter OF his
tory. In 1892 he visited the cholera hos.
pital with the Due d'Orleans, father OF
the Comte de Paris, caught the infection
and died. The elder of his two sons,
Paul by name, still survives rs Senator
OF the Seine Inferieure, but he has never
been a prominent parsonage, Auguste.
his younger brother, adopted the bap-
| tismal namo of his father as part OF
his surname, and was known as Au-
! guste Casimir- Pcrier. In 1876. he was
| returned for one of the divisions OF
| Paris, and in 1S49 he represented the De-
| partments OF the Aubc in the Legislative
| Assembly. During the Empire he held
absolutely aloof from public affairs, but
| in 1871 gave in his adhesion to M. Thiers,
| who made him Minister of the Interior:
| Like his son today, he was suspected OF
leanings toward the Orleanists, for he
had married the sister in law OF the Due
| d'Audiffret -Pasquier and received
visit from the Comte de Paris at his coun-
! try house. However, he cleared himself
of these aspirations by a letter in which
he frankly avowed his loyalty to the Re
public as the only form OF government
that could save France from anarchy. His
death took place in 1876, and his son Jean
succeeded to the greater share OF both his
political reputation and his estate. The
family still retain possession OF the
Chateau de While, noble feudal struc-
ture built in 1911 by the Constable de
Lesdiguieres, near the ruins OF still
more ancient stronghold. 1t was much
injured by fire In 1925 and was subse-
quently restored; but most OF its artis-
tic contents perished beyond recovery.
NJ. Thiers was entertained there in 1874,
and M. Carnot was visitor more recently;
but the president t-elect chiefly resides, as
does his widowed mother, at another
mansion, the Chateau de Pont.sur-
Seine, much more accessible from
Paris. M. Casimir- Perier, though
a thorough Republican, may be re-
garded as belonging to the Orleanist
school Of politics, that school which
holds that liberty stands in need oil
the corrective of order, and whose ideal
in all things was well expressed by the
phrase in fashion in the days Of Louis
II
mir Perier in the earlier portions OF his
career, was conscious that his ancestral
connection with the Orleans dynasty
was not lightly to be ignored. In 1882
when law was passed excluding all the
| members of the families who hac
reigned over France from all civi
and military offices, he showed his sens'
of that law of prescription by resigninf
his seat as a member of the Chamber
His immediate reelection showed tha
his constituents approved this conduct
During the siege OF Paris M
Casimir- Perier distinguished himself q
commander of battalion OF Mobiles
He was mentioned in general orders 10
one daring feat. He rescued one OF hi
wounded comrades under very heavy fir
in an affair in front OF the redoubt o
\ Moulin Saquet. He is q man of grea
energy, and the fact that he appointe
NJ. Raynal to be his minister OF tn
d interior shows that he Is not to be swaye
y by the clamor of the Radical and Revolu
n tionary press, as M. Raynal, who belong
4 to the Jewish faith, is the bette noir Of tn
u anti-Semitic and Revolutionary press. N
" Casimir- Perier was elected president {
: the Chamber OF Deputies in Novembe
last, and fortnight later became prim
= minister.