The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1894-07-03
FRANCES NEW PRESIDENT.
General Satisfaction at the Result
The New Ma We'll Equipped for the

Office
PARIS, June 27.-Tho total vote cast
for President was S51, of which six
were cancelled because of irregulari-
ties, leaving Si5 valid votes. or these
45l were cast for Casimir-Perier, 19l
for Brisson, 80 for Dupuy, 50 for
General Fevrier, q for Arago and Is
r. scattering. The announcement
OF M. Casinir-Perier's victory elected
ringing cheers. NJ. Dupuy was pres
ent when the result Of the b~alloting
was read.
In the court yard of the palace u
landau drawn by four horses with four
artillery mon as postillions, was wait
ing to convey the new President to
Paris. When the President OF tho
Senate informed Perier that he had
bcen proclaimed President of the Re
public, the lattor's emotion almost
ovcrcame him and the landau which
was to convey him to Paris and the
squadron of mounted lancers which
were to escort him were obliged to
wait until the newly elected exc
cutive had rested sufficiently to take
his calmness.
Public satisfaction at the election is
general and everything is tranquil.
The President and his party were es-
cOrted by u troop OF mounted lanccrS.
AS the President was about to drive
away, some M in the crowd threw q
bouquet tied with the American colOrs
into his carriage. The President took
his departure from Versailles amid
the rattle Of drums and the bows,
shouted "Vive lie President" "Vive
Casimir-Pericr," until the party were
Sout Of sight.
SKETCH OF THE NEW PRESIDENT.
Jean Casimir-Perier has a distin-
guished ancestry. He is both grand
son and son of minister's. His grand
father was the president Of Louis
%Philippe's council, and his father was
a minister of Theirs.
The new president was born at Paris
in 1917. He is u rather small slender
man, dark, with oval face and clear
eyes, whose general appearance carries
the idea of refinement and decision. He
has something of the military in his
air, but he spent only q short time in
the army during the Franco-German
war. Then he commanded u company of
the Garde Mobile, and % the decora-
ton of the Legion of Honor for his
courageous conduct at the battle of
BagneuX. When Casimir-Perier, tho
father, became minister under Theirs,
he had Jean Casimir.Picrier for chief
of cabinet, and this was the debut in
politics OF the new president. Since
1876 Caslmir-Perier has seen continu-
Gus parliamentary service. The great
questions of finance and the military
establishment have occupied his attcn-
ton. Ho gained his first experience
as q member of the government as an
q secretary, first in the depart
mont of public instruction, afterward
in that of a He was chosen vice
president of the chamber Of deputies
and naturally was the one to succeed
Floquet as president of the chamber,
when the latter had to give up the
office.
Casimir-Perier was brought up amid
~royalist Influences, but became a re-
publican fifteen years ago. He is very
rich. His wife was u Mile. dc Seguar,
whose family belong to the old nobility.
He is a hard worker, but not an orator.
70 know him personally, it is said, is
to know a genial, shrewd, kindly man,
OF agreeable M and polite ad-
dress, whose countenance is u truthful
index to his character, although it
bears, when moro closely observed, q
strange expression of melancholy.
amounting to sadness, which seems in
consistent with his genial character.
The Pericr family descends from q
'bo SioS llo pIolSSolol II
the vicinity of Grenoble, in Dauphine,
In the later half of the seventeenth
century. The family prospered, for
we find h a in IT'S the son of the notary
purchased the royal castle of While
rom the duke of Villeroy, and lived
there in the state becoming a wealthy
proprietor. The son of this Claude
Perier was the famous Casimir-Pcricr
president of the council of ministers
under Louis Philippe, and grandfather
OF the man who filled the same post
under Nj. Carnot. A niece of Claude
married a distinguished barrister of
Grenoblc, whose mother bore the name
of Enfantin, destined to become notori-
u in the socialistic annals of our
epoch. 1t was their daughter, Rose
Philippine Duchesne-Pericr, born in
August, 1860, at Grenoble, who died in
November, 1872, in the United States,
after many years spentsin America in
religious life and accomplishing heroic
actions which compare glOriously
with those of more honored and famed
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