New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-21
EDOUARD. LOCKROY.
A SURVIVOR IN FRENCH POLITIcs-THr
ADVENTURES OF MAXINE DU CAMP
AN IMPENITENT RADICAL.

Paris, June II.
The French Budget and the French Academy
strangely enough, have united to bring TO pub
lie notice the few survivors from the storm-and'
stress period that followed the revolution OF 1888
At the head OF the Budget Committee for 1898 IN
the Chamber OF Deputies is NJ. Edouard Lockroy.
who had charge OF the boats in GaribaldPs ex-
petition OF the Thousand. At the Academy, In
yesterdays reception of Paul Bourget. sat Alex.
andre Dumas fills. listening to the eulogy OF
Maxine du Camp. who fought by the side Of Carl
baldi. Young Dumas. as he then was, himself &C.
companied his famous father to Palermo. to
learn from the Italian Hberator how he had
driven the Bourbons from Sicily In this air. heavy
with the dreams and aspirations Of forty years ago,
It difficult to remember that a quarter of
century has passed since the making OF United
italy was complete and the French Republic was
established
The successes and the disappointments of all these
years gather together in the present position OF
Edouard Lockroy Like Signor Crsp, his old COM
rade of the Thousand. from whom political dis
sensions have separated him. he fulhs the saying
that Garibadis corporals all became Ministers OF
State. N. Lockroy began his career before he was
Of age. He born in lS40 Of father whose
republicanism showed itself under the Empire BY
comic operas and vaudevilles His Dragons de
villars" is still given at the Paris Opera Comiquc.
The family circle had religion centring in Victor
Hugo the exed poet. who was the high priest OF
the republican cause TO young France. TO these
Ideas NJ Lockroy has remained faithful. He Is .
Radical but he mas taken no part In the fusion OK
Radicals and Socialists. The Observation-Disclosures"
her opponents irreverenty name her. from the
password OF the old revolutionary societies.
Is still to him a prudent matron watchful OF the
rights OF man. and not virago Of the Paris sub
urbs. shrieking for the Commune. In this he diners
from NJ. Brisson. the President OF the Chamber OF
Deputies. whose Radicalism led him 10 take part
with the Communists for time He differs yet
moi frOn ms
their backs Republican principles and methods.
Garbald, who was n quick judge OF men, looked
hard at the young Frenchman Of nineteen who pre-
scented himself to aid in the overthrow OF the
Italian Bourbons BY happy inspiration. no
chose Lockroy TO negotiate the transportation by
boat OF the volunteers who were coming to join
him. This comica foreshadowing OF the
work OF the last few years. when NJ. Lockroy has
made himself the Parliamentary terror Of the
French Minister OF Marine
ONE OF DUMAss MUsKETEERs.
There doubt possible about the place Of
Maxine du Camp in the expedition OF the Thou
sand. HE is OF my musketeers." said Alex
andre Dumas the elder OF him. Du Camp said
OF himself: People have fastened many adj
ventures on me which never happened. they have
told about me so many legends that are without
common-sense, that you cannot expect me TO be-
leve In the history OF others" Paul Bourget. who.
unlike many OF his colleagues. actually spoke at
the Academy characterized him as "a child Of the
century. who had been cured" The Vicomte de
Vogue, who would cure the century's diseases by
Neo- Christianity in his answering discourse hap
PLY termed Du Camp IA corsair fallen into ink"
No one who took part in so many OF the great
events of the century wrote much Maxine
du Camp. His career is worth recalling. II only
for its contrast with the career in politics OF Ed
Guard Lockroy. Du Camp began In earlier gen.
GRAFTON. that of the SaintSmonians after the thir-
ties. He then wrote socialist poems. which are for
gotten. and the curious Memoirs dun Suicide" OF
which a good story is told. The young man find
ing. like Hamlet. that the time of joint
and not seeing how he could set IL right, talked to
Pere Enfantin the leader of his party, OF killing
himself
"Ah, you wish to die?" said the shrewd Saint
Simonlan. What idea! Confide your troubles
to a ream of paper and come back in two months"
At the appointed time Du Camp back.
well. I've written book. and I'm not going 10
kill myself"
Exactly" said Pere Enfantin. you've vomited
up the poison.'
Du Camp rich and orphan. and he now
applied himself to seeing life. In Paris he became
known a man of the world and duest. Then
he suddenly disappeared. and next heard OF as
engaged in the widest exploring OF what was
then the Far East. The one thing he could not
dure was the sober. respectable society OF the
bourgeois around him in the civilized West. Walk
ING through the streets or far1S WITH MS great
friend Flaubert. who had not yet invented the
realistic novel. Du Camp said to him: I'VE shall
die without having seen Benares. It's misfortune
which the bourgeois will never understand"
A REAL. PARTISAN
When 1913 came. he fought in the streets and
was wounded on one of the barbados Then he
settled down for time to direct the Revue do
Paris for the one thing which he neglected
his whole life long to keep printers ink fiow-
ing But the enthusiasm OF Garibaldis exploits
aroused him. and he set out for Southern Italy.
where he served as staff officer until the BourbonS
were expelled But Paris his real home
he discovered that his Sight Was growing Fowl weak
sore revelation to one of his superb phys que on
MS way TO the ocuist he passed the Seine. and
looked up and down at the profile OF the great
gigantic work by which he will be known to pos
,erlty He was only few months back from his
later. France had long been Republic. But
zionist. had become an nndoubted conserva,ivs
Edouard Lockroy. through all changes. has re-
Paris. its Organs, its Functions It's Life" would
not be the complete and unique portrait OF this
and PARIS Chares The commne Sa OK
TO the National Library bundle OF important doc
u ,,n which can be published only when those
movement have passed away. Paul Bourget, whose
from postivism TO something like religion. empha-
sized the anti-revolutiondry conclusions OF Maxine
du Camps later days. Ii more open
declaration OF that reaction in French thought which
NJ: Brunetiere has been procaiming loudly
Perhaps the outcome OF all this Neo-Christian
sentiment, which is in reality only another form
OF intdelity. is best expressed in an anecdote
omitted by Paul Bourget in his discourse Du
Camp, before writing OF the many private charities
or Paris. went to the Archbishop. and with his
usual bluntness asked permission 10 go every.
where and see everything In the many converts
lie added frankly: only, MonseIsncur. you know
We'll" replied the Archbishop. smiling, the less
you believe the more you Will be believed
NJ. LoCKROYS POSITION.
NJ. Lockroy Is equally removed from the two new
est wings of French thought-from Socialism az
from Neo-Chrlstianity. After he through with
Garioald he accompanied Ernest Renan In his
search after Phoenican antiquities. Many pages
OF the report signed by the latter are due TO the