The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-22

I n9ranSueS mad inspired the people. "
! heroic endurance. refused TO trust the
man who. as was. alleged, had justified
his change of faith by the flippant
words: Paris is well worth mass:
Whether ever spoken or not, the words
certainly sound like Henry. He was
too thorousngoing a politician to hesl-
tate or bother over nice theological dis
tinction, when success, the peace ana
prosperity of his people, demanded so
simple q thing as a change of coat. Be
this as it may, the sixteen" supported
by German lands KNIGHTS and Spanish
soldiers, degenerated into the leaders
of Il mere faction, and continued to
hold their own until they were at last
overthrow by the commonalty of
Parsley something very like a coun-
ter revolution within the wallS-and
, the gates were opened to the king by
l. Ruillier. the provost of the mer-
chants. March D. 1894.
With the subsistence of the religious
wars and the conversion and corona
ton of Henry ", a new era of peace
and prosperity opened upon Paris. The
murder of Henry himself in one of the
streets by the fanatic Ravaillac MAY
Il, 1910 had little effect upon the rapid
progress of the city. AS early as 1860
the famous French diplomat Castelnau
could speak of Paris as the most ia
nous capital in the world" of the
splendid reputation of her parliament,
and of her theological FACULTY; of the
marvellous skill of the people in me-
chanic arts: of their success in traffic;
of the pOpulousness and opulence of the
city
Yet if the political and commercial
Importance of Paris were increasing,
her intellectual life-was already on the
decline. Her university had suffered
seriously as a result of the civil wars.
Italy was developing her own universi-
ties. The Protestants of Germany and
England drew off their students to
their own institutions. The increased
interest of the world in the sciences
also turned men from the faculties of
theology and literature. Even the or
thOdox preferred the more practical
training of the schools founded by the
Jesuits. Under Louis XII the univer-
Sity ceased TO be represented in the
states general altogether.
In marked contrast with the shabby
quarters of the declining university and
its declining prestige rose the lorldly
palaces of the merchant burghers. and
of the new aristocracy that came up
from the country to back in the rays
of the Bourbon court. Old villages that
lay far without the walls of Etienne
Marcel became suburbs and were in
cluded in the expanding ramparts.
Henry ~ s new bridge = BOnI NeuI
still, after 200 years the new bridge
brought the banks Of tie river into
easier communication. To Mary de
Medici Paris owed the graceful palace
of the Luxembourg, with its three
stored front. To Richelieu Paris owed
the rebuilding of the Sorbonne, the es-
Establishment of the royal press 0620.
the Jardin des Plantes G626) and the
French academy $3.50. In this era
also, Paris. which had long been in &c
cleiastical dependence upon Sens, re-
ceived its own archbishop, and was
erected to an independent ecclesiastical
province.
During the minority of Louis XIV
Paris again became the scene of street
riots and urban war. in which the guns
Of the Bastile played their part, and
ended only in the exhaustion of the
people. Yet the city had its full share
of the glories of lie grand monach,''
and became more than ever the great
capital. The old fortificaticns of Etienne
Marcel were displaced by a line of
boulev3rds. The Hotel des Invalids
also belongs to Louis reign. But more
glorious still, Paris became the home
of that remarkable array of genius and
wit to which belong the names of Ra-
cine, COrneille. La FOntaine, Moliere
and Nine. de Sevigne.
Note-This paer will be concluded on
Tuesday. Aug. %.