The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
DEATH WAS DUE
TO APPREHENSION
Real Worry Undermined
Faure's Health.
FEW HAD NOTICED THIS
EMILY CRAWFORD TELLS OF
HIS LOVE OF GRANDEUR.
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It Is Declared That for the Next For
ty-Eight Hours the Republic !.
- Will Be at the Mercy of
the First to Seize It. .>:.."....
FEW HAD NOTICED THIS
EMILY CRAWFORD TELLS OF
HIS LOVE OF GRANDEUR. +
Copyrighted. 1899. by the Associated Press.


PARIS, Feb. 16:-"President Faure
died tonight suddenly of apoplexy,''
says the bulletin; but 1t was really of
worry, apprehension and their effect on
his health; of the intoxication of the ex-
allied situation, of imperial and royal
friends.
His doctors had long noted symptoms
of general paralysis. He meant well,
but he did great harm to the republic.
because of a common place men
tality and that sort of vanity
which Moliere ridiculed in LIE Bour-
geois Gentilhomme. Louis XIV him.
self, though standing ON a right divine
pedestal, did not attach nearly so much
Importance to courtly etiquette.
M. Faure had no insight into the
great problems of human life, and saw
only externals. He revived, so far as
possible, the ceremonials of Napoleon's
court Not even Deputy or Senator
could speak to him without being first
spoken to. Whenever a French diplo-
mat who had freshly arrived in Paris
came to pay his respects M. Faure's
first question was, What are they do
ing at other courtS?"
1t was noticed last week that the
whites of his eyes were yellow: his
speech was thick, his step uncertain.
his neck bent forward and his under
lip inclined to drop. He was 58 last
January. 1 mentioned on last Tues
day to NJ Clemenceau, who is a doctor.
these signs of premature old age. and.
he said: II also have noticed them.
If NJ. Faure is not soon turned out of
the Presidency he will die from the
IL 70 IyCiG 10 a
des grandeurs.' y - - -: =:
M Faure alone was unaware that he
must soon resign, but no one save
Ciemenceau and a few others foresaw.
the fatal issue. The situation brought
on through his fault. is most dangerous.
Never has there been a better. oppor-
tunity for a coup d'etat in France since
1852. -. =: -: =.
The republic for the next forty-eight
hours will be lying at the mercy of the.
! first man who will seize 1T but the
suddenness of NJ Faure's demise pre-
vents the enemies of the republic con-
cocting to strangle her. Besides. there
is no man of sufficient prestige to make
a coup d'etat. The generals are dis.
affected, but the soldiers, though hos
tile to the Jews. would not obey if or
| dered to fire on the Republicans: M.
Faure apparently died at the nick of
time. The reactfonist forces. Under his
encouraging. eye, Were being gathered
to battle. :*-..... :. J..
Goodness knows what he fondly
tary coalition would hail him as a.
savior: M. Faure went privately and
unexpectedly last week to the opera.
Notwithstanding the surprise caused by
his visit the directors staff rushed out
to receive him. NJ Faure's aid. de
camp, as the President advanced to-
ward the stairs, made a sign that the
attendants were to fall back a conSid-
cradle distance to mark their respect.
He had received a few days before a
letter from the Gear and had not yet
descended from the high sphere. -: -.
At st. Petersburg he was almost
shocked to find himself and the e m
peror returning from the review with:
out military escort. After the Car
had conducted him to Peterhoff Palace
M. Faure remarked. How lacking the
Russian court is in dignity"
/ His best point was genuine charity
for the poor and suffering. There was
doubtless parade in his visits to hos
pitfalls, but there was also much kind
ness. He gave handsomely to the poor,
though closehanded in other respects.
His Thursdays were devoted to visit
ing hospitals, and 1t was on Thursday
that he was called away.
The ElySee was no bed of roses to M.
Faure He loved his grandeur, but he
dreaded blackmailers. Urban Gohier,
one or the most respected Journalists
in France, had threatened to expose the
jobs of the Madagascar expedition,
which, as Minister of Marine, M. Faure
had organized. Corruption and imbe-*
cility marked the enterprise to such an
extent that the French Government
was compelled to send the artillery on
British steamers. He was more civilly
treated by the crowned heads than any
other President of France; and he was
a member of the most illustrious orders
or knighthood. save the Order of the
Garter and the Order of the Prussian
Red Eagle The last grand function at
the Elysee was his admission into the
Order of the Golden Fleece.
He was almost a business partner of
King Leopold in Congo affairs. 1t de-
lighted him to kiss the hands of SOW
erefgn ladies. He had kissed those of
the DoWager Czarina, of the reigning
Russian Empress: of Empress Eliza
beth of Austria, Queen Victoria, Queen
Dowager Emma of the Netherlands and
of Queen Wilhelmina He had been the
host of the Kings of Belgium, Greece,
Portugal and Siam, of the Gear and
Czarina, of Prince Ferdinand of Bull
garia and of the Duke of Connaught.
:C,ervantes never imagined anything
more homogeneous than M. Faure in his
palatfaf grandeur, and accepted as a
King and younger brother by European