New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-22

, ohoses and TO remove all writing and signs
that might indicate printing office or cause
the existence OF one to be suspected pus
these were doubtless recalcitrants asahS'
whom the application OF seals did not seem SUI
fc,ent So Inspector Gaudefroy was directed u
repair 10 the Sieur Rousseau former printer 40
: Rue Pompee. and to proceed TO melt up MS
tyne: he was TO note its weight in khoeraiiiiiies'
and he present himself when IL was thrown ih'o
The melting pot In this fashion IL was hoPeu
N keen the Seur Rousseau In ORDER anu III
fact II does seem TO have been difcuit lot mn.
20 print with type reduced 20 pig leao' 'e'' -
we can believe the police orders there were o0'N
men who worked at night such as 'he ''eu'
Petilot Rue de Paon; he must be tied up al 'he
first opportunity. A printer OF MeauA cum
nlained 10 the authorities that his oniy "oIA-
man. having no work. had been rorceo 10 oe
come an employe in the theatre EVioeh',y '.e
trade Of a printer lacked attrac'iNehesS' u
better TO become a scene shifter'
pook sbops were hardly better off than the
nrin,ers They were exposed TO ruin from day
20 dav like the bookseller Nicolle VINO los'
70 600 francs through the suppression OF L Ai.e-
r,agna" They had to take oath before the
cut ike officials: they undertook not to sell
retail or distribute any book contrary to the
duties Of subjects toward the sovereign ana ~
the interest Of the state" 1t is true that Win
tho host will in the world. IL was hard 10 know
avac+iv what the books were that might trouple
.be soverejgn's repose A bookseller. having de-
cided 70 mt on sale a little treatise on CHRISTIAN
morality. with authority from the Bishop ne was
informed that he must have this untoward au-
thority" taken off the title page; for the poNe'H-
ment reserved 10 itself the exclusive right 10
supervise everything relating to morali'y anu
bishops had nothing to do with II. Here is some
thing still more serious the Sieur Name mas
dared to publish little prayer book that does
not contain among the festival days the ami
versary Of His Majestys coronation! AT once
INSPECTOR Gaudefroy IS ordered to seize the Sc
ditious prayer book. whose publication VIII be
suspended TIL it presents to the faithful a more
complete table Of festival days
All this happened in the year 1911. After the
disastrous retreat from Russia and the prank OF
General Manet during the campaign OF 1910
when Napoleon was fighting the armies allled
against France the supervision Of the book pup
fishing industry was carried on with redoubled
zeal II was necessary 10 cope with Internal
conspiracies. and those. too. Of the most danger
Gus sort those resulting from freedom OF writ
ing and printing. As a result. on July ~ 1915
General Baron De Pommereul sent an inspector
10 book shop in the Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau
70 place seals on all the copies. stitched bound
or in sheets" OF work that endangered the
safety Of the Empire. This was-"The Perfect
Cook, Such was the way in which the book
publishing censorship was busying itself a few
days before the battle Of Leipsc.
Doubtless II would be wrong TO make the En-
peror responsible for all this foolishness He
explained II at St Helena, when he lamented the
excessive zeal Of the police. that made him so
many, enemies. But this must not be taken too
eer,ouslv. he was much better pleased with this
sort Of excess than with the opposite. He pre-
tended. on his return from Elba, that 1t was
the police who had suppressed the book l. Ale
nagne": that he himself found nothing in II
Objectionable. and he had his brother Joseph
write Nine. de Stael to this effect. 1t is false.
He had himself carefully and in detail directed
the persecution Of the author, and SaVary was
only a willing tool Of his wrath. But in lslo
the Emperor needed Nine de Staels services to
resssure European public opinion just as he
honed 10 conciliate the Liberals in France with
the aid Of Benjamin Constant. II was a strik-
ing acknowledgment Of the impotence Of force
against ideas In reality he himself ac-
knowedged the sword had been conquered by
mind" Napoleon perceived the revolution that
had been accomplished, and yielded TO the i'm
petuous current, trying TO change himself for a
few DAYS into a constitutional monarch 1t was
a chimera an absurd dream. Europe would not
believe in his sudden conversion France her
self was distracted II was no longer the iree-
dom Of the press, it was her own freedom that
she was about to fight for at Waterloo.
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