Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-27
now on every tongue and. judges say. will
live-on as poetry of the highest class:
Fantome la prunelle ardente,
Marat. dams fombre, insert lie nom
De don't a md fr,,n

iive-on as poetry of the highest class:
Fantome la prunelie ardente,
Marat. dams fombre. insert lie nom :
De ceux don't faudace imprudente
A fait revivre Trianon?
phantom OF the ardent eye. Marat. In
the shadow, fnscribes the names of those
whose imprudent audacity caused Trianon
to live againD
Socialists OF this turn OF mind reproach
them Tor having organized a reactionary
masquerade to evoke class hatreds de-
hances and memories of the gufllotfne.
Ihis, by the way. is just what the Gazette
de France-the oldest Paris newspaper,
dating as 1t does from before the revolu-
,ion-deliberately does once year on the
french national fete Of the Fourteenth of
July. when IL devotes its whole space to
printing the list of the guillotine's VIC
TINS. The other branch of the socialist
press, which jfbes cruelty. the fair patron
esses also couldsignore. Some of the edi-
tors. nevertheless. have biting tongues.
me descendants OF certain emigres. par
venus or finance and daughters of Ameri-
the Petit Trianon" saws one such I'm
costumes Of the time. corseted la Marie
Antonette In yaporous linens, silks and
musllns and balancing their panierS they
mimicked (singe-"monkeyed") the mar
qulses and duchesses of the old regime.
Those who stood outside the gates had an
opportunity to admire the admirable troop
OF lancers UNPAID conscripts) put at their
disposition by the Versailles commandment:
and, from the ranks of the canaille. enioy
the Falsely eighteenth century airs and
graces OF these cabotines (play-actors In
bad sense), the puffed-up self-importance
OF their messieurs I'm frock coats and the
lnsoient faces of their lackeys I'm modern
livery"
Revolt of the Real R0yalists,
The lady organizers of the Trianon fete
do not make habit of reading the social
list newspapers. that 1t is likely that few
nf hor, how I'd
these threats and jeers 1t is not so, alas!
with the grave blame inflicted on them by
those different journals of the extreme
right. For such and all old-fashioned roy
alfsts the fete has been a proclamation of
all that French aristocracy holds sacred.
They danced on the tomb of Marie An
toinette" So they sum up the terrible
cusation.
The blow was sudden and utterly unex-
pected. 1t is true that some uneasiness had
been caused a few days before the fete by
the plainly-motived refusal of the Duchesse
de Luynes, the Duchesse Dues and others
to take part in it, because of the condem-
nation of the Comte de Lur-Saluces," who
has just taken the road of exile on the
decision of the high court of the senate,
sitting in trial of last years 'royalist
plot" During the fete too, the initiated
were astonished to note the absence of
many another great name of the old re-
gime. Some one remarked that not a sin
gle member of the royalist committee was
present. Whispers like this circulated
through the afternoon. yet no one was the
less astonished for that when the storm
broke.
In a word, for the old-fashioned royal
lists the Trianon fete has been nothing less
than scandal" both as to time and place,
and it Is at the same time insisted-With d
good show of proofs-that the authentic
unmixed and -reverent arfstocracy of
France abstained from showing at it. leav-
ing the groves sacred to the memory of
martyrs to be .'profaned' by Americans
and other foreigners"
For such sure enough descendants OF mar
tyrs as actually did take part in the fete
the public reproaches are bitter that
their echoes in society have caused veri-
table split and schism that will take long
in the healing.
Hunting for a Genuine Royalist.
AS for such as are not exactly lineal de-
scendants of the martyrs, they must bear
not only blame but ridcule Not a single
member Of the Oeillet Blanc tthe royalist
club of young men that came into promi-
nence after Christians attack on Presi-
dent Loubet) not a single member Of any
of the royalist committees was present.
declares the same critic This In itself Is
sufficient proof that royalists scrupulously
abstained from taking part In the mas
querade AS a fact, 1t had for it's actors
great majority of Americans and other
foreigners, for whom the sad souvenirs of
the Trianon are naturally dead letter
BonapartiSts ana certain members of that
bouleyardiere aristoraey which believes in
nothing, respects nothing, and thinks only
of enjoying the present hour at any price,
as M Lavedan has shown in his Prince
d'Aurec' and M. Guinon in his 'Decadence.'
"None of these foreign-born ladies is
royafist, is she? Will you say that the
Duchesse de la Rochefoucauid, the daugh-
ter of Senator Mitchell of Oregon, is a roy
alist? Is Madame de Nolhac, wife of a
republican government functionary. a roy
alist? The Comtesse Boni de Castellane
is the daughter Of the American. Jay
Gould, and has not the count, her hus-
band. who is deputy, often enough de-
clared himself to be republican? Is the
cesse Murat, the second wife of that old
prince who tried to marry the American
heiress, Miss Caldwell, was the English
Miss Hervey while Miss Caldwell is now
the Marquise MISUNDERSTANDING.
THE Princesse de Wagram, nee Roth
schiid can she be royaIist? And Madame
Henri Rochefort is she a descendant of the
old regime? Neither the Marquise d'Es-
peuille nor the Comtesse Vandal are born
royalists. The Prfncesse de Polignac a
name. helas! painfully connected with the
Trianon, was a Miss Singer of America
Peace Lovers.
tStrong as is the case made out nv the ex-
treme royalists, there is another side to
the question. It must not be forgotten that
it is part of their program to perpetuate
the hatred between old and new France
Frenchmen who are free from prejudice.
however, rejoice periodically at such
symptoms of peace and reconciliation as
those furnished by this great and brilliant
charity fete. You pretend to think It
scandalous to hold a charity fete in the
park of the Trianon, where Marie Antoi-
nette once Hved?" answers such a one
''Then why do you oblige Protestants who
love the arts to frequent the museum of
At HIrR