New-York tribune., 1901-06-16
PARIS.
vILLEBOIs-MAREUIL WAS TO HAVE
BEEN THE MAN on HORSEBACK"
A WEEK OF SPLENDID ENTERTAINMENTS
DoINGs OF AMERICAN VISITORS.

DoINGs OF AMERICAN VISITORS.
Copyright; 1901: BY The New-Tork TribuneD
IBy cABLE TO THE TRIBUNEl
Paris. June l5-The Nationalist-Anti Semitic
party has had a had shaking up. and. owing 10
the fanatical character Of Max Regis's duels
and the expulsion Of Edouard DrumOnt from
the Chamber has completely lost credit even
with the volatile public Of the boulevards. The
mutual recriminations of the Nationalist lead
ers have led TO the revelation that in the death
of Colonel de VillebOis-Mareuil by a British bull
let the Third Republic was saved from a peril
far greater than that which menaced ii during
the most rampant stage of Boulangerism. NJ.
Henri Vaugeois, at a Nationalist meeting in
Paris on Wednesday. made the following state
ment:
After the Rennes trial. the verdict in which
destroyed by pardon signed in as coward
ly and hypocritical a way possible, we con-
templated violence. We thought that the first
person who would lay hands the Elysee
would render a great service. We had an ad-
mirabe man. who was all on our side namely.
Colonel de Nillebois- -Mareuil. When ne left Paris
i went with him the station. and I said TO
him: When you return, Will you be the man Of
whom stand in need?' His reply was:
Either shall not return, or certainly l shall
be that man." Unfortunately he did not re-
turn. We were on the lookout for a man 10
This confession pronounced accurate by those
in the best position TO know the facts. indicates
that Colonel de Villebois-Nareun deliberately
went to the Transvaai 10 win the prestige which
Marchand had already won on African soil so
that upon his return he would be in position
20 accept the solicitations Of those who wished
10 oVerturn the republic. Marchand being on
active service, was prudently removed 70 China.
bur laho Mar
resolved 10 accept the role Of savior Of the
nation" and he would have been infinitely more
dangerous than Boulanger. for he was a man
OF higher education and much cooler headed
than lie brave general"
Mr. John Bodley, the historian Of modern
France, visited the Chamber yesterday and wit
messed the expulsion Of Drumont. Before leav-
ing Paris to-day for London, he remarked:
The Nationalists just now are in bad way.
but they count continually upon that element OF
cssarism which is ever latent in the French
iant capacity like De Villebois- Mareuil. at their
head, no one knows what an upheavaI they
might have accomplished.
At any rate, the confession OF the Nationalist
leader Naugeois shows the bent Of the Ma
tionalists' desires and supplies the keynote OF
their policy during the coming general elections
Americans are well to the front in The social
activity Of this the gayest week Of the YEAR
which will culminate tomorrow with the Grand
ffiN oe Farls. entertainments on truly inn
perlai scale nave been the order Of the day at
me German Embassy, where scarcely twenty
TOUR hours elapse without some fashionable
junction giving Prince and Princess Radolin
new opportunities or exercising their social fas-
chatlohs' winch nave completely won over the
most reacuonary eoteries of the Faubourg Saint
Sernnaln Among the well known Americans
who are frequent guests at the German En-
bassy may be mentioned Mr. and Mrs John
Munroe, Baroness Seilliere. Mrs. Waddingtor.
Mrs. stannard Wood. Mrs. Arthur Paget and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Curtis The dinners and