Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1902-10-17
AMERICANISM IN FRANCE
Interest In This Country Never
So Keen as Now.
DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE DAY
Shops Are Cropping Up On the Boule-
wards Where Our Goods Are Exclu-
sively Sold - Special study Being
Made of American Industry-Great
Popularity of Our Shoes.

Made of American Industry-Great
Popularity of Our Shoes.
Never before have the French been
so sensitive to American appreciation
and never before have they taken SO
keen interest in American affairs,
writes the Paris correspondent of the
New York Tribune.
This development of Americanlsm in
France is the characteristic feature of
the day. One meets it at every turn.
Shops are cropping up on the Avenue
de TOpera and the boulevards where
American goods are exclusively sold.
American boots and shoes, for instance,
have evidently come TO stay. They are
to be found not only in Paris at the
great retail establishments, but also
In small cities and towns. such as Ly-
ons, Rouen, Bordeaux, Havre and Yer
non. American agricultural implements
and machines are replacing the old
fashioned hand methods of harvestry
in the wheat districts of western and
northern France. There is no reputable
dentist in Paris or in the provincial
towns without an American dentists
chair and American dental instruments
made of American steel. American pc.
troleum circulates over the French rail
roads in American modelled tank cars.
The influential committee for the de-
fense of national interests, under the
presidency of Baron d'Estournelles de
| Constant, Is making special study OF
American industry with view to de-
veloping an exchange of commodities
invasion OF the French markets by es-
tablishing mutual commerce where ar
ticles of luxury or of highly finished
make will find compensating outlet in
the United States. Indeed, Baron d'Es-
tournelles de Constant declares that
the increased importation of American
| goods into France is benefit instead
of an evil, as is maintained by French
| Nationalists.
The Society for the Defense of Ma
| tional Interests has secured the serv-
| ices of CASTOR Deschamps, professor
Of the College de France, who recently
delivered a course Of lectures on liter
ary subjects in the United States; of
| Henri Hauser, author of a treatise on
"The American Peril and Its Remedy"
- u -
the University of Paris, and others.
who are about to undertake q series of
| lectures in France and abroad, with
the object of seeking and developing
the means of mutual industrial de-
mands of the United States and of
France.
The American idea," as it is termed
in boulevard phraseology, is making
headway In almost every phase of
French life and industry. The Due de
Loubat. the founder and patron Of the
science Of "Americanism," of the study
of ethnology and geography of Ameri-
ca of the pre-Columbian period, has en-
dowed the College de France with
professorship of Americanism, after
having done the same thing for the
University of Berlin.
James Hyde. seconded by NJ. Leo
pold Mabilleau, director of the Social
Museum Is devoting himself to multi
plying the intellectual and educational
ties between the United States and
France, and Charlemagne Tower. the
United States ambassador to Russia,
whose Life Of Lafayette" has just
been translated into French by Nine.
CASTOR Paris, wife Of the eminent dean
of the faculty Of the College de France,
has been influential in disseminating in
French educational establishments cor
rect notions of the United States.
Americanism in France-in the specific
as well as in its general acceptance
is making rapid progress. In almost
every branch Of activity Frenchmen al
ready turn to the United States for
ideas and inspiration.