The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09

obeycd by thirty-six millions subjects. at
a time when no illusion surrounds the
, thrones. he Is great in that he overthrow
all the kings his opponents. in that he de-
feated all the armies, whatever the differ
ence In their discipline and valor. In that
| he taught his name to savage as well as to
) civilized peoples in that he surpassed all
the conquerors who preceded him in that
! he filed ten years with prodigies so great
that we have difficulty to-day in under
| standing them
While Napoleon was still living In the
| Mid-Atantic island Of his exile, Chateau
! BRAND who had defed him In the day Of
, his power. wrote the following article in
Paris newspaper, the Conserrdteur: The
nat ions have called Bonaparte a scourge;
but the scourges of God retain something
| of the eternity and grandeur OF the divine
wrath whence they emanate: 'fe dry
bones . will send spirit into you, and
you shall live Born In an island to 60
| and die in an island, on the boundaries Of
| three continents, cast in the midst Of the
| seas in which Camoens seemed to foretell
| him by placing there the genius Of the
| tempests Bonaparte cannot stir on his
| rock but We are apprized Of 1t by a con-
! cus,ion. a step of the new Adamastor at
| the other Pole makes itself felt at this.
| If Napoleon, escaping from the hands OF his
gaolers. were 10 retire 20 the United States.
| his looks fixed upon the ocean would be
enough to disturb the nations Of the Old
| World. his mere presence on the American
| coast of the Atlantic would oblige Europe
to camp on the opposite shore 1t is an
| interesting fact that this article reached
-. i'm,
to say to NJ de Montholon: If in 1910
and 1918 the roya confidence had not been
| placed in men whose souls were ener waited
| by circumstances too strong for them, or
who, fenegades to their country, saw safety
| and glory for their masters throne only
| III the yoke of the Holy Alliance. II the
| Duo de Richelieu, whose ambition II was
! 81 deliver his country from the presence
| of foreign bayonets, if Chateaubriand,
| who had Just rendered such eminent serv-
/ ices at Client, rad had the direction Of
! affairs. France would have issued powerful
ard dreaded from those two great national
! crises Chatoalhrand has been gifted
! by Latlirr with the Promethean fire; his
| works witness il His style is not that of
| Racine, il il that Of the Prophets, II ever
! he arrives az the helm of state. il is possible
! that Chatea,lhriand may go astray: so many
! others have found their ruin there But
! what il certain is that all that is great and
| national would al peal TO his genius, and
| that he would have Indignantly rejected
| the ignOminiOus acts Of the then Admin
| is,ration" These words are quoted from
| Nontholol's Memoirs Chateallhriand does
not deny that the opinion of himself eN-
! pressed by Napoleon -tckles my hearts
! proud weakness. Many little men to whom
! | have rendered great services have not
| Judged me 50 fayorahly a. the giant whose
might | had dared To attack
auhriaui wa, living In Paris when,
at IN" request Of King Louis Philippe, the
remains of Napoleon were surrendered
| by Great Britain, and having been dis
inferred a, ST Helena ard brought to
| France, were deposited in the lnvalides.
lii comment, on the even, will be found on
pages gas of the third volume Of these
memoirs Again he seems to foresee the
advent If the Second Empire and it, over
I throw; The translation e Napoleon's
relic, l. an offence against fame. No
! burial in Paris will ever be as good
! a. Slaue Valley, who would wish to see
! Pompcy ols.'w here than in he furrow
| Of sand thrown up by poor freedman,
I assisted by an old lcgionary' What shall
/ We ito with mos" magnificent relics N
. the midst Of our mserics2 Will the hardest
granite rcprcs"nt the rcrp"tuity Of Bona
parties works? If even We Possessed n
/ Michael Angelo Ia carve the funeral statue
how would one fashion the monument
] To little men, mausoleums, TO great men.
a stone and name If, at least, they
/ had suspended the coffin on the coping
of the Arc de Triomphe. if the nations
had seen their master from afar borne
on the shoulders of his victories. Was
not Traian's urn in Rome set AT the top
Of his column; Napoleon, among us.
will be- lost in the mob Of those latter
deInahons of dead who steal away in 81
lence God grant that he may not he OK
! posed to the ycssitudes of our political
changes, protected though he may be by
| Louis XIV, Nauban and Turonne Beware
! Of those violations Of tombs so common
A. our country Let certain side Of the
| Revolution triumph, and the conqueror +
dust may go to join the dusts HIGH our
passions have scattered; men will forget
! the yanuuisher Of the nations 10 remember
only the oppressor Of their liberties, The
bones Of Napoleon will not reproduce his
genius: they will teach his despo,ism to
second rate soldiers
| After the return of Louis AN1ll. from
Client. Chateaubriand was made Minister
of State and member Of the Chamber OF
Peers In 1916, however, he published q
pamphl,t entitled La Monorchie scion u
| Cbdrto, in which he advocated a firm ano
loyal adherence to the charter on the par
Of the restored Bourbon dynasty. Thh
pamphlct gave so much offence to tn,
rovalists that its authors name was strucl
of the lis, Of Ministers Of State and tn,
pension attached to that place was with
drawn. In order to support himself Cha
teaubriand was obliged to sell his librar,
! in the little country seat Of his near Paris
He now became a member Of the royals
opposition, conducting his polemical war
fare in the nserrdteur. He Is CREDITED
with upsetting the Ministry of the Du
DeCazes on Feb. II, 1890. and with placin,
NJ de Villele in power under the Due d
, Richelieu In November OF the year jus
named Chateaubriand WAS appointed Envo
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiar
, | to the court at Berlin. II is evident fror
a memorandum made at the time and intro
duced in the fourth Of the volumes befor
us that Chateaubriand's observations