The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-16

You might cali it "Ten Years AT
ter. 1t ends in the solemn Pantheon
Of France.
It began with bloody riots in tht
streets Of Paris. In January, 1898, tbs
richest and most popular French nov
elist wrote a short article Of 5000
words that won him hatred in his lana
year prison, exile, the sale of his
household goods. with SANDER. loss OF
friends ana strife beyond expression
He wrote it out Of conscience, because
French captain had been unfairly
tried and imprisoned on a charge Of
treason.
/ refer to Emile lola and the Drey-
fus affair. Zola saw his article
- 'accusel''. tear France asunder,
estranee families. set the world on fire
with generous enthusiasm, But after
wears Of obstruction he did not see the
true Towering of his effort. He died acct
dentallv. in 1902 by suffocation from
stove-eoal gas. Only four years later
did the court of cessation proclaim
reduced 10 nothingness the charges
against Dreyfus-'. nothing of them all
remains standing
July y. 1906. the highest court of
France gave this decision.
July Is. 1906. when the army COM
mission unanimously adopted the rein
statement of Pieguart and Dreyfus. the
French parliament deereed that lola s
bodv should be transferred TO the Pan
theon.
So many writers viii tell you of
Zola that I wish to tell about the
monument Of supreme honor where he
is henceforth to sleep between Jean
Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo.
That the spot is already chosen is
due TO the tender insistence of Nine.
lola
II accept with gratitude the dazzling
honor TO my husband IS memory she
said last week. GAS to theIceremony,
it is the right of the government to de-
eide all. / have but one request to
make. Tt is essential. / beg that the
sepulcher in the crypt of the Pantheon
be absolutely ready before April 2, the
date of the transfer.
SIT would be painful to me- Nine.
lola explained, eff the coffin should
have to be placed temporarily on the
crypt floor. Berthelot and his wife
waited a year Victor Hugo remained
on the crypt floor six months before
his great sepulcher was ready. lola
sleeps TRANQUILITY in the cemetery of
Montmartre / beg that he be trans
ported direct to his Pantheon sepul- /
cher
Most tourists go down to the crypt. |
All see the Pantheon.
Tt is one of the most striking sights |
and spots of Paris. The streets slope |
down from it, Ancient Paris had call |
I'd it "the mountain where once
stood a heather temple
Clovis built church to the apostles
IN it. Then. around the year 500, lived
1 wonderful old maid in Paris-Gene-
Fieve, a suburban farmer IS daughter.
When the barbarian hordes of Attila |
we're before the gates this Genevieve,
4 girl of twenty, went out alone and
persuaded Attila to pass on.
She became a parsonage by plety and
charity. Once in famine she brought /
,oatloads of food down the river to
he starving and demoralized Paris
ans Kings and queens consulted her,
and when she died her body was laid
N the Church of the Apostles, on the
all that took her name-the first
great citizen" to sleep in what is
1ow the Pantheon.
The building was destroyed by Nor
nan pirates. 1t was replaced by an
lbbey of Ste. Genevieve, whose bell
over only now remains in the High
School Henri ".
The actual building of the. Pantheon
hus dates from Louis XIV. only; and
when the French revolution swung
ound the idea of using it for the
leep of ''great citizens had only the
Id memory of Genevieve for basis
fter some 1900 years.
1t was a splendid pile that Louis
". had built there, the successive
FORK of two great architects, SOufflot
nd Rondelet. It's form is a Greek
ross. Its front is mighty portieo of
wentv-two Corinthian columns, sixty
we feet high, reposing on perron OF
welve steps. Their pertinent is carved
Y David dangers.
Inside. sixteen windows are followed
ound by thirty-two COrinthian col
INNS. Above. in the center, is dome
0 high that every few years it is used
or the strange pendulum experiment
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