Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-08-19
FRANCE RECEIVES
LOYAL MEMORIAL
Statue of Washington Dedicated
in Napoleon Hall of Cha
teau at Versailles
FATHER OF COUNTRY LAUDED
Marquis de Lafayette and Mem
berS of Mission Attend I'M
pressive Ceremonies
OF COUNTRY LAUDED
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States, NJ Jusserand and his wife, ana
the American ambassador, Robert
Bacon, and Mrs. Bacon the bronze
replica of Houdon's celebrated statue
of Washington in the state house at
Richmond, Va, presented by the state
of Virginia to the, frencn repuphc'
was today dedicated.
Among those present were the Mar
duis de Lafayette, the members OF the
French mission which presented TO
America the statue of Rochambeau,
now at Washington, and former United
States Senator Nathan B. Scott OF
West Virginia.
Gen. Brun, who presided, spoke of
the statue as the greatest work of the
greatest French sculptor of the eight
zenith century. Col. James Manu.
chairman of the Virginia commission,
delivered the speech of presentation.
wAsHINGTON's GLORIOUS NAME
"The grandest name in all the his
tory of America is that OF George
Washington and the history of all the
nations gives us none that is grander,
said Mr.. Mann, who recounted the
r splendid deeds of 1.-The Father of his
country" both in war and in peace,
and he paid fitting tribute to the Illus
trious Frenchmen who aided America
in it's struggle for liberty.
1--WE remember always" he SAID,
"that but for the aid of France success
could not have crowned the efforts or
Washington in our revolutionary war.
1t Is because Virginians remember
these things and, remembering them,
love the people of France, that we
have come in their name as the bearers
of this token of their affection"
The statue was accepted in behalf
of the French government by M. Pin
chon, Secretary of foreign affairs
INV, with which the
gift of this statue has been received"
said Mr.. Mann, las added to the
pleasure Virginia has felt in sending
her best loved son to stand on the
soil of France, amid the only allies,
offensive and defensive, America has
ever had. 1t was beautiful thought
that prompted the PEOPLE of France TO
place on the right of this statue of
Washington the bust of Lafayette, his
most trusted lieutenant and dearest
friend, and on his left Suffren, the gal
liant commander of the redoubtable
Fantasque, who dealt such telling
blows to the British ships upon our
coast and later by his bravery won
for himself the high honor of being
the admiral of France.
TRIBUTE TO THE TRENCH
at is indeed fitting that there
should be placed within the. pedestal
as a part of his support the names and
records of the AZ 1889 brave French SOL
diers who made possible the successful
termination of the war and thereby
entitled Washington to stand upon
that high pinnacle of fame which MIS-
tory accords only to the victorious.
His spirit, as 1t hoyers here above his
statue. must indeed feel that he stands
in the midst of his friends"
Mr.. Mann referred to the fact that IL
was within the very walls within
which he stood and where the statue
had been placed that on September g.
1888, was signed the treaty of peace
between Great Britain and the united
States
"This is indeed the birthplace of our
nation" he said land we have come
in grateful recognition of the splendid
part that France took in the accom-
plishment of our freedom, to place
within these walls the statue of the
Father of His Country"
Speaking of Washington, Mr. Mann
Said:
Grand as he was in war, he was
grander still in peace, and to him above
all others is due the adoption of the
constitution, which welded the states
together into that form of government
which became the pattern of future
republics. Courteous and courtly to all
men, a tender affection characterized
his intercourse with his friends. La
fayette's heart went out to him in
flial love Rochambeau held him as
dearly beloved brother in arms, De
Grasse admired him and was glad to
call him friend, ChastelluX declared
him to be the greatest and best of all
men. while his own people with one
accord have proclaimed him First in
war, first in peace and first in the
hearts of his countrymen.
LAUDATION OF LAFAYETTE
In glowing terms Mr.. Mann referred
to Lafayette and the affectionate re-
gard in which Americans held his
memory.
mo man in all the history of our
revolutionary period, save only that of
Washington" said Mr.. Mann, sis so
dear to the American people as that
of the gallant young Frenchman who
before he had reached the age of TWEEN
ty became a major general in the army
of the United States, having rendered
his services as volunteer without
pension or allowance. Before the con-
stitution was framed Lafayette had
been by legislative act declared citi-
zen of Virginia, the highest honor a.
free state can pay to any man, and
upon his death by order of the presi-
dent of the United States the same
honors were rendered by the nation as
had been observed on the death of
washington. His love for our state
was touchingly shown when he named
daughter Virginia. And / am
proud to relate that when offered his
choice of commands in the continental
army. he selected division composed
entirely of Virginians. 1t was he, at
the head of his division of brave Vir-
ginians, who drove CORVALLIS into the
untenable position at Yorktown, and
held him there until the coming of
Washington and Rochambeau by
land. and of De Grasse and st. Simon
by sea- CORVALLIS had said of him.
.The boy cannot escape me- but it
was due to the splendid strategy of
the boy that the entire British army
on the glorious October day in 1881
was forced to march out in humble
submission between the lines of French
and Americans and laid down its
arms"
PERFECT STATUE BY HOUDON
Mr.. Mann related how Frenchman
had been chosen to perpetuate the form
of the illustrious Washington in
marble.
"The war drums of the revolution
had hardly ceased to sound before the