New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-05
.LAT|NQUARTER PATRIOTISM
American and French Students
Celebrate Fourth OF July.
Paris, June p.


The students Of the Latin Quarter are
up in arms The match that set the
long pent-up enthusiasm in and around
the Sorbonne ablaze was the terrific and
iaundiced indictment OF French youth
made by Herr Wagner editor Of the
pan German "Strassburger Post" who
declared that the Latin Quarter Of Paris
was "a stagnant. prurient quagmire or
mmorslity." The German authorities,
striving to suppress the sentiments or
French afiliation among the students Of
Alsace- Lorraine. prohibited the playing
Of Racine's "Plaideurs." and issued a
decree dissolving the Students Club Of
Strassbourg because it's young and per-
haps too energetic president. NJ Etienne
Munk, wrote a humorous pamphlet
which with caustic irony ridculed the
big wigs Of the German universities in
the Relchsland, and protested in violent
language and burning eloquence that
the German faculty was greatly mis-
taken in it's assertion that France
had completely forgotten Alsace-L or-
rane" During the last few days the
streets Of Paris have been enlivened by
posters in red and blue-the Colors Of
Alsace- Lorraine--protesting against the
charges OF the Strassboure faculty and
calling meetings Of all the groups Of
Paris students
On Sunday three thousand students as
sembled in the lecture rooms Of the So
cietes Savantes. in the Rue Danton.
under the presidency Of NJ. Etienne
Munk. the strassbourg student who had
been expelled from the university. NJ
Tourelle. president Of the Student Asso-
citation Of Paris. made stirring patri-
otto address. and all the groups. notably
those OF the national students, the pro-
gressive students, the royalist students.
the plebiscite. or Bonapartist students
the republican students and the Catho-
lie students were for once in thorough
accord and approved the revival If the
Alsace Lorraine affiliation with vehe-
ment patriotism.
Toward midnight the students al
marched in procession around the statue
Of The Lion Of Belfort," and were about
to proceed 20 burn the effiev ~ Herr
Professor WAGNER in a huge bonfire
Three regiments Of cavalry and large
bodies OF police. however, preserved or
der. and the Commissary of Police
dashed among the students and took
possession Of the manikin and took il
10 the nearest police station. The ad-
dress Of NJ Etienne Munk was delivered
and caused widespread emotion, and IS
printed in the daily papers throughout
France Meanwhile The student clubs
and associations Of all the great French
universities held meetings of indigna-
ton on their own account. The students
OF those at Nancy. Nantes. Lyons and
Marseilles were particularly loud and
showed intense enthusiasm. and # would
he very dangerous Just now for any one
connected with the German faculties of
Alsace-Lorraine 10 set foot in the Latin
Quarter At Narselles the students
went so far as 10 burn the effigy OF En-
peror William before the police could
stop them.
This wave Of "revanche" so unnsces-
sarily provoked by the bitter attacks OF
the German professors on French stu
dents is assuming wider and deeper pro-
portions, and causes no little uneasiness
in political circles, and ia a source OF no
little annoyance 10 the German Am
bassador. II should be noted that two
hundred American students at the
French universities took active part in
the anti German demonstrations OF the
Latin Quarter. Careful observers find
that a sort Of renascence Of patriotism
has set in among Partisan students
Moreover. the traditional and historic
pageants organized In the Latin quarter