Evening journal., 1913-05-06
GOSSIP OF The COURTS
by FLAN UR.

line. the panegyrist Of manufactur-
ers and landlords. With each cleo
tion though he moved few points
to the left, so as to keep pace with
the majority AS an orator he has a
sort of case and grace that go far
and often have saved him from nail
ing his colors to any mast to which
he was attracted
NJ. Barthou as q collector has gath
cred many love and other letters OF
Mirabeau. He worked them into a
book and into a lecture, which drew
the fashionable people. But he over
looked the fact of Mirabeau's career
and especially his great power as an
orator Hence he tried to produce
Hamlet without the Danish prince,
and, Of course, failed A Barthou
and a Mirabeau. The latter a tow
ering giant who tried to do in his
time what Lloyd-George is doing
now. He let loose the Gallo major
ity upon the Frankisch minority. He
tried to end class supremacy in
France just as Bloyd-George is try
ing the same thing in England by
seeking to undo the last effects Of
Norman supremacy over the Anglo
Saxon.
The new French premier impresses
one as dilottante. He is soft and
swaying in appearance. and while
not at all a "pensuer," tries to pose
as great thinker Being made Of
pliable stuff, he is not brittle He
is far too shrinking. orderly and sen
sitive to be ft minister. But he
is a pronounced success as a collec-
tor of rarities, which some day may
bring several thousand dollars As
collector of rare editions and au-
tographs he is today the rival of
Baron Henri de Rothschild.
Every Frenchman likes to be
thought of as gallant homme,"
and judges, jurors, advocates and
even the public, as far as they can,
are on the side of the vengeful de-
serted wife. and if the object Of her
vengeance is foolish enough to pros
ecute her in court. save for some hor-
rible injury like throwing vitriol, he
makes Of himself a laughing stock.
Prince Antonio de Bourbon, grand
son Of King Louis Philippe. first
cousin and brother-in-law of the
King OF Spain. and brother of the
Comtesse de Paris, never got over
the derision he brought upon him
self by his prosecution Of the widow
who had impoverished
herself i'm his society. Long before
doing this she had been the toast
Of rich turfists as the peerless Bre-
ton. Marie lie Manach. In the evil
dence against her appeared an UNI
hrella with a broken steel handle
She had broken il over the princes
neck Her attorney took good care
that his speech should furnish read
able copy to newspapers, and the
court imposed a nominal sentence
upon the lady in spite of medical tes-
timony on the seriousness of the in
jury and the thick scar on the noble
suitors neck.
lie" is a specific Breton prefix. II
is the equivalent of the Irish 20.
it meant a person distin-
guished or pre-eminent for a certain
to the Bretons. attributed
all dignity to the ownership of land
Personal virtues, talents, and capac-
tiles did not count for much in West
Franconia, as France was called be-
fore the treaty of Verdun The Bre-
tons we're given to hero worship in
common life, the others to worship
of the landgrabbers who evicted the
Gallo-Romans. Thus lie" Manach
expressed some particular excellence
in former days, but | am not aware
what
The legal business Of NJ. Poincare
at the Paris law courts is like the
heritage of Alexander the Great
Those leading advocates who COM
bine law with politics are after t.
True, if divided among his lieuten-
ants it would give each a highly lu-
crative practice The great corpora
tions need for standing counsel Jar
risters who have access to the minis
tries and the committe rooms of the
Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
Not only in America are lawyers fees
often extremely high, for one fire.
quently also hears at Paris of pay so
high as to beggar description But
nearly always they arc reaped by
lawyers who are leading politicians
or wirepullers.
Copyright. 1913, by A. d. Jacobson