The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
Capital Mechanics Him the
"Andrc de FOuquieres" Of
Philosophy Salons.
LECTURE ROOMS CROWDED
Women Cramming Brains With
knowledge While Wait
ing for Tango Tea
Special Correspondence 70 rHr sur.

PARIS. Jan. 2c.-Parisians have found
Q new name for Prof. Henri Bergson. The
author of Creative Evolution" is known
as the Andre de Fouquieres of the salons
or philosophy. On his return from Amer
lea. where he told audiences at several
universities of his metaphysical theories
and his flights Into the realm Of specula-
tive philosophy, Prof. Bergson found that
snobs male and female who don't have TO
pay, had usurped the places la the College
de France, which UP to his departure from
Paris had been occupied by the students.
men and women. who are paying for In
otruction In metaphysics
Prof. Bergsons lecture AT the College
de France begins M & o'clock In the after
noon. People who have AN idea that they
must not show ignorance of anything
think that In order to acquire real bon
ton they must attend course Of philoso-
ply while waiting impatiently for the
blessed hour of the tango tea
So II Is that as carly as o'clock In
the afternoon an immense crowd beseges
the hall. spreads along the corridors,
eeises all the available seats. while those
Who can't get inside glue their faces TO
the windows. Just as the clock strikes
3 tho philosopher. in his frail voice, be-
gins to express In crystalline phrases most
dificult philosophical theories. Alterca-
lions. excamatons and raucous cries MI
failed TO obtain admission. A woman who
finds she can't get through the serried
mass OF men at the entrance cries In n
transatlantic voice: 'I must see Monsieur
Bergson.'
The philosopher smiles sweetly. Newer
theiess. finding that his voice can't be
heard above the uproar. he suspends the
course. starts to walk down the stairway,
but finds that even he cannot escape the
crowd He IL "A prisoner of his own sue
cess. Everybody smiles
Prof. Bergson delivered his first lecture
after his return from the United States
last week. As no one paid admission, the
han was throngcd. n an admission fee
wore charged tho philosopher would GER
tafnly take In immense receipts. Phloso-
Pliers. however, speak for nothing.
Mingled with the crowd of persons who
went to the hall TO warm themselves was
an immense thronr of femme savantes
who want to he initiated into the latest
intellectual fashion OF which Prof Berg
ron Is the arbiter this year.
The philosopher was much astonishe,i
to ind this gathering instead OF his old
pupils, whom he expected TO have an
occasion to meet again The students
were AZ the gates, but all they could do
was TO protest vigorously but vain1y
against this invasion of the sacred portals
b, men and women of the monde and
fhc demimonde. by foreigners OF both
sexes 10 whom philosophy was just ms
foreign AK France
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