The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-22
WAR NOTE HEARD IN
DEROULEDE REQUIEM
POet-Patriot's Funeral Most I'm.
pressive Since Hugo's
and Gambetta's.
100000 PAID TRIBUTE
Orators Tell Youth Of France to
BE Ready for Revenge
on Germany.
100000 PAID TRIBUTE
Special Correspondence TO THE srS.

PARIS, Feb. 1.-THE funeral of Paul
Deroulede. In which all Paris took part
and to which all France, and even the
lost provinces Of Alsace and Lorraine, lent
It's sympathy. was the most impressive
seen In the capital since Victor Hugo
was buried and Gambetta laid to rest
Deroulede, at the same time poet. orator.
patriot, politician and soldier. spent a part
OF his life in exile. as many big French
men have done. At the Villa Alta at
Saint Sebastlen. just over the frontier he
was surrounded by few friends and
many enemies. spies sent from Paris to
watch his movements. He was sent into
exile in 1889 for having taken too promi-
! nent IA part In the nationalist campaign.
He returned to France five years later
II Is conservatively estimated that
loo. 900 persons assembled at the Care do
Lyon to do honor to the dead patriot
on the arrival OF the 1uneral party from
Nice. II was not a crowd Of tho merely
curious. but men and women who wished
TO honor him as the man who fought
hardest for the return OF the provinces
which went to Germany as the fruit OF
the war of soixante-dix. In the crowd
were young students as we'll as veterans
of the war and the route OF procession
from the station to the Saint Augustin
Church WAS lined with people of all sorts
and conditions to pay homage to their
friend.
Societies Represented.
The League OF Patriots. OF which he long
was president. was OF course represented.
~ were the Alsace and Lorraine societies,
the Veterans Of the Army and Navy. the
French Red Cross. the Cornbattants de
Champgny. the Catholic Association OF
French Youth. the students OF Saint Cyr
and the naval school. several political
committees as well many " the former
political constituents OF Deroulede. The
French Government was represented by
NM. BRAND. Louis Barthou, George
I.eyvues and Alexander Millerand. Paul
Deschanel, president of tho Chamber OF
Deputies, Maurice Barres, Comte Albert
de Nun and Denys Cochin OF the Acade-
ME Franchise. In addition there were
NJ Chassaigne-Cioyon, president OF the
Municipal Council: Maurice Quentin. Pres
| ident Of the General Council Georges Le-
| cculte. president Of the Societc des
Gems Dc Isttres. and many otharA ~
The ordinary French funeral IL = strange
sight to American eyes. The only car
riage Is the hearse. draped in white bor-
| dersd mourning cloth Instead Of the
| closed carriages behind the portieres OF
| which Americans hide their grief the
French mourners and friends follow the
hearse on foot. On a hot summer day
one may see n hearse followed by its
queue OF mourners toiling up steep hill
| on its way to the cemetery. This seems
| to be "A real test OF devotion and friend
| ship.
In the Deroulede funeral the hearse
| was surrounded by a special bodygua I'd
| In which among others were Henri Lave
| dan. Albert Care and Gen. de Monard.
| former commander OF the Thirtieth Bat
talon OF Chasseurs "A Pied, in which De-
roulede served. Behind the hearse came
a member of the League Of Patriots carry
Ing "A cushion on which rested NJ. Derou-
lede's Legion OF Honor decoration and
his medal of 1870.
Decorate strasburg statue.
All along the Rue de Rivoli stood a
| revertnt throng massed on both sides OF
| the street. while little girls carrying bas-
kets OF flowers scattered them in front
OF the procession. The statue OF Jeanne
dare. which stands at the western end
OF the Louvre. received the homage OF
the crowd. but the greater part was re-
| served for the Strasburg statue in the
Place de Ia Concorde. Tho League Of
| Patriots keeps this statue draped con-
| tnually in black. and Paris In her gayest
public square mourns increasingly the loss
OF her eastern provinces. In front of the
statue the cortege came to halt. The
crowd which filled the immense square
| dcns watched uncovered in breathless
silence while NM. Maurice Barres and
Marcel Habert placed a huge bunch Of red
| carnations at the foot Of the statue. The
crowd could contain itself no longer and
| shouts OF "Viye la France" and "Vive
rAlsace- Lorraine. were heard on all
/ sides.
At the Saint Augusttn Church following
the religious ceremony the life and work
OF Paul Delourede were eulogized by those
who knew him intimately. OF the funeral
orations II Is only necessary to reproduce
here one, by NJ. Barres, who called De-
| roulede the man who was the living in
carnation OF our protest against the
Treaty Of Frankfort" He said
I'm the midst Of the vast forest where
the vegetation obeys the laws Of the four
seasons and seems sometimes to yield
before the tempest Deroulede stood like
"a rock immovable. A Roman has said
magnifcently. "lf you have seen a man
Of single purpose. you ha We seen great
| thing" Deroulede was such a man. He
was IA man with a single task. but that
sublime task was the preparations OF
hearts for war. To assure victory for us
| on that day which will inevitably come.
the rising generation must have a senti-
ment OF honor. the remembrance Of ar
| fronts must irritate II continually and
| hope must exalt them"