The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-02-20
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sode du Combat de Quibbonier,
which portrays particularly horri-
BILE scene enacted during the French
revolution Of 1889. Then I next
went to the court house which was
closed as it was Sunday. But was
fortunate to chance upon the janitor
whom I told that l was an Ameri-
can lawyer and consequently should
be very glad to go through. His
face at once became aglow with en-
thusiasm and he seemed to deem it
quite an honor to take me in, appa-
rently not realizing that 1 was moth
ing but a poor, meek, humble, insig-
nifcant, downtrodden buck private.
Of you can think of any other
appropriate adjectives please stick
'em there for me.) He
conducted me through the entire
huge building and explained every
thing including the judges rooms
both the civil and criminal court
Eooms and the excellent law library.
The evil and criminal courts have
jurfBdictions about equivalent to
our circuit courts. They are each
presided over by three judges, a
president and two assistants, and
also have a jury Of twelve men.
am very sorry that have not had an
opportunity to attend French trial.
The handsome library was particu-
larly interesting. The laws Of all OF
our States with the exception of
Louisiana are based upon the old
common law Of our mother country
England. While French law is bas-
ed principally upon the old Justinian
Code compiled centuries ago by the
great emperor Justinian of the gi-
gantic Roman Empire, from which
country first emanated to the world
the free principles Of democracy for
which the allies have contended in
the present war. Many generations
later, or about the year 1855, the
emperor of France, Napoleon the III,
nephew Of the great military genius
Napoleon Bonaparte, formulated
what is called the Code Napoleon,
which now gives to France many of
her laws and is the basis of all
French social existence today. But
while the sources and the founda-
tions of the laws of the two coun-
tries France and America, are some
what distinct, the two methods Of
dispensing justice do not vary a
great deal, and find that the indi-
vidual rights and remedies Of one
person as against another here and
also of the State against the citizen
are practically the same as in our
own country.
Tomorrow I shall go on trip of q
few days to the city of Gievres on
business for the government. Gievres
pronounced Jeves) is in the depart
ment of Et Cher about 95 miles
southwest Of Paris, and midway be-
tween the cities of Tours and Bour-
ges. On the way back here I shall
probably stop off at the latter place
which numbers 10000 people and
has the great central records Offices
Of the American Expeditionary
Forces. Upon my return to camp l
shall have awaiting me an immedi-
ate furlough of two weeks which 1
expect to use for wonderful and
marvellous pleasure and sight seeing
trip. A soldier from Chicago and
expect to go together. We will first
go to Lyons, the great manufactur- I
ing city with one million inhabitants,
one of the leading business centers
of France and the second largest
city. Then we will proceed to Mar
seille, the celebrated French port, on
the Mediterranean sea, and the
COuuLfy > lOulLu ClIy Ill SlLS. LIS
place is noted as probably the
worlds most wicked city. 1 shall do
my best to find out about that and if
I do not become too much attached
to Marseille on this account I shall
travel up the Mediterranean coast
from there to the great winter re-
sort, Nice, which is on the Mediter-
raneen and also right in among the
Alps. Yet am told by officers who
have been there that it is favored
with mild and even climate. Nice
is not great distance from the from
tier of Switzerland and is nearly on
the border line between France and
Italy. From there we expect to take
short side trips into the Alps, to the
separate province and independent
country of Monaco, the far famed
city of Monte Carlo, and across the