The Penn's Grove record., 1921-03-25
How passion"
Wrecked a Kingdom
Local Happenings Drawn From
French History Shown
In Movie

was only an amusement with no
thought that it portrayed French his
tory and led to persons, industries and
products in Penns Grove which can be
made of local interest.
The ene were Of Louis XIV who
reigned in France from 1873 to 1774
ana Louis XVI who ruled from l774
until beheaded by the guillotine in
1893. The leading woman character
was Madame duBarry, one OF the wo-
men of Louis XV'S harem, whose in
fuence led the King to extravaganza,
high taxes, oppression of the poor and
the French Revolution.
In our schools a few years ago has
been introduced a book in the 9th
grade to show the beginning Of Amer
lea in Europe. Since entering the
World Wan American people have
acquired a world view and know some
Of the background history instructs us
what oppression our forefathers were
under and how we got our liberties
and how we must maintain them.
Previous to DuBarry's influence
over Louis VX his paramour was
Madame Pompadour, who led the King
to enter the seven years war, which
had England and Prussia on n side
and France, Austria and Spain on the
other. At the beginning in 1856,
France owned Canada, consequently
the old worlds conflict reached Amer
lea. Every school boy studies about
the French and Indian war. The
French in Canada aroused the Indians
against the Colonists and British cap
tured Quebec. George Washington
won his first spurs under BraddOck at
Pittsburg. At the close of the wal
the Peace Treaty at Paris, 1868, coded
Canada to Great Britain. The Pope OF
Rome had a representative at the
peace council as was his claim to rule
all nations. He had no objections to
Canada becoming a British colony if
the State religion was. made Roman
Catholic by treaty. Canada territory
was to include all of what is now
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota. That aroused
the ColonistS to hold the first Contin-
entail Congress and a resolution of
protest was made.
When the wal started in 1856, the
French settlers at Acadia, now called
Nova Scotia, refused to support the
British and take up arms against the
French, Notwithstanding the territory
had been under British control since
1713. Britain could not afford to have
a seaport of enemies, so the town was
burned and the French Acadians dis
tributed among the British colonies.
That is the foundation for Longfel-
lows Evangeline.
One of the young French Acadians
was John Boqua, the first leader of
the first Methodist class meeting in
the old Cove School House in 1886. He
died in 1841, aged II years, and lies
buried in front of the Emmanuel
Church. His daughter, Catharine, wife
of Elijah Barber, told the editor of
Penns Grove Record her father was
an Acadian. Others are the Beckett
families.
The reason the French Acadians
would not swear allegiance to the
King of England was because they
were controlled by the Catholic priest
hood. Notwithstanding Great Britain
and America went to the aid of the
French Republic in the World War,
the French Canadians in Quebec, Can
ada, resisted CONSUMPTION. The French
in Quebec today have not progressed
in civilization since the time of Louis
XIV.
So you see Louis XV's mistress,
Pompadour, started a course of events
that made a French Catholic a
Methodist who was the father of En-
manuel Church, Penns Grove.
The movie showed the extravaganza
Il r -, oo,,4 fo- H1ooac ond nnopnpk
feathers" The morally rotten King
and court allowed DuBarry to squan-
der $36,000,0 900 in five years. The
king had a road covered with sugar
so he could give his mistress a sleigh
ride in The working classes
were starving from taxes for State and
Church which were united. That
started the French Revolution. While
Louis XIV died in bed with smallpox,
Madame DuBarry and Louis WI and
his Queen Marie Antoinette had their
heads cut off by the guillotine shown
in the movie.
Louis XVI was w~ell-meaning, honest
with pure morals and made sacrifices.
but had to reap the fruits of the wild
oats of his profligate ~grandfathers
sowing.
The people demanded a constitu-
tional monarchy, instead of personal
autocracy, controlled by. kings, para
mours. A devoted and sincere Roman
Catholic, Louis XVI, refused at first
to sanction a constitution for the
church in France with the pope's ap-
proval. After being compelled to allow
the constitution to become law he OPP
posed the Revolution by intrigue.
Hence he lost his head.
The Catholic Standard and Times,
Philadelphia, March 10, 1921 said
"Religion had become identified with
the ruling class. The French Revo-
luton was to a certain extent anti
clerical" After the fall of the Bas-
tile, where political prisoners were
confined, the national assembly abol-
ished all teh privileges of the mobiles
and the clergy and declared all men
equal before the law, as in America.
The movie showed the consequences
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