The Penn's Grove record., 1921-03-25
PASSION WRECKED A KINGDOM

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of the union OF Church ana State anC
it has taken over a hundred years 1Ol
the NJ people to get from under
what people IN The UnIteQ States hao
nom che beginning.
Louis AVI and duPOnts
The movie showed Louis XVI anC
his Queen Marie AntOinette walking
between the popuiace to the scatfolC
co be Deheaded. Who in the audience
knew the King was a personal trienC
TO Pierre Samuel dupont, the immi-
grant who founded the powder plant
on the Brandywine? Mr.. DUPONT came
to America on the solicitation Of
Thomas Jefferson to get rid OF the
Revolution. MIR. DUPONT was born il
Paris 1889 and prepared for the medi-
cal profession. He was turned aside
from his studies thru a deep interest
IN questions regarding commerce, agri-
culture and imports to this country,
He became a member of the society
in Paris known as the Economists,
and eventually IA an authority on
what we now call political economy.
These subjects interested all Europe,
Gustavus Ill, of Sweden, sent for HIM
and gave him the honor of the Order
of WaSa.
The French Prime Minister Turgot
called Mr.. DUPONT to his assistance.
When disaster came he retired to his
estate near NemourS, France.
He was recalled from his retreat to
unite with Dir. James Hutton, an En-
glish commissioner, to prepare a treaty
Ior the recognition of the independence
of the United States, and also to ar
range a treaty of commerce with Great
Britain. Following this he was made
commissary general of commerce.
When the trouble began just pre-
vious to the Revolution, DUPONT said
to the King: The cause of all your
difficulty, sire, is that your realm has
no constitution. You have to decide
everything yourself"
On that terrible day when the mob
attacked the Tuileries and the Swiss
guard fought so bravely, Pierre Sam
uel DUPONT went with one of his SON.
to help defend the King, Louis XVI.
The son was only a boy, and the
scenes Of that day were hideous
memories in all his after life. Louis
said to his devoted subject: "Mon-
sieur DUPONT one always finds you
when there is need of you
The courage of n of his friends
was all that saved duPont's life that
day. He got the boy out Of sight
and hid Samuel DUPONT in the observ-
atory of the Marzarin College, where
two chairs constituted the entire fur
niture. 1t was so difficult to escape
observation that M. Hermand could
not get enough bread to him and he
suffered horribly for water.
In the midst of his situation, M.
Hermand was sent to join the army
and was obliged to confide his secret
to a friend, the astronomer of the col
lege, who promised to ave the life of
DUPONT and help him escape. And
he did.
But dupont was finally arrested and
confined in the prison of La Force,
which meant the certain fate of death
by the guillotine. AS so many others
escaped, Samuel DUPONT also owed his
life to the fall of R%osepierre.
He was again active in public affairs
a member of the council of five
hundred, but on September 4, 1897, the
mob attacked his house and destroyed,
or took, everything in it. DUPONT
managed to escape and with his two
sons (by a first marriage) he came to
America and settled in New Jersey.
Here he began to plan for a colony
for his prosecuted countrymen, but it
never carried through. In 1903 he
arranged the treaty that sold Lou
isiana to the Unitd States; and Vice
President Jefferson had him prepare a
scheme of national education. AL
though this was not used in the United
States, many of the suggestions are
employed in the French code of edu-
1t was Louis XVI who aided the
Colonies in the American Revolution
because he disliked England.
When the National Assembly formed
the constitution Lafayette was at the
head of the National Guards. He was
the hero of Paris. Both Lafayette
and Samuel Pierre DUPONT were con-
monarchists, opposed to the
misruIe of an absolute monarch as we'll
the unreasonable bloody Revolu-
tionists, who we're not settled until
Napoleon Bonaparte took command.
So hundreds saw in the movie the
reason which led Samuel Pierre du-
Pont to come to America and settle on
the Brandyyvine. His descendants erect
ed the first SEaokeiess powder plant on
Carneys Point, gave work to thousands
who made powder which saved the
Republic of France, which had its be-
ginning as g revolt from the e~xtrava-
canca Of Louis XV's paramour,
Madame du Barry.
How warv thought the pictures
shown in the movie of events 1870 to
$50 yeas go led to making the
present events Of Penns Grove.