The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-05

lStS as well as you III InVA OWH
image, and which squeeze even ort Of
the Twenty third Psalm a little pro-
paganda for their own perpetuity,-
are strangely afraid of their heroes.
Today after 1872 years bourgeois
France dares not look Danton in the
face.
It is 1872 years since August 10,
1892, when the sections of Paris rose
to put Louis XVI and his family in
the tower of the Temple. And it is
from that day that the present bour-
geoisie of France date their fortunes,
whether millionaires or petty shop
keepers who hope to be millionaires.
Yet recently there have appeared
three new books by French bourgeois
pseudo-historians or biographers
which repudiate Danton and the othoc
Eighteenth Century creators At
French private property.
These books, only a part OF the
annual crop, repudiate not merely
the methods of the Jacobins but the
public and private morals and pu--
poses Of the revolutionary creators
of the French bourgeois state. To
form a parallel in this country it
would be necessary to denounce
George Washington as an adven-
turer, the members of the Boston
Tea Party as criminals shaving no
regard for law and order" and the
"Sansculottes" of Valley Forge as
hoodlums. And in the United States
men have been shot for less.
Rourgeois History.
One of these three volumes is
"The Dauphin", by George Lenotre,
translated by Frederic Lees. Mr..
Lees, according the "Who's Who.
1927, is an English journalist re-
siding in Paris and Italy who has
been made an "officier de INSTRUCTION
publique" by the French government
in recognition of his efforts in fur.
therance of the Franco-British en-
tente cordiale.
The two other volumes are "Dan-
tom, by Louis Madelin, and "Mazor
Roland, by Mrs. Rlashfield.
"To hold in their possession anC
modest at leisure the King descended
from so many kings and the beauti
full Queen Of the Trianon, what {
voluptuous and depraved godsend tt
men naturally hateful of all beauty
and nobility" says Mr.. Lenotre il
'The Dauphin", referring to thu
French revolutionists and especial!
to the Paris members of the Left Of
Mountain Party.
OF course this volume is convern-
ed primarily with the mystery of the
disappearance of the executed king
while he was a prisoner in tbs
Temple tower, but the story is ex
plotted to the disadvantage Of those
who deprived him of the privileges
Of tyranny. Mr.. Lenotre is The
author of six other volumes dealing
with similar details Of history.
Royal HerOines and Heroes.
Referring to Marie Antoinette, il
the chapter entitled ''The Temple,
Mr.. Lenotre continues. "The repeate
blows Of relentless misfortune wer'
necessary in order that dignity
resignation, greatness of soul SHOULD
compose for the prisoner of th'
Temple an imperishable diadem NOR
imposing than the crown she MAJ
Just lost"
And perhaps the browning exampl
of Mr.. Lenotre's point of view is il
the following passage, referring t
the captivity of the Dauphin him
self: a.. we shall recognize perhap
that it was not simple episode 0
the great revolutionary drama bu
that it formed the basis and textur
of it, unknown even to those t
whom the parts were distributed"
1t is unessential to quote fror
Madame Roland's memoirs. TIL
memoirs and the letters are every
where. She grew; had her HON
with her futile husband, who ros
and fell early as an inconsequentis
minister pro TEN; had her love-
Buzot; had her jealous quarrel
with the great revolutionists, fc
whom her husband should have bee
chief clerk; and died, counter-rev'
lutionist. She was a counter-rev'
lutionist not so much against whs
was accomplished as against onl
the men in France by whom accom-