Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-14
BY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

This Is the glorious l4tn OF July'
the 146th anniversary of the fall OF the
Bastile: ''Ye sons of freedom, wake
to glory. = March on! March on!
All hearts resolved on victory OF
death. o liberty! Can man re-
sign thee. once having felt thy gener-
GUS fame?"
Today, almost a century and a half
since those words were written by
the young Frenchman Roger de L'1sle
and sung on that April night in 1892
by little company at Strasburg, they
will ring throughout the French Re
public and in every land where
Frenchmen are assembled. With the
exception of THE Star Spangled Ban
ner" there is no national hymn with
such soul-stirring appeal to the
hearts and patriotism OF men as the
"MarSeillaise."
Much excitement is expected in
Paris today owing to an order issued
by the Executive Committee OF the
National Union Of Combatants, with
almost 1000 900 members, to the ef-
feet that if any flag other than the
national flag is seen flying on
Frances national holiday it is to be
Immediately torn down. The order is
aimed at the red flags carried usually
by Communists and Socialists.
Frances former prison fortress, the
Bastile, was built in Port st. Antoine.
Paris, in 1869 and destroyed July IA,
1889, three years before the battle
hymn was written. In June, 1882,
$500 men wearing red caps and armed
with muskets and swords marched
from MarseilleS to Paris singing this
hymn And now the key Of that
dread fortress reposes peacefully at
Mount Vernon.
ANY mention of the French Revo-
luton and down comes Carlyle's Ia
nous history, always thrilling WIN
that element of realism, romanticism
and tragic power which sweeps the
reader along into the very maelStrom
of blood and glory. 1t is interesting
to compare the prominent characters
of the Revolution as depicted by Car
lyle with the same men as portrayed
bv GuiZot in his Reign OF Terror.
Carlyles description Of Charlotte
Corday's journey to Paris, whittier she
goes to aSsaSsinate Marat: None
takes farewell of her, wishes her good
tourney the drowSy Caen dill
gence numbers along, amid drowsy
talk of politics in which she
mingles not; all night, all day, and
again all night then Paris with
her thousand black domes," etc.
Then Carlyle's description of the love-
" Charlotte-well, it's much stronger
and more attractive than the painting
in the Corcoran Gallery.
Washington is all a-twitter over
the engagement of Count Rene de
Chambrun, sen of the Countess de
Chambrun. formerly Clara Longworth
of Cincinnati. and Mile. Marie Jose
Laval, daughter Of the French prime
minister, M. Laval, who came over
here one time to talk over the French
debt situation. The premier OF France
boasts of his peasant ancestry and
has a way with the French people.
Recently when cabinets were falling
every few days, the people said. Let
M. Pierre Laval do it'-and he did.
The Lavals are most popular in Paris
society.
Count Rene is a direct descendant
of the Marquis de La Fayette, to
whom Americans are much beholden
for his aid to the Colonies during
the Revolution. His mother is a writer
of considerable distinction and her
book, The Making of Nicholas Long
WORTH sometime Speaker Of the
House, was particularly charming in
its simplicity of style and the de-
lightful picture it gave, not only of
the Longworth family and their in
teresting and intellectual home life,
but also for the glimpses it gave Of
society in the Middle West in the
early pioneer days. The effete East
had to lower their eyebrows, for they
could scarcely believe there was so
much culture on what they thought
of as the crude frontier.
There Is also ruInor that Count
Charles de Chambrun, uncle of Count
Rene and the present French Am
bassador at Rome, Is to succeed M.
de Laboulaye.
Gen. Hugh S. johnson is on his
way again, and as work progress ad-
ministrator for Mayor La Guardia of
New York announces he is now ready
to spend s19,500 900 and reduce New
York's unemployed by $4,000. No
salary-just $25 day for expenses.
Guests who attended the White
House dinner last week in honor Of
Australia's premier and Mrs. Joseph
Aloysius Lyons rather expected to see
Mrs. Lyons wearing glorious string
of pearls, as the general opinion in
the outside world is that every one in
the Commonwealth of Australia wears
pearls-or did. The pearl fisheries
there, however, have suffered during
these last few years, and in conse-