Year: 1871

the German Army Into Paris.


Dispatches from Versailles have announced
that the Emperor William and his German
army will make triumphal entry into Paris
at noon on Sunday, February 10. The route
of the procession has been designated, and the
Prussian troops detailed for the purpose have
been told off to occupy the houses along its
line, and to insure the promises of the police
that no untoward demonstration on the part OF
the populace will occur during the lunch which
the Emperor is to partake at the Tuileries with
his court and the general officers of the army
and during the subsequent defle of the army
Of investment before his Majesty. Military
bands will be stationed at intervals along the
line of the route by which the Emperor will
proceed to the Tuileres after reaching Paris
by the railway from Versailles. The German
national coors will be exhibited along the
entire route from the railway station to the
chateau. Our dispatches add that all the
troops before Paris have been fully reinforced
to the utmost war strength, many of them
having received new uniforms to be worn on
their march into Paris and on their mounting
guard at all the public buildings of the city.
The new draft of Prussian troops is made up
for the most part of unusually fine looking
young fellows, and the landwehr present .
splendid appearance.


1t is not probable, however, that the mag
nifcent triumphal display on next Sunday will
awaken in the minds of the Parisians-fond as
they proverbiarly are of military spectacles-
anything like the enthusiasm with which the
allied sovereigns we're welcomed when they
entered Paris on the 3lst Of March, 1914. On
that memorable occasion the scene was SO
brilliant and impressive that even the sober
Alison becomes eloquent in describing it. Its
effect on the multitude which crowded the
windows, covered the roofs and thronged the
streets was so irresistible that the historian
ays;-''Passing from the extreme Of terror to
that of gratitude, the Parisians gave vent in
the loudest applause to their astonishment and
admiration" The alarm excited by the red
Cossacks of the Guard was dispelled by won
der at the superb array of Prussian cavalry





and Prussan footguards, Russian cuirassers
and artillery, together with the splendidly
uniformed household troops, and by eager and
almost disgraceful curiosity to get glimpse
of the sovereigns, particularly of the Emperor
Alexander. Savary relates that at this match
less review there were to be seen ladies, and
even ladies Of rank, who so far forgot the re-
spect due to themselves as to give themselves
up to the most shameful delirium. They threw
themselves over the circle of horses which sur
rounded the Emperor of Russia. More than
one of the English officers who took part in
the procession testify that they 8 had fair
Partisan, sometimes en- croupe, at others on
the pummel of their saddles, at the Place
Louis XIV" 1t is not likely that any Partisan
ladies will awaken the jealousy on the part of
the Empress Augusta by similar ridiculous
manifestations towards the Emperor William.
It remains to be seen whether the Emperor of
Germany will emulate the delicacy and mag
nanimity which the Emperor Alexander
evinced in his proclamatons to the Parisians
and the French people. Exulting-not with
out reason-that single and alone he is to reap
the fruit of the unparalleled victories of the
German army by entering Paris no less tri-
umphantly than the allied sovereigns entered
it after victories won by the combined armies
of Europe, Emperor William might well afford
to be even more generous now toward the
French than the Emperor of Russia was in
1914. The Emperor of Germany would thus
deserve the gratitude Of the French and win
the applause of the world.