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Show rtss that the Arabs called him the French emir and gave him unbounded devotion in return for vast expenditure. ' On his return home he published his "Voyage to the Orient" and "Jocelyn, a Poem of Love and Duty." Then he entered en-tered political life and made remarkable progress as an orator, supplementing his public labors by issuing a "History of the Girondins," a work to which in great measure was due the revolution of 1848. When the downfall of royalty came in February of that year, and the insurgent and famishing crowds surged into the Hotel de Ville demanding bread and work and also the unfurling of the red flag, Lamartine scored the triumph of his life. No more thrilling incident embellishes his graphic J'istory of the Revolution." Ho say4 that as the mob surged about him in a frenzy of excitement he succeeded succeed-ed in calming tho tumult by a sort of patriotic hvmn on the people's victory-go victory-go sudden, so complete, so unlooked for even bv the most ardent friends of liberty. lib-erty. He called God to witness the admirable ad-mirable humanity and religious moderation mod-eration which the people had hitherto shown alike in the combat and their tri- in revolution" the Critical Moment When Seconds Ifere Worth Fortunes Lamartine -Showed Splendid Courage. EAT AM NOTABLE CENTENNIAL a Eesult the Hag of Trance is the ricolor of the Eepublic Instead of the Bed flag of Communism. " a certain sense French history conns con-ns no more picturesque character than t of Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamar-' Lamar-' who was born at Macon, France, a 'Hry ago and" died at Paris in 1809. a Gaul of the Gauls, with all f vivacity and versatility, and dur-Ws dur-Ws long life of nearly eighty years played many parts and saw n:any tfling scenes. It is due to him more to any other man that France was sight of him tho fuiy of tlie assailants, instead of being appeased, increased tenfold. ten-fold. Muskets were direck-d at his head, tho nearest brandished bayonets in his f:'e, and a savage group of twi-nty with brutal, drunken visages charged forward with their heads down, as if to break through with an enormous battering batter-ing ram the circle which surrounded him. The foremost apjieared bereft of reason. Naked sabers ' reached the head of tho orator, whose hand was slightly wounded. The critical moment had arrived ; nothing wan yet decided. Hazard determined which should prevail. pre-vail. Lamartine expected momentarily to lie thrown down and trampled under foot. At that instant one of the populace popu-lace sprang from the crowd. A ball discharged dis-charged from below grazed his face and stained it with blood. While it still flowed ho stretched out his hands to Lamartine. "Let me see him; let mo touch him," said he; "let me kiss his hand! Listen to him, oh, my citizens! Follow his counsels; you ahull striko mo before touching him. I will din a thousand times to preserve th it good citizen for my country." , With these word ho precipitated himself into his arms and held him convulsively embraced. em-braced. The people were moved at this scene, and a multitude of voices again exclaimed: "Vive le gnnvcriieiuont pro-visoire! pro-visoire! Vive Lainartiiie!" This proved the climax of his glory. His popularity thereafter waned, and in 1H51 he retired from public life and devoted de-voted himself to literary work. The city of Paris g ive him a country seat in, 18(10, and in 1807 Najwleon III granted him for lifo the income from a capital of 500,000 francs. Death proven ted him from enjoying the imperial bounty for more than two years. But his demise was mourned and his immiory is honored by a great people, whom, at a critical moment, he saved from acts of mariner by a sublime exhibition of moral cni physical courage. ! nomus tlie 'emnces consecrated ! inanity, and which even the balls of the j enemy respect. Do you wish, then, that : the symbol of your republic should be ; more menacing and more sinister than I the colors of a besieged city?" "No, no," cried some of the crowd. "Lnmartine is ' right; let us not keep that standard, the I symbol of terror, for our citizens." "Y'es, : yes," cried others, "it is ours, it is that of the people, it is that with which ! we have conquered. Why should we not keep after tho conflict the i colors which we have stained with our blood?" "Citizens," said Lamartine, La-martine, after having exhausted every argument calculated to affect tho imagination of the people, "you may do , violence to the government; you may command it to chango the colors of the ' nation and the colors of France. If you 1 are so ill 'advised and so obstinate in error er-ror as to impose upon it a republic of party and a Rug of terror the govern-, govern-, ment is as decided as myself to die rather ' than dishonor itself by obeying" yon. , For myself my hand shall never sign that decree. I will resist even to tho death that symbol of blood, and you should repudiate it as well as I, for the red flag which you bring us has never gone beyond tho Champ de Mars, dragged red in the blood of the people in '91 and '93; but the tricolor flag has made the tour of the world, with the name, tho glory and the liberty of our country." At these words Lamartine, interrupted interrupt-ed by unanimous cries of enthusiasm, fell from the chair which served for his tribune into the arms stretched out on all sides to receive him. Tlie cause of the new republic waa triumphant over the bloody recollections which tney wished to substitute for it. The hideous crowd which filled the hall retired amidst cries of-"Vive Lamartine! Vive le Drapeau Tricolor." The danger, however, how-ever, waa not over. Tho crowd which had been carried away by his words-was met by another crowd which had not been able to penetrate into the hall, and which was more vehement in words anil gesticulations. Menacing expressions, 'lib kA3?j ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. Ringed with blood in the early days ie revolution of 1848, and, princi-'5 princi-'5 for that reason, his grateful coun-en coun-en propose neirt October to cele-f cele-f the centennial of his birth at the je where their gallant, gifted and ec- hero first saw the light of day. that exclusive and conservative J" the French academy will partici-n partici-n the ceremonies, and has desig- Francois Coppee, one of the most Jngnished of its number, to deliver rtion and read a poem on what ,n'ses to be a most memorable occa-i. occa-i. hmk of it! An existence begun amid roar and tumult of a revolution, cn reached manhoods magnificent hn at ths climax of a second popn-ns'ng, popn-ns'ng, and found its end just as the jnmnous mutterings of destiny pre- the downfall of an empire and the , 'Citation of the republic of '93, "ene j indivisible!" The conditions were arable for the thriving of a genius, the genius was there to grasp the nwd opportunity. smartine was a student till 1814. a JtT from that time on until Napoleons wall. an1 in 1817 a eaged poet. .succeeding fifteen vears were de- to literary and diplomatic labors. I2 he set out with hU wife and ?hter on a journey to the east that conducted with the most lavish ( i&XIiS ric3hi5-'fi2-"i FRANCOIS COPPKE. timnh. He placed prominently forward that sublime instinct which, the evening before, had thrown them, when still armed, but already disciplined and obedient, obe-dient, into the arms of a few men who had submitted themselves to calumny exhaustion and death for the safety of all. "That," said Lamartine. was what the sun beheld yesterday, and what would he shine upon today? He would behold a people the more furious that there were no longer any enemies to combat; distrusting the men whom but yesterday it had intrusted vrithjhe lead-constraining them in their hberty, nsulting them in their dignity, disavow-ng disavow-ng their authority, substituting a revolution revo-lution of vengeance and punishment for one of unanimity and fraternity and commanding the government to hoist, In token of concord, the standard of combat com-bat to the death between the citizens of the same country! That red flag which was sometimes raised as the standard atrainst our enemies when blood waa flowing, should be furled after the combat com-bat in token of reconciliation and peac-I peac-I would rather see the black flag, which they hoist sometimes in a besieged town as ajynitwl of death, to desznste to th LAMARTINE AVERTrSO A BEIOS OFTEBROR. ardent vociferations, cries of suffocation, thrc.itening gestures, discharges of firearms fire-arms on the stairs, tatters of a red flag waved by naked arms above the sea of heads rendered this one of the most frightful scenes of the revolution. "Down with Lamartine! Death to Lamartine! La-martine! No temporizing the decree, the decreeor the government of traitors to the lamp poet." exclaimed the ausailante. These criee neither cautted Lamartine to hatMta retire. xrfr turn oak. At the |