Show > i 11 i f PLACE IN PANTHEON I I ASHES OF ZOLA THE NOVELIST l 3 t TO BE INTERRED THERE I a i I I Tardy Honors to De Paid to the + Memory of the Noted French I I Writer by His Coun 4 I t trymen f 1 1 j Tho removal next month of the remains J i re-mains of Zola tho novelist to an honored 1L I Y hon-ored placo In tho Pantheon at Paris y I 1 t Is a striking Illustration of how In a t 1 J few years the public attitude towards ° Ii t a man and a mans memory cant can-t change When Zola died less than r i six years ago ho was secure In his r l I fame as one of tho throe greatest living liv-ing writers the other two being Tol f stol and Ibsen Tho outcome of tho t j Dreyfus caso had shown convincingly t + t that Zola had been on tho side of ly + right and had been a truer Frenchman T f French-man than his traducers In striving to ty r j undo tho wrong committed to tho victim I j vic-tim of Devils Island but oven then I rt t i his funeral was the occasion for disorders f t dis-orders that approached dangerously 1 near to being riots 1 + When It was suggested that Drey foe who owed his life to the Interference f s Inter-ference of Zola at that critical Instant u In-stant when all Franco had about be r como convinced of his guilt should I speak at the funeral there was n i1 storm of protest and It was not until Mme Zola appealed for the privilege r I r of being allowed to bury her dead quietly and without pomp that the funeral was permitted to proceed The decision to remove tho ashes r e of Zola from his present resting placo ct r In tho Zola lot to tho Pantheon was l made in 190G It might have been accomplished ti ac-complished sooner except that Mme Ii l Tl1 tl va 9 a Zola was never In full sympathy with 11 4 i tho project She has always contended iW J perhaps a little bitterly that no further fur-ther honors aro necessary to tho fame s t I of her husband The work ho did In r literature and tho heroic fight for ire h Dreyfus are hold by her to bo greater monuments to his reputation than any d possible action on tho part of his contemporaries t k con-temporaries t pp it Dut tho nation wants Zola In tho ri Pantheon Perhaps a little pricking of 1 the conscience an echo of tho recent l remarkable reaction In public sentiment qtr senti-ment evinced when Dreyfus restored to rank was wildly applauded by tho very people who formerly hissed him t has extended to the memory of his I only friend of power In tho dark days March 21 was tho first dato sot for ar r t the removal of tho body to tho Pantheon 1 Pan-theon then there was a postponement l till April 2 Then It was found that l41 tlip Pantheon could not bo mndo ready i that early and tho date was sot for 1 R Juno t r Therefore with tho foremost men r 1 of Franco assisting the body will bo r rl removed and taken in state to tho It placo sot apart by the nation for per I ltt hhu n petual homage to tho countrys great Not even now In tho face of oven this signal honor has the last enemy been pacified The duko of Monte hello has asked permission of Premier Clemcnceau to remove the remains of his Illustrious grandfather the famous Marshal Lannea from tho Pantheon before tho remains of Zola traducer of the army havo been Interred there The premier has Indignantly refused and there will be no such Insult permitted per-mitted In his life Zola ever thirsted for honor and tho fact that It was denied him by his own people was a source of bitterest disappointment to him lie lived In tho period when ho saw the announcement of one of his novels an event of International literary Impor p4 d a APy i A7L91LI A tf r 1v t Paris Pantheon and Picture of Zola from Last Photograph Taken Before Be-fore His Death tance Before one of his books had appeared oven In his own tongue arrangements ar-rangements had been made to publish It In a dozen other languages and the privileges sold Wealth came to tho author more than with his modest tastes he could over hope to spend but he would havo given half of It for the privilege of the academicians green coat steadily denied him Aliihonso Daudet a great contemporary contem-porary of Zola was also denied admission ad-mission but he reviled tho academy I laughed and made light of his exclusion exclu-sion saying that he had no desire to belong to an Institution that had been so blind as to keep out Dalzac Dut Zola never shared this viewpoint view-point lie was a perpetual candidate aril every time a vacancy occurred ho sought votes Sometimes ho got a few buttho total was never carried far enough to enable him to gc through Tho excuse always urged for the ex cluslon of Zola was tho character ol Iris literary output |