Show U 9 A Famed French Who vJ Was Vas a Our Letter J J r nIS Dec Is not generally P that M P 1 editor of the Hele dos des Deux who died time oth other or er ha da with the reputation of at bring brim oni ot Of the most erudite und and i of wrIters and I its 1111 nl at one II a I I was in thus eMI day of oC hl his against PovertY when no 10 on one I I dreamed that hue he would one of th time of oC time the lIe loved lond le he drama but ho cOuld coul 1 not afford to te tI pay time prIce of it I good seat At time the he made nf ef the chef cher ile de th thu thuin I in ry whose It III Ii to lOad tIme the applause lle lie used to 10 let lt M 1 n it sent seat In the Lime pit tom fOI omme olle for which he would hn had hac to pa pay two amid n a half francs nt at tIme the box hox nut But there Is little doubt tha hIli lii contrIbutions to the tip p pIau wem 11 by for tIme the pla plays R which lie he rc b i his favorite seventeenth con cen century tury author anti wert b by In an admirable ens east d 1 was a shining example ot of the of pedagogic exam mug as a 11 test of oC jn Ibm Born nt In time the son soil of a naval he went to Paris ParI when 18 15 to for to the therole role great training school for 01 French professors But ho he failed two years lm It er cm to pass time the entrance examination whIch mun many other ether young men of oC CI d with ease The trou bl with whim that imo ho was as afflicted with nn aim Insatiable Intel le hunger which refused to lie ho sat mat e d with t h iJ u id e d with t h iJ u id i m of babel I faUs with which tIme the examination pa I pen here were ere concerned lie Ite read Darwin and Comte and drank deep deell at the tho well wellsprings springs R of contemporaneous thought and amid philosophy This live cult the stuff with which for tor the Ecole ero d In consequence ho was plucked and found at 20 stranded and alone In Paris Time brought him Ilm a fine revenge Seventeen years Yeal inter latel lie he became sor of oC the French language mind literature at tIme the Institution whIch hind had rejected I hut But ho ha had 1 II a long and hard tight to lift himself out of time the slough of oC pos pov I ert erty For n a he to keep the wolf volf from the door b by giving los lee eons Then came time war wal with Gel Ger Germany I many and lie he abandoned teaching for ter fighting Throughout the siege ot of I ParIs he as a soldier In the tho ranks declaration of oC peace I brought hIm Only ft 0 of oC hIs imis lIght with poverty lie Ho took up Ul tenth Ing mind just manned managed to support himself h by time the e of oC the severest it II through his old school mate Paul that he firer got ot hIs toot foot on the ladder of oC and ami prosperity Bourget introduced him to tile the editor of oC tIme tho Revue d ds Deux The editor told him to write I something and he would consider it the usual thing which so 10 often leads to nothing But In thIs case It led leti to prompt pUblication noel and a request for Cor Cormore more moore which proved even oen moro more antis I I I I I factory A review hy by him or of Saint Louis LOlli Ot son lemps attracted SOOim afterward ho wits munde n a regular member ot of tIme the staff hon lie and pov poverty crt erty parted company for tur good M 1 aims n mun ot of strong convIctIons with Ith timo e ot of theta In till full Nl II II rl It Is tho those e qualities which made hIm Ich it II powerful lii In In French literature lie He hived literary the tho realistic tIme tho quote inte the by art for arts salee and time the But none lono of them In any over eiver him II HI abided by his hili own Ions ammel linseed upon i all with Like some literary he dwelt apart mm moved b the ebb nOil flow ot of popular i hard of th the J ungovernable world lila his I walls toot took seriously J Writers who merely to enter entertain lain tain amid catered to feeling he Like lie he hod to be bens satisfied ns ne to In time the amoral purpose ot of mm I hook book he ha could be to praIse It Ito He was waR n a prolific hut most I writer nod n a bt br pro lIe was only fifty When he died twenty I volumes volume of oC It hind ben been published huts greatest ork the of French i literary hIstory hI blett left uncompleted |