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JULES FAVRE. 
Jules Claude Gabriel Favre, a mem¬ 
ber of the Paris National Committee of De¬ 
fense, chosen immediately after the capture 
of Sedan, on the proclamation of the Repub¬ 
lic, to succeed the Imperial Government in 
the management of public affairs in France, 
w as born at Lyous i n 1809. He took a prom¬ 
inent part in the revolution of 1830, being at 
the time a law student at Paris. Practicing 
as a barrister at Lyons, he warmly espoused 
the cause of the working classes, and gained 
an immense reputation for the ultra Radical¬ 
ism of his opinions. In 1835 he came to the 
Paris bar, and especially distinguished him¬ 
self in a speech before the Cour des Pairs, 
when, commencing with Jo misBepuUicain, 
he pleaded for four hours, though at that 
time he was dangerously ill. In the Revolu¬ 
tion of February, 1848, he was appointed 
Secretary-General of the Ministry of the In¬ 
terior, and later took a prominent part in the 
prosecutiou of Louis Blanc and Caussi- 
dtkre, for the attempted insurrection of the 
15th May. He also refused to join in the 
vote of thanks to Gen. Cavaionac. 
After the election of Louis Napoleon 
ns President, Jules Favre became one of 
his bitterest opponents, and though he ac¬ 
quiesced in the vote of 12,000 francs for the 
Italian expedition he objected to the direc¬ 
tion it was taking, and demanded that the 
President and Ministry should be proceeded 
against. On the coup d’etat of the 2d Decem¬ 
ber M. Favre retired from political life for 
six years, refusing to swear fidelity to the 
new regime. He reappeared in the Corps 
Lcgislatif as a Paris Deputy in 1858. He 
also gained great renown by his energetic 
defense of those involved in the Ousini con¬ 
spiracy. In the general elections of 1869, 
rejected for his native town, lie was elected 
for Paris for the seventh circonscription, his 
opponent being his present colleague Roche¬ 
fort. 
M. Favre has been one of the prime 
movers of the late Revolution, and indeed 
may he said to be one of the main props of 
the present Government. His first act as 
Minister for Foreign Affairs was to issue a 
circular to the French representatives 
abroad, stating that “not a single inch of 
French territory would be ceded, and that 
Paris would hold out to the last.” Besides 
being a clever lawyer M. Favre has written 
numbers of political pamphlets, and, in 1868 
in company with MM. IIenon and E. Pic¬ 
ard, founded a weekly political journal, 
L'Electeur. 
Probably no French civilian holds a more 
influential posi.ion and exerts greater po¬ 
litical influence to-day, in France, than 
Jules Favre. 
EMPRESS EUGENIE. 
During the past twenty years Eugenie, 
Empress of the French, has commanded as 
much of the attention and homage of the 
world as any cotemporary woman, not ex¬ 
cepting Queen Victoria. And to-day, in 
her hour of misfortune, exile and separa¬ 
tion from her husband she receives the sym¬ 
pathy which is the rightful heritage of a 
brave, true woman, wife and mother, leav¬ 
ing out of the inventory the claim which 
her previous high political position gives 
her. Beautiful, accomplished, the central 
figure of a court brilliant with imperialistic 
glory, tempted, tried, and courted, no stain at¬ 
taches to the name of Eugenie, and all wo¬ 
man-kind pay her the tribute of respect 
which belongs to such a womau whoever 
she may be. 
Euoenie—Maria de Guzman— was born 
at Granada, in Spain, May 5,1826, and is the 
second daughter of the Count of Montijo 
and Maria Manuela Kirkpatrick. She 
is descended, on her father’s side, from an 
old and noble Spanisli family, which, by 
marriage at various times, acquired the right 
to assume the names of Guzman, Fernan¬ 
dez, Cordova, La Cerda and Levia, and 
contracted alliances with the noble families 
of Teba, Bands and Mora. By her mother 
—also born in Spain, and the daughter of 
Mr. Kirkpatrick, who was for some time 
the English Consul at Malaga — she is con¬ 
nected with an ancient Scottish family—the 
Kirkpatricks of Closeburn— which still 
exists, but is no longer in the possession of 
their original property. She was mostly 
educated at Madrid, spending a great por¬ 
tion of her youth traveling with her mother 
under the name of the Countess of Teba. 
Ih 1851 she appeared in Paris at the fetes 
dElysee , where her wonderful beauty and 
grace attracted the notice and excited the 
admiration of Napoleon, who married her 
January 30th, 1853, at Notre Dame. On 
the occasion of this marriage an amnesty 
was granted to 4,312 political prisoners. The 
Prince Imperial, the only issue of this mar¬ 
riage, was horn March 16th, 1856. 
On the occasion of his marriage to Eu¬ 
genie, Napoleon publicly vindicated his 
choice to the French people by the follow¬ 
ing language“ She is of good birth, and 
though French by feeling, by education, and 
by the recollection of her father’s services to 
the empire, she, as a Spaniard, has no rela¬ 
tions in France on whom it is necessary to 
bestow honors and dignities. Endowed 
with excellent faculties, she will adorn the 
throne, while, in the 
hour of danger, she will 
become one of its brav¬ 
est supporters. Her 
piety will prompt her to 
pray to Heaven for the 
happiness of France; 
her beauty and kindli¬ 
ness will recall the 
memory of the Em¬ 
press Josephine.” 
The Empress took up 
her residence at the 
Tuilcrics, but passed a 
large part of her time 
at St. Cloud; and from 
Biarritz, which her pa¬ 
tronage converted in¬ 
to a fashionable water¬ 
ing - place, she made 
several excursions into 
Spain. 
Modem royalty trav¬ 
els a good deal, and 
the Empress Eugenie 
has had a fair share of 
such journeyjngs. She 
lias paid several visits 
to Her Majesty Queen 
Victoria. In 1859, 
during the Emperor’s v'' 
absence in the battle- ' 
fields of Italy, she be- \ 
came Regent of the \ 
Empire. In 1860 she 
accompanied her bus- \ 
band through the south \ 
of France, Nice, Savoy 
and Algeria. Norought 
we to forget her visit to vWcCrS 
iJic cholera hospitals of MwW 
Amiens during the cpi- , w' 
domic of 1860. Her 
last complete year of \ 
Imperial sway was es¬ 
pecially devoted to trav¬ 
eling. She first visited 
Corsica, Toulon, and 
the south, and after¬ 
wards went to Venice, Turkey and Egypt 
at the time of the opening of the Suez 
Canal. 
When Napoleon and the Prince Impe¬ 
rial left Paris with the French army to in¬ 
vade Prussia, Eugenie was a second time 
made Regent of the Empire. The his¬ 
tory of events since then is familiar to our 
readers. 
Irprlmrnt. 
will not be in the power of the people of 
Paris to behold a similar spectacle, all true 
citizens of Berlin will take a pride in show¬ 
ing by a polite and dignified bearing on this 
occasion that they know how to treat pris¬ 
oners of war.” 
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. KUUW uow lo imu 
_ oners of war.” 
Prussia and Her Prisoners. Dntiacv to Paris. 
When the first company of French pris- The Pall Mall Gazette says:— There is 
some reason to fear 
that Paris may he 
burned down by the 
ent of a Dublin paper 
JXJXjICS V’A.'V’.REI. says: — Later In the 
evening, I believe, the 
irs was hourly expected in Rerlin, the Empress first, received the fatal and terrible 
ief of Police Herr Von Wurmb, caused news in its full extent and witli full mithen- 
s following appeal to be placarded tieily, for it was late when the announce* 
oughout the city:—“ Our first prisoners ment (o the Prefects, signed by all the Min- 
war will arrive this evening; and to save isteVs, was written out and forwarded. If 
in flic mortification of a public entry, the Ministry previously knew it, probably it 
1 wil1 be brought to their final destina- was quite natural that they should break it 
u in a roundabout way, through the out- to the Chamber and the nation. The Em- 
rts of the city. While we hope that it press, poor, unhappy lady, boro the shock- 
JTJLICS IFbAV-RHI. 
oners was hourly expected in Rerlin, the 
Chief of Police Herr Von Wurmb, caused 
the following appeal to lie placarded 
throughout the city:—“Our first prisoners 
of war will arrive this evening; and to save 
them flic mortification of a public entry, 
they will be brought to their filial destina¬ 
tion in a roundabout way, through the out¬ 
skirts of the city. While we hope that it 
r l'IIE EMPRESS .ETTGKENTE. 
tag intelligence better than any human bc- 
s iug could have contemplated. She was pale 
as marble, and was arrayed in that negli- 
i gcnce of dress and personal adornment so 
sadly habitual to her since the crisis lias 
arisen. Witli hands clasped and eyes raised 
to Heaven, her first words were 
“ Louis, my son ?” 
“Madame, the Prince Imperial was at 
Maubeugc, and must be quite safe in Bel¬ 
gium.” 
“ Poor France, poor France 1” she then re¬ 
peated soveral times. “ And the Emperor,” 
she said innocently, “ they will not, surely, 
insult or ill treat him ?” 
“Madame,” replied M. Clievrcau, “ it is a 
palace prison of gold and velvet, and anxious 
sympathy, which ever await such a prisoner 
as Ills Majesty.” 
“ And MacMahon ?" 
“ The Marshal is very badly wounded, 
please your Majesty.” 
“ All! I fear me the gallant Duke has 
sought death, and lias found it.” 
“And Do Failly?” 
“ I think your Majesty must make up your 
mind for the worst as regards General Do 
Failly; there is no certainty, but many re¬ 
ports say he was killed on the 29th or the 
80th.” 
Such was the scene at the Tuileries. 
Bismarck’a Prophetic Talk About a War 
with France. 
II. Blume, a member of the Customs Par¬ 
liament, contributes the following to a Ger¬ 
man journal:—It was on the 12lii of Juno, 
1869, when the leading members of the Cus¬ 
toms Parliament mot at Bismarck’s house 
for supper. The hock, the beer, the crabs— 
everything was found excellent, and the con¬ 
versation soon ran high, the assembly com¬ 
prising men of the most antagonistic views. 
As the evening grew inter, many withdrew 
through a side door, taking French leave; 
and Dr. Voclk, of Angsberg, the most elo¬ 
quent speaker for South German interests, 
was about, to disappear in like manner, 
when ho was arrested by a deep, manly 
voice calling out, “ Hallo, Voclk, you must 
stay to toast the‘Bridge o’er the Main, 1 ” 
and with these words Bismarck detained 
Voclk, who had that very day given this 
name of “ Bridge o’er the Main " to the cus¬ 
toms union with the South. Thus wo were 
kept togethor, and for an hour wo sat and 
plunged into a discussion of all sorts of 
things without reserve, Bismarck ever witty 
and full of spirited chaff amid the most se¬ 
rious discussions. Suddenly he became 
quiet and very earnest. The conversation 
had touched upon the Luxembourg ques¬ 
tion, and his guests did not couceal their as¬ 
tonishment that he should not at that time 
have risen against French arrogance. Sev¬ 
eral gentlemen described the feeling of dis¬ 
appointment caused in their provinces by 
the moderation and yielding policy of Prus¬ 
sia regarding Luxembourg, and their re¬ 
marks almost sounded like a reproach. 
Thereupon, in a few striking words, the 
Minister drew a picture of the position of 
affairs at that period. lie appeared deeply 
moved by the subject, and with genius 
sparkling in his deep eyes, lie continued to 
speak to the following effect. 
“ I spent a long, bitter week, which, how¬ 
ever, lasted only from Tuesday to Friday, 
meditating over the question of war with 
France. The eventuality of defeat did not 
trouble us, for wo had Moltke’s assurance that 
woshouldwin. Butthequestion was whether 
we should commence war with France, even 
though we had the certainty, or the utmost 
probability, of success. This momentous 
question we decided negatively, and we re¬ 
solved to outer upon war only in case it 
should he forced upon us. Wo did consider 
all the frightful losses, all the mourning, and 
all the misery of many thousands of families. 
Yes, my friends, you may look astonished; 
but surely you will believe that I, too, have 
a heart—a heart, let me assure you, that feels 
like your own. War is war, and so terrible 
are its consequences, so heartrending the cry 
of woe it calls forth, that, so far as my influ¬ 
ence goes, it shall never bo resorted to ex¬ 
cept in the last extremity,” 
After a brief pause lie continued:—“ We 
thought, and think, that a war with France, 
by being delayed, may perhaps be altogether 
avoided, either by certain events taking place 
in France, or by the French people learning 
to see that two powerful nations have better 
things to do than to carry on bickering about 
the border. We furthermore considered that 
acquisition of territory may contain the germ 
of future quarrels, and that the two nations, 
when once set at each other, might have a 
life and death struggle for it. We deter¬ 
mined to be masters in our own house, but not 
to change the line of frontier as fixed.” 
He concluded, speaking in the manner pe 
culiar to deep excitement, breathing quick 
ly:—“ If, however, they will not recognize 
our desire lo be at peace, ami if war is ever 
forced upon us, wo shall devote our full 
strength to it; and you, gentlemen of Bava¬ 
ria, will then, I am sure, hasten to take part 
in the first battle, which, I dare say, would 
be fought near Metz. Even in Uiut first fight 
I am convinced we shall prove superior to 
the French in every respect.” 
