The Archive · 1901

The Royalist Fiasco

The martyrdom of the Count de Lur-Saluers has been accomplished, and the victim is now languishing, not in a dungeon, but on the Brussels boulevard, the High Court having sentenced him to five years? Danishment.. From the Opposition's point of view, the trial, which layed only three days, has been "complete failure. It excited' no public interest' whatever. 'The prisoner made a vaguely theatrical declaration of his Royalist' principles and then relapsed into silence, refusing to answer aay questions. When the President would not allow a witness for the defencetodiscussthe ''disorganization of the army," of which the present Government is accused, the prisoner's counsel gave up the encounter and called no more witnesses. The only interesting feature of th c se was the testimony of General Zurlinden, who was War Minister on the day of Presidest Faure's funeral. The witness said the late General de Pellieux twice asked permission to go straight back to Vincennes without, passipg through, the Place de la

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