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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1951-02-21, Page 9• 0 ow important can a man be! DAIRY FOODS SERVICE BUREAU 409 Huron SI., Toronto • .4.;.444:44=;... IVA/Ar IN TH i- Ir5 A CiCOP -THIMO BOTH OF '•{01-1WER. ORIVII46 USED CARS F1OM CROSSETT °TORS OR NotY0 BOTH BE 01-PAINC.i A HARP! YOU tAtiCirt- WHY DIDN'T '100 LIVE HER KAR.F.PF IHER0APy i>•-• Wednesday,. February 1951 THE WI G1iAi' ADVANCE-TIMES .PAGR. NiNg greatest novels, The coup d'etat of December 1851, by which Napoleon III ascended to power in France, sent Victor Hugo into exile, first in Bel- glum and later on the Channel Is- lands where he was a neighbor of the Touzel family in the little Town of St. Helier, Incidentally it gave him that period of cahn for his stormy feelings which were the prelude to the next part of his notable career. The immunmanimassamminammanaaamainariammanni is 0 EY fiA Le Touzel Family wer Friends of Victor Hugo. 137 Dr, Fred Landon in the London Free Press. Dr. J, Robert Le Touzel, whose death took place in London recently, was a member of a Huron County Family which originally came to ,Can- aria from the Island of Jersey and curiously had some contact in .earlier days with. Victor Hugo, the great French novelist and poet, author of "Les Miserables," one of the world's ..... .. ti ... 4 WINCiFIAM '14C tr 0ficl tucunnounnu ES n 1951 taxes up to 90 per cent. of 195U taxes. Interest at the rate of Vour per cent. per annum will be allowed on such prepayments. Prepayments of taxes must be made at the Town Treasurer's Office, Town Hall. • W. A. GALBRAITH, Treasurer, Q a Tow E n o f f { Wingha E rn mu mama M MM amLom E a EEE following reminiscenses of Victor Hugo's residence at St. Helier were communicated to the writer of this, article. many years ago by Mr. James Le Touzel, of Goderich, "Following the coup d'etat of 1851" Mr.. Le TQuzel wrote, "a number of influential Frenchmen cause .over to jersey to escape the persecution and probable imprisonment which - would 'have been their fate bad they remain- ed in France during those troubled times, The Island of Jersey, distant but a few miles from the French coast, gave them the protection of the British flag and the use of the French language on the island rendered their exile less unhappy. At one time there were over 300 such refugees on the island, most of them residing in St. Helier. They were, all of them, men of considerable influence in their nat- ive land 4 and as such were welcomed by the islanders who found in their presence a source of revenue. As a rule, however, there was but little intercourse between the islanders and the refugees. The latter kept much to themselves, having- their own club , rooms where they could be heard sinpin,' their republican songs, P9 Mr. Le Tonzel rem4.-mbered clearly Hugo remained undisturbed on the island' for about threeVyears and was then the victim of a sort of island coup detat. The immediate cause of this was the publication in I..,'Hmumv, a small newspaper published by the exiles, of a letter commentin.g in rather sarcastic terms upon the visit of Queen Victoria to the court of Na- poleon HI in Paris. The obnoxious article appeared in October, 1855, and aroused excitement and resentment. At a public meeting held in St. Hel- ier a copy of the newspaper was burn- ed and on the following morning the governor of the island ordered the ed- itorial staff. thirty in Miinber,, to leaVe the island. Victor Hugo issued a pro- test but the Ilritish Government ap- proved the governor's action and Hugo was also forced to leave and go to the neighbouring. Island of Guern- sey. Five years later, lion ever, the people of jersey performed a pleasant act of reparation when they once more welcomed Victor Hugo to their midst. He came over in response to a largely signed petition of the people of St. Helier to speak on behali of the subscription which was being raised to assist Garibaldi in his struggle for Italian liberty. The governor who had signed the decree of exile signed the document permitting hint to return and he spoke in the :tune hall in .w1Md: L'Homme had beep publicly hurtled, The mayor of St. Helier presided and a telegram of good cheer was sent to Garibaldi, to be followed a few days later by a generous subscription." * "I remember will," -Alt-, Lc Tott:,el recalled, "Ilia closiii..t"words 1.f the great lecturer as Its stood beside the very table on which L'Honntie had been reduced to ..cs'les a few year:- before, With ..m• ...lin raised, allot a his head came 11! 0011a:N.Sitont.'d tultn "01.10. la renommee le Garibaldi sera anssi imperissable ue les feu x dtt Mont Vestwm.." ()Jay the fame of. Garibaldi be as lasting as the fires of Mount Vesm ins. I The great nos el "Les I\ liserables" bad already begun in Paris heft ma. the coup d'etat cat December. 1851, and its writing was continned during the years of Calle on thy Channel Tslands, publication being delayed mail 1862, From that time to the present it has been recognised as ime of the eatest works of its kind ever produced. It is really a prose 'epic. of Modern soc- iety and an eloquent indictment of in- humane social conditions. The char- acters that appear in this hook con- StittitO a wonderful gallery of por- traits- of saints and sinners, whose characters and ideals are depicted in a style suffused with emotion. ,and in a spirit of ferallt htlinanitarianism. Hall prophet and half journalist, V Ea. 1,74:,a axes Taxpayers may make payments on account of rJ the coming of the Hn7os to the is- 1/;111 land. The family nettled in a stuccoed 651^- !own shut- tors lcuoWn a^ Till, 11a 4 lv. the h,t shore just t.Inside the tone Erd and overloohed St. Clemott's Buy. At the rear was a little and EA a garden. A sand dune hid the sw.1 fret the lower rooms lout from El second floor there was a fine view El of the waters. Madame Hugo, who n had been ill in Franclt, soon joined her and the hr,rn.. came a centre of social life both for the French colony and the leadlurr, families of the island. Victor Timm found great pleasure in studyin.4 the politics and laws of the island. Tie would take long walks about the neighbourhood, paying particular at- tention to the folklore and the idioms Lid of the language spoken, Mr. Le Tou- ael remembered hint as a handsome and fairly tall man, always well dress- Today, the Canadian Army Reserve Force assumes a place of im- portance to Canada's freedom that is almost unparalleled in our history. 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