There has been a demonstration in Paris to which some
sig- nificance is attached. The Prince Imperial was invited to preside at the annual distribution of prizes to the students of the Lycees, and one prize fell to young Cavaignac, son of the General. When his name was called his mother signalled to him to sit still, and refuse to receive a reward from the son of the man who arrested his father. The students applauded vehemently, and the Minister of Instruction, M. Duruy, with the petty spite some officials mistake for dignity, dismissed one of the noisiest from his lycee on the spot. The press has taken up the affair very warmly, and the name of the General who, in 1848, "put down" Paris has most unexpectedly become popular as the name of one who never bent to the Empire. The significance of the incident consists mainly in this, that the youth of France are still unreconciled to Imperialism.
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