Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — Democratic Cluseret. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Cluseret.

Cluseret, who afterward became the notorious leader of the Paris Commune, was an honored officer of the Union army during the civil war, and at one time held a commission as Colonel on General McClellan’s staff, and was consequently the superior officer of the late Count of Paris, who was then serving on McClellan’s staff, together with his brother, the Due de Chartres, accompanied by their uncle, the Prince de Joinville. Cluseret, though circumstances brought him much in company with the young princes, never called them “monselgneur” or “my lord,” but plain “monsieur” or “misfer.” This proved offensive to the young Due de Chartres, who one day took up the cudgels In what he regarded as his brother’s defense. “Colonel Cluseret,” he asked, “why do you not call my brother ‘my lord?’ ” "Well, for one reason,” answered Cluseret, “because he Isn't my lord.” “But you call him ‘monsieur,’ and you know that really ’monsieur’ and ‘monseigneur’ are the same word.” “Oh, very well, then,” said Cluseret; “perhaps you will call me “monseigneur?’ It won’t offend me at all, and since they’re the same, I will call $-ou monsieur.’ ”