One Of Theirs' Tricks

He was liorn in Mtirscilles on tlio 16t ot April, 1797. His father was a black Bitiitb, but his nrothor's relativos go bim a (.-(iliolarcliip ín the Imperial Lyoeut ol his birthplacc. whcre lie weottbroug liis eíuiiics Mfiih splendid auocess "When eigbteen years oíd, Thiers' wen to Aix to attend the leotures of tho fue ulty of law in tbat town. Tbere he be gan to play the role of a portj-lcader awong bis comrades, haranguiug vehemently ngainet the restorntion of tho Bourbons, md in favor of the Bonapartim which Lis veteran eloquence has wuco so earneitly deiiounced. One of the tricks nt that poriod is t dence of how detidodly the child i father of the mnn : for very trioky in deed has been the Mirabeau-mouche, i h was once brunded by a diatinguishei w ornan. A piiio had been ofFered for the bee culogiuin on Vauvenargens by th Academy of Aix, a good and peacefu ncademy, whicb, to make use of Voltaire's witticism, had always suoceeded, like an honest woman, in kceping itsclf from being talkcd about. ThierB dctcrmiued to win the prize, and sent his manuscript. It was decmed pre-etninent but unluckily tho name of tbe author was either divined or betrayed, nnd os there was no other candidatejwhodeserved the palm, the worthy membera of the Areopague, rather than nward it to the litilo Jacobin, put off their decisión to the following year. At tho appointed time the manuscript of Thiers made its reappearanoe, but in the uieantime a production had come froai Paris which oclipsed all its conipetitor, and the judgcs hastened to crown it, accordiiig, however, to the paper prosented by Thiers the bumble favor of an accessit. The namo of the Parisian victor was then unsealed, and great was the conBternation of tho ncademicians when it ras found to be tbat of Thiers himself ! He had indulged in the rnalicious pleaeiire of mystifving the Iearned gentlemen by treating the subject in a new point of Tien, causing the composition to be copied in a strango hand, Ronding it on a journey from Aix to Paris and irom Paris to Aix, and thus obtainiDg both &eprctganrp$