BISMARCK’S EDUCATION.
The XlXme Siede has discovered the origin of Prince Bismarck’s hatred of the Catholics. A few days before the battle of Sedan, when the headquarters of the King of Prussia were at Bar-le-Duc, Prince Bismarck, who was arranging for the establishment of an ambulance, and who heard that the hjcee (school) was vacant, requested the steward, in the absence of the principal, to take him over the • building. On the first floor, where are the class-rooms the steward noticed that Prince Bismarck exhibited signs ■ of angeranddisgusteach time he passed a door, in which was one of those apertures which the French call judas, or ■peepholes. The steward did not ven- ■ tore to ask for an explanation, but when they got to the second floor, where the doors of the dormitories were provided with similar apertures, the Prince could contain his indigna- : tion no longer, and exclaimed : “ You see these apertures, which never meet my gaze without awakening all ray i hatred for those from whom 1 received my education—from the Jesuits. They are the men who brought on the war and who are responsible for the ruin of France. When the war is over, we intend to expel all of them from our country ; they will come to France and complete its ruin, and this will be a vengeance for us and a punishment for you.” This discovery is very ingenious, only it is not true, In a biography of Prince Bismarck, published by his permission and dedicated to him, it is stated that he was born in 1815 of Protestant parents, that he was sent in 1821 to the Protestant school of Professor Plamann at Berlin; that in 1527 ho left the school for the Frederick William School, also Proteotaut, which he only attended for a year, going in 1828 to the Grave Klnster School (Protestant), where he remained until 1832. From 1832 to 1837 he attended the Protestant Universities of Gottingen, Griefswald and Berlin, so that it is hopeless to argue that Prince Bismarck is “ a pupil of the Jesuits.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 774, 16 February 1877, Page 4
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