BISMARCK'S EDUCATION.
The XlXme .Siecle 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 X ng of Prussia vvere at Bar-le-Duc. Prince Bis-. inarck, who wax arranging for the establishment of an ambulance, and who heard that. the lycee (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 anger and disgust each time he passed a door in which was one of those apertures which the French call judas, or peepholes. . The steward did not venture to ask for an explanation,., but wien they got to the second floor, where the doors of the dormitories were provided with similar apertures, the Prince could c»nain his indignation no longer, and exclaimed : " You see these aperture*, which never meet my gaze without awakening all my hatred for those from whom I received my education—for the Jesuits. They ar* the men who brought on the vrar. and who are responsible for the ruin of France. /When the war is over we intend to ex pel all of them from our country ; they will come to France and complete its ruin, sand 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 Proft'ssor-Plamann at Berlin ; that in 1827 he leffMid school for the Frederick William School, also Pro* tfstant, which he only attended for a year, going in»18g8 to the Grave-Rloster School (^rotes'ant), where be remained until 1832. From 1833't0 1837 he attended the Protestnut Universities of Gottingen, Greifswald and Berlin, so that at i« hopeless to-argue that Prince Bis-' oaarck is "a pupil of the Jesuits."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2503, 13 January 1877, Page 4
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343BISMARCK'S EDUCATION. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2503, 13 January 1877, Page 4
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