CHAPTER 15

Rizal‘s Second Sojourn in

Paris
And the
Uofni1v8e8r9sal
so·journ\ˈsō-ˌjərn, sō-ˈ\
A temporary stay.( Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

A world's fair, world fair, world exposition, or universal

exposition (sometimes expo or Expofor short) is a large
international exhibition designed to showcase
achievements of nations.
Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a
world’s fair held in Paris, France, from
6 May to 31 October 1889.
It was held during the year of the
100th anniversary of the storming of
the Bastille, an event considered
symbolic of the beginning of the
French Revolution.
Published annotated edition of
Morga’s Sucesos

Founded three Filipino societies(the

Kidlat club, the Indios Bravos, and the
RDLM)

Wrote Por Telefono

 Difficulty of Finding
Quarte- rUnsiversal Exposition attracted thousands
of tourists.

- Lived with Valentin Ventura, at No. 45 Rue

Maubeuge(where he polished his annotated
edition of Morga’s book)
Rizal lived in a little room with:

• Capitan Justo Trinidad

-former gobernadorcillo of Santa
Ana, Manila

• Jose Albert
 Life in Paris
o Bibliotheque Nationale (National Library)

o In his spare hours, Rizal dined at the

homes of:
 Pardo de Taveras
 Venturas
 Bousteads
 Lunas
 Pardo de Taveras
• Don Joaquin Pardo de
Tavera
• Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo
de
Tavera -physician by vocation
-philologist by avocation

• Felix Pardo de Tavera

-physician by vocation
-artist and sculptor by avocation

• Paz Pardo de Tavera

Juan Luna & Paz Pardo de Tavera

o Andres “Luling”

o Maria de la Paz, Blanca,

Laureana, Hermenegilda Juana
Luna y Pardo de Tavera
June 24 1889
Rizal and Paris Exposition of 1889
- May 6, 1889
- Eiffel Tower
• Alexander Eiffel

-President Sadi Canon of

the Third French Republic
International Art Competition

Felix R. Hidalgo

Juan Luna

Felix Pardo de Tavera

Jose Rizal
Kidlat Club
- Temporary social society

- To bring together young Filipinos in French

capital to enjoy the Universal Exposition

- Why kidlat club? >It

will also disappear like lightning

- Members: Antonio & Juan Luna, Gregorio Aguilera,

Fernando Canon, Lauro Dimayuga, Julio Lllorente,
Guillermo Puatu, and Baldomero Roxas
Indios Bravos
- “Brave Indians”

- Replaced Kidlat Club

- Members pledged to excel in intellectual and

physical prowess to win admiration of
foreigners(Spaniards)
R D L M Society
- this secret society was mentioned in only 2
letters:
Gregorio Aguilera
(1)Rizal’s letter to Jose Maria Basa, Paris,
September 21, 1889
(2)Rizal’s Letter to Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Paris, Jose Ma. Basa

November 4, 1889
- Members: Gregorio Aguilera, Jose Ma.
Basa, Julio Llorente, Marcelo H. Del
Pilar, Mariano Ponce, Baldomero Roxas, Marcelo H. Del Pilar
Father Jose Maria Changco
Mariano Ponce
 RDLM
Redencion de los Malayos
(Redemption of the Malays)
- Aim:
 Propagation of all
useful knowledge—
scientific, artistic, literary,
etc.–- in the Philippines
 Redemption of the Malay
race
Max Havelaar (1860)
- Multatuli( E.D. Dekker, Dutch
author)

- exposed the miserable

conditions of the oppressed
Malay inhabitants of the
Netherlands East Indies under
Dutch rule
 February 23,
1 8 9 2
Letter to B lum entritt, from
Rizal
-To be a leader of freedom, if not in
the Philippines, then in other lands “In
Borneo”
 Annotated Edition of Morga Published

• Publication in 1890
• Printed by Garnier Freres
• Prologue by Prof. Blumentritt
*2 things which reveals Rizal’s error
-appraising the events of the past in the light of present standards.
-attack on the catholicism
 Annotated Edition of Morga Published

• He dedicated his new edition of morga to the filipino people so

that they would know of their glorious past. His dedication is as
follows:
“Born and reared in ignorance of our past like almost all of you:
without voice nor authority to speak of what we have not seen nor
studied, I deemed it necessary to invoke the testimony of an
Illostrious Spaniards who controlled the destinies of the Philippines
at the beginning of it’s new era and personally witnessed the last
days of our ancient nationality”
Other works of Rizal aside from Morga’s book

• Mayi
• Tawalisi of Ibn batuta
• Filipinas dentro de cien anos (The Philippines within a
century)
• Sobre la Indolenca de los Filipinos (The indolence of
Filipinos)
• La politica colonial on Filipinas (Colonial policy in the
Philippines)
 The Philippines within a century

Express his views on the Spanish colonization in the

Philippines and predicted with amazing accurancy
the tragic end of Spain’s sovereignity in Asia.
 The Philippines within a century

He portrayed at the beginning of his article the glorious

past of the Filipino people then described their
economic stagnation and unhappiness under the harsh
bugling Spanish rule.
 LA INDOLENCIA DE LOS
FILIPINOS:
-more popularly known in its English version, "The Indolence of the
Filipinos,“
-is a exploratory essay written by Philippine national hero Dr. Jose
Rizal, to explain the alleged idleness of his people during the
Spanish colonization.
The Indolence of the Filipinos is a study of the causes why the
people did not, as was said, work hard during the Spanish
regime.
 THE INDOLENCE OF THE
FILIPINOS
• CHAPTER 1: ADMITTING THE EXISTENCE OF INDOLENCE

• CHAPTER 2 INDOLENCE OF CHRONIC ILLNESS

• CHAPTER 3: WARS, INSURRECTIONS, EXPEDITIONS AND INVASION

• CHAPTER 4: DEATH OF TRADE IN THE PHILIPPINES

• CHAPTER 5: LIMITED TRAINING AND EDUCATION

 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
FILIPINOLOGISTS
• is an unaccredited international organization of Filipino and non-Filipino intellectuals
established in Paris, 1889 by the Bohemian scientist Dr. Ferdinand
Blumentritt and Philippine national hero Dr. José Rizal.
• Though a self-recognized convention, it was never accredited and recognized by
the French government leading to its dissolution in August 1889.
• AIM: “to study the Philippines from the scientific and historical point of view.”
 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF FILIPINOLOGISTS
OFFICERS:
• President: Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt (Austrian)
• Vice-President: Mr. Edmund Plauchut (French)
• Counsellor: Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor (Filipino-Spanish)
• Counsellor: Dr. Reinhold Rost (Anglo-German)
• Secretary: Dr. Jose Rizal (Filipino)
 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
FILIPINOLOGISTS
• AUGUST 1889- scheduled holding of the inaugural convention
• RENOWNED SCHOLARS IN EUROPE:
• DR. REINHOLD ROST
• SIR HENRY YULE
• DR. FEODOR JAGOR
• DR. A.B. MEYER
• DR. H. KERN
• DR. CZEPELAK
 PROJECT FOR FILIPINO CCOLLEGE
IN HONG KONG
• Planned by Rizal while still in Paris
• To establish a modern college in Hong Kong
• Aim: “ to train and educate men of good family and financial means in accordance
with the demands of modern times and circumstances”
• Mr. Mariano Cunanan- who promised Rizal to help him raise money as initial capital
for college.
• 40,000pesos- initial capital
 PROJECT FOR FILIPINOCCOLLEGE IN
HONG KONG

Curriculum(subjects): Curriculum(subjects): Curriculum(subjects):

Ethics Political Economy Gymnastics
Religion Universal History Equitation
Natural Law Philippine
Fencing
Civil Law History
Swimming
Department Logic, Rhetoric,
and Poetic Music
Hygiene
Mathematics Spanish Dancing
Physics and Chemistry English Drawing
Natural History French
Geography German

Chinese
 “POR
TELEFONO”
• Rizal wrote this satirical work as a reply to another slanderer, Fr. Salvador Font.
• Fr. Salvador Font- who masterminded the banning of Rizal’s Noli.
• This work is under the authorship of Dimas Alang.
• Dimas Alang- one of Rizal’s pen-names.
• It was published in a booklet form in Barcelona, 1889.
• Mariano Ponce- rizal received the printed copies from him.
• It describes in comical vein a telephone conversation between Fr. Front who was in
Madrid and the Father provincial of the San Agustin Convent in Manila.
 CHRISTMAS IN PARIS
• Rizal and Jose Albert- who were living frugally in a small room occupied by
Capitan Justo Trinidad.
-planned to have a sumptuous Christmas dinner.
• Christmas dinner: fried chicken, rice and vegetables.
• Rizal’s last Christmas dinner in Paris
• After New Year- brief visit in London
- biographers do not know the purpose of this visit.
 CHRISTMAS IN PARIS
• Two theoretical reasons:
1.to check up his annotated edition of Morga’s Sucesos with the original copy in the
British Museum.
2. to see Gertrude Beckett for the last time.

• Middle of January 1890- Rizal was back in Paris

- he complained of a terrible headache.