1. RIZAL'S SECOND SOJOURN(pag babakasyon) IN PARIS
AND THE UNIVERSAL EXPOSITION(paglalahad) OF 1889"
Paris in the spring of 1889 was bursting with
gaiety(joy) and excitement because of the universal
exposition. Thousands of visitors from all corner of the world
crowded every hotel, inn, and boarding house .every -where
in the metropolis the hotel rate in London , was caught in the
whirl of gay Parisian life .despite the social parties and the
glittering light of the city , he continued his fruitful artistic ,
literary , and patriotic labor(makabayang pag gawa), he
published his annotated(comment) edition of Morgam’s
success; founded three Filipino societies, the kidlat club, the
indios bravos , and the R.D.L.M.; AND wrote por telefono ,
satire against fr.salvador font. Difficulty of finding quarters. on
march 1889 , it was extremely difficult For a visitor to find
living quarters in Paris the approaching(papalapit) universal
exposition of 1889 which was scheduled to open on May 16
,1889 so the all hotel accommodations were taken . to the
great disgust(pagkainis) of Rizal ,the cost of living spiralled
high because the French land lords, taking advantage of
great demand for living quarters, raised the rent of their
rooms.
For a short time, Rizal lived in the house of his friends
valentine ventura, at No.45 rue maubeuge, where he

2. polished his annotated edition of morga’s book. He
transferred his residence several time moving in the hotel to
another from one boarding house to another. Finally,
he lived in a little room, together with two other Filipinos –
Capitan Justo Trinidad former gobernadorcillo of Santa Ana,
Manila, and a refugee(takas) from Spanish tyranny, and Jose
Albert, a young student from Manila.
Life in Paris. Although life in Paris was gay(joyful), with
sparkling merriment and joyous social parties, Rizal
continued to be busy in his serious

3. Rizal went to Paris after his stay in London. Despite the social parties and
the glittering lights of the city, he continued his fruitful artistic, literary,
and patriotic labours. He lived in a little room, together with two other
Filipinos- Capitan Justo Trinidad, former gobernadorcillo of Santa Ana,
Manila and a refugee from Spanish tyranny, and Jose Albert, a young
student from Manila.
In Paris, Rizal continued to be busy in his pursuits. He checked up his
historial annotations on Morga's book. He wrote letters to his family in
Calamba giving an interesting account of his life in Paris. Like any
ordinary Filipino tourist in a foreign land, Rizal was fascinated by the
Universal Expostion of Paris which opened on May 6, 1889. Rizal and his
friends attended the opening ceremonies and saw the cutting of the ribbon
by Pres. Sadi Cannot of the Third French Republic.
On May 19, 1889, Rizal organized his paisanos (compatriots) into a
society called Kidlat Club. Among its members were, Antonio and Juan
Luna,Gregorio Aguilera, Fernando Canon, Lauro Dimayuga, Julie
Llorente, Guillermo Puatu and Baldomero Roxas.
Kidlat Club was founded by Rizal to bring together the young Filipinos in
the French capital so that they could enjoy their sojourn in the city during
the duration of the Universal Exposition.
Rizal and the members of the Kidlat Club were amazed to see the Buffalo
Bull show which featured the American Indians. The red-skinned Indians
were proud riding their sturdy ponies, elegantly dressed in their native
attire and wearing their war feathers and paints.
Rizal was enchanted by the dignified and proud bearing of the American
Indians. They are ashamed of their name. Let us be like them he said.
Proud of the name Indio and make our Spanish enemies revise their
conception of the term. Then he said, they shall be Indios Bravos. Thus
was born a new society of Filipino patriots in Paris. It replaced the
ephemeral Kidlat Club.
Another society founded by Rizal in Paris during the Universal Exposition
of 1889 was the mysterious Sociedad R.D.L.M. Society. The letters

4. R.D.L.M. are believed to be the initials of the socity 's secret
name Redencion de los Malayos(Redemption of the Malays).
Only a few of Rizal's trusted friends became members of the RDLM,
namely, Gregorio del Pilar, Mariano Ponce, Baldomero Roxas, and Father
Jose Maria Changco (Filipino priest). The aim of the secret society was the
propagation of all useful knowledge - scientific, artistic, literary in the
Philippines. And another aim was the redemption of the Malay race.
Rizal's outstanding achievement in Paris was the publication in 1890 of his
annotated edition of Morga's Sucesos. The prologue was written by
Professor Blumentritt, who censured Rizal's errors namely: 1) Rizal
commits the error of many historians in appraising the events of the past in
the light of present standards and 2) Rizal 's attacks on the church were
unfair and unjustified because the abuses of the friars should not be
construed to mean that Catholicism is bad. Rizal's annotated and published
Morga's Sucesos was the best of the many histories of the Philippines
written by early Spanish writers, being accurate in the narration of
events,unbiased in judgement, and unmarred by childish fantasies.
Rizal dedicated his new edition of Morga to the Filipino people so that
they would know of their glorious past.
In the fall of 1889 Rizal wrote another satirical work entitledPor
Telefono as a reply to another slanderer, Fr. Salvador Font, who
mastermind the banning of his Noli. Por Telofono was published in
booklet form in Barcelona. This satirical pamphlet under the authorship of
"Dimas Alang"( one of Rizal's pen-names) is a witty satire which ridicules
Father Font. It describes in comical vein a telephone conversation between
Father Font who was in Madrid and the father provincial of the San
Agustin Convent in Manila.
In December 25, 1889, Rizal and Jose Albert scraped enough money to
celebrate Christmas. Shortly after New Year, Rizal made a brief visit to
London to check up his annotated edition of Morga Sucesos with the
original copy in the British Musem and to see Gertrude Beckett for the last
time.
By the middle of January 1890, he was back in Paris. He complained of a
terrible headache but was not stricken with flu.

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