The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-07-12 00:00:00

THE RECEPTION IN PARIS.

The Correspondent of the Daily Nam writing from
Paris, Sunday night, thus describes the Shah's reeeption
in the "land of sunshine :"
Paris has not enjoyed such a holiday as this since Queen
Victoria visited the Emperor Napoleon lii. in 18'55. lire
Repul.licsna somehow cord] not make op their minds to
piece the Shah on a footing with the kings they were in the
habit a few years back of seeing in tneirstreets. They looked
upon him sea sort of " Arabian Night," hero. stranger teal!
his ways and belongims than the Prince Charmicit of a
fairy tale. The E. .yallsts were delighted to pay homage
in him to a political principle they are unable to affirm at
Vete dlles Alto the tradespe-pis and artisans, they landed
his vont to Paris could not tail to act money in cireuistion ;
and the land! .rds buoyed themselves up with the hope that
his advent river here would he the signal for wealthy
I reigmys to return and hire their uulet apartments. From
no early hour the whole city was ag ie. The tide of human
b Ines, towares non,!! w. el 111 the direction of the Chains
Ely sees and the Arai of Triumph, where it was anew, need the
Saab would beak. en for a few mo...ent• to the Parisians. A
the way from the Placs de la Cone vde to the Plam de
the foApaths were tilled with a gay Sunday nail.
Weida The hollow were dressed out with flags and velvet
hangings BaLonies and windows bail 'Jo lot •' in moat of
them. The American UM .bit mts hosphavily threw omn
their front titling rooms to their frier do and friends' fri.nda.
"Free lot enona were g.velt by the wealthy its in honour
of ire Ell go Kings. '• A tree luncheon" means a well fur-
nished•olfe,, wtta liberal supplies of champsgo.i, belt g kept
opt ruse nor eight hours, for the hole tit el every country
russi or wont th on the tinting list of the lady of the
it ore.. . .

. . .
1, e Pince de I E,011., w ich wet encircled with Vern of
bewchea, wita.th• contral polnt of the fCte. . .

Shrubs whica w. 'rid have been ornamental no the sitars
leading to a ball-room masked the base of the Arca of
Triumph, whose minims were lost in extraneous decorations
and adornments,. The taetes displayed in this histance by
the direction of the Garde Menble afforded a parallel to
that of the Campagna Mu-keeper, who dressed up
the broken statue of a Pagan goddess, ding up In
his garden, In his wife. Sinday garments not
omitting her coral necklace and pinchbeck bracelets.
A pair of immense frame., covered with blue atripeel
canvas, bid easy the mut,lete I bars reliefs of the arch
',dog Neuilly. A sort of trehis-wet le spread itself like
• Oct over every pant of the entablature. It was stuck all
over with flag-staffs, horn which hung an infinity of nay.
and fancy streamers, of endless length and variety of blue,
yellow' and Solferino and Magenta reds. They were inter-
mingled with wreaths of proportionate dimensions of artifi-
cial laurel leaves, wide • had served to deck tout
Perin on the occasion of the E uperor Napoleon II
triumphal entry into It at the close of tne I' mien
war. Oa the ttn of the mouu goer t was placed an object of
gigantic ale.. It looked at a distance like one i f lb we
Wit-el. of Fortune one turns in the hope of winning
crt•ckeryware at French fairs. On mating Inquiries I
ia.rhee th st it was intended 0 repres.nt t. .nay the Sin of
Per le, anti hereafter in to serve at the iihiminations as the
Vint whence rays of electric light are to emanate.
The inter* rof the arch was arranged as a tent. It was
hung in white and green silk, and furnished with arm chairs
smt sett- es, and a buffet 011 which swee• meats and cooling
clinks wet e laid out. The Municipal Council. of Paris here
&wettd the Shah, who, it was arranged, was not to pass
through the monument in his carriage. Li-come benches
surrounded the Place de PE'oile. Tney were divided into
sections, named after the first six letters of the alphabet,
at,' two unlettered tribunes—to an, that of the Council
of State at the top et( the Avenue de Wagram, and
the one at the corner of the Avenue de P Imperatrice,
wi11.% wits teserved for Meolsines de alscMahon and
Buffet and ten other miles of high official positioti
Madame de alacalahon, who was dressed in blue and
white, might have been taken by a stranger igmotant of the
political raltme now governing France tor • Queen sur-
rounded by her Court. She eat in a sort of throne-like chair,
whilst the ladles who came with her chose to stand on the
steps 'eliding tte it. The social status of the ticket-hot oven
admitted to the an paitheatre could be guessed from the up-
holstery of the secttons to which they were shown by ushers
in black tights aid silk stockings, and wearing steel Mauiu
round their necks. . . Extraragarit toilerara were the
exception ; but very elegant °Das were tip no means rare. The
bonnets, as ts rule, wire simply frail gauge structures on
which to set wreaths of II 'wen. of trap- a, of ivy berri,s, of
currants wh ts and red, it forget-mi -not, of corn ft were,
and, in, the case of yen ng girls, large daisies mixed with
velvet bows. Some queens of beauty and of fashion came
out in broad-hafed 'lowan straw hats, modelled after the
head-gear Winrerhalter gives the Empress Ifug6ille In his
best portrait of her.
It is calculated that 20,0)0 persons obtained admission
Into the Place de PEto-le. Do re was, however, no incon-
venient crowding anywhere. At four o'clock a heavy rain-
fall and thunderstorm were apprehended. hut, just It-f- re
five, the clouds diaper:el, and the sun came out magnifi-
cently.

- . Pleasant breeze; fanned the leaves of the-um-
bregeons chtstnut trees at the heck of the tribunes. When
a cairn to announced from M dint Victim that that the Shah
had arrived at Paso, the weather was truly delicieus.
As the troops forming his Majesty's guard of honour rile
round the Arch of Triumph, they were bathed in the ru tip
glow of the setting sun. Nast-rd-Dm'a jewels c u'd not
possibly have been seen under a more favourable light. As
lie descended frem his carriage to receive the address of the
Municteal Gunnell, the spectators uttered a cry if admire-
h•n. Never In their lives had their eyes been so feaster.
The moment the }Loyal cor ,ziy entered the Champs Ely le, a
the Amphitneatre, In the con tee of which rise the Arch of
letu•eph, presented the appearance of a theatre. At the
chiee if the play eniplo)6s if the Garde M. uhle at once set
lenient riling up carpet s, and wart:rens cam- forward te fetch
away flowers ami orange trees. Toe multitudes which had
p Meetly waited for hours in the ay ,rues Ira 'no to the Arch
climbed heroes the barrio Is a• d united with the eecti pants of
the lettered rib tees inert king the °WM where the She]) had
• few minutes previously taken some refrealinents. &nue
ladles got badly bruised in the onslaught lent there were no
bums broken Let, in the evening the Jockey Club and
proprietors belong lig to the Gonservetve party diumineted,
The Boulevards la-hid dazzli gip Sri Bent. While walkit g
along them I could with ePtlieuity realise the horrors I wit-
nessed id Vas city in the Sllllltanr of 1571,