The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-07
scenes in Paris.

scenes IN Paris,
A Romance ~ he Tomb and Wedding-
Every thing happens in Paris was tayorite
saying Of old Tallegrand, and experience every day
proves Tie truth Of his words 20 those who live
there. Our fashionable world (fer, IN spite Of
alamist and English newspapers, there is still q
strong remnant Of that Israel left has been much
shaken by marriage which has just taken place
under the most romantic and extraordinary circlm-
sances; so romantic indeed, as 70 need the pen Of
the first romance writer Of the age 70 do the story
Justice.
Upon the summit Of one Of the many hills over
which stretch the ghasty streets ana lanes, the
palaces the tenemeps, the bowels of that vast city
az the dead called PeFe Ia Chaise, which, as if in
mockery of Tie living city below reckons likewise
oi les fashionable quarter It's court end, its gardens
and rs fountains stands ore Of the most superb and
striking monuments of the whole place one to-
wards which, though still in an unfinished stale,
the guide is sure to hurry tine stranger immediately
0n us entrance inio the cemetery Ihis tsnib
viii cost forty thousand francs. It is wholly Of
white marble, and is being erected IN memory OF
young doctor Of Bordeaux by his disconsclate
widow"
Such was always the description given as the
guide and his victim stood before the stupenduous
monument, the latter sometimes full of admiration
at the delicate execution Of the carving on the mar
be and sometimes full Of wonder at the astonishing
facility with which doctors must earn money at
Bordeaux thus to enable one Of them 10 leave sulr
icient behind him To afford his dsconsolate widow
the means Of proclaiming SO extensively to the
world her grief al his loss Close besides this mar
HE tonb the modern glory Of the cemetery, stands
the beautiful tribute to The memory Of Mad'lle
Mars very ctet d@RUre, both 10 conception and
execution, forming contrast by It's neatness and
quiet elegance 70 the gigantic proportions Of its
nejghbor
Each day FOR the last six months brought a visiter
b both iombs to the splindid one lady atiired in
l1aa ot,dn
together upon the hard stone, and weep she lean
ed against the marble pillar wherein was 70 be
carved the name Of the deceased to the other,
gentleman with snow white hair and aristocratic
countenance, who would not kneel and pray, but
SIT III quiet meditation sometimes the whole day
long, unon The little wooden bench placed al the foot
81 The grave Of the actress, gazing out upon the
glorious panorama Of Paris which lay at his feet
il is SAID, indeed, that much of his time was spent
in reading the works of Mariyanx and Others,
gyhegein poor Mars had obtained her high renown
Gradually an interest arose between the pair who
sinus, as ID were, shared the vast solitude between
Them. Together az sunrise they often waited at
ta pate Of The cemetery until the regular hour for
adInittance and then ascended arm in arm the toll
some height upon which stand the neighbor tombs
soon was fbe lady induced TO repose upon the litie
bench bv tie side Of the elderly gentleman; grad
ualiy she was led % take interest in the subject of
his readings, and now and then, indeed, could be
induced e listen 70 whole passages from the Gomez
dies which the gentleman was perusing.
in short, this very comedy, more dramatic by far
shan any in Marivauks collection, ended last week
by an astounding marriage, the Princess Semailof
widow OF the young doctor OF Bordeaux es
poused the Count Charles de M0rnay, te constant
almirer and faithful friend Of Mad lie Mars The
black hangings which shaded 50 glooaay the glded
saloons and painted staircase Of the heaHtunl mal
sion Of her bigtness nthe Rue de la Pepnere have
al been torn down, and every thing wears once
more d Joyous and festive aspect Great enlerialn-
ments are there to be giSen as soon as the happy
pair shall have concluded their bridal tour.
Both parties have been sincerely congratulated
6y their friends; the lady upon having secured TO
herself the most true and corsant Knight, the most
refined gentleman in all France, now that Chateau
BRAND is no more the gentleman upon having mos
nopalzed tie finest independent fortune IN Europe,
sinus left vacant BY The death of the young doctor
= Of Bordeaux who succeeded TWO years ago 70
David be tenor singer, silcesededsa year be-
lore thai to RFinQe- snailoh the FIRST trimnphant
sIlitor Of lie aaly daughter Of Count Pahlen.-
some people consider NJ. de Morney as moro bod
than wise. The Princess Semail0H evidently
shares the popularity of than Duchess de Sarrans
uf whom Madame de Sevigue says, Ells est NAL
brucass e., agariS-IS uereHt ious De bonnie hestre!