The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-01
Sudden and Singular DisappearaDoe from
the World OF Fashion in Paris.


the World OF Fashion I'm Paris.
Paris letter in the London Atlas, June IL
The sudden disappearance from the world OF
fashion of the Marquis de F. and his beautiful
wife, with the wondrous story connected with the
cause of such sudden and unexpected STEP, has
given US ample food for gossip scandal, and ex-
element during the past week. Their loss will be
greatly felt by all. They were the kind purvey-
Ors of to the idle, of gossip TO the scan
dalous Of endless subject of investigation to the Pry-
ing and curious and it not for the mysterious
tale of their sudden determination to retire from the
world, every particular of which can warrant to
be true, and whereby they leave us legacy worthy
of the high name they have always borne in the an
mails Of lie Sport, should almost regard their Sc
cession as a mortal offence: Without laying any
claim to the high arstocratic influence Of the Eau
bourg st. GERMAN, the Marquis de F. had
always held most conspicuous place in the Pari-
sian world by virtue of his enormous wealth and
the beauty Of his wife This last element Of sue
and the Marquis had become more influential
through this means than even by the great pains he
had always taken to entertain his friends in manner
becoming his great fortune. The origin of the
Marquise herself mystery even to her best and
most intimate friends even to the interchangeable
hunters after news who abound in Paris more than
in any'other city Bysome she was given out to be
grsette, with whom the Marquis had fallen in love
during the time he was q student residing in the
Pays Latin ; by others it was said that she had
been singing girl at one of the cafes he had fire.
quenved by some that she had been rider at
Franconi's; and by others that she had been
q lion queen at one of the menageries on
the Boulevard du Temple; all agreed, how
ever, in praise of her grace and beauty,
and of the admirable manner in which she
did the honors Of her salon, giving US a succession
of tetes from January to December, each one &C
cordiDg to its season, and each in its own good
time. There was the winter advertisement last
year, of which everybody talked so much, when
the ball room of the Hotel de F-was transformed
into complete imitation Of the Ice Palace ofthe
Empress Catharne; then we had endless plays and
hs in he v m
teurs and which furnished us with gossip and scan
dial sufficient to occupy us the whole year through;
then the summer fetes at the beautiful little cha
teau at Passy-they were the most delightful of all
first, the fee des Lhs, then the teted de Scrngas,
then again the Feast of Roses, at which all Paris
assembled to dance, and hirt, and make love in tn,
shade of those tall chestnut trees, beneath which
Franklin had once medtated and philosophical
all these lost for ever and, what is worse, the
queen of all these revels has disappeared also, to
return no more. vile decision Of the tribunal
condemns the fair Marquise to exile, and her friends
to despair; and the circumstances of the story
so within sical that all the while we are mourning
the loss we have sustained, we cannot help re-
jocipg to find that the fates have not forgotten US
quite and that still to be furnished with SUBJ
jects for f,tNaoas and vaudevilles long there
shall be society in Paris. 1t appears that about
seven years ago, upon her first entrance into the
world as the bride of the Marquis dc F., the
Marquise had made the conquest Of young noble
man from the south of France, who having just in
herited his fathers vast estates, was making
dous rate at which he was living, and the va
rious follies he was committing, of the nature
Of those which all young men just iet loose
upon the world, having been kept rather short
Of cash by a niggardly father, are sure to fall
into. From the first hour OF his meeting with the
fair Marquise, however, the whole dream of life
seemed to centre in her alone; he gave up much
of his wild course Of conduct to spend his whole
time in her society; he relinquished his graceless
companions, with whom he had hitherto associated,
to devote himself entirely to her All this, be it
understood tout bien toni honour, and by the
entire approval of the good honest Marquis HIMSELF
who might be seen any day at four O'clock, driving
his carriage round the Champs Elysees, while the
dear little Marquse and her sentimental sonp:rarn
reclined within, talking reason and morality with
the most earnest interest. Now, all this is quite
allowable by French code Of morals, and the
arrangement being here so very common, we are
led to suppose that there cannot possibly be any
harm in it, and that it is only an old fashioned
thin skinned nation like the English who
can see any objection to these triangular
friendships, SO highly appreciated on the continent.
The young man, meanwhile, was observed gra-
dually to droop and langush, and lately to present
every appearance of rapid co assumption, and it
prsed none Of us to learn few months ago, that the
first doctors in Paris had pronounced his to be
hopeless, and that he had but a short time to live
The good little Marquise, however, would not be
lieve in the gravity Of the case. She went on
dancing and flirting, in her good natured efforts to
amuse him, with as much vivacity as ever; AMI. in
the month of January, she gave the most splendid
ball at her own house, with view TO cheer he
friend, and arouse him from the state of Tango
into which be had fallen. The poor youths power
were already lost for waltz and polka, an he
danced but one quadrile, and that one of course
with the Marquse. 1t was observed by ali
present that, during the moments of repose allotted
to the dancers, the pair were most eager and ear
nest in their conversation, the young man evil
IDENTIFY implorng and duplicating, and the Mar
quise endeavorng to dissipate the serious humor
by which he was influenced When the dan,
was over, the young man bade good night to many
friends, and tender farewell to the Marquise, and
complaining of great fatigue, disappeared, to be
seen no more upon this earth, for that very night
he died. having made his will the day before,
leaving the whole of his property to the Marquee
his hotel in Paris-his chateau in Auveigne-his
forests in Lorrane-to compensate for the want of
the dowry which had failed her on her marriage,
and to afford token of his admiration Of the high
mind Of the Marquis who had sought out and showa
himself capable of approaching the great beauty
and talents Of the poor portionless girl he had 80
contained in the will, and this had been the subject
Of their conversation while dancing the qualrille,
and the poor little Marquise with tears and ire IN
bling loved to repeat the very words which the poor
young man had uttered. How be had told her upon
what solemn duty he had been employed during the
day. and how lie had left his whole ioi tune to the
person on earth he loved best (; how she had tried
TO turn the conversation, and had recounted 20 him
an anecdote Of her childhood. when wild gypsy
woman had told her of the high fortune which
would beal her, and of the great marriage she would
make, had warned her that evil days would begin
by rich legacy which she would one day receive,
aud which would be her ruin should she accept. she
declared that. the yourg man was 20 overcome at
her story that he had turned quite pale aud that it
was at that very moment he had hurried away IL
appears quite ,rtaip that the Marquse was de-
cidedly in favor o: total rejection of the bequcst,
and that che strove hard with her husband
to obtain his consent to the measure but
the Marquis, who, being philosopher, cared
not fig for gipses or their prophecies, being al.
ready enormously rich, Of course had a natural de-
sire for more wealth, insisted upon acceptance.
and therefore the chateau, The woods, the miacs,
aud forests of the dead mau were all registered
belonging to the Marquise de F., and according
20 the marriage law Of France, beco ming likewise
the property of her husband For time the happy
pair were doubly courted, doubly filtered djuoly
envicd, and douby slandcrcd in consequence Of the
rich legacy, and their tdes were attended with re-
newed zeal rs soon as 1t became known that from