New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-11-07
DAILY CRESCENT.
The Streets of Paris.

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= ~, eia uaean from morning till night,
and most annie amusements in the streets ior
every street in Paris has pnysiognou'y anu
Individuality There are noble streets respeo,,
abie streets old streets--so ola that tney ,eosii
~ won az arms, the Hugenots. and the Medi.
0.hsr streets there are, young and
fr.sb. and new that, like young girls, as yet
- have no characters at all. There are
husy. bustng streets. There are calm, lazy
streets--which have, however, distinctive ap-
nearances from aristocratic streets Then there
are brilliant fashionable streets-not built ior
the house. thew contain, but evidently merely
for the effect Of their outward appearance md
a fashionable lady, dressed for the crowe, nv
not for comfort-ss the Rue sN wen, dssarted
stance. Then come dull, melancholy, ~; ;Sawed
streets, with blackened scuiptuiIns .nn;c streets
walls. There are also misan.nrop s;oh ike
~ .,so - Tho Isle of St LOUIS, which, hhe
arotber Venice are sad memorial oi X
s.ior;as. Int how different from the hue ossus
80 he Rue Rivoli, and the Place Nehuonie,
n.,I ~ ,nsiesty, vigor and actuaity Inc hue
iul u psyis Is a fine street, but it arouses no
,ho.rbt Of anght save shopping ana dispia9
tn Rpe Royale is grand and disdainful oone
streets begin magni6centy, put 40 ny ', 80
ont their promise, and end in dirty anu sio'eniy
alleys-as the Rue Montmar Vii "a a. por;s on
which. mermaid-like, with its vie ae faris on
49, s;;da and it's fine cafe on the other, has
bandsome head and shoulders aud ends IN
ssh,s tail-an agglomeration Of little intersec-
tions. populous, noisy and impossible There
are stSeets in which the mortality OF the human
snecies is double what it is in any other portion
Of the city such the cross streets into wheh
the sun never peuetrates more than twice OF
thrice year Then, again, there are streets
in which the people seem to live forever; such
are the streets of Marais-calm, clean, ana I'M
disturbed by shops. The Place Royaie, with its
lofty arcades, and its beautiful though formal
arei,;tecture looks like some aged court beauty
in dignifed retirement. Stay but few mo-
ments in the garden its magnificent square,
and the few stray, stately persons pacing Its al
leys will disappear, and 1T will I'LL with people
whose very names are romance.
The place Royale was the place of re-union of
fashionable life in the reign of Louis Kill, anu
the first few years of that of Louis XIV, when
Anne and Mazarin made love and governed,
agreeing in their political meetings and quar-
reling in their love interviews. Hereby, when
Louis Kill held at the Louvre his solemn court,
came. in one of those quaint and ponderous car
riares drawn by sleek, fat horses, going at a
mace which, compared with the present fast
speed, was mmobility,) the beautiful Anne Of
Austria, then melancholy, gentle and resigned
to harsh, unloving lord, and ever struggling
with some new born passion or lamentlng over
some by-gone love- With her was Nine. de
Hautville, whose vvacity, wit and beauty COM
municated one spark of fire to the cold ascetc
monarch--the monarch who ventured once 10
touch her hand, but who dared not come ana TAX
from her bosom the paper she placed there IN h,S
presence and offered to give him If he would
come and take it. There, too, in Spanish alg-
nity and French grace, sat Nine. de Motte-
vile, whose voluminous memoirs are AIMING
the most amusing yet correct recorus ol any ~
the courts of Franco court where every pouy
wrote memoirs There, too, had passed some
lovely aurora borealis, and as pure and as cold
one of the queens maids OF honor MN lie ut
La Fayette the only woman ever loved py
Louis XIII She, like another La VALERIE
loved Louis, not the King, and, like her, lett nj
love for a Carmelite convent. But here Thu
oomnarison ends; for, imbued equally with tn
King with profound religious principle, exces
siye reserve and innate purity, she scorned u
degrade x1eir love by becoming his mistress
Pure and immaculate Louis took her to tn
convent, (the same to which, years and year
afterwards, Louise La Valliere fed,) an
then she took the vows which separate
them forever. One privilege alone she i'm
plored-that of seeing her royal lover (througl
the eternal barrier placed by religion between
devotees and the world, the iron grating) a
often as he pleased and Louis nearly ever.
day wendell his way along the Champs Eysee-
not bright and busy as now, but full OF waylnl
trees and silent groves-to the village of Chall
lot there to seek solace, consolation and advc
from the being who loved him best
In that open chariot, lined with blue satlr
and painted outside with cupids and roses, tn
tiniest mask upon her face revealing however
the bright, pouting mouth, the dimpled CHI
the white forehead, around which, braided wit
pearls, float the tendrils of thousand ringlet
sits the fair and frail Marion de Lorne. Gal
lants whisper sweet nothings they pass; an
before the carriage has been once round th
MALL an escort of cavaliers, prancing char
gers had formed around. Cirque Mars is there
in happy ignorance of the AK so soon to SIEVE
the neck, white as woman's, which rises fror
the point lace collar and supports the sprite
and handsome face so bright and brilliant tha
10 1oua1 IN lnnk II RaSgomplprfp
there with his riotous devil-may- care compar
ions. As he passes that carriage with the gree
and silver liveries, he tries to look grave, al
bows to the saddle--ior there sits the object
his hopeless passion beautiful, young thous
stad and somewhat prim looking widow, Mar
de Levigni But loudly he laughs, and quick
wit and rapartee exchanged, as he nea
this other carriage, where, in easy negligenc
with grace iuimitable, sits the celebrated NinC
then in her YOUTH although not more beaut
full than in her age, for it's said she new
changed Richelieu did not disdain to ming
in this crowd IT'S said, too, that often, in
cloak, (called appropriately conteur de mural
wall color, } he at night slips round the co
ner of the Place Royale into the Rue de Tou
nelles, where dwells fair Marion de Lorme,
Here, too, in the Marais, was the Hotel Ran
buteau-that very curious affectation of ;
essentially sensual age-where refinement W
carried to such pitch, that the every day i
tercourse of society was deemed gross-na
even the very commonest expression indecen
where by council of matrons and maidens
all lovely, high born, and intelligent-it w
decreed that aft three years alteration,
sutton might be allowed to kiss his lady hant
where NJ. de Montansier, like Jacob, paid cou
perseveringly for fourteen years, though, until
Jacob, he got but one wife instead of two
having required fourteen years for the fair Jul
de Ramboullet to make up her mind, after 81
had accepted him, to the gross, unetherial bon
of marriage; where it was thought suggesti,
Of impure thoughts to ask any one to take
seat and the formula was varied so as to as
them to patronize Of the accommodation
for conversation. From this seraphic parads
Voitus was banished for two years for hayr
inadvertently pronounced the word night.ca
although Nine. de Rambouillet received in h
bed with her visitors seated around her.
Well, the Marais is now the cheapest place
live. There are probably thousands of foreg
ers who never heard of the Marais, and I
sound of a foreign language would rouse
emeute, Fashions are here as in a PROVING
town, six months behind the Chaussee d'Ant
and kings are made and unmade at the Chaml
DIES Deputies and the Tuilleries before the id
of revolt penetrates into these solitudes
How difarant is the Place dn 4, po,uo..