Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-03-08
nueninr at the Tuilleries.


| fer to our columns
| r. .,ast common court costume at the last
! hall for gentlemen was a blue cloth coat WIN
standing collar thickly embroidered IN goid' the
front of the breast the cuffs and the skirts a'so
embroidered in gold a three-cornered ehapeao
like those worn by superior officers OF our own
army. trimmed with gold lace and FUR white
vest nione knee breeches, of white cashmere
and tiebt white silk stockings low shoes with
| buckles: white erayat, white gloves, and freneh
| daeng sword ivory handle, gold mounted
| Tins metamorphosed, we call coupe with ser
want i'm livery-the common hacks are not az
| lowed on these occasions TO enter the court VI
! the Palace-and feeling as awkward as iresh
| caught savage, and looking no doubt, IKE any
| thing else than live buckeye start loi ooi ue'
tination.
AT the top of the stairs stood, at the right ana
left two large halberders, each seven feet high
weighing perhaps four hundred pounds, and ut
orally covered with gold, who demanded OF eacn
visitor as he passed between them, "1our caro-,
sir if you please" The card of invitation is ia
ken by one of the halberdiers,who hands it to the
chamberlain the latter looks at the name, ana
walking with the owner of it to the pillared arch
way lending into the large reception room, screams
out the NAME which is his introduction. When
my humble name announced III the midst OF
this brill mt assemblage of Princes and Princes
SEES Dukes and Duchesses, what do you suppose,
reader, was the erect piOuuccu NV INC shSh'
est moven ent of curiosity perceptlble, no.
body tainted the Emperor and Empress remain
ed as immovable as if nothing had occurred =
To avow the truth, the only connection dscove-
rabe anywhere was under the left pocket of my
jacket.
made my debut chapeau in hand, and was
soon lost in the midst of the assemblage. What
a gay scene Two thousand persons, compos-
ing the most distinguished of the nobility and of
men of science in France, united to II large num-
Der of foreigners of distinction visiting in Paris,
were as embed together dressed in the most
snowy and tasty style of which Paris is capable.
1t was an assemblage in which men take rank by
their title in which, to produce sensation by
the announcement of name at the door, there
should be attached to it title of formidable d
mansions. There were but few who did not car
ry decorations of some kind.
The company was collected in nine rooms, run
ming in straight line, and extending distance
of eight hundred feet. The rooms open freely in
to each other,and the view from one to the other,
when brilliantly lighted and crowded with gaudy
uniforms, as on this occasion, was more like mag
ic = fn reality. The rooms of the Palace have
been reftted for the residence of the present En-
peror in the finest style of modern art. They
a solid mass of gold and mirrors the ceiling
riched with the finest frescoes the floors laid
with Goben carpet the arched vestbues sup
ported by the finest marble pillars enormous
SEES of Sevres porcelain and costly tables of Ro-
man sale, fill the inches and corners while nu-
merous chandeliers of tie richest construction
reflect dazzling brightness over the scene.
Two of the rooms of the Palace nearly two
hundred feet long, and in these bands of music
were placed A band was also placed in the Hall
of the Marshals, led by the celebrated Strauss
| This latter is now the handsomest room in the
! Palace, or, indeed in France. 1t is one hum
dred feet square, fifty feet high, and has gallery
supported by golden caryatides of the most per-
feet workmanship. The carved architecture of
the room, to the top of the arched ceiling, is
cred with gold. The room is called the Hall of
the Marshals because it contains in pannels in
the walls full length portraits of the Marshals of
the first Empire. The decorations of this room
| have been several times destroyed by the mob,
and in 1913 the portraits of the Marshals were
cut to pieces. The beauty of this room after
night, when illumned by the four large chandel-
iers, is dazzling beyond description The other
six rooms thrown open on this occasion were used
either for conversation, for promenade, for the
card tables refreshment rooms. Two rooms
were set with double tables their whole length, at
which one hundred servants were constantly en-
ployed for six hours serving the guests with the
costly refreshments which had been prepared
All the delicacies known to French cookery were
here served up,and had occasion to verify what
| had observed on former occasions, that the
French aristocracy are great eaters.
AT half past ten o'clock, the Emperor and EN-
press opened the ball, the Emperor dancing with
the Princes Mathde, and the Empress with
Lord Cowley, English Ambassador. Other per-
sons belonging to the household of the Emperor
and the diplomatic corps engaged in the first
dance. The Emperor and Empress then took
seats on slightly raised platform, paced al the
western side of the Hall of the MarsAals. At
the Emperors right hand sat his uncle Jerome
Bonaparte, exkingof Westphala, and only sur
wing brother of the Emperor Napoleon | Ma
poleon Bonaparte, son of jerome, Marshal Va
liant, Harespe and Saint Arnaud, Gen. Magnan,
Lord Cowey, and the diplomatic corps, including
Mr.. Mason who had entered ON his duties the day
before, and appeared on this occasion in IA mon
grel uniform that looked like n mdshipman "a
mongst admras.
AT the right of the Empress sat first the Grand
Duchess Stophanio, of Baden, mother of the
reigning Duke of Baden, niece of the Empress
Josephine and second cousin to the present EN-
peror; then the Princess Mathilde daughter of
Jerome Bonaparte, and wife of Prince Demidoff
the richest nobleman in Russia from whom she
has separated because he beat her; then the
Princess dEssling, in mourning and diamonds ;
then the danes of honor, ministers wives, &c.
The Emperor wore the suit of q general of divi-
sion the Empress, dress of blue silk with
heavy tiounces, covered with dentelles, and be-
tween each tlounce circle of roses. Her arms
and shoulders were bare, and around her neck
was suspended collar of diamonds, consisting
OF double row of these precious stones each
three or four lines in diameter, with pendant in
the shape OF a cross also composed of diamonds
Her hair was dressed simply with flowers. On
her wrists were bracelets of diamonds The