Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-20
Paris Gossip.

The Boston Atlas has very gossipy and
entertaining Paris correspondent, who seems
perfectly posted in regard to the intricacies Of
French life. His testers are filled with anus
ing anecdotes, which are related in a very
sprightly manner. The following is excellent
and is not without its moral:
81 acquainted you that most noble Marquis
was about to suly his coat Of arms by marrying an
actress ofthe Varieties Theatre, who numbered her
lovers by hundreds, and her more casual acquaint-
ance by thousands, and that he was determined
to use his own sounding phrase--to throw the
brides veil over the womans past career. He re-
quircd her TO sell all the gifts she possessed and all
her furniture, and TO return 70 her lovers all the d.
almonds, the government securities and railway
shares they have given b@r. The proceeds of the
sale Of her furniture he iired her to pay 10 the
poor.
"The paupes received valuable largess, as
YOU may Judge when record that her rosewood
piano---Inade by Erard, and adorned with plates
Of tender porcelain with blue background, and
ornamented with geni, and adorned with git
bronze-brought at auction 2, 1856 francs Louis
XIV. clock, with two gilt bronze copies Of Michael
Angelo, 1885 francs q clock with four figures OF
children in gilt bronze, with porcelain plates of
tender porcelain and pastoral subjects, 1856 francs;
and other articles Of yertu in the same proportion
None but princes or lorettes could lavish money as
this woman has done. She stripped herself of all
her ill-gotten gans-it il said some Of her former
protectors, ruined by their prodigalities, are de-
lighted to receive their old presents back again
and when she was nearly as poor as when she COM
menced her life, the most noble marquis dsap-
peared, and has not since been heard Of! 1t 10
supposed his friends have at the last been success
full in their attempts to dissuade him from this un
suitable marriage 1t is said she is going to bring
suit"
The French DANES are forced to resort to
queer expedients to compel refractory husbands
to give up the dullness Of country life for the
more intoxicating pleasures Of the capital:
"In all French families, everywhere in the world,
there may always be found the bore-the fellow
with enough to live on and full Of the duest IDEAS
and rusty anecdotes and stories, whose point has
entirely escaped him, with q Auency or rather dys-
EMERY of words--the terror Of dinner parties and
the dismay of isolated guests. In all French fam
lies, where the wife has any pretensions to youth
and beauty the latter is constantly followed by ut
least candidate for the place of deputy husband
a useful piece of domestic furniture in French
mans household; for he holds the fan, adjusts the
mantilla at the close of the spectacle, keeps the
lady in boquets and most important OF all excites
the somnolent love of monotonous married life with
the dash ofjealousy.
"The object of the wife is to introduce into her
country retreat these two characters for she is
tain that her husband, had he been born in the land
of Uz, could not endure with patience the sight of
these domestic plaques at his board and under the
same roof with his wife's bed. Her object is easily
accomplished like all conjurors, she has her con-
federate-a female friend to whom she is bound by
a treaty of reciprocity. This friend induces the
bore and the lover to set out for the country They
60, they unconsciously play their intended parts,
and the maddened husband proposes to his wife to
quit the country, who, after a decent resistance,
oblges her husbond 80 much as to consent to re-
turn to Paris on the condition that she has 30 many
dresses and so many balls--he is happy If her
sent is not wrung with the promise to take box
at the Italian Opera