Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-05-26
A French Flip at America.

[ A French Flip at America.
A book has recently been published in Paris
entitled HAutre Monde, (The Other World BY
| Madame Marvel de Grandfort-the other worlG
being America, on which she attempts to be
very satlrical, but only succeeds in being very
silly. The Paris correspondent of The Newark
Advertiser gives US some idea of the quality Of
this volume:
NADINE de Grandf,rt's hero falls in almost at landing
with young lady, beau ul spiritual and highly educated
belonging a wealthy New York FANNY who at trs
sight falls upon his shoulder, aows him to kiss her, and
the next day repl ices m by aother and perpetu
ally all in the way Of innocent Irritation:
He meets in the United States nothing whatever &c
praise, excepting hotels and national energy
Every where around he Boomersm triumphant the
dennc racy jealous o. men Of property and yet tendng
he thinks, to the worst form of aEis,ocracy-that Of
wealth In the words of The book the democracy Of the
United States Is the greatest lie Of this age the people
most invariably carried toward arStocracy the people
Of the U0ion; in fine within fifty years, the country
which i'll have become the the most ardent
mon trci in the world will be these same United
Stae which nevertheless receive and absorb, Ia foods
| every year. the mob If a | nations"
| The authoress is the bitterest writer who has
favored this country with notice since Mrs.
Trollope, and is equally unfair and and unjust.
The following extracts are fair specimens of the
entire work:
The American people have moral sense, which you
must attribute TO the absence OF all principles Po;esian
hn under the pre'ext o free inquiry leaves nothing
st ndng. Where there is family, there is society
where there IS no enthusiasm, pride Devotion split OF
just CO. there is future The United States
in commerce; fanythng rai<e them the rank Of
nation, it i the of faith among Them But the
only reisinn in the world capable of retaining them is
| cath,rism
Ten years will not pass without soIuton in the
United States. Everything announces it >, the ven 'y
ofpubc servants of electors sell their votes,
tie rofou hate of rotfs ants against Catholics the
extreme irritation ofthe free against the slave States, &c
We cannot suffer this def,rmed society which aspes to
put loot N Europe ony to change our monuments into
w'reh'n es and raise in public PAGES four make
walls where every Sunday cng reverend in white
sh Ill cone and read US the Bible
| Madame Grandfort goes ON to describe most
of our gentlemen as blackguards, and our ladies
as worse we have 10 household ties, our deity
being the Almighty Dollar; our public men are
subjected to the tyranny of a mob, to whose
level they must themselves descend, or resign
all hopes of preferment; our institutions are
drifting rapidly toward destruction; and, finally,
the French Canadians are infinitely our supe-
riors in everything worth having!
| A New York woman who had not some hundreds of
dollar tn throw away every month in shopping. would
think herself very poor and So the unhappst creature
in the woltl. An Amercin lady rarey mes at home.
Her husband occupied down town. returns only in the
evening" thus leaving his young wife at full liberty, OF
hch she not slow profit Then the house is aban-
d"ned the Children when cid enough are sentt college,
or stuffed with candy by the while babie The
day is to the American woman life and happ ness but
the evening fteu monotonous and wearisome hen ST.
cam, visit the theatre it is cold to Trey
do not know here the rel tons OF family the init
macy Of the resde Julien took the omnibus in Bread
way aud scarcely installed, when a woman of bold
air. with thick eyebrows and prom nent forehead,
| Tered The lady threw rapid gance around, amt dis
in har> tone, and Ike haste! Julien eager to
obey suppo ing that the had forgotten porte
nnonnae or her handkerchief on the seat What his
a<tonshmf seeing her TRANQUILITY install herself in his
pl zee without much "a word look If thanks. He
did not know what 70 do with himself ann bestou ing
furious ok the American lidy, deeided 10 go OUT
when he heard IL him from the other side of
the vehicle. .'Sir Sir" cried little feminine. julien
turned 1t young and pretty girl dressed with
she smiling But there is no room Msdemoselle,' he
replied. Never mind, come" The appeal was too
gracious to pass unheeded; Jul len advanced toward
the young American. She and, in her giving
her Plare to Julien, Sit there" said she. "Oh Miss
NOS cannot suffer it, murmnred the confused young
MAJ What stupid low - cried the young gifi i'm
patiently pushing him into her Tnen square and
resolue, she placed herself his knees. With the pre-
sumption oh raceristic Of Frenchman, Julien did not
Influence Of his egnt tourure and the neatnrss
gloves. He rnssly deceived himself; she would have
done as much for the first Yankee conner.
Our whiting propensity receives the follow
ing slap:
Armel with pocket knife they seize the first pierre of
Wboa comes 10 ndnd-a cane unlDrei3
corner Hthese are want they take to the furniture
they carve without c,-coun:ers, wndow-fames
dors, chairs, sof bill ard tables church p.ws-n fine
rot ing sacred to them. have often the Ohio
steambo Is gentlemen cutting furiousy. under the very
eye OF the Captain the Of chairs in which they
se,ted This mania is universal in the United States,
that during the session Of Congress- almost ali the esks
81 the Senatars ard Repre- ertaves supplied every
morn NJ by the attend with tie bits of wood for the
OF the members is indeed intellectual
at raru ated to develop the highest point the IA
culties Of these gentlemen
The reason for everything in the United
States, it is said, is the dollar; and, if an OBJ
ject of passion in the men, it is certainly that
of a worship in the women. If American
women's desires were gratifed, and they were
permitted to enter political life,
From the moment its secrets should be known them
the State would be comIrQmised for ths for Jugur
ha everything in the world has its price, only remains
to fix it.
Henry Clay does not escape the authors
SANDER; for, in note written by another
party in 1S41, but endorsed by her, he is spoken
of as
Aman Of limited caracity, acquainted with language,
dead living EXCEPT his own OF low habits, drinking
whisky in taverns with the moh utterly ignorant Of
European affairs, using the most insult familiar ty
with people he does know, and cng his teeth at
table ". tn his knife. in the presence Of ladies.
Such is the trash of which this volume is
composed. 1t has caused some talk in Paris,
but is secuted by sensible persons, who know
how to appreciate its value.
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