Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-03-06
FRENCH CELEBRITIES,
PAnIs, january 81, 1856.

+ was led into these refec-
tons by hearing the other day of the divisions
NJ. Victor Cousin, the eminent French metaphy-
stefan, makes of the year, and the labors he pur-
sues III each of them. It.appears that he divides
the year into two equal periods: in summer,
when he flies Paris for the country, he buries
himself deep in the wandering mazes of philos-
ophy; the long winters nights, which pass away
in this busy capital, he spends in reSuScitating
the most celebrated drawing-rooms of classical
literature, those of MesdameS de Longueyille, dc
Sable and de ChcvrcQsc.
SCRIBE.
NJ. Scribe was left an orphan at an early age,
with pittance of 500 a-ycar; his guardian de-
sired him to study for the bar but the footlights
fascinated him, and he has been faithful to them
above thirty years. lie works-and has work
ed every day of his life, from five o'clock in
Summer; and six o'clock in Winter, until ten
o'clock of the morning, when, as he says, his
days laborS are over but the whole of his life
is taken up by the stage; for his social commerce
the long hours of rehearsals, his business rcIa-
TONS are all turned to the profit of the THEATRE
he is always on the lookout for new characters
and situations, suited with comedy or drama
he takes notes of good sayings and subjects of
pieces wherever he finds them, He observes
and listens more than he speaks.
He has written 400 vaudevilles, operas, ope-
ras comiques, comedies, dramas and balIets, and
has earned. a fortune of $780, 900 by his pen-a
fortune which is rapidly increasing, he will prob
ably leave an estate at. his death of more than
million ofdollars.
THEIRS.
n. Theirs rises in the Winter at six, and in
the Summer at five o'clock, and goes into his lib
rary, and works scdulously until noon, when he
breakfasts (the second breakfast usual here, the
first being cup Of coffee and butered bred)
After breakfast he returns to his library, and
works until three o'clock when he takes a siestG
which lasts until dinner time. II he does not
dine out, or have company, or go to the Grand
Opera land it is rare he does not do one of the
three,) he again returns to his library to study.
He is extremely frugal, although the master of
an immense fortune, especially in everything re-
lating to the table aud the cellar He is pas
sionately fond of flowers and humnling-bird
When he has no immediate calls on his attention
he examines maps with a curiosity which never
tires. He is at present very fond of engravings;
for, besides his passion for flowers and humming-
birds, he generally has two or three hobbies.
VICTOR HUGO.
N. Victor Hugo is fond of composing at night
lin those calm hours which steal noiSlessly away
between midnight and daybrcak-Lucrecc Bor-
gia, Les Orientales, Notre Dame de Paris, cost
him many sleeples night, passed over his desk,
wrapped in a thick wadded dressing gown. His
avoritc quarters of the city for his residence are
those far removed from the hustle of life: his
whole Paris life has been spent in the extreme
Southern portion of the FaubOurg St German,
the sequcstered Rue Jean GOujon, aud immcdi-
atcly under Montamartre His house was deco
rated with gothic furniture, and everything in it
bore testimony to his antiquarian tastes.-C0r
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