Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-18

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The sad Life Of Partisan Lorettcs--rhcir
Varying Fortunes aud Melancholy Ends.
The Partisan Aspasias, poor, abandoned
wretches, Pariahs Of society, writes a Paris
| correspondent, are oftentimes more deserv-
| ing of pity than blame. Learn their history
and they are found TO have been the unhappy
victims of others, since they have been sacri-
feed by avaricious parents. They have been
thrown unprotected upon the world, at an
age too tender TO discriminate between good
and evil Gilded vice has appeared to them
far more inviting than starving virtue. They
are, in many instances, destined 10 die in the
hospital, or drag out the end of their brief
career in the ranks Of the rag-pickers and
offal-gatherers of the metropolis. The ex-
ceptions are few indeed; and there is no
reason to assert that the disgraceful notoriety
| of the hour, the famous Rigolboche, will not
| ultimately share the usual fate of her sisters
in vice. She is by no means the first exam
| pie Of q successful Partisan courtesan. -
0he of her predecessors was creature
known as ia Refine Pomare," who sqan-
dered thousands and died in squalor. Another,
and later fayorite of fortune, was a girl who
had dassumed the soubriquetof 'Rigolette" and
who received, about two years ago, from an
| infatuated Polish nobeman, gifts amounting
in value to upward of 100000 francs. Her
foreign lovers deserted wife left her home in
Warsaw, came to Paris and appealed to the
| tribunals for redress The law restored to
| the injured lady the property squandered by
her husband upon his mistress, and ''Rigo-
lette" was sent TO prison, as a yagrant
Where she is now, heaYen knows-perhaps q
rag-picker. And SO on to the. end of the
| chapter; "Frisette,n "Souris,n 'spanache, .
0R6se Pompon," 'eLouise la Plastique,n and
other toys Of o time, nave all strutted theii
brief hour, and are heard no, more. T.. = n
The LAST UNoHAsrE CELERRirY IN PARIs--
A Vulcan AND HoMELy CoURrEsAs TIL
RAGE IN THE GAY CAPIrAL.--A Paris CORES
pondent says in late letter; .oil ,l at'. l1,--. =
"Rigolboche" is the pseudonym Of an indi
vidual, who has become q Parisian celebrity
and now shares o place in the public atten
ton with other eminent contemporary per
sonages; is much fattered and much abused
in the newspapers; has published an auto
biography, whose, extensive sale would seen
to indicate that the particulars of 5Rigol
boche's life are repletef with interest j,
courted and adored by. scions of many nobl,
houses; is the subject of O fye-aet play, whicl
draws crowded audiences, in midsummer, I,
a wretchedly ventilated theater; has bee
eagerly photographed, in various fayorit
poses, by the best artists Of the town, and
decidedly one of the topics Of the day. IN,
Rigolboche Is mire-born, low-bred, Wi
gar, uncouth, hideous, impudent courtesan
who was a grisette dancer, three years age
at disreputable barrier, balls, and possesse
scarcely second robe d indienae., This sam
miserable creature, who has only grow
three years older in yulgarity, ugliness AM
brazen impudence, since she danced the can
can at the "Prado,n now occupies suite Z
luxuriously furnished apartments, in one c
the most fashionable quarters of the capita
is surrounded by obsequious servants, an
drives pair Of blood horses with o liver
lackey on the box-board of her carriagel