Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-13
Correspondence ofthe n. Y. journal of Commerce.
Baron ROthsehiId ana the Emperor.


PARIS, Dec. 10, 1890 Tuesday last,
the emperor paid Baron Rothschild visit,
which has created so much sensation at court
and in the fashionable world as to demand a
few words Of notice The wealthy Baron had
the honor Of receiving his majesty at the SUI
perb country seat of Ferrieres, situated about
an hour and half north of Paris by railway,
on the borders of the forest at Cressy. 1t is
magnificent property, estimated to be worth
twenty-five millions francs, and kept up in
princely style. The Baron begun his pur-
chaSeS in that neighborhood more than thirty
years ago, and has gone on increasing his es-
tates ever since. The emperor left the Tuil-
cries about nine o'clock, dressed in a velvet
shooting jacket, breeches and CATERS, ready
for Ia ChdSSe, the visit being one of sporting
character. A select party, consisting of lord
Cowley, prince Metternicb, prince de la Mos
kowa, M. Fould, and counts Walewski and
Pers'gny, were invited to meet his majesty
and shoot with him. On arriving the emper-
or was received by the Rothschild family, and
proceeded first to visit the chateau, the mag
nificence and riches of which almost exceed
belief. Some of the very finest master pieces
Of Van Dyck, Rubens, Velasquez, and other
great masters, adorn the walls; while the col
lections of antiquities and works of art in the
shape of magolica, precious stones, antique
vases, &C., &C.. can be judged of only by
those who have seen them,o the specimens of
them recently displayedin the Rothschild case
of the kensington museum during the late eX-
hibition in London. The collection of Greek
and Roman antiquities, also, and of the Re-
. Nuisance, is to be equalled only in the gale
ries of the Louvre itself. The magnificent
salon of Louis XIV, the guard room, the i'm
mense dining hall, decorated in the Tudor
style, were especially admired by the emper-
or and the other visitors. After having view
ed the interior of the mansion and the grounds
and planted a cedar in the latter with his own
hands as a soucenir of his visit, the emperor
sat down to breakfast at table groaning with
Injuries, served on plate OF unique elegance
of design, mingled with service of porcelain
of Sevres, painted bv Boucher, and worth, as
they say, kings ransom. After this enter
tainment the party proceeded to the great
park and the shooting began Twenty game
keepers of the Baron and thirty heaters, all in
appropriate costumes, preceded the party to
raise the game, which flew and ran in bewil-
dering abundance, The emperor was follow
ed by attendants who kept eight guns con-
stantly loaded for his use; and with these his
majesty, who was a first rate shot, with an
uncommonly cool head and true eye, did i'm
mense executions bringing down his double
shots of cock pheasants in excellent good
style. The shooting went on until about
dark, and ended in killing more than thou
sand head Of game When the party return
ed they found the chateau brilliantly illumi'
mated, and the whole neighborhood, with the
mayors and cures at its head, assembled tc
greet the emperor. A collation. was again
served, during which new ''hunting cho-
rus" composed expressly fo1. the OCCASION by
Rossni, was performed, of great beauty, writ
zen in the style of William Tell After this
splendid and novel finale; the emperor, turn
ing to the ladies of Baron Rothschild's house
hold, expressed his warm thanks for the mag
nlficence and cordially of his entertainment
and for the pleasure his days visit had afford
ed him; after which he took his leave, ant
was reconducted to the railway station
amid blaze of torchlight from the keepers
and watchers of the park and forest, who lineC
the road. The same evening, as though t.
show how little fatgued he was by his day
excursion and shooting, the emperor accom-
! panied the empress to the one thousandth rep
resentatgon of Boildieu's Dame Blance at tn,
Opera Comique.