New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-23

Oh boulevard du CIeme--th;at is, on or In close
ne;obborbood 70 the site of La Gazette, Of Dumas
Theatre Historique (afterward Theatre Lyrque)
of lie Cirque, and others. As ] once read 10. q
"well-nforinsd" and intelligent" Paris CORE
snondent's better to New York paper--it wa
wears AGO very solemnly historical and laugh
ablv erroneous explanation Of the meaning OF
the ssubriouet Of the Boulevard du Temple, let
mo rive here the true one. 1t was applied to
that part of the Boulevards because Oft quail
itv Of the dramas presented in the theatres
there, in tho high days Of triumphant romanti-
cis,n. Then and there, through the first four
acts and the first dozen tableaux, all the crimes
Of the old decaloguc, with complicately rich
modern variations, were rampant before the
foot-liebts. Toward The close Of the fifth act,
indeed, vice always caught it uncommon hard,
and oppressed virtue, instead Of having to look
to itself for wages, got rewarded with no end OF
brilliant marriages, and plethoric money-bags
and high places.
But Of the half dozen or more, now theatres,
the really new one is the little Italian opera Of
the Rue Cadet. this is to be Bu6a, real ltal-
ian Bnfa, giving to Parsians for the first time
what the habtues Of the Italian opera OF Pass,
London, St. Petersburg, Madrid, New-York or
Havana never seen and heard, except very rare
! " and then very imperfecuy, the light, iantas-
tic, charming, graceful, super-comic but not
gross Bn6a not BugoOu, Neapolitan aud other
specially national Italian fancy and humor get
to music, played, sung and danced.
II il heghth Of SIMMER heat, now-the town
is out of town at Vichy, at Baden, at the Sea-
side--only some 1,70O,0OO Poisians left in Pa
ris, which would seem quite desert Int for Wis.,
itors from the Provinces, from across the Chan
mel and across the Rhine, and across the Alps and
across the Pyrenees and across the Atlantic.
The Opera Comigne, the Thedfrs4yriqn, Les But
! fes Parisi.pnes Les kaiitus Of course, and both
the other houses are closed. al the others are
playing old pieces to the new strange faces Tour
de Nesle for instance at the Porte 81. Martins, lie
Case de INDIE Tom Cha,elet-save only the
Gymnase Here at last, after long drawn notes
Of preparation first sounded months ago, was
brought out last Monday week, the Don On
che. # Victoren Sardon. But if the prepara-
tol Is articipatory, expeciant notes sung and said
since winter were many, they as nothing in
quantil, compared TO the volume of crticiz-
ling-somevLat discoriant-that fruition has
evoked. Speaking within bounds, should say
that in the last ten days, in fulflment of ny
sad duty as q "well informed own" and for my
sins, had read TO the amount OF stout octave OF
written talk and have heard balloon full ofartc-
ulate waste wind on the subject. Then, taking my
courage in both hands, as the French say, and
opportunity ofarefreshing change IN the torrd air
, ofthe preceding three days, did dispose myself,
r as TRIBUNE reporter, four nights ego, In the or
/ chestra of the Gymnase to See and hear for my.
self and your readers. And very admirable
} sight il was--aud is, and shall be photographed
, on my memory's retina. The first entrance Of
, Lesueur as the exalted, crack-brained, laugh.
able but never ridiculous fantastic, truly noble
S and gentle man, was, though in totally differ.
? ent kind, the unexceptionably highest, most
! poetical and completely triumphant work Of
histronc art that have seen since Rachel
quickened Racine's artificial Phedrs 10 the pas
slOHdlc IthIIty vi Ilo-diu ,haI "l'ihh '"o nun
row limits imposed by the intensely artificial
forms Of the poem.
When the curtain rises, the barber is in the
dining-room, busted, with the housekcepers en-
couragement in mailing tapestry over the door
that lets into the library Of chivalric romanccs,
the perusal of which las turned Don Quixote' S
brain. Scarcely il the last nail driven, when
the Don enters, s. D.-a long, gsunt figure, ell
ready draped in knights undersut Of buff
leather; gray-haired, with outset eyes, looking
beyond and over the present time and its poor
work -a-dsy interests, fixed on the second page
of folio that he holds in his left hand, and
reading as he walks. The first provocstion ia TO
laughter, but something in that laughable figure
commanded arespect recognized by all the house.
On he marches, absorbed In his reading, 'Iapt
from the vulgar world and his household sur
roundngs; he has nearly reached the bottom Of
the page. he applies thumb and finger TO reverse
the leaf. it clings to the next, won't turn; then
the reader, still having some lines TO finish,
draws out from under his left arm his unsheathed
sword some four feet long and while bis eye and
mind unbrokenly follow the printed lines that
close the page cuts open the next closed leaf with
such magnificent sweep Of bis arm and hand,
that rests outstreched still he roads on in the
next page--I tell you-thc first deep admiring
hum Of the house, quick swelling then bursting
in stormy applause-tells how Lesueur had, in
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