The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-05
The Female, Of a French Audience,

The Females Of a French Audience.
The Paris correspondent Of the New Or
leans Pieayune, indulgss in some reflections
on the audience in Psrisiau theatres, which
illustrate their peculiarly sufficiently
enough to be repeated here:
There IS one trait Of Partisan manners
which has always struck foreigners with
wonder. I mean that confusion Of ranks
which permits the lOOsest woman to live
under the same roof with maiden modesty,
and TO sit side BY side with them in the
places Of amusement There is no third
tier in any French theatre. The reasoning
Of the French is this; The scandal would
be greater IL we were 10 set apart certain
portion Of our theatres for these creatures
The division would call attention to
them. Il would challenge observations and
remarks Everybody would see and know
them, They, feeling themselves constantly
in the pili0ry, would throw OF al restraint,
and in their dress and countenance efieud
deesney in hundred ways. AZ present
who can tell the dishonored from the re-
spectacle women2 Vice pays homage to
virtue BY borrowing its domino aud mask
and acting the assumed character tin il
reaches privacy.
Everything has rendered to produce this
result; and latterly, the fashions aud the
frantic passion for show which ievers al
classes, and especially the higher classes
here whom one Would think safety shouid
have efectuslly defended from extrava-
Cancel have so leVeled sll distinctions that
II Is the next thing 10 impossible 20 distin
guish the lady from the loose woman. Both
wear the same costly attire, both wear the
hair dressed IN the same manner, both paint
their cheeks and perfume their garments
with the same strong od0rs, and both as
sumo the same brazen glance. One Of cur
newsp papers, giving sketch OF the Gymnass
the other night, when NJ. Alexander Dumas,
Jr.'s play, "Lee Demi Monde" was revived,
hit this singular characteristic OF the man
ners Of Paris with a good deal OF sprighui-
ness: "Yonder is Loloche, the diss0lute &C.
tress Of the Delassements Conquest"
What that syren, scarcely concealed by a |
gauze embroidered with gold; what that
beautiful .ftie everybody ogles under her |
very nose, and who smiles az all with her |
humid lips and her brilliant eyes-is that !
LolOchey' "GOOd gracious, no that lady |
you are looking az is the Princess Skinkos- |
zoh, one Of the noblest heads in Europe"
"Ohi 1 see now. Loloche is one OF those |
hree drotessss whose frizzled hair floats be-
lind them like flag on a public building? /
lclOche is g girl wearing the little hat Il a /
French gusrdsman embroidered with white 4
pearls and covered with feathers" "Noi"
Then she Is the one who trails that blood
ed skirt, adorned with SILVER arabesques
wearing on her arm above the elbow large |
,old ring, adorned with incense bearing and
nedallious, which glitter under the laceg
That's not she" "Ahl now see whom
'ou mean. Loloche is that shepherdess a
white silk skirt, raised very high by silver
hams, and whose red silk stockings, deii-
ately embroidered with gold and white
attn bottlnes can see from here?' 'NOt a
az Of it. That is not L0loche. The Young
roman with red stockings is a country girl
Fho is looking for a husband. She hasn't
cent Of dowry, but she has a greas deal Of
race, or style, as you see, and belongs to
n irreproachable family. Her father Is
"Ohl LOloche is that impu-
ent looking creature who walks about with
caue in her hand and an eye-glass in her
ye." "IoG are again mistaken" replied
ny neighbor with a conscious smile, ''that
idy with the eye glass is-ny sisterP'
A caricature this week likewise exhibits,
ut in another direction, this same confu
ion Of ranks. A Young man and a loretts
leet on the sidewalk and the latter says:
Really Marquis, TO pass in front Of my
cor and not come up was not behaving
Ike a--gentleman" (sic.) The Marquis re
lies: "FOr mercy's sake dear Madam al
Nv me 10 urge my excuse had the
onor 70 perceive Madam, your mother,
Omng Gus of the vintuer's with SIX tous
cassis in a little bottle, and was afraid
GU had company" Where will all this