New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-07
LETTER FROM PARIS.


PARIS, June u, 1866
The time begins to approach when Paris
ans get tired of their great city and betake them
selves to the seashore or the country or travel as
their tastes may dictate. At such time the fash
ionables declare Paris to be empty, although the
loss of some thousands is to an ordinary eve i'm
perceptible in the great mass of beings that we
find everywhere in this great city. Take a fete
day, go the Bots de Boulogne, passing through the
Champs Elysees, and you would think half the
population of the city was there. Go to the
Boulevards, and the mass seems quite as great.
Traverse the whole city, go to the peoples park,
the Bots de VinCennes, and you will wonder if the
crowds you have seen have been suddenly trans
ferred to this spot, or is it possible that single
city holds SO many. A French crowd however
shows to advantage it is not so compact as a sim
liar number of Americans, for they have more re-
gard for each other than our pushing countrymen,
| and for that reason are much more pleasant A
man who would go elbowing and pushing people
on all SIDES would be looked on as a brute, and
probably be treated as one. They are also neater
IN their dress and consequently have liylier an.
pearance. Dress is considered, like cooking, to
be essentially French art.
The latest Paris fashions have for a long
! time ruled the modes in all countries and prob
/ ably with reason, for they pay q great deal of
attention to the subject, and probably there ia no
| people who dress habitually with SO much taste as
! the fFench, more especially the Parsians. They
have an eye for shape and color that appears to be
naturally discerning, This is noticeable in the
lower classes, IN thelr afess and ornaments, well
| as IN the Weather. There are some, however in
tae lower, might almost say the lowest, walks of
| life, at Paris, that, to Judge from their appear
ahce give httle thought 10 dress or fashion the
coal dealers who look as II they had not washed
ther faces IN a year, and the rag pickers, who
come out at night with their lanterns, baskets and
| PICKS ana some OF whom are hideous IN their
| squalld poverty and ugliuess One could hardly
Imagine that among them are women, gentlewoml n
under such gulse Speaking OF rag -ptcker5 leads
! me TO speak OF the manner IN which they clean
their streets The rubbish accumulated during the
DAY is thrown INTO the streets at night; the rag
| Pckers come and overhaul 1t; after them come
the scaVenger carts, 1t is gathered up the streets
swept and all is clean by eight O'Clock IN the
mQrnng-and eight O'Clock is early in Pars.
Mmle speaking OF streets, will continue the
SUBJECT little further, and give you some iutor
NATION ABOUT them. The streets OF the cities OF
| FariS ana Lyons are under the immediate charge
! OF the emperor; that Is to say, nothing can be
done which IN any manner affects the public ways
Wlthout MS consent In all other cities OF France
tney are uhoer the charge OF the projects OF the
diuerent departments. IN the case OF the streets
OF PARIS the emperor has certainly done credit to
MS charge Tor doubt II there exists another large
Guy mat can BOAST OF such well made and well
| Kept streets as PaTis-not merely the bouevards
/
sae,Way streets that IN our country would be Wis
lted by the commits ary's cart by accident They
al present the same clean and well kept appear
a1ce' The streets are either paved with granite
blocks, macadamized, or made of kind Of asphal-
tum. The pavements are made almost entirely
OF the latter article, and the whole is kept in the
most thorough repair. Not the smallest rut or
ofeak IN street or pavement, but short time will
md body OF workmen repairingit. This prompt !
ness 49, think, connected with and effected by |
tne excellent police force that watches the whole
clty, ana exercise constant and watchful care
over the inhabitants, their bodily safety and the
safety OF their property.
AT the FaIals de lndustre, on the Champs Elys- |
sees, the annual exhibition OF painting, etc, has |
Deeh gong on Tor month 10 any one who likes |
pictures OF any knd, II IS an interesting sight, and
many hours, nay days can be spent in the various |
galleries OF paintings, drawing, sculpture, etc, |
connected with the exhibition is what is called the
EEeuoSpecuye gallery, composed OF paintings BY |
tue ola masters collected from the various private
gaIerlesl france, to be placed on exhibition for the
tune being. We notice Baron Rothschild's name
attached to some OF the best. As a proof of the
by judges will give you an extract from a re-
view OF the exhibition in Gaignani's Messenger
IL we contemplate the actual condition of the
me arts 10 countries which boast Of school, we
snail, perhaps come to the conclusion that paint
ings IN France and Belgium, Of the present day
snow greater amount Of education, study and
manual excellence than those of any other con
uhentaI arusts' Rome continues to produce the
, =.
0y artists OF all nations but painting in Italy re
meets little of its past glory. Spain lost her artists
When the church ceased to patronze and H0I-
land, to-day, Is only rich in the works Of past
generation
Let any travelled Engishman, educated in the
hne arts, visit our modern collections, and espe
claliy the exhibitions OF the Royal Academy aud
lie WI! conclude that, taking these collections as
whole, estimating, in fact, the aggregate value ,
OF the art, the British school is not producing SO
many line works as those of France and Belgium.
In the latter countries the artist is more system
atieally educated than in England. He studies
anatomy, drawing and the old masters from an a
early age In England the painter is too often an =
artist by accident, very mperfectly educated, and
despite the encouragement of friends. Then 4
again. it may be asked are painters in England
now receiving that education, and engaged in that
sort OF serious study, which was exercised by !
those artists OF name and fame who surrounded !
Slr Joshua Reynolds! Is not art in England, like
literature, become more sensational and less T.
artistic The English painters known abroad are :
scarcely the men of our day-Turner, Constable, .
Leslie Stanheld, Landseer, Maclise, in fact, some
dozen Brush artists. Now, in France, we are not
retFogradlng, and we think it would prove profit
aDle 10 BRUSH painters if they would pay the
rFench e&moltion visit with view of studying,
without prejudice, the condition Of art in France
aS compared win art IN Great Britain
=, AT ms present exhibition we have some four 7
liousand ooJects OF art, painting, sculpture, draw
Jag, enamellng, placed in the very best possible
consequently ~ DcnIt AL