New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-12


Paris letter writer, who has visited in fashion
able circles Of the gay metropoIies, thus describes
the Sonceuse and the laaceav two distinctive types
of Parisians:
These two curious types. which ara tending IN
disappear Ike all the Old customs are these of
people to WHOM the mo3istes and taAors cou6de
their newest fashions in order to net thena the
vogue The tdEee1se is what il called IN PavisiaT.
slang femme chic, that is an elegant T,arqor
accustomed to be remarked at the races At the.
first representations at the theatres. and at an
places of public resort. She Is rarely person of,
equlvocaI character, anless one Of those who have
attained to celebrity but she is generally woman
Of snfcien5 good bearing and taste for real ladies
70 be permitted to initiate without frequenting her
The Ldnceur is less rare than the Idaceise; he is
generally one Of those ruined but fashionable
sweEis to whom the talor5 never send in their bills
and is sort Of living dummy, that consents to
exhI1lt the productions of his furnsher on the tacis
eond!lon Of being Clothed gratuitously. The tailor
saPphss the dress and the redueed aandy lends
the animated model for its display.
The French people, with all their sharpness.
seem-to be fully as liable to be vlctmizs as their
neigh5oTs, and thers'hYe lately been half e dozen
marriages contracted, with grlsof honorable FAM
ilies,>by clever swindlers, native asd foreign:
The first Of these Tas handsome and fashiona-
ble-lOoking personage who called himself the
Baron de Lsuey, and eontriYed to marry young
LADY of good family, on whom he had succeeded in
old house that boasts of royal alliances in past
days, The baron, however, had n3 sooner got
possession of his wife's fortune than he began to
s9uandep it sh3mefullYs the rarnoLstrsnees of Fis
bride were met with brutal retorts, and one un-
lucky day, when the unhappy young baroness
Venturea On representation rather stronger than
usual, the baron went off in a fury, poured out
torrent of the most vulgar oatLs and hrinqinp a
horsewhip into play upon the shoulders Of the
baroness, displayed so peculiar talent in the use
OF mat instrument that the latter Immediately per-
ceiFed that her husband could be no other than
circus groom, as, indeed, YVES abuadantly proved
IN the course of the investigation which followed
this terrible discovery, when it was ascertained
that the fascinating baron was one of the Rrooms
| OF the circus in the Champs EIysees.
The hero of the secend of these adventures
called himself Prince Kalamachi, end allowed
| himself to be supposed to have arrived in Mar
sellles from Turkey, on a diplomatic mission.
!T St.nck WIN the charms of a young lady of Mar
seillesr the daughter of a siGh- merchant, the
prince pressed his suit and was accepted. Prepa-
radons for the wedding were made on a magnif-
cent scale, and the town was r3nsaekad to furnish
| splendid coroe69e for the bride. Aday or two
after the one fixed for the wedding the lady's
brother bethonght him of inquTng after his future
| brother-in-laW at the Turkish embassy in Paris
and learned that no Prince Kalamach was known
there Yhe marriage was postponed, and a few
further inquiries led to the discovery that the
prince, who had procured upon tickr all The
splendid things he had presented to the bride
elect, was convict who had escaped from the
hulks at Constantinople third Of the adroit
roGues who have been occupying the attention oi
the police and the public is an English piekpooket
named Huime. who has actually succeeded in pass
ing himself of Prince Etienne- Louis Charles de
CFoney Chanel, marrying under this tide, borrowed
! from one of the noblest houses of France a Young
| lady OF good standing, and finding credulous
tradesmen to give him credit for several months.
But for the debts thus contracted payment being
at last required, the truth was, discovered, The
sharper is IN prison, but the unfortunate girl ac-
wife. -19''-