The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-03
The 'sBeaux Monde OF Parts and
LOndOn---ThejF Free and Easy Virtues
of the French Capital Being Intro
dueed into English High IITe.

AhS 1AOAAue VI EAElS f1M1gA
LOndOn---TheJF Free and Easy virtues
of the French Capital Being Intro
dueed Into English High Lie.
tic Magazine. Published az No. 5, Beeknar
Street, Nel0 YORK.
1t is now some months since one of
the leading and most popular Journals
of the day directed the public attention
to a very remarkable phase of society
in Paris. 1t seems that a certain por-
ton OF the beau monde of that capital,
impelled by an incredible impulse
(whether for good or evil who's can tell?l,
made advances to the denli monde, and
both sought and obtained admission
within the precincts of that society. 1t
almost surpasses belief, that women of
fair reputation, of good descent, and of
high repute in the best Partisan soci-
ETY., should, for the sake of an idle
curiosity, condescend to desire an ac-
quaintauce with the life, manners, and
customs of certain class OF women
whose position and circumstances de-
note the very reverse of purity and
chastity, and who keep kind of court
which is attended by all the men of
wealth and fashion between twenty and
sixty. 1t is possible that the beau
monde may have desired to solve the
problem why there existed so great a
disinciinstiOn for matrimony, and
what those charms were which. at
traeted so many from their homes and
made them truants. They NAV have
wished to reclaim some who had wan
dered from their allegiance, but it was
u rash experiment, and one which
nothing could justify Their presence
sanctioned that against which their
whole life was, or ought to have been.
protest. They descended from their
high position, and if they have sulIied
THAR OtHT -rannNaNinn NhaN ha-
to blame but themselves If mere idle
curiosity was their motiYe they were,
OF course, still more without excuse.
We all know how faIAl a gift curiosity
is, and how much woe il has worked.
Our common mother Eve was not
proof against It, and we are sufferers.
HOW conld they hope 10 escape its pen-
alttes IL they were bent upon indulging
It at all rfsks1 But there Is a much
graYer question underlying this pecu-
liar phase OF PaTisian society. Is it
that IN Franco. there Is n different code
code Of morals TO that which prevails
wherever Christianity is taught p Is il
that French morality-and french de-
eeRey are names without a meaning.
and that Paris is more honey.combed
with vice than any other eityP 2 Il il
that the Court Is less pure or the gene
raj tone OF society more corrupt Is it
II at home inhnences are unknown or
depreciated7 Il Il q remarkable fact,
when taken in mb4nafion with the
fiourishing condition Of the deHi monde
and the recognized nstatue'' It has in
Paris, thai q French familyis proverbs
ally small $50 much So that the con-
trsEry Is looked upon as quite excep-
lional, which French lady Of our
aea uaintance spoke OF as being CONNIE
les AaaLdiS- 8. 4.llt E5
II was not long aftsr our attention
had been drawn 20 the existing state of
things, that we read an account -of the
magnificence of 3 house In Paris be-
loHgiAg.-t 70 g. lady whose ambition il
vas 70 eclipse AL her rivals In EsFs In