The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-11
Gossip About French Authors.

The Paris correspondent OF the Publishers
Circular writes:-
"NeYer did literary men, French literary men,
insist more than at present upon the absolute
necessity OF LIVING in Paris in order to work
well. Critics are unanimously of opinion that
NJ, Theodore Barriere owes his continued dra-
matte failures, of late TO his suburban residence.
NJ. f. Sarcey went, a short time since, to NJ.
Victorien Sardou's beautiful country seat at
Marty. He said:-'What a charming place to
work aGr III. Sardou replied: :-'Oh dear, no
good place to dream in, but when want to
work slip on my oyercoat, take the rail way,
and in fifteen minutes / am in the Chaussee
dAntin-there get in the humor OF working'
This feversh life of Paris is becoming fatal to
many an author. good many authors reported
ill are really kept by their friends in seclusion
because their minds are tangled.
"Aiter all sorts OF conflicting rumors about
Nj. Theodore Pelloquet, we are now told, on
since at Grasse as a vagabond. Hearing OF his
arrest, the sub prefect of Grasse guessed the
vagabond was none other than the literary man
he had heard spoken Of, and he had him carried
to the hospital. The following day poor Pello-
quet was placed in the care of two eendarmes,
with whom he entered Nice in the evening. He
passed the night at the police station. The
next morning he was recognized and carried to
the lunatc asylum of Nice He is speechless,
and deprived Of Teason.'
IN. Ernest Capendu was buried few days
ago, after a most feverish life. He was born in
atlluenCe, at least in independence of fortune.
His father was wine merchant, who left $50, 900
or $50, 600 to be divided between his wife and
only child. He unfortunately died before his son
grew up TO mans estate. The moment young
Capendu was in possession OF his fortune he
launched into the most rotous living, and in a
short time found himself not only at the end of
his estate but to the lips in debt. His mother
came TO his assistance, and sacrificed a portion
of her estate to release him from his creditors
He continually applied to her for money, and at
last she was obliged to refuse to give him any
more.
"Then occurred passage in his life which is
envelOped i'll so much obscurlty that scarcely
feel at liberty to speak OF it. Whatever it was,
it made it necessary for him to quit France. She
| died soon after his departure, it was said,
! broken. hearted. In course of time he returned
to France and appealed to his pen TO support
| him. His struggles for livelihood by it were
long, but at last he found it remuneratve, and
was fortunate enough to write comedy LES
| Faux Bonhommes,' with NJ. Theodore Barrere,
which had a long run OF success, and must have
| brought him in a good deal OF money, But his
| habits were eXtravagant. He bad, like many
| literary men here, married his mistress, who
probably knew little OF domestic economy. lie
| tried the theatre several times afterwards, but
| never attained great success.
"He meantime wIoe novel upon novel, and
| for @ moment had some vogue as a novelist
| then avor deserted him, and his pen could not
| have supplied HIM with an abundant income,
| although 1t never ceased to blot paper. At last
and he was scarcely turned of forty years of
age when this last, dreadful blow came-his
| NINA became impaired. He was not exactly
| insane; his disease was rather a sofening of the
BRAN; he could still work, but every day a
! thicker veil intervened between his mind and
his task, and at last intellectual night came.
Fortunately physical night soon followed, aud
the teveTed weary laborer was laid in his crave.
His wife survives him, but believe that they
had no children. One Of his lunatc conceits
was to keep his wife in bed during nearly the
whole OF the last year OF his lite; he persuaded
himself she was dangerously Ill. He had for
many years, been exceedingly eccentric, and his
intimate friends had long expected he would GO
crazy.
;.Ihe Imperial Printing Office has issued NJ
Joseph DeTenbourgs 'Es5si sur Paistoire de la
Palestine depuis Cyrus jusqu' Adrlen, d'apre;
les Thalmuds ct les autres sources rabbiniques.
N. Ernest Renan says OF it, We earnestly re-
commend this work to persons who take inte
rest in the history Of Judaism and Christianity
1t is full of solid learning, and in it the euthoi
gives evidence of rare penetration of mind.
He is one OF our most meritorious Oriental
scholats.in