The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-16
GOSSIP FROM PARIS.


The last story ahoat regarding the visit CT the
Count and Countess Girgenh to France is that
the Count is here to establish an offensive and
defensive alliance between France and SPAIN
which was to have been concluded q lew weeks
ego, France engaging to support the present
Epanish dynasty IL threatened, and SPAN
placing forty thousand soldiers and part OF her
navy at the disposal Of France, IL o war break
out. Then, again, some people say that MS
Royal HiRhness is entrusted with confidential
mission from his brother, Francis II, to the
Emperor. However these things may be, moth
ing at all certain is known as yet except that
the illustrious visitors have received the
heartiest welcome from the Emperor
He entertained them yesterday to
magnificent banquet ut the Cha
teau of Fontainebleau. he fetes came off
with great ec,dt. After a splendid drive in the
forest, dinner was served in the magnificent
gallery OF Henry II. Afterwards there was a
theatrical representation by the drttstes Of the
7hedre Francois, which was followed by
supper. At 2 A. N. the guests, one hundred in
number, left by special train for Paris. Though
all was exquisitely done, no extraordinary
snow was made, for the Emperor had used
very simple form of invitation to his royal
guests:-"I all BE glad to see you, and expect
you will come sans cerernonte." Men were
allowed to dispense with uniforms, and SO all
wore black coats.
NJ. Rocbeort has now declared war to the
empire, war to the knife. His fourteenth Ian
terne, issued from Brussels and circulated widely
in Prussia Belgium, and throughout the whole
Of Germany, is being secretly sold in Paris by
thousands in spite of all attempts at suppression.
This number contains the authors full and per-
feet expression of that passionate hate of the
empire, which he has always shown even in his
earliest writings. But in them 1t was necessa-
rily fire that had to be half-smothered, lest 1t
should burn Rochefort's own house down. Now
that he is in tree air, and can let it blaze, 1t is
pleasant TO note his almost boyish enjoyment
of his liberty and his bonfire. He will not suf-
fer himself to be imprisoned If he can help it.
That would be to give up the game when all the
trumps are in his hands. He says:-"To sup
pose that any good can be done with the men OF
December D. by stretching cut your wrists for
their handouts, and saying, Here 1 am, do
with me what you will would be stupid, in
deed. l shall redouble my blows in order
to precipitate the denouenena. You sen.
fenced me to sixteen months imprisonment.
Here is my answer. l condemn you to two
years Of the Lanterne. The only way to extin.
glorious Emperor from the Tuilleries. 1 am
q lite willing to leave off writing but Napoleon
must first cease to reign. Now, announce this
that every Saturday the Ldnterne, illegally
strang gled in France, will appear in some foreign
country. 1t will filter through the French
frontiers and be circulated in Paris TO an extent
that will a,tonish you. My domcile will be
here and there and everywhere. resign myself
A. ~ tbo ort Of ba
literary poacher. One day shall date the
Lan'e,me from Geneva, an other from Baden,
Heidelberg, Ostend, or Cologne, and when you
come to demand my expulsion you must apply
to some fifteen Governments, OF whom fourteen
at least will laugh in your face. So much for
the L1nter1ae, the bitterest enemy the Emperor
has ever had to face" Many people who only
began in admiring the clever writer, now be-
lieye in HIM, and are his firm disciples. The
Emperor has clever duellist for partisan,
Cassagnac. Why cannot he invent writer to
rival and put down RochefoIt?
A statue was erected to Greuze last week, BY
subscription, at Tournus, the birth place of that
most insnuating of painters. NJ Rougelet who
ecuptured the work, was born IN the same house
as Greuze exactly one hundred years later. At
the Inauguration NJ. Arsene Houssaye, the art
historian, delivered an elegant speech.
AS there is nothing particularly striking Just
now, let me give you little gossip regarding a
family every one knows, If not personally at
least by hearsay. Baron Nathaniel de Rsths-
child has left his habitation in the Rue Tatbout
and has built Tor himself a wonderful hotel in
the Faubourg st. Honore. N. Rothschtd has
not been more than six months in his new
hotel, which is wonderfully and deliciously
adapted with every luxury, and already his
courtyard looks as if 1t had been the scene OF
an earthquake, that is to say the pavement and
stones and asphalte composing it are now
heaped together IN pre-Adamic chaos. Every
one is asking II he has inherited the mania OF
the old Baron Solomon, his uncle. Perhaps
you may not know what the particular mama of
the lamented ancestor was. Baron Solomon.
from Vienna, brother of Baron James, came to
reside in Paris at the ripe age OF seventy-two,
and chartered fine hotel in the Rue Laatte.
The Baron, notwithstanding his great age. wa7
q good hand at the fork, and breakfasts at @
A. NJ. and took his dinner at in the evening.
As gourmands love to tell, he remained each
time an hour at table,and ia that space inyari.
ably absorbed his six courses At half
past seven, his last mouth ul scarcely yallowed
he introduced himself into what the French cali
his pocket book, or in plain English, his ham
mock or four poster. Auy other than he with
regime like this, would have gone of In apo
p'exy or paralysis. Not so the Baron, who tn
eighty-tbree never bad Indigestion. | must also
tell you that he had for officer OF supply Adolphe
DugleIe an artist than whom no emperor or
queen ever possessed better, as he had more
than talent-he had genius. Going 10 bed at
halt.DqSt az IN in yba