Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-07-02

RsmantIc Domestic TTaEedI-Au uaralih' ul
wife and ReVsngerul HushAud.

RsmantIe DomestIc TTaEedI-Au UnraIlh nj
wife and ReVenEerul Husbasd.
Paris Cor. Lordon Time, JuusB VI
II would not DO very rash bet 70 sake that
there !. NO farce OF broad comedy ~ Any given o
ioke Is not made about deceived husbands or
unfalthfnl wives, In some pieees-as, tor 10.
,tanoe, IN one which hai teeenlly pssn played
aud convulsed audiencos-tho whole fuu Of the
bToadest kind turns upon this suggestive
scheme, and husbands and wives g. mght after
night &c roar with laughter at the hndelities
which married people practice towards each
other.
might be pardOned for imagining that adultery
vas treated In Il almost a. Joke, or, at any rate
as VeniAl offence, far too common 10 excite sur
prise or grave reprObatlOn. II Is rather startling
View o. he comic stage 70 The real iTs Of the
Law courts, when such case as "LgJab Du,
bOurg," or "Le DTame De Ia Rue des Efolrl," as
the more sensational journals style " ~ being
tried. There Is nothing here out Of which the
most thorough going ParlFlan can getany fun
but the chief question is, whether a husband
ought TO be punished who has put his wife to
painfully lingering death by hacking her TO
pieces, because she has done what on he stage
would only raise laugh. II is CuriOu to con-
trast the horrible tragedy which reallyhappened
In the Rue des Ecoles with the fun which the
French comic dramatist would have VT out Oi
such situAtion as that Of . wife en- dthgbMt In
bachelors room, while her husband II shouting
through the keyhOle, and her lover Is escaping
throuTh the window. like a rat, over tie tiles
Tho story OF the married lite Of the OubouTg,
though very painful Is TO English reatera sum.
oisntIy InStTuetiVe and slrRnHe 10 be worth at
least brief recital II began with nat most
perilOus Of French Institutions, the marriage
an coRpsRaace Husband and wife had not
known each other more than fortnight before
sstsd maTriaVe II vas oniV not broker on after
a scene Whiob Alarmed them b., n By iOreshadOW.
Ing the unhappiness in store for them ont Of an
Snneafs 6oTeyeT, Al 1Tst 10 have sincerely
i6ycsi III Via ana far n short time their union
wss snii,,isntiv fslicltous hui biokerinE soon
sTosS And sabssouSntly duTinE two yeSfs-up
10 M moment Ehen s6e died By his hand-the
Two appear 10 have been, with short Intervals Of
seemInx RECONCILIATION, profoundly miserable.
III S1lSootSd her of innislity, And she retaiiated
hv accbSinV him Of WaStI1E Ms money upon
gsmbling mi mIStresses' Nv a iataI chance
she met an old admITer-M. de Pfecurbln-to
ysboTn n had been oTiVinAlly proposed 70 marry
w nO' nD " c,IwInai ibiimasv .SIInV 10 sImoit
immsiIatsIV UWas About' mis- time that per.
Mana tho stFapRest norton OF the story CON.
msnrod MaIame DubouTE Unlisted on residing
In Paris. and 90 her husband, from motives, as
IA deoiares Of economy took her 10 live with a
woman vino theTe IA every reason 10 suppose
had been his mistress, and who lived 10 u
Wretched little apartment with only two beds.
rms woman, MADAME dc Boos, seems TO have
besn in avery way person whose society was
utterly UNTITLED for that Of people with the 60
aIaI nSsitIon OF her guests but still she became
40 Intimate with them As TO acquire tho closest
Sonh1snSs az each. As husband and Vic could
moi 10 Induced 10 occupy the same bed, Madame
Dc Boos sIept with me wife, and btiorv long
mazda heTseli useTul by eonniyInR at Interviews
Win the lover Al the same time she pretended
10 have the coniugaI happiness Of NJ. aud Ma
lame Sn svionsS s,ms oS, IN souri,
that she had induced the hu sban nd TO pass niuht
with MS wife by promising that she, his former
mistress, would also occupy her usual place in
the bed According to her own StorJ Madame
IA pOos only inte nded this prOmIae a a Fuse
and herself retired the Instant the husband Gp,
peAred; but even II this be true, tho astonishing
iaet remains that both NJ and Madame Du.
bOurg, we'll born, we'll bred, and we'll connected,
were ready TO aecspL an arrangement witch
might have dlsgusted, one would have thought,
HS Soeat 81 ~ Ss
In order 10 please the wife, Madame de Boos
completed her treachery by betraylng the vito
10 tie husband aud revealing the clAndestine
meetings with the lover.
ThereuPOn NJ. DubourE set about laying a
trap idr his vile He cOntflved 60 TO arrange that
she slept alone at an hotel, while he remained
with Madame do Boos, and he pald various
spies-of which any number Gscms 10 have
been forthcoming at the rate Of francs each
10 follow his wife about and WATCHER. He gave
out that he had himself gone Into the country.
Naturally, il was not long before he was able 70
trace her TO one Of her rendVyous with her lOtet,
at whose disposal q friend had, With the usual
oOmplAlsance Of Frenchmen IN such matters,
placed a room, and afler waiting for a short
time at a nelghbOring cafe, where hO pArtook Of
brandy and water With considerable eomposure
no went up 10 the room and knocked. Tho untor.
husbands declaring that she was wanted 10
come at once to their little child, whS was dan.
Rerourly H. she at length opened tie door, her
lover having meantime escaped through the
window. She does not seem 70 have feared that
her husband would use violence to Aer, as her
chief anxiety was lest "he should cat the police
and So@P ahIsb h va ses, ofsesIsrdsy
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