The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-01

Tnere ere Ogass dancing hais IN OUTSIDE secIi0nA.
snd enc especially on the Rue st. Honore. much
"equented By our c0untrymen almost opposite
wnero Robespierre lived with Dupiay. the car
pea'e1' ana ruled France from garnet with no
carpet on the aoor
sRsNcA VIEWS OF rns COLONY.
fou can understand perhaps how the averages
american abroad, his observations limited to tho
Luxembourg and Mabhle, win have original and not
over-compnmentary notions as to the morals of
France. The French are like She Chinese. They
do not welcome the foreigner They have made
Paris the most beautiful city In the world because
they are artists by nature, and could bot have
made An ugly and forbidding city had they tried.
Whether you see Paris In detail as you go roaming
along the bOulevards, see 1t by day from the top
oil the Arch Of Triumph, or by night from the
heights Of Montmartre, you are impressed with its
marvellous beauty. But this Paris was made by
Frenchmen for Frenchmen. and IL the foreigner
comes-well, he could do no better elsewhere,
ttinKs monsieur Crapaud-nO better at all, and
30 ne comes to Paris. But there Is no
hearty welcome. A Frenohman will never ask
now you like his city. OF COURSE you like 1t, and
know and feel and are glad to admit that for
beauty and taste and all the resources OF civlliza
ton there Is nothing in the world like Paris. But
mat American instinct for commentator which
leads the Yankee to call every post village "city"
and every Alderman q. celebrated" man Is not
found among the French. There is no welcome In
the French character towards the foreigner none
OF the going into society which grects the for
eigner in America. The American COLONY Ia ro-
garded very much by Paris In general as New York
would regard German colony in HobOken or
colony Of Poles the Bowery. There is story OF
q famous Senator who came to thus city some time
ago. He knew nothing about foreign customs.
He had known honor and was resolved to be
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have his apartments in the best hotel and
one Of them should be splendid parlor In
which he could receive his callers But no one
called, none OF the nobility; none of the splendid
names OF the Empire; no one IN fact, except the
representatives Of the Legation and the consulate.
The eminent Senator sat alone in his parlors for
day or two, and then took to the bOulevards; and
since then, am told, he has the opinion that the
French are no more sociable than the English
But In truth, Senator Of the United States in the
Grand Hotel, sitting alone in vast parlor, waiting
for visitors, would make no more impression upon
the mind Of Frenchman than Senator from
Mexico or Brazil. In fact, the average Frenchman.
when he thinks of America, Is apt to confound the
United States with Brazil and Paraguay-t0 think
OF 1t all as one country, inhabited by an extrava
giant, expensive and, in some respects, wild
people, who, strange to say, are white MOI
Is this surprising when considers the character
Of the representatives OF our country who come ia
Paris There Is, OF course. the class accustomed to
foreign life; studious men. who seek the Latin
Quarter business men, who keep in trading circlesl
the American gentleman, with his "EuropeaH
habt' upon him. who knows Paris and avoids his
fellow countrymen, and lives down in the narrow
streets towards the Palais Royal. But every
Summer there comes the shoal Of sight seers from
England and America The English traveller is a
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the pictorial satircal papers. in the shape Of toy
The one eyeglass, the small billycock hat, the
plaided coat and striped trousers, the brown
hanging Dundreary beard, the opera glass swung
over his shoulder and the inseparable umbrella.
This is the Englshman as French fancy paints him
So he was to our fathers. But the typical Amert
can changes with every season.
THE AMERICANS WHO HAVE COME ABROAD.
There was the hegira Of ''war Americans" dur.
ing the Rebellion when there were Southern and 9
Northern colony, who used to frown on each other
as they passed along the boulevards. The French
police had their own time to prevent these Mon.
tagges and Capulets from doing more than bite
their thumbs at each other. remember a comic
print of the time, entitled 'North and South
Americans Discuss Politics" The scene was an
omnibus on q boulevard, filed with passengers
seated on the top. At one end was Northernei
with pistol drawn, firing OF Southerner at the
other end, who had pistol drawn also, the
alarmed passengers striving, in every attitude, to
avoid the Shots French feeling was much with
the South, upon whose supporters the Emperor
was wont to smile his gloomy, inscrutable smile.
After the cotton loan was sold and money ran
short our ''erring countrymen" found Paris
hard place and were reduced to many
shifts. But with the war came the
shoddy lords During the closing years
Of the war the shoddy class foamed over Paris
and amazed the frugal French mind by extravae
gance and want Of culture. This was the harvest
time Of the cooks, and the concterges, and walters
at the CARTS, and more especially the dealers In
pictures and imitation jewelry. The shoddy lords
were followed by the petroleum aristocracy-an
astonishing class. who generally came in groups
under competent courier, who spoke all Ian.
guages and robbed his clients. Then came the
Tammany hegira. First we had Mr.. Sweeny and
some Of the chiefs, who came to study Paris, so
that they might gain hints for identifying New York.
The example became contagious, and all the Ameri.
Gus boys came, wearing dazzling diamond pins and
gaudy scarfs, and drove around in carriages and
drank champagne before breakfast, and smoked
amazing cigars, and gave the walters napoleon
for drink-money, and spent their time In houses
where the female society, it is said. was more
amiable than exclusive. AS most of these aston
ishing young men were known as colonies, or
generals, or judges, or Senators in Albany, and
In their interviews with Frenchmen they took NO
pains to diminish their Importance at home,
Frenchmen began to have their own ideas as to
the ruling classes Of our dear native land. But
this happy hegira came to an end. We have had
Tammany men since, but they came like birds in
moulting state. Their diamonds are gone. They
no longer boast Of their consequence In New York.
They spend their time considering extradition
treaties, and Notwithstanding the Carlist troubles,
show singular affection for Spain.
THE OUTSIDER AND THE INsIDER.
Between the Summer-comers and the residents
of the colony there relations OF enthusiasm.
The colony for instance, has its club, with superb
apartments, in the Place de rOpera, looking down