The Donaldsonville chief., 1878-06-29
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10 the entire collection. Next to
him is the beautiful and kaughty face
of his Queen, Marie Antoinette, and
close to- her the lovely Princess Lam
bale. Riclelieu's medal bears only
bis coat of arms. hnf the massive
head of Mazarin perpetuates the
memory of one of the ablest and most
willy statesmen known to the history
Of France. There arc three bronze
medals ip. honor of Louis lei Grand ;
one takep when an infant, another at
the age Of fifteen, and the third after
having attained the zenith of his glory,
| The rival beauties who ruled his
kingdom and his heart have not been
deemed worthy of remembrance, but
in their places, are Michel de rHos-
pital, Lavoisier, Gay-Lussac and Ber-
nard de Palissy the potter. AS if in
mockery, beside Der ungrateful son il
| the unfortunate Maria de Medicis,
who died in exile from France, and
near her the head of the imperial
Catherine, for whose pleasure was
laid out that beautiful walk which
skirts the banks of the Seine to the
Tuileries.. Parmentier, the henefac-
tor who introduced the potato into
France, has not been conaidered m
worthy of q place ayen in this distin-
guisAel colhpany, but shares with
RnfFon, Corneille and Racine, por-
ton of the national homage. Three
faces lie side by side recalling the sad
dest of all history they are the head
of the Emperor Napqle9l, crowned
with laurel, and the heads of his two
queens Josephine and Maria Louise !;
beyond is Il medal struck in honor of
the baptism of the king of Rome,
and still further on the Grand Seal
with which the sixteenth Louis
stamped the abrogation Of his kingly
pAWar, in front of the Ecole Mifitaire.
All the coins of France are here, as
bright and as. shining as when they
were dropped from the mint, and |
know of NO place in the entire Exhi-
bitiop where tue scholar can pass
more profitable hour than in the Ex-i
hibit Of the French Bibliotheque.
The sight about the grounds on
these earlyssummef days Is partien-
larly bright and interesting. Mingled
with the gay crowd of pleasure seek
ers, are dashing Greeks in oil the
glory Of their national costume, tur-
6aned Turks, hooded BedoaaiGs, fresh
from the sands of the desert filthy
Tunisians and bare-legged yagabeRAs
from Morocco. have ceased to Won
aerof late that the Bey Of Tunis is a.
savage aud brute:s how any NOR
tai man could listen to their detesta-
BILE music and still retain any portion
Of siiuman ciiaiity Is far beyond my
lsen. Why if one were bornin possess
ion of all the eight beatitndes, this in
fernal discord would soaa drive him
to the commission of the aeyen deadly
sins. profess to have as much of the
milk of human kindness in my COM
position as falls to the lot of men !;
even in the days Of nsy thoughtiess
youth never suspended tin kettle
to a dogs tail, nor assisted in shoe
ing the cat with walnut shells; all
the ordinary pastimes of Intelligent
adolescepee, sneh as sprlkling red
pepper ip public meetings, and firing
brickbats thropgh the windows of un-i
occupied houses, were ever to- me 9
sealed book, but solemnly declare
if to-day I were the BeY of tPunis, that
| would sentence one half of my sub
jects to the block and the other half
to the bowstring or the sack. All Yu-
nisian fiddlers should be utterly de-
stroyed from the face of the earth and
the fellows who played on tambour-
ines slaughtered without mercy.
By the way, the carping critics who,
in London aud New York, find fault
with Irish funerals, if they wish to
experience new sensation let them
come to Paris. If there is anything
which exceeds the eclat of French
mans birth, it is the glory Of his
death he comes into the world In a
eoruscation aud goes out ut it in q
blaze of fireworks. The keagse is
about fifteen feet high aud all covered
with waving pltnqm.9es; ptq.9e the drivers 9f
the carriages are all in knee breeeAees
aud cooked hats and every man man OF
them looks ready to cry. BY an in
genius fiction known only to the
French the bnmblest man can be fur
nished with a coat of arms, and a
scavenger or bootblack, when he has
paid the last debt of nature, can la
carried to his grave crowned with the
family konors. There is one. custom
here that I paytietllarly Like. and that
ia, sometimes when gentleman
meets lady, he seizes her around the
waist and kisses her on both cheeks.
I shall cultivate French acquaintances
at once; am going to try my hand
at that tlle-Eery first opportunity. Up
to the present writing have not had
q chance, but hoping to report pro-
gress in my next, am, yours truly,
BR0ADBRIM.
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