New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1878-10-26
An Idol of the Paris Cafe.

Correspondent Of the World
PARIS, August 30-The retirement of
Theresa from the stage, is an event OF
some importance in the Partisan world.
She will act no more, but that is no great
matter; she will sing no more, and that
means very much for a population that
idolizes her to-day as it has idolized her
any time these fifteen years past She
quits the scene Of her tEiumphs under cir
cumstances of almost ideal perfection-to
marry and to enjoy the fortune won by
her own exertions. The fortune brings
her in sc, 600 year; the marriage makes
her Nine Theobald Guilloreau-a name
absolutely unknown to fame until she be-
gan to bear it almost fortnight ago.
The union has been announced for two
months past, but the chroniqlteurs were
premature. 1t took place at Neufchatel,
3 tiny town in the Department of the
Sarthe, where Theresa will live with the
man of her choice. Nsufchatel, duly SEN
sible of the honor, celebrated the happy
event with bonhres and illuminations,
thus scoring point gained against the
Npital in letters of fire. The victory was,
deed, something to be proud Of Paris
end this Patti Of the Beer Saloons have
long been in the habit Of vowing that they
could never part and yet one of them con-
sents to be forsworn for the sake of love in
cottage Tin the Department of the
The other cottage of the popu-
favorite at Asnieres. where there was
love but only every comfort, is to be
and the curtain falls on one of the
curious careers in the annals of the
30, in spite Of her abiding pop
has not retired q moment too
though no politician, she belonged
italy to the period Of the Second
ire. Her songs kept the people in
humor, and without intending it,
was Of more use to Napoleon I'LL than
oxen legions. She might have associ-
herself with him in the famous boast:
to order, will answer for that"
did help to answer for il in many a
oas ay Of the empires history, when
her Y Nothing is sacred for q Sapper"
helped to reconcile the people to the army
and her Bearded Woman" helped to rec
oncile them to themselves. No wonder
the Emperor sent for her to sing to him
and gave to her substantial memento of
the meeting. He may have wondered
why she had such power Of fascination
over the crowd, but it was his business to
take his luck as he found il, and he seemed
to ind her as much TO his taste as did the
mob Of stable-men and handles who made
her fame. She was not beautiful; grace
was not word in her vocabulary; she
was even without esprit But these are
common gifts, and she had others that in
their ensemble we're peculiar to herself
the most grotesque humoF, and we'll
trained voice Of extraordinary power
which she deliberately threw out of train
ing for the production Of the most I'M
heaTd-of effects. She sang ordinary songs
in an extraordinary manner, deliberately
distoTting the final note Of some cooling
chorus into q deep bass roar, only to be
compared to the accents of q fog horn
with 3 cold. 1t was the negation of all
art, and it Yves eagerly welcomed by q
public bored 10 death by monotony of
method in its pleasures. She had gas-
lures 10 match the note, and the two to-
Vether constituted 'iTheresa's trick.
That trick is now known 10 every miser-
able little cdb0tine Of the faubouras, and its
monetary value to imitators is mot over q
dollar q night. But we see, it has
brought the original inventor some SO, 900
3 year.
Therasa's history would be infinitely
better worth writing as q contribution to
our knowledge of the Second Empire than
that Of most Of the members Of the court
who Wentto listen 10 her as soon as their
master had set the fashion. The materials
aRe to bsfound in her 'sAamoirs"
ten by herself" says the title-page, as
though to confound scepties inclined to
doubt that she knows how to write.
They bear the stamp Of anprofassionala u-
shotahip in q certain aeirsie which has
lie same noto Of the gBot4aque as her art
Of song. She vas bora IN Paris Of verv
pooa parents. Her father PLAYED the hd-
ol6 ct thu baEEies balls. 6hs learned his
airs as ho pnarticod them, and sung them
for her own pleasure, though not alsags
20 that Of the hsleherE She was sent 70
learn drsssmaking, bat they soon fnrned
her oat 81 the No1lNhop for humming too
l6udly over her sewing. At tWslR6 she
Wae LEFT an orphan end thpown On haR own
resources After awhile ahe found em-
pi6gnent y 3 superAnmsnaiy at ihs Porte
b. Malta L brought hsF In only bread
and chAesa, otlpefhnps hardly cha two to-
gether, but Il was . e1oat stsp ezined; e
introduced her % IN world VI the stage.
Nhe war Au aclEoa Atfh6 same time
80 enjoyed tie fun tsasislAoaoh IL her
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