New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-03-22
THE NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT.
AN EVENING AT HIS PALACE.

| A BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGH-M. LOUIS BLANC hhhho
Ills FIRST VISIT TO TUE ELYsEE-IMPRESsloN7
OF MADAME GREvY AND HER DAUGHrER-IhE
ACTOR IN THE BOURsE sCASDALs-THE PRINCE
| NAPOLEON AND THE PRINCESS BEATRIcf.
| IRON rHB REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP THE TRiDUNE.l
PARIS, Feb. 2s.-Tho BOurse scandals, which
| were last night the topic of conversation at NJ
Gr6vys reception. are nsed as an argument against
Republicanism by those who in the foolish let
ters Of Prince LOUIS Napoleon al event of European
| Importance. To this, | answer the causes OF the
scandal are to a certain extent survl-
val of Bonapartsm. A0io ragged under the
Empire to an extent unknown in previous reigns.
Every one about the Court gambled at the Bourse
with marked cards. Eugene bought waste ground,
dirty old streets, and then requested Baron Hanss-
mann to run avenues through them. Dubochet
gave 10000 shares of the United Gas Companies
to her and her ladies to allow the combination 10
be accomplished; and to avengo himself supplied
funds to opposition journals toward the close of
her reign. De Morny boosted of leading the
Bourse as Strauss did his musical band. He and
Persigny and the more respectable Achille
Fould. "bearcd" and "bullcd" with an eff
frontery winch might have drawn blusheS
to the cheeks Of Robert Macare The only differ
ence between them and the Bourse riggers. VINO
have compromised two Cabinet Ministers, was that
the favOrites of the Emperor operated In the Dark
and were snre of immunity. and that the servants
OF kepuD!lC
very fierce hight and when they were found out the
Idrte,Re was free to expose them il exposed the
iniquities of the Prefecture of Police. 1t made
full and telling of ITS freedom hence the scan
dial which, instead of being reproacn TO the form
of government under which we live. is an evidence
OF the great progress France has made since she rld
herself of the Empire.
NJ. Gr6vys reception was very numerously at
tended, and NAV venture to affirm that L never
saw more brilliant company the Palace of the
Flys6e The President stood in the saloon which
was given over to the aides-de-camp under the
monarchy and empire for everyone who chose to
enter to shake hands with him. There was not a
small shOpkeeper in Paris who might not have en-
tered. The fact that scarcely any one attended
who was not in some way entitled to pay his re-
spects to the Chief of the Executive speaks volumes
In favor of Partisan tact and honest pride In great
cities this deicacy of feeling renders republican in
situations possible. wonder what wouldhappen were
Queen Victoria sleeping in the Windsor mausoeum,
her family exed. British republic proclaimed.
and John Bright receiving with White House sim
phcty Mt Buckingham Palacef 1t appears to me
that his company would, If the doors were thrown
vide open. soon degenerate into swell mob, and
that he would soon be under the necessity OF an
nouncing officially that nobody would be admitted
to his evees who had not been formally presented
NJ. Gr6vy has right 80 wear the grand GORDON OF
the Legion of Honor there was not last night, the
and Mile Grfvy assisted him in dong the honors Of
the Eys6o. They remained in the Boauvais Salon,
so called from the tapestries on the chairs and
sofas Ladies in brilliant toilets were seated
rodnd them. Madame GT6yy Is sad, common
place. elderly lady. She talks tlnently but there
Is very little III what she SAYS Her lace Is one not
easy 10 remember for apart from expression of
WEAKNESS and melancholy, 1t has little character
In studying her from wlndOw-embraSure. where
/ took up post of observation, thought OF Mrs.
Chicks" Poor dear Fanny could never make an
etfort"-in "Dombey and Son." She tells her
friends that she does not feel at home in the sump
| tuous palace in which the nation has lodged
her and | believe her to be sincere. Mile.
| Gr6vy has almost too much character. She
puts on her clothes with admirable taste and knows
exactly what becomes her. Bright colors suit her
| c.-back HAIR and eyes and olive complexion, and
she wears them. She IS III the habit OF making her
dresses with the assistance OF femme de chdnbre.
dinner preceded the reception. Gambetta was
invited to it, and went. In the evening he went to
! the smoking-room and stayed there. Louis Blanc,
| for the first time IN his life, guest at the
Elys6e into which he never put foot when Theirs
was President. He Is in sympathy with Gr6yy. who
is as single-mnded as he is himself. and JacObn
and no deems Frauce happy TO be governed.
| in chief, by such an honest citizen. The OBJ
| served Of all observers was NJ. Jacques Meyer,
| whose name has been mixed Mp with that
| of NJ de Marcere IN the BOurse scandals: lie is a
sort of private secretary without any official rank.
TO the Minister OF the Interior, and cousin Of NJ.
| de Bl0wtz the correspondent of The 1imes. They
| are both Jews and Poles and Catholics Blowitz
is little round man.. Meyer is tall, fair. and really
| like some pictures of Mephistopheles that have
seen in Germany, and his face does not belle
years since to gam over newspaper w; writers
I TO the BOnapartist cause. AT that time he
used to go to the dinners and 5olrees of
| Vicomtesse dc Brimont, a lady who was once very
| near being Empress of the French, and who, after
governing the Emperor, Prince Napoleon and the
Due de Morny, became the " friend" Of Guyot
! and Hector PeSsaud. When the latter was Director
of the Press at the Ministry of the Interior,
De Marcsre, and obtained for him con-
| fdental post i'll the Ministers ONCE. Jacques
is a rather handsome fellow OF thirty.
! Mademoiselle de Marcere his chiefs SISTER and
became sutOr Of her niece. Little by little he be-
came the real master of the house and had all the
| aud certain BOnapartists at the Prefecture OF
| Police, Ansart, Lacour and Jacob, to wit.
| Bureau. Madame de Brimont and Pessaud, Of The
| National, to zig the Stock Exchange and influence
the Cabinet and Parliament through DE
None of O sevs Soo scandals Wan
TO Grevy's reception to brazen out the indignation
20 which his intrgues have given rise. He had De
! Marcere to keep him in cOuntenance. Leon Say,
who has been embarked in shady speculation in
Egyptians and the per cents, avoided hls fy-blOwn
colleague and NJ. GigOt, the late Project of Police.
| Prince Louis NapOleOns letter TO III. ROuher
has been more cause of derIsion than of laughter.
Sardou really intends to make it the subject Of
farcical play. The fact that ZoulOu Zulu rhymes
| to LoulOu is unfortunate for the Prince, who
minds Inc of the brambe in the parable of the
trees in the Book of Judges. But he who wins may
| laugh. Prince Louis Napoleon aims at making
conquest of the Princess Beatrice of England. and
obtaining by his excursion TO Zuluand, the Queens
| consent 10 their union. Her Majesty was bewtched
| by the late Emperor. and she has taken up
| brsast-bigh the cause Of his son. AS a
| widow the Empress Eugene las hold
| on her sympathy. | told at the Elys6e by a
| diplomats wife that the ROYAL Imperial family
| and Lord Beacpnsfold are nettled at The DAILY
k1rs having called the ROrkeDrif affair the Sedan
| of the Empire winch his lordship has created.
| General FlcuTy hearing this wrote to Prince LOUIS
| to show pluck going out To the Cape, and on his
return 10 demand the hand OF the Princess Beatrice
! between whom and him al attachment has sprung
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