New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-17
THE GREVY FAMILY.
p-ou me Whitehall R-r,sy.

Circumstances have not only aided 81 Grevy Int
have actually made him. ard have forced bis great:
ness upon him, almost against his will. He has all
the simplicity and none OF the brains and ambition
of President Lincoln. and would have infinitely pre-
ferred had he had his choice being President of the
Court of Appeal than President of the French Re
public. While still struggling arooat 81. Greyy
married the lady whose duty il now Is TO receive
such sOvereigns may still care from time 10 time
10 pay the French capital a visit. Nine. Grevy was
n poor work woman at Nancy, tOing much and earn
ing but little, when the future President Of the Re-
public married her and TO the honor o. this daugh
terof the people 1t sad that the relative spendor
she now enjoys has in no wise turned her head or
caused any change in her simple and honest theory
or life he leaders of Partisan society may laugh
AZ Madame la Presidente az they viii, we, for our
part, cannot fail to admire the exquisite good taste
she gives proof of land which Others IN higher STA
zion Of life might do well TO copy in refusing to pre-
tend to be other than she really is-an honest.
worthy ordinary bourgeoise. Neither the President
nor his wife is IN any way ashamed OF thelI origin
or past, and in this particular they differ greatly
from NJ Theirs and his worthy relict. The follow
ing true story will illustrate the delicate and re-
fl red nature Of the late Adolphus. When he was
first made Prime Minister, his sister, VINO had CON
stanty but in vain. applied TO her brother for as
sistauce III revenge opened shop IN the Rue Base
du Rempart and put on heI sign, Kept by the Sis
ter of D. AdoIphe Theirs" As may be easily I'M
agned, thomme eminent ere long found 1t worth
his while to stop ths scandal by loosening his
strings. Snch conduct NJ. Grevy would have been
incapable Of. As he has risen SO has he at every
stage strven 70 raise ans family with him. lhe
simplicity of Madame Greyy indeed, at times almost
borders on the ludicrous, as Who'll not many months
ago, on the occasion of the visit OF an Ambassador
She in the presence of that great parsonage, calmly
Touched her husbands coat and remarked, "Tu as
jomept besoin DUN bon coup dc brosseW
NJ Crews master-passon y billiards. and In his
has installed three billiard tables. on which he
exercises his skill either with NJ FOurneret, his
friend and school-fellow NJ. Dubant. OF late years
~ Grevy has almost gwen no Ia chdsse, OF which
he was formerly ardent votary; aud the reporter
or friend who succeeds in unlocking the gates which
give access 10 the Presidents humble country re-
treat will be received 10y hm absolutely without
ceremony NJ Grevy dumping about the grounds
shod with wooden sdbots ike a peasant and with
WORKOUT old felt nat on BIS head. looking like
any thing but the ttular chief vi mighty empire
There is something OF tae DomDey ~ the genera
shocks those who know him bat slightly but we
have been assured by of the leading members Of
the French Bar and one who has known the Presi-
dent all his life that this does not proceed
from GOODNESS or want OF sympathy bat rather
from timidIty and dlfidence. 1t is, indeed, no
torious fact that ". Grevy IS anything but cold
hearted man. and the warm affection he enteriaus
for his wife, daughter and brother is secret 10
no one.
And we would now say a few words of his daugh-
ter his only child and the apple of his eye. Mdle.
Alice Grevy is not far from thirty years Of
and although Sue has reached IN single harness
period of life prior to which most female blIcds
supposed to have become the better half of some
wretched male, and Notwithstanding that she can
lay possible claim to personal beauty no one who
has had the pleasure of few minutes conversation
with her deny that she Possessed OF consider
able charm-a charm not dependent npon beauty,
Youth or even intellect but one which rather re-
suits from frank fearessness and simple courage.
We only define her one and great attraction by
SAYING hat there is something OF the fresh open-Mr
about Mdlle. Grevy that Is delightful. She is
little didactic and tyrGnical in her conversation,
but this obviously the result OF the isolated lie
ehe has led living alone with her parents, who IDOL
Use her. and having hardly any companion OF her
age The great indulgence with which NJ. Greyy
has always treated his daughter wond, indeed,
have spoiled girl made of less sterling stun but ~
the case of the young lady in question. 1t has SIMPLY
made her a little masculine. perhaps. but charmlngy
sef-depeu dent and original fact but httle known
in England but nevertheless fact. Is that up 10 the
age of fye-and-twenty Mde. Grevy habtualy
dressed as a boy in coat, waistceat, and Oh. shock
ing y trousers. The origin of this eccentricty -
touching enough. Ii the dream of NJ. Crews
life TO have a son. and when Providence presented
him with daua Inter- hs sadly elected to allow tine
child To be dressed boy, m hopes OF cheating
himself into believing that his wishes had been re-
allied. Ii must not, however, be supposed that
because Mde. Grew is perhaps rather more Ike
NEE boy than a charming girl she is lacking m the
refined accomplishments more congenial 10 ner sex.
She handles the brush with no common dcxtsIIty.
and some of her sketches are worthy oil place on
the walls of the Paris Salon.