New-York tribune., 1880-02-08

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| political families who are not In mourning.
THg NEW AsPAsIA UNDER CLOUD.
Madame Adams fancy ball was last night topic
Of conversation among the ladies of the official
world.
Did you got"
"No."
And your husbandN
g He judged well, l being an Invalid 10 excuse
himself on the score of influenza"
"I heard that a number OF Madame Auanr
friends expecting to fnd Gambetta ana
following of Ministers went to great expense LOT
costumes and were terribly disappointed a' '"'
absence of these personages:" ,oh q
Poor Madame Adam To have gone 10 sucn
world of trouble and to have only orouBht tosoVno
foreigners and Alsatian HebrewsP
Such was a dialogue which \ Mir,otors oEsJs 3
heard o @ 1theFSS Sat 5om ombetta Taa' has atogeber
Withdrawn his foot from the Mason Salandrouze
in which the really charming widow OF senator OF
NoHreIie Rovue, which has turned in Lett Centre
direction Madame Adams ambition mas Deen over,
leaping and she has failed IN It, she almso
at being the directing influence OK the
Third Renublic n nd its feminine incarnation. For
more than a wear she passed for being the channei
through which gOyernmental patronage uo"eu
Any public man who did not court ner ha4 10 pay ~
the penalty of his pride in remaining at tne eels ol
the hunf in the chase for portfolios, em-
basses and seats in the House of Deputies
and the Senate. As natural consequence a great
Ips "cccss was APPARENT the night of her fancy
ball. " whch w-s not attended by any parsonage Oh
high official rank except the Austrian AmDassa1oI'
who goes everywhere" and General de Gls-
.ey' There yero four Deputies, to wit Mn.
Drio. Spler Aliain large and Ialandier- frencn
authors Of distinction did not mock as they were
wont last year to the Maison SalandrollZe.
81 Paul Mcurce was one OF the Ialtn,
fa few. Russian Literature was Tf,a rGpresMeRted Mnnr
GIfvillo, The costumes of Madame Adams
guests were wonderfully got up and at CONSIDER,
able expense and the sound 0f reVcHy was hralu
proceeding from The Maison Sallandronze III "h'ch
She lives. no 10 Z o'clock in the morning. - M
A delightful hostess is Madame Adam. Sho likes
Pase ~ %e S as 70 o fg sGrs o are HHI Tepress5y
elastic and sac has n fine fortune, which must con,
duoe to Il mirthful frame of MIND. gracetui
woman she Is rehn9a 9oSa woman tscf f"o and in
| Ino,lesty. Her deficiency III tnis respect
has been the cause OF the eclipse she
has lust undergone and from when sue cannon
hope TO issue IN anything ike her former glory
Iheio is not room III this rcpubic Tor pernanent
Aepasia French ladies' arc too clever andtoo Jeapus
ever to sutler one woman To invest herself with tnat
kind Of sovereignty which Percies allowed 10 HIS
mistress
THE GREATEST ORATOR OF FRANCE.
NJ. Jules Favro's obseques brought to light the
hidden life of the greatest orator of the five" dur
lng the last eight years n. jules Favre was not a
tribnpe or a statesman or a clever politician. He
was an artist and one of the finest actors who ever
trod the boards of a French Chamber. Ifanewspaper
editor wanted during tho Empire 20 shine as po-
Htical martyr ana in that way enter Parliament,
ne had only to attack the Empire and to ask. when
ne was prosecuted Jules Favre to defend MN. III
was Jules Favres speciality 20 win forensic laurels
for himself and TO cover his client with glory whilst
los;no his suit He was pathetic and noble IN
! nl.adlug Tor ladies who wanted TO separate from
! their husbands.
The figure was satuesque the gesture grand,
I hssaHF "a nU
| mask the lair was like Jupters, and the adVO-
| cafes robe in which he was habItcd felI IN stat
uesque folds. Nobody understood IN nus tinie so Wen
! how to manage the Raclnian phrase One uhy JuIes
| Simon making a speech npoAt n,ili.aiyy ntiili..ayy
questions in the Chamber. lie exDatlated;
for the gallery of course, on the heroic qnalues OF
! the mobile French regiments. Jules Favre, who was
under the Tribune. whispered up to W. slmonj
! Why not say instead OF regiments, phaanXesT
| sound than IN English. 1t Is phdidnge,
| and would round of a sentence hnrmoniohsy' Inc
! Vyord " regiments hurt NJ Jules Fayres ear.
France had 10 pay dearly for tins artistic taste oi
! euppony. Ii was 20 balance phrase that Vi. jules
Fayrc uttered at FeTreres, IN not an men OF our
territory not stone 0i our lortITsses "IIoh uo
| so complctely an actor that IL astounded
him when Bismarck took seriously has declaration.
/ Yet he was not drceit.ul or dOubledca!lng.
| His eloduence wanted the hre that conviction
gives. IL was not communicative. one ad-
mired It,. wondered AZ II, but nobody was
carried away by It, although jules favre
hal the cilt OF tears. which is 80 mnch
priced by French orators The fact of having
registered bis legItmaie children 0s legitimate
placed him at the mercy of lmperalists in the lat
ter days Of the Empire and was cause OF many
Of his public Inconsistencies OF conduct. Alter
his famous confession Of his offence, the
penal effects Of which were barred by prescription,
he retired Versailles with Swiss wife, nee |elter
to cotnpoSe his soul There he occupied q small and
plainly furnished house. aud devoted the energy
that remained to him to offering up extempore
prayers at Evangelical meetings and to the
| management OF charitable societies. he last
EIGHT wears Of his life sanity and penitenIia
81 Jules Favre's humility led him TO sit among The
poor in the Temple of the Rue IIoche where with
hs wife. he attended the religious ministrstons oil
the Rev Monsieur Passa. Madame jules taVre ~ d
| deyout Christian and sincere Republican. She
| leans toward the Socialism practsed By the early
| Christians and has written a work which appeared
| Yesterday In la SolidGrit6 Humane.