New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-18
THE CRESCENT CITY OF FRANCE.

SOME REPRESENTATIVE TYPKs-A YANKEE DENTIST
EN- ROUTE FOR THE HOLY LAND.
IPRoM An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
| BORDEAUX, March 1S.-The travelled American
| who takes run down here from Paris is forcibly
reminded before he has been here forty eight hours,
| Of the change from New-YOrk to New-Orleans. In
fact geographically as well as geographically, BOr-
deaux may be called the Crescent City" of France,
The rapid and muddy waters of the GarOnne sweep
past its quays between banks which in form al
most the counterpart of those that give the Louisiana
metropolis its name here is the river 'front.' call
it ev6e OF quay, you please, lined with shipping
and crowded with hOgsheads barrels and balesj OPP
posIte the city is another Algers--n this case known
as the Bastide. but presenting the same detected
array of deserted, tumble-down buildings, dusty
roadways, unnviting warehouses; IN short. place
that visitors would never think of going near, but
for the fact that they have to- in order to get to the
railroad to take them back to Paris. Nor does the
similarity between the two cities conhne itself to
the place alone; it is equally marked in the climate
and in the faces habits and character Of the people,
You leave the French capital shverng and growl-
ing In the March blasts-prestOl-in nine hours you
are in your at the hotel in Bordeaux, with the
windows wide Open the odOr of fresh violets from
| neighbOring hOwer-stand perchance stealing in,
and the streets below resonant with the shrl cries
| of women peddliDR strawberries and green peas
The people you meet all have the Southern, Latin
| type in their faces and garb. You see men with
haring blue or red hannel caps their heads aud
women with fanciful fOulaTds or bandannas The
compilations swarthy the gait and movement
have more of the dolce far nieate than on
the busy bOulevards Of Paris, and the ubiquitous
| Sambo, who hourishes nowhere save meath &C.
NAL sun, here becomes frequent subject of obser-
vaton Their French. too, at Bordeaux. has strong
flavor of the Gascon-which the Partisan finds
as difficult to understand as the scion Of Boston
"culehah" does the broad accent Of the Lou
isiana planter. In short, look at it you will,
Bordeaux is the New-Orleans Of France, or, let us
put it the other wayNew Orleans is, more properly
speaking, the Bordeaux Of America.
If Paris boasts its American colony, so too, does
Bordeaux; and what ls more, the members of the
latter have to stay, while according to all &C
counts high prices at the capital rapidly dimin-
ishing tho once formidable array Of Yankees to o
nero corporaps guard. Every American now in
Paris will tell you the same thing, and that is that
the colony In that city is dwindlng down remark
ably fast. In Bordeaux, on the contrary. the num-
Der has never been large but those who are there
are permanent fixtures They give a flavor to BOr-
deaux life both in O business end social way and
could be lily spared from the city they have done 90
much to enliven.
Here, for instance is Bir. GOdilot, relative and
representative OF the reab mousse OK LnurDer IN New
York For quick. lively, rattly business man,
/ doubt whether his equal can be found in France
to-day He has revolutionised the wholesale gro
Gerry business in this section Of country, and put
American wares into thousands of households and
retail shops where they never heard of before.
Some time ago he undertook to introduce American
corned beef In cans to the acquaintance of the BOr
deaux people. For few weeks Bordeaux fairly
rang with advertisements, printed or porambulat-
ing of American oorned beef, and the result is that
the sales now are enormous dropped in at Mr..
Godillot's place ON the Rue ST. Foy the other day.
and found him enseonced In inner Office. aecessi-
BILE only through series Of stores and wareroOms.
almost blocked with goods. He was talking bust
ness like lightning In good Nev-York English. at
the rate of 400 words aminute. On the wall was q
view Of West Broadway and the elevated railway,
with Thurbers' and an American flag in the fore
ground. Tho whole place had tho air Of Front,
Beaver or South-st counting-room, aud ns I passed
out II required careful look at the French sign on
the next street corner to dispel the illusions and
dlssipate the visions of old Manhattan which the
call had ceujuTed up.
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