The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-05-25
"FROU-FRoU."
History of O Partisan Woman of
Fsshion-A Famous Divorce
Scandal.
New Work Eerala.


in the scandal0us Santene case is of a
nature to excite the wonder o: moral
lists. Nine. Santerre was stigmaiized
bv the court as faithless wife aud
corrupt william. Her guilt in the.
Cafe d'Orsay matter was prcnouncfd
to be fully established. Yet she is to
be allowed to have her children TO
spend their HOLIDAYS every year with
her and to visit them every fortnight
Thus there is an ample opportunity
afforded to corrupt them.
A SCANDAL REVIVED.
Among the episodes which marked
the Partisan career of jovial, good
tempered prince, whose death Was
widely deplored by the bons risu,,ts of
the French capital, none gained more
notoriety than hi. adventure in the
Cafe dOrsay with a fair unknown,
supposed to be the wife Of NJ. Santerre,
q descendant of the famous brewer Of
1893 at whose bidding the drums
were beat and the voice of Louis XVI.
siIenced upon the scaaold. There was
10 the whole story such smack OF
comic opera tn, il at once caught the
fancy of the Partisan gossips. The
tste a-tste in a private supper room,
the arrival of an Infatuated husband,
the beauty's escape in the disguise of
a pastry cooks boy. the clandestine
return to the convent from which she
had gone to the rendezvous, the
detectives, the hush money. the en-
counter of lover and husband--all
this had 50 long belonged to the
domain of NJ. Offenbach and the
rhea'er des Varie es that every club
in Paris felt a thrill of satisfaction to
learn that it was about Ia be enacied
on the stage of the Palais de Justice.
The clubs were disappointed. The
oase was tried and NJ. Santerre gained
his divorce. But in probing the
depths of the matter ,he Judges
unearthed such quantity of social
refuse that they had considered it in
cumbent upon them, in the interests
of public decency, To conduct the
trial with closed doors. Strange
, rumors, however. found their way To
the public ear. 1t was said that
Nine. Santerre was accused by her
husband of misdeeds in which there
was favor of Pagan antiquity.
The sins that were laid to her charge
might have furnished the Marquis de
SADIE with materials for a new
Justine" All the female monsters
of modern French fiction. from the
tropical heroine of "L'Afaire Gle
menceau" 10 the tribade of mile.
Giraud ma Femme" were said to have
found their embodiment in the beau
tiful person Of Jeanne Arachequesne.
! These rumors gained ground SO
quickly that Nine. Santerre found
herself Stunned by most of her
acquaintance. She had already de-
termined to appeal from the tribunal
of first instance. Sne now decided to
ask that the appeal be publicly heard
and reported by the newspapers.
1t is for this reason that an already
famous case mas once more become
occupied the attention of the readers
of the lighter class Of papers.
| A MAYNARD HEROINE.
Jeanne Arachequesne, when NJ.
Santerre came to WOO her. was one
of the loveliest girls in France. She
had inherited the good looks of her
mother, a famous belle f the past.
She was sprightly and witty, the joy
of her friends, the ray Of sunshine
in the household which had been
iarkened by her mothers early death.
Her father worshiged her. He had
been a magistrate under the Second
Empire, and was wellknown fire.
quen;er of the Compiegne fetes.
He was not, in any sense. a pere serieur.
On the contrary, he was a light comedy
father. PLAYING Brigard to his daugh-
tiers Frou-f'rou, both equally frivo.
lous, pleasure-loving and Partisan.
Jeanne had treated him as an elder
brother. and when Sebastian Santer:e
married her she took her father with
her into the whirl Of Partisan pleasure.
1t was a constant round of picnics,
races and theaters. She presided at
BignOn's over little bachelors parties.
She scandalized her husbands sober
friends by singing risky songs from
the concert halls or dancing measures
peculiar to the Salle Valentino. La
these respects NJ. Santerre evidently
appreciated her qualities. "Ces "pe
t'elicieuss maitresse," said he.
Then two children were born to
her. and her life grew calmer. She
would talk of them very tenderly to
her father. "There is a delightful
sun today" she wrote from Cannes in
1874. but nothing could he 50 de-
lightful as your little granddaughter.
On a railway journey the child is
charming. She slept thirteen hours
from Paris to Marseilles and all the
way from Marseillles to Cannes she
kept US laughing With her stories and
songs. We embrace you a thousand
times, bon petit pe'e cheri. Jeanne
makes you her curtsey, which thew
are teaching her in the dancing
school. As for the baby, he is asleep.
,ouId he be better employed?"
THE BREACH wIDENs.
But the pretty scene was coon
clouded over. Mr.. Santerre's par.
ents came to live with him, and
Jeanne began to experience some Of
the little miseries of married life. |
She drew closer and closer to her ,
father and the breach widened be-
tween husband and wife. 1t would
be well to touch lightly on the suspi-
ciuns which entered the mind of NJ.