Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-12

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 [Paris Correspondence of the New York Times.l
 Gradually, yet steadily, Paris is losing its peculiar physiognomy, and five years hence it will be unrecognizable to those whose last visit dates back to before the war of 1870. One by one it's special features are disappear ing; it's new quarters might belong to Mu- nieh or to Vienna, and. if it's title of Modern Athens still be appropriate, it is fast losing all claims to that of Modern Babylon. It has not become one whit more free from vice, but it's vices are less noisy, and as decorum comes in so gayety goes out. Paul de Rock has make way for Emile Zola, and the last ! state of the Parisian is worse than his first. The evolution, as Mr. Darwin would term it, began under the Second Empire, when Baron Haussmann began the stone and mortar period, and it has gone on developing ever since. The quaint old buildings in the mar row, crooked streets, not provided with all the appliances of mordern comfort, yet often rich in historic associations, have been de molished, and in their stead stand palatial residences of stucco and granite, to the great CT joy and profit of landlords and the intense chagrin and discontinue of that unfortunate class which, not owning property, is fain to submit to the exigencies of whe Louise Michel stigmatizes as infamous capital" all of which is very sad, yet must be endured, not being curable. It is in the matter of places of public resort and amusement, how ever, that the change is most significant lime was when dozen establishments offer ed every evening exhibitions of acrobatic
 choreography which everybody, even closely yelled respectable women in search of ma terials for a book, considered it duty to
 see at least once. There were the Cadet Casino and Valentino and the Chateau des
 Fleurs, and the Chaumiere and the Closerie
 de Lilas and Mabille's enchanted grounds, 1 r1o&f fO olalY of nf 1hTrh haT where foreigners rarely strayed, but in which
 most of the demi monde celebrities made
 their debuts. Now nearly all have been
 eliminated. The first to go were the Chauml-
 ere and the Chateau des Fleurs then the
 Casino of the Rue Cadet was turned into the
 Temple of the Grand Orient of France for the
 celebration of Masonic mysteries and the eat
 ing of banquets and the delivery of inham-
 matory lectures by the 'Gr0dnne de IG COnl- nau71e' and other Arcadans, of whom Henri de Rochefort was the big medicine man, until Louise discovered that the chief editor of the
 Iptga7aSiged7at is t'only @ disguised Jesuit,
 truoulent reactionary, awho fattens on the
 himself to this very objectionable diet, it
 evidently does not agree with him, as he con- tinues to remain almost as thin as ''our great
 and dear comedienne." Sarah, who, DGr pd1'
 e7at1lese, was hissod at Milan, in the ''Dame
 aux Camelias, :" last Tuesday. BulHer suc-
 ceeded the Closerie des Lilas, where you can, if minded to explore the distant regions of
 the Boulevard St. Michel, still young France make fool of itself; but the heirs of Signor Valentino obliged the lessees of the
 Rue St. Honore mansion to take down their sign, which has "a slur on the memory of the deceased artist"-1 cannot tell you why, ex- cept that said heirs had no share in it's re-
 ceipts-and, the new name of Cremorne fail
 iug to draw, choreography was abandoned
 for finance, and wildcat bank became the
 tenant until the kr0ch destroyed that bubble,
 and another speculator-he was in the fine arts line-rented it's halls for an ex xhibiton of paintings. Mabille held out the longest it's vogue
 kept up fairly since it's definite opening in 1843 Ten years before that date the elder Mustard had made an effort at dl fresc0 en- tertainments 1n the Champs Elysees, with promenade concerts, which were tolerably successful during the summer months, and when the cold weather came were continued in the Rue Vivienne in the form of masked
 balls. But these were only efforts, and it was not until Mabille senior bought bit of ground in the Alice des Veuves and started there dancing establishment that anything was thought to be specially interesting. Even then 1t was very little affair the old man had no confidence in the enterprise, and it was after great hesitation that he yielded to the importantly of his Victor. dancer
 
 the property, which for nearly 40 years has borne his name. Such was the origin of the famous garden, about which Nadaud wrote song, once immensely popular, and, fortu- nately, out of fashion at present wherein the names and charms of it's four begles d. G:::ee::teS, Pomare, Maria, Clara and Mogador were handed down to the admiration of future ages. Nadauds verses nowadays would be laughed st and so would be his so-called ''di- vinities." To modern ideas these ''divipi- ties'' would be very small potatoes Pomare, Rose Sergent before the law, was plain headed angular female, at first nicknamed Rosits, after one of Jullien's waltzes, and later, Refine Pomare, in alIusion to difficulty between Louis Philippe and the British Lion about the Sandwich Islands. Rosita -Pomare danced herself into consumption and died in Italy. Maria was a transplantation from the Quartier Latin, vulgarly but extremely handsome her diamonds and gorgeous gowns were the admiration of her sisters for years, and remember her in 1852, when the parents of young women in search of pro- tector pointed her out to their demoiselles as | a model to be copied. Maria finished at the | Salpetriere, believe, and Clara Fontaine, who was the liveliest of them all, is thought 1 to have been seen with a basket and hooked | stick, doing the ragpicking business. Celeste Mogador married her official lover, Count de Chabrillan, whom she accompanied to. Aus l tralia, where he was a French Consul, and after his death and an unsuccessful attempt | to play at the Varieties, tried the literary profession for awhile, giving to the world three or four stupid novels, and My Me- | moirs, :" which were freely sold to people who l thought, from the name of the authoress, | that they might be racy, and generally re- 1 gretted their 75 cents outlay. The next | batch of gymnastic notorieties were Rigolette, Rose Pompon Frisette, Catinette, Marionette,
 the Souris Sisters, Pavilion, Seraphine, Mile. 1 Fauvette, &c. Some of them ended their 1 days in a hospital others have become char | women one keeps a table d'hote in the Rue | Bergere, much patronized by young women 1 in search of a social position. Marionette is | the wife of provincial shop tailor. Eau
 vette was burned to death by the explosion | of petroleum lamp, Polinette was shot as
 petroleuse during the street fighting at the 1 end of the Commune, and Frisette threw
 herself out of a fifth floor window in a mo
 ment of delirium tremens alteration. After
 these came host of lesser lights, Rigolboche
 Finette, Henriette Tonzou, Rosalba, Alice la
 Provencale, but all were pale copies of their
 illustrious precursors with whom their only
 point of resemblance was the elasticity of their muscles and sinews, by the help of
 which they could kick off the hats of all
 spectators who appeared especially shocked
 by their performances. Of the male habi-
 tues, can say that, in addition to the sal
 aried dancers, of whom Chicard was the prototype, they were specimens or every class | in society, and for 20 years this geological
 garden of contemporaneous gallantry," as
 Privat d'Anglemont defined it, was the rem
 dezvous, on Thursdays and Saturdays, of all
 the fast 'gentlemen,' authors, and artists in
 the capital, and on Sundays was exclusively
 patronized by shopmen and cads, After the
 war, though, Mabile began to fall of the
 cocottes disdained to follow the example of the preceding generation no lady of the
 lake" would have so far fallen as to make the
 grand ecart'' or waltz with subsidized bar
 ber's boy, so that, notwithstanding an at
 tempt to introduce the fashion of going to
 Mabille after. the circus was over, it's former
 customers ceased their visits, except on the
 night after the Grand Prix, when winners
 and losers by the Longchamps contest met
 and smashed each others hats and nest in-
 ternationally. People. whom you never expected to mee in such a disreputeble
 place would turn up when you leastex- pected it, and 8 French author who has