Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-19
A Pretty mess OF scandal That Has Set
All Paris wild.

PHILADELPHIA, January 1S.-The Paris
correspondent of the Times writes: "Since
the SEIZURE by the police of the frat volume
of the posthumous memoirs of the Count
Horace de VielCastel, everybody in Paris
is rushing to buy the book. The author
died in 1864, and during his lifetime he had
been one of the most intim ate friends Of the
emperor and one Of his warmest supporters.
the Count Horace as he was fsmiliarly
called, was 10 his day one of the best known
aud most curious Partisan characters. Un-
der an appearance of the most decrepit old
age he had all the Intellectual and physical
vigor of youth. A brilliant conversalionalist
snd thorough man OF the world, he
charmed everyone with whom he came in
contact until they detected that he was de-
voured by the rancor OF the social outcast
and BY fears for the future which would in
duce him TO commit acts which, if not ques-
tionable, were cert inly ill-advised. OF all
these acts, the writing OF these memoirs was
certsiuly the most questionable, for their
impressions and condolences concerning
the imperial court AMI the public
men of the day, not sparing even the en-
peror and his family. are evidently tainted
with resentment at having lost the very hon.
orable and lucra post which he occupied
in the Museum of the Louvre. The count,
who was separated from bis wife aHd was
living with Nine. de Berard, who was also
separated from her husband, wrote the
Memories in question, from 1851 70 the day
of his death, in the form of daily journal,
in which he recorded the faults, the crimes
and shames of those with whJm he was in
daily official and intimate intercourse, in
terspersed with appropriations on the charac-
ter Of the personages who figure in his pages.
These notes are written in a pervous, vigor-
GUS and sometimes brutal tanner, and things
are called by their right names.
The notes were brought down by their au.
thor to the year of his death, and in dying
he gave them to his mistress as being the
only fortune that he could leave her. She
value of this legacy. A Belgian editor to
whom she offered them, for no Parisian edi-
tor then dared to undertake the publication,
was willing to pay her $4,000 for them, but
she thought that they had higher value, as
indeed they had, for the empire was then
still in existence. Years rolled on, the EN-
pire fell, and from time to time the manu-
script was offered to this or that publisher,
but always without success Either the pub
lishers were afraid OF it or they were not
willing to pay Nine Berard her price.
To give an idea OF the material out OF
which this work is composed, / translate the
following of the man who TO day poses as the
heir to the imperial throne. The sketch is
dated prier to the corp detat, when Louis
Napoleon was the president of the repub-
lie. "Prince Napoleon, the son of Jerome
Honaparle, has been turned out of the in
vslides by order of the minister of war. He
was then the governor OF the Hotel des In
valides, or old Soldiers Home. His conduct
there was such as 70 cause q great deal OF
scandal; he was in the habit of Introducing
public prostitutes to his apartments, and
when he was holding debauch there be
opened their doors to the sessions OF a polit-
ical club. The prince is a terrible scamp
and he is seeking to play the same role with
his cousin, the president, thai Philippe
-Egalite played with Louis XVI. He is
boaster and a coward; he is ambitious, de-
signing, obstinate, ibertine, in short, he
has all the evil qualities possible; his father
ia only a dirty beast, and he IL, In addition,
q rascal. Since the seizure of the book the
same publishing house has had orders for
ten or fifteen edItious0