The Portland daily press., 1883-04-09
The Partisan.
What He, She and It are in the French
Capital.

Daniel Dare is the pseudonyme of witty
Partisan Journalistic. This is how she de
fines the Partisan man and woman
Parisienne: A marvellous doll, having a
toilette, phrase and a malady for all the
circumstances of life.
Partisan: An artless man In the overcoat
of a sceptic.
This last definition is very fine one, say.
Jules Claretie. may add, be continues,
that it is very just. Here, perhaps, is what
the Partisan is, gobeur who does not wish
to have the air of swallowing anything. /
use slang word expressly. When we
speak OF the Partisan We Immediately spec
Partisan.
The Partisan and everything which is Pa
risian is made of contracts, built of mosaics
and nourished by antitheses. The Partisan.
an essentially impressionable being, and. as
he himself says, embaUe slang always i is
taken in turn with an operette or tragedy,
with the most incongruous works, with
paintings showing the most contrasts. with
statue OF Houdon and the monkey of Mic
olet The Partisan is the best sort Of fellow
and the most ferocious one which exists.
A man falls in the street At London thew
Will hardly pick him up. At Paris he finds
TWO hundred persons ready to carry him to
the apothecary store. On the other hand he
would find thirty thousand of them ready to
see him float in the canal If he were accused
of being spy, and if he had been thrown
into the water from the parapet.
The Partisan, who does not believe In any,
thing, believes in spies and the Jesuits. and
he sees them everywhere. Rodin and Javert
are the object of bis special aversion. He
becomes terrible when he sees this object.
like the bull when he sees the red flag. I
speak now OF Interchangeable, who are as
confiding as a child and as suspicious az
miser, OF the Partisan of the street, who be-
lieves in equality and who mocks at males
ties as at his first breeches, and who leaves
the theatre crying when he has seen La
cIessonniere as Charles I. parting from his
children.
The Partisan of the salon and the bonle-
yard is not less artless and less complex than
the Partisan of the faubourg. Villemessant.
for example, who so long gave the tone to
Partisan wit-to this wit made of chaff more
than OF fineness-had some Champagne art
leseness under his Partisan varnish. Scientific
and go6eur at the same time can hear him
at representation of the Cherolier de Ma
s0a,-R0uge, after the act of the Temple Pris-
on, where the prince wished to save the
queen.
The old royalist, with tears in his eyes
said to me:
81 can't look at that, il gives me SO much
pain. Poor Marie Antoinette. When /
think that those satanic republicans
Then, all at once interruptiDg himself:
AFTER all, Pm foolish to be moved by
by that! After all, she would be to-day dead
any wayr'
Itwas the artful Partisan, Gavroche
coupled with Beaumarchais, which reap
peared, and Villemessant laughed at his
queen as the gamin weeps over the kings.
The one and the other are Parisians. They
can be born outside Of Paris, the bourgeois
at least, because for the gamin of Paris and
Inc pure-blooded Partisan, er, bonr0eron. he
partakes of the soil. He may be born a pro-
vinclai put he becomes Partisan. ssParis.
lanlsm Is more than temperament, It is a
science. There is an infinite number of
writers VINO are called "Parisian" who have
opened their eyes in some corner of the
provinces. In touching their feet on the
boulevards they find themselves at home ne
They were provincial by chance and bv voca.
ton.
AS compensation number of Parisians
are provincials; only instead Of inhabitine y
special province which IS often picturesque
and conserves its special customs, habits
and, sometimes. its costumes, they inhabit a
contracted, muddy, dusty province which is
called the Marais or the Saint-Sulpice quar-
ter Batignolles and Montmartre are not,
singularly enough, provinces, but rather