New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-18
BULL FIGHTS IN PARIS.
IND THE NOBLE PERsoNAGEs WHO

the diversions of the Roman circus In the name of
maternal charity. the fine ladies who cry ont
against N. Paul Berts physiological experiments
on living animals have, with such fine gentlemen 40
| the Due de CastEies, Prince de Sagan and the
Comte de la Ferronayes, been trying 20 intro
duce the Spanish National sport Of bull lighting
into France. IL was TO have been no child's play,
in Portugal, where the horns Of the bulls are ar
! ranged IN pads Ike boxing gloves and sPddls only
aim at trying 10 stick little Tags attached To
! long pins into the neck Of tho
| the animal Horses were to have been dissmbowelled
aad Frascuelo was, when his bull rendered wild
with anger. TO have plunged knife INTO his throat.
/ The famous toreadOr refused To be party TO
sham fight. lie profcssed disnteres;ed love for
his art and only asked 70 900 francs to transport
the animals which he wanted for the performance
| ar the hippodrome and feur assistants. to Paris.
| NJ Leon Renant, the ex-Prefect OF Police" whose
| name three years ago was so discredItably mixed
| up in 'ru1lsian affairs promised the Duchess do
| Moucby to obtain the consent OF w. Camescasse,
| actual head Of the Police Department AMI Of tho
Minister of the Interior. He was very near succeed
! ing. and would have done if Victor Hugo had
! not sent VI. LOckroy to rcmonstTate with divers
members of the Cabinet and himself spoken with
great frankness on the subject TO General Pittie,
the military secretary Of W. Grevy.
| 1hatorgan OF monarchcal society LcGaHiois, sent
| up UOhullI itSS lhdu a uOWi VI cActI dibu ASxhro
the republican kill-sports What fuss about a
ball and few vretched horses There was less
danger Of Frascuclo and his assistants being killed
! than of any Jockey who completes for tho
| Grand Prir az LOngchamos. We're there 10 be no
| cakes and ale consumed under the Republic Ia
Figaro which is jealous of the favOrs shown by tho
Comte de Paris to lie GGuois, while admitting that
the Republic was not conducive to mirth and iol-
| ty, and that q nimble toreador ran very little
chance of being impaed, set its face against the
| proposed sangainary spectacle. If Erascuelo came
to perform at the hppodrome he'ought to be driven
out of the arena by a shower of foot stools.
| The Duchess de Mouchy went herself.
along with the Prince dc Sagan, to N.
| Camcscasse, TO beg of him TO obtain for
her the authorization that she wanted. lie had
given an informal promise TO VI. Leon Renault that
the atrocOus spectacle would be permitted. When
she called upon him she escorted By the Prince
de Sagan, ex-president of the defunct Rue Royal
Club, which was the theatre Of the caTd-marking
scandal. VI. Camescasse is not remarkable for
moral courage. He shrank from telling the Duchess
the true reason why the bull fight would not be
allowed and affected to think that spectacle 50
ferocious might rrse riotous spirit IN the crowd
Rochefort, and other advanced journalists would
be to take advantage Of it to egg the people on
10 manifestations against the sport Forty Lids
posed persons in the hipDodrome would be enough
70 get up dangerous riot. What do you think
were in substance the answers Of the Duchess and
the Prince de Sagan' That the Project Of Police
might not feel any uneasness that score, a. the
meanest place would cost fifty francs. There would
be a series of bull fights doubt But
pleasure trains being organized by the
railway companies to fetch wealthy spectators
from all parts of France. from England Belgium,
and elsewhere There would not be in these
trains any second or third class compartments.
Less, certainly, would be asked than for ordinary
frst-elass tickets, but more than Is usually de-
manded for .ec0nd-claSs ones. The prices for the
good seats in the hppodrome would he So high that
only very rich people could occupy them.
This will give You idea of the moral state
of the pest society and confirm the view which
have indicated, namely, that the upper class
caRdiile are than the rough brUtes whom
ZOIa sketches in "LAssOmmoir.'
The Duchess de Mouchy is the granddaughter Of
Caroline Bonaparte and Murat the snowy general
to whom Napoleon gave the crown OF Naples. Her
mother was a Fraser, from Philadelphia where
Prince Lucien Murat taught French in the reign Of
Louis Philippe. She used to be, as Princess Anna
Murat, the inseparabe companion of the Empress
Eugene, who. when she visits France, is always
her guest The Duchess is hard woman, but sets
up TO be a Lady Bountiful. 1t costs her nothing I'd
do so, as pstroness of charitable fttes.
Her husband is the head of a branch
of the De N0ailles family He il very wealthy and
was cut by all his relations for espousing the
Princess Anna. The history of the manner in which
he was brought into taking that step is one tha.
might be in its place in the Queer Stories" in
Mr. Henry Labouchere's weekly paper. The
Duchess often visits London, where she is msdc
much of by the Prince and Princess of Wales and
their set. Tuere are some suggestive illusions 70
her in the posthumousy published letters Of the
Ibuf II
did not admire her and regretted that
the Empress n,ad- a companion of her She went
with Eugene on different trips into Switzerland
Germany and Spain. 10 which last named country
she saw bull fights, and, il would seem enjoyed
them thoroughly.
| believe The Prince de Sagan the Due dc
Castries and the other nOblemen who were 10 have
acted as stewards at the ppodrDme, were
to the charitable bearings of the project
What they aimed at was to bring forward Philippe
VII. aud his wife who having been reared az
Madrid and Seville delight in the sport of bull Tight
ing Prominent Bonapartists were TO have gone with
the Duchess TO the prOwess and deIterity of
Frascue!o. Orleanists and Legitimists who have
deserted the elder branch also to have 1ockei
IN behind the noble stewards. Erascuel0 was TO
have saluted the Comte and COmtessc de Paris as
King and Queen and the whole house was Ia have
appauded this astounding attempt 10 galyanize the
dead monarchy. All the gentlemen IN the press tTib
une would have telegrap hed far aud near the news
that the King had been acclaimed by the most bnll-
liant company which had ever assembled for a long
course of years in Paris The momentary excitement
of qommeur of the De Morny stamp and of ladies
who are in the habit of injecting morphine into
their blood wonld, dare say, have been called
thus asm by ninety -nne out of a hundred foreign
Journals and by all the Boulevard and m0narchical
organs. As nothing succeeds like success, there
would have been rush towards the Comte aud
Comtesse de Paris who, the Chambers being In
recess, conld not have been easily expelled on the
morrow of the fetc.
The Due de Castres is the brother of Ia MARKETABLE
MacMa hon His wife is a daughter of the late
Viennese banker, Sina. As he has had great turf