New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-06
FRENCH SOCIAL JOYS.
IN THE BULL-RING, THE BALLROOM AND
TIE LUNATIC ASYLUM.

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there by the Empress Eugene, and has been greatly
patronized by the sickly high life" society which
crowds each winter the Riviera. Charitable Princes
and Processes aud Dukes and Duchesses not many
| weeks ago wanted to import bulls and toreadors
from Spain to the Iiippodrome and take advantage
OF the sport of the former and the torture Of tho
latter to proclaim Philippe VII. King Of France.
| An ex-Prefect and an actual Project Of Po-
lice were only too willing to authorize
the Spanish advertisement, which is sur
vival of the Roman arena and good
preparatory training for the InqusitIOn. All they
wanted a little hypocrisy previous to the series
of bull fights which TO have taken place in the
circus near the TrocaIero But FrascneIo refused
tO lend himself to the proposed fraud aud declared
that If the bulls not properly irritated. tor
tursd aad killed. ami chances given to him to dis
| emb0wel horses, he would not come 10 the charity
| fete nor suffer any of his Spdda Chnios to bs
present at it. Having made his sine quI public,
the Administrations was obliged to spoil the sport
of the Princes aud Princesses, the Dukes,
Duchesses. and othsr leaders Of fashion.
But it authorized combats at Nice and Mines.
What is immoral in Paris is moral she shores Of
! the Mediterranean and ia the old Roman city Of
Provence which still boasts of amphitheatre and
| a teuple of Diana. Angel Pastor with seven band
erillos operated the other day az Mines bulls
0ted IT TO burning indignation, aud has led tho
Ministry to forbid all projects and police commits
saries in future authorize tOreadors performances
The brutality with which the bulls we're used in
the south of France arenas was unoXampled even
in Spain. Modern science made u-e oft lash
them into a fury. Roman candles wers attached
to the that driven into their hides and
when they burst the fire fell on the animals backs,
and cauterized SKIN and flesh. The first bull ro-
ccved a sword stroke from which IL could never
have recovered. II piddily advanced with lowered
head toward Angel Pastor, aud on it, way toward
him received the cDtp d. grtje from blnderillo.
The thigh artery Of second animal wis cut open
aud fountain Of rully blood gushe, therefrom Tho
third made hard ltriqgc for eVistencc. despite
fearful aish IN the neck and shsuldor Tho fourth
resisted hia tornonier1 Tor half an hour. and his
death wa achieved After ait sword wousds
had boen inflicted. Tho sixth hal been gished 10
fonr places aud wti about 10 clear tho barrier
when tho hnlthing stab was inflicted. Tho Hno
people were stimulated nnd appliuiel tho torea.
dor and his om ir,Hh Hat the mob showed fell
low feeling Tor the unfortunate bnllr and wanted
10 lynch Angel Pastor
The Boulevard galettss have been full Of the
village ball gwen by the rincess lie sagan 10 tho
rastlu6re society of Paris aud certain portion II
the Faubourg 81. German. A rastdqaere IL rich
idle foreigner agog for Amusement, profoundly yul-
gar, though albeit nicely vanished on the surface
del Citing In n0toricy aud so ignorant ~ 10 attach
more Importance to "a saying Of the Due ds Morny
than 10 a speech Of Clomencelu. Vol, the village
ball no the DE Slgan House analogous to q
calico ball in tho United States aud was .
plagiarism Of the ono given two years ago by
Madame Adam. The motley company, IN the fore
front of which there we're three unattached wives
was in rustic DISCUSSES. silks and velvet aud other
| fughiOnahle we're N he
and her most intimate lady friends one of whom 10
| the Marquse dc Gallifet, sabots. Such tray
estes do not become ex-beanties. They are well
enough when the animal spirits Of youth brim over
between sixteen and thirty. hardly dare say how
many years ago it il since the Princesses
! Metternich and De Sagan and the Mar
| qulse do Galfet went beyond the be-
| yonds" at private theatricals at C0mpeigne,
aud at Court balls at tho Tuileries. IL
tainly previous to the debut Of Mr.. Sdelis
daughters at a Monday evening party of the En-
press Eugene As the Taeyrand family, to which
Madame lie Sagan entered by the door % matrimony,
has % chateau at Vaencay in the department Of
the Indre, she and her sham peasants danced IA
BOurte or slow Bcrri reel which George Sands de-
scribes in one of her novels. The fete was
to have taken place in the garden, but the
weather was too cold and damp TO admit Of
dancing the open air. Nothing could
be finer than the salons and ballroom at De Sagan
House which was built by Mr.. Hope, the ban ker, for
the Countess Rspp, aud sold on his death to Baron
de Selli6re, a blanket manufacturer who made
fortune as an army contractor aud was ennObled in
mistake by poor laundering Charles X. Indeed.
persons who were at it tell me the rooms much
too fine for village fete aud that the guests wero
not at case in their drugget and calico garments.
Fun did not flow freely anil the band was led by
dignitied chef fOrchestre couple Of iddlers,
hutist and piper mounted on empty barrels, wosld
have been more IN keeping with the rustic
tunes.
While the Princess de Sagan and those she had
gathered around her trying 10 be merry,
fete of a far noblcr kind was taking place at the
SalpetrIGre- a hospital which shelters 1000
women, some of whom nirm from age. others
helpless from madness, large number afflicted
with epilepsy. hysteria aud other nenroses. IL is
hospital built in the Louis Quatorze STYLE Tho
wards inclose vast courts and gardens and arc
roOmy, wel-ventilated and lighted. Char
cot here delivers his famous clinical
lectures and Dr. SaullsLegrand has s,udiedths cers'
bro-nervOus malades of little girls born IN 1871,
ana whose mothers were IN Paris during the siege
The mad ward is apart from the rest Of the hospital
What chiefly struck in the women there was
the utter lack OF animal spirits and the total in.
capacity to be III sympathetic relations with any.
body else
Well, on last Tuesday n concert organized by the
brothers LOnnet was given to the mad, the idiotio
the epucphc and the hystcrcal in the hal
where Charcot usually lectures. The greatest
theatrical and musical stars attended. At one end
of the room platform on which there was az
organ and piano and about three-fourths of the
rest was taken up with seats arranged on gradu'
sy rising plane as IN a circus. They were occU
pied by women and young and little girls, the face,
OF many of whom we're hsggsTd and drawn a. il
owing TO internal nervous contractions The eycs
of the most intelligent wandered, their gestures
were abrupt. and here and there among them was
fearfully staring dress warden was placed 81