Morning journal and courier., 1885-02-05
THE WOMEN OF PARIS.
Scenes at the Trial of Mime. Clovis
Hugues-Comtesse de Tillet.
lPariS to London Truth

Scenes at the Trial of Mime. Clovis
Hugues-Comtesse de TIlIet.
Paris Letter to London TRUTH
There was number of spurious Ambass a.
dors at the Nine Clovis-Hugues trial, SO me
of whom were accommodated with seats on
the be nch. Lord Lyons was impudently per-
sonated, and the false Don Manuel Silvela,
who was the image of the real one, had the
brass to blow up an usher who declined to
take a message to his coachman. A lady was
discovered crouching behind juror in the
jury box and clasping him around the waist,
so as not to fall back There were. however
genuine ambassadresses, academicians, dram
attic authors, and first as well as second, third,
fourth, fifth and sixth rate actresses. Nine.
Pasca was one of the former. The lady in
the dock had rather the air of Judith than
of Lady Macbeth, to whom the counsel for
Morin's father compared her. Her mouth is
voluptuous, and the general expression of the
face shows cool will and concentrated energy.
Habitual postufing was also betrayed in an
attitude which had become second nature.
There were some comic incidents at the trial
A Doll Tearsheet, with about dozen aliases,
was as proud of her dishonor as Nine. Hugues
was of her honor. She came straight from
ST. LaZare, and in stating her profession add
ed that she was rentiere This caused some
laughter among the novelists and dramatic
authors. I" Eth bien oui ~ she cried. "And
what if 1 am all that ;? l would not hurt
fly or do all evil turn to a human creature.
AS to being a rentiere, I am lodged and fed
at the cost of other people, and am sure this
gives a right to class myself in the rentiere
category" Doll had been stuffed into St.
Lazare because she was guilty of breaking
the BAN. e., of leaving the district where
she was ordered to stay by the police-to
come to Paris She had been sent to rusti-
cate because she refused to get sister sinner
to invent for the late Comtesse de Tillet evil
Deuce that would have enabled that lady to
do without the case got up against her young
husband by NORM. The Comtesse de Tillet
was the heiress of rich manufacturer, and
the mother of Comte Osmond de Tillet, whose
balls costumes were even too freely Pagan for
fast men who saw no harm in Arsene Hous-
saye's queer redoutes Her ladyship was a
widow in the last decade of the Empire, and
then certainly the ffty-fve to which she
owned sixteen years later. used, before the
war; to see her at Ministerial balls beautified
forever, and languishing in round dances in
the arms of unfortunate gandins, who waltz
ed with her because they were in debt and
hoped she might be induced to lend them
money. She was type of the period to
which she belonged. When Nine. Hughes
went to her to demand reparation for bring
ing her into her suit as the inamorata of NJ.
Normand, the Comtesse's second husband,
Nine. de 1illet thought her mad to be angry
at such trif1e. In her searches for '' unfor-
tunates'' who being under the finger and
thumb of the police might be easily led to
testify against NJ Normand, the Comtesse
was accompanied by sister of charity. The
robe of the nun was supposed to be guar
antee of the lady's respectability. This cpl
sode of the trial should make you feel glad
that you have no secret police to speak of at
Scotland Yard.