Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-31

sale ue conferences In the boulevard I
des Capucines. The cafeschansanta. tbe
open-air music halls Of the Cnamns
Elysees, send their brazen strains ons
into the night, while the thea,err stIll
proffer the best they have--ahd how per.
fectly play may be performed no man
can know until he has served his time M
the Theater Francois.
Under the republic, as under the am.
pire, the old nobility rest aloof from on.
clal society. The empire cifered MANY
brides to bring the Fouboufg st. Gernlain
TO the Tuileries, with infrequent success.
When MacMahon was president and |
while the conspiracy of the 10th OF Nav
gave hope OF the restoration OF the Bour. |
bons, the legitimists focked TO the nov. |
ernment entertainments, and for the first
time In nearly ifty years there was
fusion OF all parties and a general CO. |
mingling OF the partissns Of Henri ", OF
the Orleans Princes, of the BonapartIst
faction end OF the Republic.
Now that the republic is really
ruler OF France, and that plain man Of
the people, NJ, Greyy, is president, those
OF the legitimlst set who do not hold
Office have withdrawn again into their
shells In the Faubourg Saint Germaiu.
AS q result the Official balls are liable to
lack brilliancy on the ladies' side, while
on the mems they are perhaps little
over-decorated by the military element.
Mr.. Henry James in the "American''
and MIR. Paul Pourget in "CrueIle
Enigme" have given striking pictures of
the quiet life leu by many OF the old fami-
lies in the Faubourg. There are among
the younger ladies of the oldest families
not few ''fast and fashionables,r but in
the main society in the stiff and stately
mansions across the river is re.
served and retiring. One would
think that so frigid an assembly
could have but little charm for
American women used to the best that
society has to offer in New York and
Newport; and yet not few American
ladies OF wealth and position have
knocked in vain for admission. During
the empire the Tuilerles were open to
anybody who had money and was willing
to spend 1t; English society is now ready
to welcome any wealthy woman who will
give bonds to entertain or to be amusing;
but the Faubourg Saint German is as
/ difficult OF access now as ever. have
recently heard OF an American lady of
large means and influential relations with
the berons of finance who came to Paris
to lay siege to the Faubourg and who
has gone away defeated, And | know
another very pretty young American
girl, soon to be married to an English
man as insignificant as ne Is notorious,
who has been received with open arms
and who was invited everywhere without
effort or struggle.
The Anglomanla Of Partisan society
does not extend to art. The Kate Green
away costumes for children have been
adopted in a few cases, but that is all.
The Eastlake movement, il we may de.
base by nickname the recent English
. revival of interest in decorative art, had
no echo on this side OF the channel. En.
glish pictures are rarely seen in the salon,
(. aud are not more highly esteemed in
France than they are in America. AL
though the frequent intermarriages OF
the young men of the old families with
the daughters of the haute finance. as the
aristocracy of wealth is called, have
caused certain tendency TOWARD
luxurious display, the best traditions o.
French taste still survive in the nobility
This taste is quiet, and there Is prefer
, ence for subdued tints in decoration. Al
! American lady living in Paris had recent
} ~ IGlulultntu
/. French gentleman, wheL he paid his flrs
, call after the change, protested gent.
, against the brand new colors. "The blu
in that velvet chair" he said, with man.
! apologies, after be had been urged agail
: and again to express his opinion, 9TH
blue IN that velvet chair is really to-
bright, madame. Why do you not stan'
1t on the balcony in the rain for a weel
or two2"
e But, as a whole, French society is moi
I over fond of sad colors, and 1t Is no
n wont to take its pleasure sadly. Some
!. times even the great ladies of the sombr,
s Faubourg hold high revel--as they dit
I last wear, for example, at the ball givel
e by the Princess de S2gan, to which NJ
( one, male or female, was admitted VIII
: was not disguised as an animal OF SOM
: sort. 1t was game of Beast, Bird an'
r Fish, as the children call it. The Repuo
: lican papers made much sport OF TN
a distinguished scious OF nobility who dis
}. guised themselves as geese or donkey
e or monkeys or what not, At Madam
}, de Sagan's the danes OF hlgl
d degree were dancing for their ow
d amusement; but they are always ready Z
d lend a hand (and "shake q foot" as IN
n Scotch have it to help deservin
l. charity. Only last week there was grea
8 ball at the Hotel Continental to rails
n funds for the establishment in Paris OF a
l. ambulance system similar to that a
v ready IN operation in New York; an er
+ terprise of DR.. Nachtel, which has bee
warmly patronized by the Duchess de
Of Rochefoucauld.
y IL is not little difficult to deciai
Ie whether or not the best society OF Par
IS is fond of the drama; but It goes req
n larry TO the theatre, even though tnls
IN 10 see itself and gossip about itself.
a. ali the leading places of amusement ce
$, tain nights are fashionable, and Tor thos
l. nights the boxes are generally SUI
IN scribed for by the season. AT the opel
n. the subscription nights are Monaa.
in wednesday and Friday. The opera Is
TO course the grand opera, for Italian opei
is a as dead in Paris as IL is in New iori
r, and even in London and in Philadelph
st il is dying lingering death In far
It. the Sale Yentadour, the Italian operl
lie house, was torn down eight or ten yea
W ago and turned over to a bank Az U
e. Opera Comique the fashionable mght
n saturday, but the Opera Comique IS ~
fashionable theater, for IL is the iayo
- - go middle classics AL III