Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-25

| had all fallen from their high estate
in the worlds eye, yet were happy and
pleased. The English aristocracy there
all gave these people wide berth.
Now they would be more patient. They
had become used to black sheep. Peo-
pie with an uncomfortable appetite for
forbidden fruit, people who will ex-
change their birthright for mess of
pottage, are apt to be amiable-and sin
the aristocracy forgives.
Meantime the Parisians are luying the
cornerstone of the Exposition building
for 1890, and as the cornerstone of all
Parisian idea pleasure is the theatre
they already announce that in this cele-
brated year the Porte st. Martin will
give a grand historical drama in twenty.
four tableaux, by NJ. Sardou, which " ill
be called Gun Steele, or L'Histoire dun
Steele" This piece will commence with
| the taking of the Bastile and will COM
memorate the principal events of the
hundred years. and will bring in the
| great figures of Napoleon, Lamsrtine and
Victor Hugo. The papers are full of
| "reminiscences of Rachel, and of accounts
of the pictures of Rosa Bonheur, whose
best work, they say, is in the United
States. M. Latouche has just published
some very pretty letters OF Rachel. with
whom he often played. He always
| speaks with much emotion of this great
artist, "dead in her youth" as he says,
and he delights in recounting the stories
| of their first visit to America. These two
famous women,
RACHEL AND ROSA BoNHEUR,
| Are the talk of the hour. How curious
this phase of French curiosity is! Some
name sleeps for years and then every.
body wakes up to think of nothing else.
When | was in Paris in 1884 Joan of Arc
was the phrase of the hour. Now she
has retired to her corner of history and
Rosa Bonheur and Rachel, the one liv-
ing and the other dead, are all the rage
The King and Queen of Greece are in
Paris and living quietly at the Hotel
BRISTOL in the apartment usuallyreserved
for the Prince of Wales. They have with
them three children, who range from six
to eighteen years of age, the handsom-
est family in Europe. Their eldest son
is called the Duke of SPARTA pretty
title. King George is very handsome
man. l saw him yesterday. He is tall,
blonde, distinguished, charming cav
alier, he looks like the Princess OF
Wales. His wife, the Princess Olga, is
a tall, handsome Russ, who walks about
the Avenue de pOpera, and the Rue de
la Paix, in gray tweed gown, little
gray hat with black plume, much sim.
pier than most Republicans, French
or American. saw a Repub
lican marriage the other day
at the Marie. My friends who were to
be married were Of the musical classes,
and many were tbe distinguished.look'
ing composers and performers who were
present. At eleven gentleman in full
evening dress came for me and drove me
to the Grand Hotel where the bride was
stopping. Then we were joined by heI
friends. She came down in a pretty,
simple white silk and lace bonnet, the
dress made high ne ecked and long sleeves.
Then we all drove to the Marie, where
much writing was gone through with,
then a whisper ran around, Monsieur
the Maire." We all rose, and o very
good looking man entered with the tri
color scarf across his breast. He went
through simple marriage ceremony,
very like ours, and then made the hap
py pair little speech. Somehow it re-
minded me of Citizen Robespierre. Citi
zen Marat, Citizen Roland, although
must say Republican France looks very
prosperous, but that tri-color scarf has a
very revolutionary look. After the sim.
plest of ceremonies we adjourned to the
bridegroom's house to pretty breakfast,
and l enjoyed, as l always do, the
French air of gayety and pleasure and
the absence of any stiffness or awkward
ness. / must give you the French fol
"dude"-''copurchic" The word is a
combination OF 'pur ct chic" Go is ad.
ded for euphony. A copurchic is per-
fectly stylish, fashionable young man. a
dude, and now they have the "Cafe Co.
purchic." When shall we have Dudes
Club?
Par.s is surrounded with such net.
work of railways whose lines enable one
to see all the notable places between
breakfast and dinner, that it is a shame
that one does not see them. There are,
of course, Fontainebleau, Versailles. St
Cloud, St. Germans and Poissy, but
and interesting things. They have many
train deploisi-what we call special
trains-and one goes to Havre and re-
turns for nine francs. Here all these
trains are filled with poor clerks. the
leseddutaires, employ es, bureaucrats, hall
bourgeois, to whom the sight of COW
or flower is a rare treat. To these peo.
pie the way an American scampers
round the globe is astonishing. To trav-
Ell for the sake of traveling-that is re.
versed for the rich. But the people who
have to work eight hours every day in
order to live, little tour around Paris
is great joy. 1t is the reward of toll.
It is interesting to notice the insignifi
cant little gates, the interior stations,
"Courcy les Vieux," "Troujon la Revi.
ere," "Chateau Gcdet." Some one goes
out at each. All of France has changed
in thirty years. Royalty has evaporated.
titles have become useless, electricity
has escaped; Democracy rules. All has
changed except the fate of the clerk on
a salary. His has not. The bureaucrat
franchise is the same being to-day that
that he was in the days of Francis l..
Three francs thirty.three centimes a
day is still good income for such as
these. The rich to whom fortune gives
leisure and prolonged aud varied pleas.
ures can scarcely measure the value of
an outing to these poor slaves, They can
go to see Chartres Cathedral Amiens,
in Europe, which they could not do in
America. And they like to do it, and
they like to 90 to the theatre of an eve.
| ming, and have food fire and candles.
They like to sit on bench in the Boul-
ward Sehastonol and see the world 90 by
"Ah," said one Frenchman who made
the tour of the Seine on little steamer,
How many people have died without
knowing that they could do this beauti-
full voyage!" The fetes at Chantilly, par
ticularly that of st. Hubert, annually
brought 10000 francs to the poor OF
Chantilly. Now they will not happen
again, and what loss! What days
outing in magnificent forest to the poor
| sedentaire from a Government or gas