Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-03-28
THE FRENCH PRESIDENT.
Cosby Information About M. Sadl- Car
not and His Family.

Cosby Information About M. sadI-Car-
not and His Family.
The new President and his family
are now installed at the Elysee, in the
apartments lately vacated by M. and
Nine. Grevy. They are situated in the
left wing of the palace, and the win
dows overlook the garden. Nine Car
not has made no interruption in her
receptions, and is at home this after
noon at the Elysee, as, in the old order
of things, she would have been in the
Rue dies Basins. 1t is reported that
she has paid several visits to M. Worth,
and has ordered number of toilettes
suitable to the high position to which
she has been called. No changes have
as yet been made in the military house
hold. General Brugere, who is per-
Lichtenstinc retain their posts, as well
as their colleagues. Nor have any
servants been dismissed, the President
and Nine. Carnot having only brought
with them two who have been in their
service many years.
M. Carnot, ST., who formerly pro-
fessed Saint-Simonian opinions, had
trades taught to both his sons. The
President is a carpenter and his
younger brother locksmith. For the
same reason he has never assumed the
title of Count, which is his by right
of Inheritance, the great Carnot'
having been ennobled by Napoleon /.
In any case the President is not
Vicomte, as has been assumed, second
titles having not been awarded by inn
perial decree to the eldest sons, who
could only inherit that of their father,
though in many cases this rule has
been infringed. NJ. Carnot is by far
the youngest of the four Presidents
who have reigned at the Elysee. M.
Theirs was seventy-four, Marshal Mac
Mahon sixty-four. and M. Grevy sixty
five at the time of their elections. The
previous inhabitants of the Elysee were
the Marquis de Pompadour, the fnan-
cier Beaujon the Duchesse de Bourbon,
Napoleon L., King Murat, the Due and
Duchesse de Berry, and Louis Napoleon
before he became Emperor. To
celebrate his election, President Car
not gave the school-boys a days
holiday.
He married while young the daughter
of the Economist Dupont White, who
brought him some fortune. They
have four children, three sons and
daug hter-now the wife of an Advocate
General at Dion, M. Cunisset. One of
the sons is Lieutenant of infantry,
another is a student of the Ecole DIES
Mines, and the third is still at school,
a dav boarder of the Lycee Janson at
Passy.
i, is questionable whether Partisan
society will have gained much by the
change President Carnot, though in
the prime of life, does not care for
general society. and Nine. Carnot is
not prominent in fashionable circles.
though a woman of extremely refined
taste and pleasing manners. Their
apartments in the Rue DIES Basins are
handsomely and comfortably furnished.
and there is certain amount of artistic
arrangement in the smaller of the two
drawino-rooms, wherein she was in the
habit of receiving every Tuesday after
noon. Her late father, M. Dupont
White professed Liberal republican,
ism, but was great admirer of the
liberal institutions of England. One
of the minor duties of Nine. CARROTS
new position will be the direction of
sewing class, installed by the Duchesse
de Magenta at the Elysee. where the
baby linen is made which is presented,
with bank note of fifty francs, to a
certain number of poor mothers
annually to whose infants the Presi-
dent consents to stand godfather. Nine.
/ Grevy NANTES eel much interest in this
( class. and always spent some time
every day inspecting the work and
! helping the seamstresses with her adj
! vice The wife of the eX-President had
a passion for fine linen, and was wont
J to arrange and re-arrange the contents
! of the lingere with her own hands,
/ Paris Coz. London Queen.