, 1890-10-03
SEVERAL PARTISAN DENS
RARE COMBINATIONS OF LUXURY,
COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE.


The sanetums Of Scientists, Critics and
Literary Goniuses of World wide Rep
utatIous-whsro the Bright Lights Re-
iire to Do Their Chosen Work.
The sanctum Of NJ. Louis Pasteur, for
example. is one of the most simple in the
high order of truly physical comfort. 1t
Is not encountered with the scientific
paraphernalia often met with in the
houses of medical men. A large carved
oak table stands by the side of the arm
chair in which the great scientist often
sits in quiet contemplation of his past
experience and future hopes. In that
high stack Of green cases at which he
casts an occasional glance stores Of valu-
able notes are classed in perfect order.
They are ready for reference should a
fresh problem arise in the course of his
labors in bringing about the prevention
or cure of that terrible affection to the
study Of which he has devoted so many
years of his valuable and successful life.
NJ. Pasteur usually wears a close fitting
skull cap when in his sanctum. He is
grand cross of the Legion of Honor, mem
Der of the French academy and perpetual
secretary of the Academy of Sciences.
THE GREAT TOWER UILDE
NJ. Gustave EiGel, the engineer whose
wonderful popularity has grown so rap
idly, is accustomed to ruminate in a
quiet looking but very comfortable sor:
of library. He is fond of walking about
when in deep calculation, and frequently
makes a halt in front of his admirable
chimney piece, the shelf of which is sur
mounted by a very chaste and beautiful
female bust. On each side of the chin
ney piece is a handsome Venetian mir
ror. It was in this sanctum, situated in
the Rue de Prony, that NJ. Gustave Eiffel
solved the last few serious difficulties
which at one time threatened the com
pletion of his Champ de Mars triumph;
and there 1t is that he now meditates
over the opposition formed by some of
the members Of the municipal council to
his project for the construction Of the
Metropolitan railway for Paris. The
main objections to the metropolitan
scheme are that it would destroy the
beauty Of the boulevards and ruin the
line of omnibuses running from the
Madeleine to the Bastile. 1t is not at
all unlikely that the engineer who tri-
'umphed so g~loriously in the case OF his
tower will achieve another victory with
the railway he proposes to construct.
The man of the iron tower is an officer
of the Legion of Honor.
M. Francisque Sarcey, the well known
theatrical critic of The Temps, and one
| of the brightest of the galaxy of Pari-
sian chroniclers, inhabits during his long
working hours a library in which he is
almost surrounded by his books. M.
Sarcey is beyond what is usually consid-
cred the prime of life, yet he looks
well as, with spectacles on nose, 1" and
wearing n soft and smooth white beard,
he poses himself carefully and closely
over his table in front of the o p he is
carefully preparing. He is reputed to
be n model of gallantry toward the la
dies; but the case might be reversed
when IL is considered that the lady art
lists whom it il his duty to c~riticise not
infrequently call at his house to ask a
favor or an act of justice for their pro
fessional requirements. There are two
places where Sarcey may very often be
met with one is his library, and the
other is his fauteuil d'orchestre, when
ever a grand performance or a premiere
representation is given at any Of the
principal Partisan theatres.
wEAvERs OF ROMANCE.
NJ. Georges Ohnet, the celebrated ro-
mancist and dramatist, still young and
handsome, with his smooth dark hair
carefully brushed and parted, usually
sits in pensive attitude in one of those
luxurious armchairs with which his study
abounds. The sculptured chimney piece
by the side of which he takes his placein
winter is a work of art in three stories,
surmounted by a beautiful clock and g
looking glass out of old or young human
reach. The author of the "Maitre de
FORCES" is one of the most amiable Of
Partisan -litterateurs, as all who havo
visited him at his charming residence in
the Avenue Trudiane can affirm. NJ.
Georges Ohnet is as young in Ia Order
of the Legion of Honor as he is in his
age; but with time both may surely be
expected to ripen and advance to a brill
liant maturity.
NJ. Emile Zola dwells in the artistic
quarter Clichy, where. in the Rue Bsllu,
he possesses a sumptuously furnished
sanctum, provided with sofas, peacock
pictures of the greatest beauty. stat
uettes, evergreens and objects of art in
every variety. All these strikingly APP
parent comforts and delights combine to
! encourage that inclination for the dolce
/ far niente to which the indefatigable
pretender to academical honors does not
for one M yield. With his hnpid
hair falling in n loose style on each side
of his head. after the manner of many
popular knights of the palette, he con-
tinues to wear the same binocle as when
he wrote "LAssommoir'' and la Terre."
In fact lola, by his free and easy APP
p~earance, looks more like an artistic
peintre than a literary man. He may be
considered a painter also, since he writes
pictures with his pen almost as wildly
as those who paint them with their
brushes. NJ Emile Zola is a chnvalier
of the Legion Of Honor, and the red rib
bon is well placed and well merited as
the reward Of his profound thought,
bold Imagination and vigorous express
sion that are sometimes severely crit
cised but invariably admired Galig-
nani's Messenger.
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