New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-17
TOPICS IN PARIS. \
REUNION OF TIE TWO SALONS-A REMIN-
ISCENCE OF THE EMPIRE

Isl ENCE VI HE EMI IKE
Paris. July l.
The distribution OF awards for the Champs
Elysees Salon took place to-day at the Paais de
rIudustrie. NJ. Bourgeois. Minister of Public In
struction. in the chair NJ Bonnat president of
the Society OF French Artists. was happy to an
nounce that there was prospect of the two camps
In which French artists were at present nnhapplly
divided becoming reconciled Some weeks ago
tue committee opened negotiations with the
Clamps de Mans artists with 4 view to reunion:
they were conducted in a friendly and brotherly
spirit: it was agreed that there had been misunder-
standings ON both sides and that mutual CONCESSIONS
should be made This evening NJ Bonnat and
A. Puvis de Chavannes. president VI the Champs
de Mars Society, together with the two commit
tees. will meet at banquet. The fusion OF the
latter dissentient society with the older one Is re-
garded as practically on accomplished fact.
II is TO be hoped that the Princess Marie OF
Edinburgh will not try 10 live up 10 the nonser-
steal written portraits which have been given OF her
in French journals and repeated In English ones She
Is spoken Of in one Of them as strikingly resembling
her great grandfather, the Car Ncholas. saw
the Princess since she grew up, when at Ports
mouth as she was going 10 cross over 10 Osborne.
and did not nee even trace OF resemblance
10 him. but thought her like both the SAKE
Coburgs and her grandmother, the late Empress
Of Russia who was mp to the age VI forty very
beautiful woman, but took later a broOding eN-
prcssion and the look which chronic bronchitis
gives IL tie Gar Nicholas was like his portraits
he would hardly be thought handsome The star
ing eyes pecudo-c laesical face, and the buckram
personality that proclaimed In face Inquire,
carriage and belongings, would not be to present
day taste. which prefers expression with irregular
features 10 wig-blOck regularity and conven-
tlona phy-ognomv. | read also in the written
portrait that the young Princess has "a will OF
her own just like Nicholas. II 50, the best thing
she can do j. 10 try and not resemble morally. her
great grandfather, Nicholas. but to strive 70 he
like in conduct 10 her grandmother, Victoria. \
Queen Of Rumania, priding herself on being Ike
the Car Nicholas, would be pretty sure TO get
the backs up OF some Of her subjects who had
spent four or five years in Paris az students.
The great work Of the late Admiral Mouchez
who has Just died, his Photographic map Of
the heavenly bodies The idea of making il. was
entirely his own lie brought into this task the
corporation OF seventeen olservatorie- in different
norts OF the globe The admiral left the navy 10
direct the Paris Observatory His celestial photo
graphic map revealed the existence OF nearly nifty
thousand stars, OF which nothing had been pre-
viously known.
The death II Nine Mircs reminds one Of the
furious rivalry between the late Baron James
Rothschild and the Jews Of Portuguese and Spanish
origin They went in for a kind Of socialism
which brought them fortunes. 1T was congrninl
TO the late Emperor, who had philanthroplcal
bias. and drank in the Gospel according 10 81
Simon which the Pcrercs and Michael ChcVai"r
preached to HIM. Mres did not exactly 20 IN for
humani,ary ideas. but coming from BORDEAUX
lc was taken np bY the ~. Simonlnn Jews. who
were really far above the moncy-grub level. Ills
best cards were Cardinal Antonclli. aud through
him. Plus the Ninth. The Cardinal was enaplei
by him 10 leave u fortune of Il million and a hat
Of pounds sterling Mime. Mires used 10 NC
spoxen Of as a ci-dcvant Eordelas washcrwomah
She was in any ease of handle station before ana
far a long time after her marriage, and never took
nolsh II was q splendid feather In her cap To
have the nuncio always ready when she was Civ
ing n ball to go round the Faubourg ST. German
,o secure for her urstocratic guests When her
daughter married Prince de Polisnac Jealousy
became furious. Dchnnciations against, tMlres
raiued down on the parquet, and his Judaco-Ger-
man enemies puid courticrs to undo the effect pro
duced ON the Emperor's mind by De Morny .
,rnresentations to him In Mlires' favor The
comrt was divided into MIrcsite and an nnti-
Mirealte factlon I>ucn was Wcli p"iu AZ, "V
iackipg or defending. respectively. the Popes
favorir hnancier. Tie Niennese clerk OF u
hostile banker was thrust into Roman Catholl-
cism. and then into holy orders. TO bring round
the Empress 10 the side of the anti-Mircsltcs.
lie was handsome. impudent. and had horld
stvlc of eoQuence which carried him far A
medical member OF the Imperial household made
a fortune by simply carrying In dcnuncaions
from that banker TO the Emperor. in which the
duty was pointed out OF letting Mircs b. prose-
cntrd The prc,Xt on which the law was set
I'm action against him was futile. lie had sold
on the Hoursc one day bonds left in his hands by
borrowers OF money In few days he replaced
them by others Of the same issue. but of diff
fercpt numbers. This was irregular. and he was
pounced on for IL. Every one thought lie was
ruined after his long and obstinate defence and
his successive appeals and changes Of venue which
in tho end led TO his escaping from q sentence
for felony lie came out with full hands. but
The unlucty peasants and others who were share
holders IN his bank were left penniless The
pone and Cardinal Antonelli remained faithful.
nna pins used to send relics 70 Nine Mrcs
aftsr her husband died and her own health broke
down She retired from the Place do 10 Con-
corde. where she had q private house. to a less
ward Male.hcrhes where she lived forgotten by
the world amid humble relatives and old friends,
ON. ~ whom was Mile Schneider whom she had
known at BordeatX. when her father combined
thre The trade Of tailor and the function Of
concierge Mlrcs fostered from good nature the
talent Of this singuarly gifted divete. lie was a
devoted friend Of Sarah Bcrnhardts mother. and
Sarah owed TO him the education which ahe Ne
ceivrd in the Convent Of the Augustine Ladies'
q Versailles. u. Z.