New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-21
PARIS NOTES.
MARSHAL MACdAHON'S ILLNESS-ENGLlSH
VISITORS TO PARIS

VISITORS TO PARIS.
Paris, May 5.
| The illness from influenza Of Marshal MacMahon
| takes us by SURPRISE even though We remember
that the patient is soon to enter his eightyseventh
wear, he having been born on July Is, 1907. when
| Napoleon was the arbitcr Of Europe On account
of the Marshals great age fears were at hrst en-
| tcrtained that the illness might have fatal
| issue. But lie rapidly recovered his normal con-
diton, only being obliged to stay for twenty-iour
hours under blankets, and is now up and about
| Possibly he would not have been obliged to be-
take himself.to his bed if he had not gone to the
funeral of his old friend. the Duke of Nortemart,
when the epidemic was taking hold on him. He
was never seriously i'll in his life, unless when
wounded and then he recovered so rapidly that
the report went out OF his having slammed to
escape the responsibility of having to sign the
capitulaton Of Sedan.
Lord and Lady Dudley, the Countess Dowagcr
of Portsmouth, Lord Roberts, Sir Bruce and Lady
Seton Admiral Maxse and the Misses Maxsc have
been among the Easter holiday makers. The Earl
of Dudley is the son Of the eccentric noblcman
we'll known here in his youth az Lord Ward, who
married the beautiful Miss Moncrielfc. one of half
a dozen lovely sisters. Tho present Lord Dudley
married to please himself His young Countess
when here was busy as she could he in setting her
self up with dainty French fincry. and vent to
considerable expense. The Countess DOwager OF
Portsmouth is sister Of the late Earl OF Carnar-
Won, who was Lord-Licutenant Of Ireland in 1889
She was reared in the lines laid down by MARIA
Edgeworth in her stories, and especially III IN
tronase- The moral of Patronage" is that
ones own efforts arc infinitely more valuable az
means to success in life than anything aristocratc
relatives, however great their position or Their IN
clinations for kindness, can do for one The OH
Countess Of Carnarvon, nee Howard OF NorioiK'
thought Maria Edgcworth the best guide In the
way Of a story-teller for young people of both
scxrs In a conversation with Lady Portsmouth !
was struck with the practical Miss Edgcworth'
spirit that came out in 30 many ways in what she
said. She is fond of the country, and enjoys life
in useful, quiet and intellectual way. She
lives as q country gcntlcwcS1an farmer In manor
house of her son. with estate attached. on the
borders OF the New Forest and Salisbury Plain
The air there is peculiarly bracinc and breezy,
and the walks and drives are wonderful tho roads
being good and the scenery sometimes sylvan AMI
sometimes moory on one side OF the manor and
rolling on the other with lovely rivulets and large
brooks. and one Of the four rivers Avon in ~
ho]lows Of the land waves Stonehengc Is not TAR
distant. The Countess every year goes abroad TO
keep of rust. She has recently com" from 1talv.
and il now going TO renew her old Swedish lore.
it being her intention to spent part Of the summer
in Sweden She wears the English widows cap,
which goes we'll with her serenity Of manner and
its grave sweetness.
Her sister. LADY Gwendoline, IL exqui.itely re-
fined and most natural unassrming person. Sir
Bruce Seton is Scotch baronct who has large
fortune and constant employment being an nop'r
official at the War Office. Lady Seton was Misc
Hamilton and her father was a great Portland
Place doctor She has the sweetest kindnst. and
most reposeful manners OF any one ! know or In
deed ever met. Continuing the Portland Place
tradition. her house is a centre OF literary AMI
artistic lions who entertained in handsome.
hosptablc, and singnarly stylish way. but with
ont the least prctentiousness She and Sir Bruce
Seton greatly enjoy Bohemian life over here. They
attach the same TO this word that Lord Ron
aid Cover and his ncce-in-law, the Princess
louis did when they were at the Hotel ChoiscnIl.
The Sctons give little dinners when in Paris in the
Champeaux winter garden restaurant. Admiral
Maxse is the Englishman who best knows Paris,
and is perhaps most kecnly alive 10 what is best
in the French character. AZ the same tim" he is,
without being at all a "jingo, intensely English
in his devotion 10 his country, and is always tell
ing me that England is full OF good people who
live in all singleness Of heart up TO their moral
whom he has known for the best part of his life,
and who il his near intimate neighbor at Dork-
ing, where the Admiral has a country house. They
both revel in the sylvan beauty OF the ncighbor |
hold Tho Admira! is an intellectual man. AMI
his mind IL Of q singularly fine quality. Nobody |
feels talent in others than he does or values
it more. His admiration has the sincerity and |
transparency of o child's. With his literary and |
social culture he unites at once that rare innate
quality common sense and chivalrous loyalty |
Of character.
There are now but three survivors Of the forty |
members OF the French Academy who sat there in |
1863 when SUCCESSOR was named to Berrycr, |
the great advocate and orator The surviving |
trio are Lcgouve, who was then almost veteran; |
Camille Doucet and the Duke OF Broglc. The |
Duke was then Prince Albert OF BroglIc Victor |
Hugo and Lamartine were then among the In |
mortals, though they had long ceased to sit
in their company, one being In exile from which |
he publicly vowed never 70 return while the Man |
OF December, Louis Napoleon. reigned in Franco
There then frst-rate novelist. unless It was
Octave Feuillet, at the Academy. The Academy |
has never shown fondnes for the hest novests II |
having always tabOOed the elder Dumas as It now |
taboos Dandet and Zoa: though cannot wonder
at the latter being objected to. The outside auto
crat Of the Academy r. SOS was the late Coinesse
of Jacksonville. Her father, husband and brother
were IN her time Achucnlicl3ns ana her son, whose
name and that Of his wife are 30 often heard asso
cated with that of NJ Maurice Ephrussi, Roth |
sChiIds son-iL-law, obtained Immortality in con-
nectiOn with one Of the forty armchairs Madame |
d'Haussonvlle was a warm sympathizer with tho
Irish cause and wrote to her sympathies Her life
Of Emmett IS the most eloquent OF any OF his bog |
raphes
The Hon. Mrs. Talbot. wife OF Colonel Talbot |
the military attsche at the British Embassy, has
portraits Of herself exhibited both at the Ch,mps |
Elyses Salon and that Of the Champ de Mars. |
One is by BOnnat and the other by Blanche |
Neither painter does her justice. She might be de-
scribed as Britannia in flesh colored aabaster,
and Of the coldly II ough not dsagreeably aristo-
cratic type which Punch has pcisonifcd IN Lady
Clara We're de We're. Bonnat does her bust length |
inc down. lie paints her in his thickest and OIL
lest pailt. and one might fancy laid the color on
the canvas with trowel. The picture Is abso-
utely lifcless, and the fece does not live the n,-
preston Of distinction am constantly ting