Evening star., 1894-01-27

International Amenities.
set her foot on the soil of old Europe for
her to take up its customs and habits"
Another very general feeling was expressed
recently by the heir of a ducal family who
had been consulted by one of his mates
on this question of matrimony:
MY dear fellow, choose your wife anong
our own class, or look for one in America
for henceforward We cannot admit any
other alliances"
Parisinn Society.
AS to Partisan society, | think that the
time is past when American readers We're
led to imagine that it's fine dover under
the republic might be found blooming in
the salon OF Madame Adam. In it's palm !
lest days this was rather an assemblage of
male notabilities. willing TO be brought to-
Gether by females adventuring into 0olitics
and literature, than any representative
gathering of society people. With all her
cleverness the hostess never succeeded in
doing more than making her reunions help
to the advancement of her protegeS through
politicians of the school of Gambett2. The
later ministerial radicalism is made up of
nine Joseph of older days: while her Re
view, which still offers convenient place
for the productions of her own pen, and of
any eminence who wishes to come cheauly
before the public sells but a few hundred
copies each molth.
AS to the official receptions of The nresi-
dent and the various ministers, Gnder tie
present administration they have undo1bt-
eiiy rad some recognition from social eie-
fhents which would have been considered
desirable even in the time of the second
empire. But the Empress Eugenie herself
did not succeed in drawing Within the daz
zhng briiliance of her court that older ariS-
toeracy which has its title from the ,I,lra-
tlon OF It's being. Here and there was a de-
lection. ending usually in marriage with
some OF the newer families more blessed
mo
even progressive patriotism has led rep
resentatiyes OF this grand monde of older
france To an acceptance of the new things
as they are 1t is clear that the final limits
OF any circle of society can be known only
from the intermarr;age of it's members.
Mere presence at fetes. Official or otherwise.
tell H.tie as to the republcanizing of the
aristocratic Faubourg.
Love of Titles.
AS far as intermarriage is concerned.
there seems to be little prospect that the
advance of democracy will revolutlonize
French higher society. or that it will pro-
duce state of things like that which ex-
lists in America, where money with fair
manners is sure to win its way in the long
run. 1t Is astonishing also, what respect
is still had by the French people for titled
personage3 e--
The fact that the titles of nobility are no
longer conferred and that the old nobility
is without political influence seems not to
affect the esteem in which hereditary rank
Is held by high and low: Among the forty
members of the French Academy there is
the party of the dukes" Only a few years
ago heard the Suisse cry in a crowded
church: place pour le Due de Nemoursr'
and the people obediently made way for
this pous. miseriy and very deaf son of
King Louis Philippe.
This is not peculiar to the settled and re-
ligious portion of the French people. The
of hn 70 a T,rr, LAl,~
than retards the popularity of that enthu-
siast among the workingmen; while the bit
terness of the bourgeois radicals show how
keenly differences of rank are still felt by
pretending parvenus. This, also, explains
the eager rivalry to possess a decoration of
any kind. most of all that of the Legion Of
Honor. 1t but illustrates characteristic
of the French people which perseveres
through all changes of government and
revolution. The desire of a title or deco
ration for purposes of exterior show is in
born and will not out, and the lack of a
court and of hereditary titles to confer iS
in measure, a source of weakness to the
present republic. suspect it would be felt
even under the rule of socialism itself.
The bourgeois and AristOcrat.
1t remains to be seen whether the notable
families of the republic will be able to work
their way upward as easily did the new
corners of the time of the Empress Eugene
The latter had new titles and distinctions
created for them, and yet they found it
hard enough to enter the charmed circle
of high Partisan society. Mere political
eminence has never given entrance to it,
and the literary lions found in it's salons
are oftenest simply OH exhibition. None.
sometimes comes in through a marriage
with the daughter OF rich bourgeois, but
she is sure to become the most intolerant
guardian of the exclusive privileges of the
class to which she has been elevated. This
does not revolt the French bourgeois, who