New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-10
TOPICS IN PARIS.
KINGS MAKING THEIR ADIEUS-THE MA
JESTIC CATHEDRAL OF SACRE-COEOh'

oca ~ tho .lvsee and the passerby who turns |
hs gaze IN the direction OF the grand entrance OF
the executive mansion will In nine cases ou' y,
ten find a battalion Of infantry with coiors anu
band In the act OF paying military honors 70 so'e
ROYAL visitor making call upon President a"ie'
Four DAYS ago It was the King OF Portugal WIN
drove nm 70 bid Frances Chief Magistrate fare I
well after a stay in Paris extending over Ser
weeks; the day before yesterday it was the King
OF Greece: yesterday one OF the sons Oh h'"s
Oscar NJ Sweden To-day the Prince and Princess
If Monaco drove I'D In full state to pay their re-
snects To the President just as II they were Tor
eign royal personages although they i've mere
nearly all the year round and have maghiHcen'
residence on the Faubourg st. Honore, just rev
doors from the Elysee
Probably they wish to remind people Vi 'he
fact that in spite of the Prince pehg one Vi .''e
most active partners in the public gamohns III
stitution at Monte Carlo. he is after ALL io'
eign sovereign His wife was arrayed In superb
toilette OF pale gray ribbed velvet trimmed WIZ"
deep bands Of chincha and crystal passeheh-
terie the finishing touch being given os 81
gapt,c Louis Seize hat OF the same material as the
gown and entirely covered with pale yeho" ro'e'
and dark gray ostrich tips. She is probably the
erst American girl who has ever crossed the
threshold Of the Elysee as fullfedged Princess
~ sovoreien rank Although she bore the title OF
Duchesse de Richelieu at the time OF her mar
rage TO the reigning Prince of Monaco she Is
the daughter Of the New-Orleans banker heine'
The Prince and Princess remained In conversation
with President and Nine. Faure FOR nearly d"
hour. and later In the afternoon NJ ana MINE
Faure returned the call with equal pomp ana cere-
mony. The Prince Of Monaco is one OF the MOST
enthusiastic knights Of the wheel, ana arriVeu
here last week from his castle of Marchais where
he has been entertaining Princess Eulaiia' DONG
the entire trip OF eighty miles on trpet' MS
companions on the machine, which was Quit eN-
pressiv for the Prince bein, his gentleman-in-
waiting and his only SON.
THE PRINCE OF MONACO's son.
The latter a fat-faced young man o. twenty
six. who is serving lieutenant In the french
Army holding a commission in one OF the regi-
ments Of Chasseurs d'Atrque, bears little resefn-
blance to his father, for he has inherited all the
facial cha "a teriscs Of his mother the only sister
Of the late Duke Of Cumberland. Lady Mary
Hamltons union to the Prince OF Monaco was
annulled by the Pope at her request on the
ground that she had been forced into 1t against
her will by her mother the Princess Marie
~ T,aden and by her cousin Napoleon III
Strangely enough however, the son was explicitly
declared legitimate. and Is consequently heir 10
his fathers throne. His youth was OF as asltateo
a character as that Of the young King OF SerVia.
As in the case Of the latter, his mother ned with
him from beneath her husbands roof, and, IKE
King Milan Prince Albert Of Monaco invoked the
aid of the police In the country In wnlch MS wire
had taken refuge to recover his son py iorce.
That he was not successful was solely due 10 the
vigorous Intervention on behalf of the boys
mother by the Grand-duchess Helen OF Russia
who happened to be staying at the same hotel at
nd child
protection. defying the Italian police to touch
them Lady Mary Hamilton afterward married
Count Tassilo Festetics Of Hungary. and her son,
when absent from his military duties In Algeria,
spends half Of his time with her at Kestely. IN
Hungary. and the rest with his father and step
mother.
THE GREAT BAsILICA on MONTMARTRE.
Parisians are so blind to what is going on
around them that II needed the arrival Of the
gigantic bell entitled La Savoyerde' to recall
to our attention the Basilica or Cathedral OF
Sacte-Coeur which. perched on the topmost peak
OF the curious concal hill Of Montmartre, looks
like some unearthly creation up in the sky like
one OF those models Of churches held aoft by
floating angels that sees in some of the
early italian and Dutch pictures. Dominating
the entire metropolis, IT constitutes a superb
refutation Of the charges Of irreligion that have
pie For it has been erected entirely by popular
and voluntary subscriptions among the faithful,
So 900 900 having been already received and spent
| In the construction while funds continue to pour
in at the rate of $4,000 month from all parts
of France. The huge bell is Offering to the
| Baslica from the nobes the clergy and the
| people OF Savoy, and almost every department,
| every big city and every town Is represented by
| some pillar. some altar some splendid stained
| glass window or fine picture. The representa-
| tive cities Of France have moreover, oo-operatei
| to present the great carpet which is perfect
marvel, covering the whole of the flooring OF the
chancel and aisle; special designs adapted 10
| the various parts OF the editice and those por-
| lions which run down the aisles being orna-
| mented with the escutcheons Of the contributing
| cities
| The Cathedral begun twenty-four years
ago. Immediately after the war. a peace Of
| fering 20 the Almighty for the Affections which
| had descended upon the land and upon the
| Pope. The sacred edfce Is entirely different
| from the ordinary design OF the churches here.
| and is really superb in it's stern simplicity Il
| hewn stone without a vestige OF relief the i'm
mense round Norman arches springing from
| colossal columns and mpressing one with a
| cyclopean and most majestic effect. The basca
| is not quite completed yet. neither the great
| dome nor the enormous tower. In the campanile
| style, which Is to support La SFvoyarde." hav-
| Ing as yet received the finishing touches. About
| another 100000, II Is calculated, will be needed
to complete the entire building, the construction
| Of which was authorized by the Republican Gov
| eminent and Legislature In 1873
| GUsTAvE DRoZ's DEATH.
| There is no book in the French language that
has been more widely read than that entitled
Monsieur Madame ct Bebe." written by Gus
| tave Droz. who d.ed yesterday and who was
the son and grandson Of famous sculptors. one
! Of whom designed the coins issued BY the In
| peral Mint during the reign Of the First Ma
| poieon. He himself was brought up as an en-.
1lA k,tt ka.
for painting and t was while painting certain
| panels in the Tuieries that he attracted the
attention OF Empress Eugenie and made her
acquaintance. His first literary efforts appeared
| In the We ParisIenne" His successes encour-