New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-10
4 PALACE BALL.
4 GLIMPSE or NINE. FAURk AND HER
DAUGHTERS

4 GLIMPSE OF NINE. FACRh AND HER
DAUGHTERS
Paris Feb 25-The Presidential BAL = and must
be ALWAYS A faiiguinc crush 20 thos" who GIL" ara
to those who come Il. The present occupant OF
the EIysee and Mime. Faure. assisted by iheir Two
DAUGHTERS ca me- OIL, - the frs tine las; Thurs
dav as civers - ball Nothing was changed III
III. manner OF receiving or in the genera! auah'N
Of the guests since the Carno,s' time. But e-'
rigid Indictment was exercised in regard 10 the ls =
Of women 70 he invited. = literary 'Aiy OF So
advertising talent. who sets up TO know me Euro
pean chessboard better than all the iot"ien oH'"s
Of the world could effect an entrano" TO me
Eivsee In Nine Carno''s tine. After the AifnFai
AveNan was here az the CUES, OF France she cr.-
,rved to he named tho snokes~oman ~ f"sssh
ladies' in returning thanks TO Nine. Carno; ne
latter not to Jet her cross the door. re0ueSe1 that
the presentation should TAKE place IN distant pun
! lie building that she mentioned. Tbs vas Zone
! Nine Faure g trouble, by no such seruples 50
! the pushing dame able 10 come on 1hursday
| and hold real court in the room serving a.
| conservatory She is eXcclen, person bH; man'
bourgeois ideas OF proprie;y are strangers to her
| brain.
The President gets his cothes from hrst-ra'N
tailor lie is tail. stoops sorn"Nha'. a. th"1ghtuI
men are apt do: has finely formed features.
RI Their dropping eyc.ids. and seems 20 have prac-
tsed the vague eypre$sonless stare WIN when
Englishmen particularly those in business hide
their feelings Mime. Faure 10 a woman with
whom Dickens might have fallen In owe She has
rosy checks. rosy lips. a buxom hsure BACK mar
and black good-humored eyes. The genera "xpr"'-
sion Of her person IS Of moiherline's Were 1t no
Tor the ,lyellness o. the eyes and smis she might
pas ,or being English. Hawthorne made son" -"
marks or English ladies % her age and S;vt N
connection with the Wanted beauty o. Albion :
daughters.
The Presidents wife had some nne diamonds n
nod IN
! the best manner But It had more the sunday
than ballroom air
Nine Faure IL o. influenza. In trying 20
master the affection her face sometimes assumed
O rigid look variance with it, character. The
daughters are Ike their father. Nile Iucie ne
unmarried one must be clever and a person Of nrni
and yet kindly character. The other SISTER. Nine.
Bersa looked the more glrsn Of the two though
decked with diamonds, which ~ "a IN" married
womans privilege 70 wear in France
The guests advanced at sralrs pace partly be-
ca Use there wse a block ahead partly to have
good .ook Il, the head OF State and MS family.
lie cast aside the vague stare whenever a personal
friend entered. The eyes then he anne acute and
twnkling They revealed the business man VINO
never let. himself. n ne her j.. be oitv tted.
diplomats attend balls In Uniform. and In no cary
stage Of an Elysian bail stand in the same room a.
the President. forming wide sem circle The
Catholic diplomats when ;he Nunclo Offered them
MS hand took II rrverentially ana bowed =, .o~ IN
shaking il TO seem almost 20 kiss IL Toe Nun'iO
showed his innocence by asking them whether they
intended dance and seeming 10 mink dancing
delightful pastlme to tnose who can indulge In 30.
Ii is not etiquette FOR His Emlrerce - enter bal
ROOM He therefore IL not aware how rare II -
for any mature person OF either sex 20 sacrifice -
Terpschore. one sees in France Only Young fei-
lows who are sii.l s,ud"a;s a me military schools
ancing a; STATE balls The mslCr man aDnois ths
form OF "Dleasure.
There was a reserved saion a ThursdaN's Elysan
bah for the Corps Dipomatique. The Presdrn; and
hls family did not retire from the salons until
O'Clock in the morning. He was out a. $50. &" go
around the wards 0: one OF the hospitals .,
! ca, Yesterday besides II. Jules Simon az a din
ne party spoke Of the curious iact o' Hoche'ori
being g0dfather OF Georges Hugo the poets grand
son.
DO ,ou know" he asked. VINO IN" sohm"iheT
IS, Nv wife We bo.h went Brussels for the
chrls,ennk ! there Hoche:ort for tire hfst
time He had to Belgium 10 escape sentence
being executed him Tor an aiiack on Inc hn-
peror Hugo who did anyihinS by naIves
introduced him TO me az h.s thrd SON Georges
Hugo. by the way. among the ifst 10 can Oh
Rochefort after his return from London the other
day 20 congratulate him. and had with MN his
brother-in-isw. Leon Daudet. the recently d.
vorced husband OF mis- sister. Jeanne Hugo.
NJ Casimer-Perier returned last evening from
Monte carlo with his wife and daughter lie ef-
greet him Inc railway terminus. steppeh hshtiy
into an elegant landau and wore an ar o, J oyiu
satisfaction, accentuated that one m &ht doupl
whether It was not assumed to show he va, en-
chanted to be no longer President OF the Kepnoic.
He had gone 10 Men.one to avoid being mobbed ny
gaping English and French crowd al Beaulieu,
now most fashionable place. rne Mentone hotels
more upon by Germans. who have no pas
sion for lion hunting. The Casimir-PerieTs were
unnoticed by the august and ustI1ous VISITORS 10
Monte Carlo and Cap Martin. This. 1t appears.
ruined the eX-President's str-conscoushees, "nich
Is quite abnormal 1t was hard after RECEIVING Am,
bassadors. special and ordinary. and being looked
up 10 by the Corps Diplom tque as great eiemcnt
OF conservatism In the European system 70 E'o
himself wholly neglected The Emperor ana I'm
press OF Austria were his near ne!ghbors az wen
zone he could not 30 OUT without seeing thcm
40 sign or recognition was given by tnem one
gay they nearly touched elbows with him ana ;nd
ing room OF the Hotel DIES lies Britann'aues where
.hey cropped In 70 take their midday meal: They
SAT al a little table next to The at which the
Hfrresldeht was luncnlng. and 1t seems. watched
MN ana ne them through the medium OF pier
sIass. Dut ther eyes never met and no aide-dt-
d unnp las sem with polite message from their
npostoicaI Mates.ies The sltue ton Of cx-
fIesident OF the Republic r. an awkward one for
nmseii ana every one else. as II In not recognized
IN any protocol That OF an ex-sovereisn Is.
~ - MS intention soon to make tour In Italy.
IN tne course or which he viii demand audience
OF the rope 10 explain why he rescred. His Holt
ness 1eproaches him with having deserted the
catholics who rallied TO his conservative Republic
which was less Republican in All but the outer
nrsA than no matter what Europcan monarchy
-, !