New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-17
TOPICS IN PARIS.
BEER AND THE GALLO CHARACTER
VICTOR HrGo'S DACGHTER-THE DUKE prZESS
DIARY-How THE DUCHESS WAS All 81"
y FAURES CHARMING DAUGHTER


Beer is beginning T. make It's influence appdf-
ent upon the Partisan character. and since me
essentially Gallo cafe and restaurant have given
WAY almost everywhere 10 the German brasserie
tho Inhabitants Of the metropolis have become dis
tinc,lv more heayv-Witted and duh. The men IN
pariicuar seem to have lost most Of the spright-
Illness the entrain and the restlcssness oil yofe'
Formerly they were forever on the qui-ViVe' al
ways ready for fun. noisy merriment ana po|IS"
FRANKS: and their eXuberance used 10 find an out
let at Mabe at Butler and at other similar
uaces OF popular entertainment where night was
turned into day and revelry reigned supreme.
But with the advent Of beer all this has changed
Tho Partisan has become sluggish. physically ana
mentally. Butler and most Of the places oil 'nat
kind have been compelled to put up their shutters
and go out of business through lack Of patronage
and now the once popular taste for disappearing
is diving ont At any rate this is the impression
left by Mardi-Gras this year. There We're scarce
lv any costumes to be seen, and the Only carhi-
valesore attire was that worn by people employed
by enterprising firms to advertise ther wares
With this exception. fancy dress was cohiren 10
the children. while their seniors contenteu the"
selves with pelting one another with confetti ana
disks Of colored paper. which unwound as lhey
were thrown \ new feature this year was the
paper balai or brush, which was plunged mo
peoples faces or necks for the alleged purpose OF
whisking off confetti lurking on eyebrows WITS
kers or coat-collars and resulting in some Voieh'
alterations But the whole thing was dreary
and there is every indication that within rev
wears the Mardi-Gras festival will have become
as completely thing Of the past as has been the
case with Guy Fawkes Day in England.
The ninety-third anniversary of the birth or
Victor Hugo which was celebrated by the Come
die Franchise last week with representation OF
his .Hernani" and the death of one OF his hterar!
executors. Auguste VacQuere. serve to recall the
fact that the sole owner Of the great poets YET
unpublished manuscripts and copyrights Is now
an inmate Of an insane asylum at CouroeVole
II is Victor Hugo's daughter, Adele. VINO mas peeh
insane ever since she was compelled TO secure
judicial separation from her English HUSBAND Oh
returning from her trip to America. Although
uentallv unbalanced she is in robust physical
health and likely t. live for many years her
guardian and trustee is a relative, NJ. Trebuche'
and it was he who few years ago purchaSeu
on behalf of his ward for sum OF $lOoOVo the
two shares in the ownership of the Hugo copy
rights held until then by the two grandchildren
Of the great poet Georges and Jeanne Hugo
Victor Hugo left at his death about 6OOoooO
francs in three equal parts, TO his crazy oauSA-
ter and his two grandchildren Georges Hugo Is
reported to have squandered the greater part Oh
his inheritance. Pretty but frivolous Jeanne mas
inc, secured divorce from Leon Daudet, the son
OF the poet who retains it is understood. a por-
ton of her fortune in his hands by way OF com
pensation for the loss Of her affections whUe
their amt in the lunatic asylum at Courbevoie is
adding to her wealth year by year through 'he
ROYALTIES derived from the sale of the Hugo copy
rights and books. At her death. of course her
money will revert to these grandchildren OF her
father The literary executors of Victor Hugo,
of whom Paul Meurice s now the only one left.
have been publishing works of his almost
every year since his DEATH and have still sum-
cient manuscript in their possession 10 enaoc
them to bring out not one. but two ana even
three volumes each year until the close on the
century when the series is be complete by the
publication of his correspondence work that
promises to be of remarkable interest. since Hugo
was at one time or another of his life in inter
i course with all the great men of his time
. Serious remonstrances are asserted TO have
been addressed by King Leopold Of Belgium 10
his Orleanis relatives, notably to his uncle the
Due d'Aumale. and to mis- cousins, the Comtesse
de Paris and the Due 6'Oreans. in connection
with the publication by the widowed Duchesse
dues of her dead sons book about Africa, in
which the ill-fated Jacques Dues denounces
King Leopold "a trader in ivory and in human
flesh and claims nave had proofs that the
Belgian officers of the Congo Free State are
nothing but pack of ivory thieves and slave
traders" The Duke declares in mis- diary that
"lf the Begians continue TO ill-treat the natives
and to destroy the villages at the present rate
,bev will soon convert the FRI State into a
vast desert" There among the least serious
Of the accusations contained in the book, the
appearance of which at the present juncture can
not fail to be a source Of intense annoyance u
King Leopold who is just now engaged in per
suading the Belgian Government and National
LEGISLATURE TO take off his hands the Free state
and TO assume charge thereof as Belgian col
onv and incidentally to pay the eight or ten
million francs which he has been compelled to
borrow recently for the company from one OF the
leading merchants at Antwerp. The book may
unite possibly interfere with this pet scheme Of
the King and inasmuch the Duchesse dues
has all along been regarded as one or the prln-
cipal leaders of the mOnarchical party in France
the King naturally imagines that the voice of his
Orleanist relatives may have some weight In the
matter.
Ioval and devoted as IS the Duchess TO the
roval horse Of France 1t must be confessed that
the moment is ill-chosen for the members OF the
latter 10 address any remonstrance to her. For
the controversy that IS row in progress with re-
gard 10 the 5000 900 francs which she subscribed
Tor marty purposes at the time OF the kouanger
episode is not altogether pleasant reading Tor
the Royalists 1t shows the House OF orleans
i'm a rather selfish and interested liSnt' and De-
trays \ good deal of irritation on the part or the
duchess against them. Ever since the collapse
of the Boulanger movement the princes or the
Maison de France well as the members OF
their immediate encourage have endeavored to
create an impression that it was the Duchesse
dues who was to blame for that unfortunate
alliance between the Comte de Paris ana Bou-
LANCER which proved so fatal to the prospects OF
the French Monarchcal party. In fact, IL was
even insnuated that the Duchess had merely