The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-03

Journalist. These gentlemen declared that
their principal had no apology to mako to
M. Pousset. Pousset then procured . meeting
with Hermant. and received q wound In his
forearm, wounding Hermant in the hand.
A few days later, still on account of THE
Cavalier Miserey,'' Hermant had a.meeting
with M. Barroy, a sub-Liautenant in the Sixth
Dragons. who believed that bis father. Lieu
tenant Colonel of the Twelfth Chasseurs. had
been described In the book. Hermant's former
seconds. Bonnetain and L'Heureux, refused any
apology considering that the matter had been
closed by the first duel. There has been no
other meeting.
Now NJ. Atel Hermant has turned to the
stage. He has not taken Institutions for his
subject. but persons. Although, before the
first performance, he took care to say in an ''fn-
terview" that he had not written a piece with
real characters In 1t. NJ. Hermant can never
mako one believe that his piece was not based
on the Lebaudy case, and that he had not tried
to set before the spectators the best-known per-
sons in Paris.
This 10 the plot of the play:
The scene 10 laid in the house of NJ. Renne-
quin. The vicomte de Lanspessade is installed
there; his birth is excellent. but his morals de-
plorable. Not only does he live on his host. but
he robs i'm even of his honor. as he is the para
mour of his sister. the Baroness Meyrieux.
The Baroness. seduced Is a mere child by
Lanspessade. L. violently in love with him,
and when her lover, finding it advisable to
marry an American girl with lots of money,
suggests leaving her, she becomes extremely
the y'ouns heiress. she warns her brother that
Lauspessade has cheated. him; that he has
M Msrc V val Sss and that he has pddii Sidsd with
the seller: Under the law Lsnspessade is an
He goes to prison at the very moment when
he was getting on SO well with the American
Si Ia one me mas Wh p5Ssea h e rsSas. "n sucosed Eam az:
ways with hearts young, generous. and 80
loyal that they he O,S cannot H aver suspect spec infsmy
LILLIAN Branksmere. after he had let her worm
been pSeri bat so ficR" Every piayeoer
But the sf{ri, tender and naive. has never
heard the song; she listens ste, to T. as to one
while he Is in prison,
When he is l., released, he has reflected: and
sasrseti9 enough to xiii himself in the rooms
which his share Of the Rssnns9Tin Pl9Pder has
to the noble and aged fool who is HE father.
+ he has ~ t sssS,sn, a + va, st to p ,n t the ssSmT m b n.
degraded. himself 70 act as social sponsor to
Il was because his father had brought him up
in the most cynical egoism-he has no right to
One must be- absolutely ignorant of Paris
life II he doesn't see herein a crowd OF per-
sons whom every one knows, For example.
Claude Renne9uin,. an ~absurdly rich trades
man, surrounded by a pack Of gentlefolk,.,
sharrers who recoil from nothing that will
pleasure-isn't he Max Lebaudyf And that
there may he no mistake, we see Rennequin
sending % jail one of the hunRriest OF the
pack. That is simply 2 bit Of two, yea 5,old his
son VI me Prince and Princess de Sagan, was
Imprisoned. on LebRudy's accusation. for nego-
tiRting notes with Lebaudy's forged signature.
Then there IL an allus! on which Americans
EnarTlAge of an American girl, whose huge
fortune Is coveted by three, young men, each
OF higher title than the others. This mani
cure In the play represents a famous dress,
maker In the Rue de la Paix, who arranged
the marriage of the daughter OF "A New York
French family, And Martha. the mistress OF
Claude Rennequin, who defends her lover
from, the pack; isn't she Mile. Marsy OF the
Coincide FranCaisef
ter in modern life. Sixty four years old, the
son OF the first marriage OF the Due dc Tai
leyrand. Per!gOTd, Prince of Nalencay and OF
Sagani his mo, her was the last descendant Of
family is one of the oldest in France, going
back 10 the kings OF the third race with Adal'
bert of PerigOld, who made himself famous by
a saying celebrated for It's pride, King Hugh
Capt, reprOving him hhcause Of his arrogant
higher than a I~erigoId, asked. Who made
thee a Counti', AaNlbert answered WHO
The family has several branches. A right
Of succession exists In favor OF he eldest son,