The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-06

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to do with the czarina, who Is COM
pletely identified with the life Of her
husband. If she rode in the same car
riage with him and the president, one
of the gentlemen would have had to
sit with his back to the horses, which
is considered undignified. II there were
two carriages. which should 60 the
first? Calamity would have given the
pas to the one containing the czarina.
She was forbidden by her doctor to
so on horseback. 1t Is now settled
that Nj. Faure and the car, with an
escort of generals, are to ride before
her carriage at Chalons-that is, should
she feel well enough to go to the re-
view after very fatiguing bout of
sightseeing and festivity in Paris. and
a run down to Chalons between mid
night and nine in the morning, which
would only leave an hours time for
dressing and going to the camp.
The mammoth imperial train proved
unmanageable and dangerous. In going
round the Girdle railway, from Waugh
rard TO Passy Green, where the impe-
rial party are to alight, 1t flattened out
the rails and ran off them. Had 1t not
been going at a snail's pace, there
would have been a grave, not to say
fatal, accident. Russian railways run
In a straight line from one great city
TO another without regard for interme-
date burgs or villages. AS the whole
country Is fiat for thousands of miles
there are no more steep gradients than
abrupt bends. The colossal weight of
downward grade. might have caused a
catastrophe. train. therefore, was
arranged to replace that of the en-
peror, which will afford greater ac-
conmodation and be only half the
weight. but 1t will not be consecrated
unless his imperial majesty particular
ly desires that place may be made for
the Icon, or picture Of the patron saint.
with lamp burning before it. There
Is chapel in the regular imperial
train, with icons of the Virgin and
Child, of ST. Alexander Newsky, St.
Olga and st. Nicholas, the cars pat
ron saint. and also the patron of little
children. In Russia he is regarded as
sort of Father Christmas. The nur-
sery compartments will be missed in
the French specially arranged train.
On the other hand, NJ. Faure will have
the intense joy Of acting as host to
the imperial visitors all the way from
Cherbourg to Paris, and of giving
them more than the eight hours Of his
company and conversation than they
had agreed to put up with at Cher
bourg.
ORIGINAL PLANS.
The original arrangement was that
they should travel in their own train,
and he in his. short distance before
them. He is to meet them at Cher
bourg without Nine Faure, and Is also
to meet them unaccompanied by the
Versailles the day they go there.
Nine. Faure has no national or interna-
tional rank and the presidents many
journalistic enemies, whose envy he Is
constantly arousing, have made 1t i'm
possible for the empress to ignore a
black page of the good lady's family
history. About a fortnight ago they
returned to the charge and published
the sentence by default passed on M
Bellnot, her father "a lawyer by pro-
fession), with the contract of marriage
of his daughter and journeyman tan
ner, who is now president of the re-
public. The first document recorded
twenty years of penal service on Bell
not. who had fled to Spain, then OUT
of the reach OF extradition, for rob-
bling a client by a forged paper; the
second showed that M. Felix Faure got
as a dowry 100 600 francs out Of the as
sets Bellnot left in dying.
This exposure was mean and spiteful
But the court of Russia had to take II
into account. The empress, according
ly, Is not tC associate with Nine Faure
in public She Is only to see her wher
she calls at the Elysee and dimes there
Great efforts are being made here to
get this fiat altered and to bring Out
the, Faure ladies at the Francois and
the opera house when their imperial
majesties go there. NJ Faure will
await them at the Francois and opera
house. They have arranged to go By
themselves to the former and to Yer
sailles. The road thither has q cen.
trail pavement Of cobble stones, thir.
teen miles long. It is to be thickly
sanded the whole way to make Il
smooth for the imperial carriage. The
whole garrison Of Paris are to be un
der arms and posted along the road.
An imperial levee will be held in the
Gallery of Mirrors, which has beer
furnished as in the time of Louis XIV
But physiognomies and the costumes
will be SO different, and, alas! the
manners, too. Ambassadors in the
eighteenth century were never profes
sional diplomats, affectedly reserved
but men born to great stations and
chosen for their social gifts rs well as
Tor their clear heads, bright wits and
insight and readiness. They dressed
magnificently and had a grand air
The Corps Diplomatique which will
present their homages to the car and
czarina at Versailles, will contain nc
L.,
of Portland, the Earl of Albemarle, the
Condo de Haro, the Duke f Osuna
The grand bodies Of the state will also
be received. They are formed Of mer
who have pushed their way on and Ut
and are ready to show themselves ir
all but restraint Of manner, ute,
courtiers. Original portraits and busts
Of Peter the Great, the GATHERINGS and
Paul and Alexander l. have beer
brought down from the attic gallery
and placed on eaSels in the south wing
where their imperial majesties can see
them without climbing lofty stairs. The
different portraits Of Marie Antoinettt
will be submitted in the same way te
their inspection, as also the miniature
taken Of Catherine the Great Just after
she became empress. A wonderful
work Of art 1t Is. Scaffoldings have
been removed at enormous cost from
the terraces, fountains and basins re-
paired; a feet Of eighteenth century
royal barges furnished up to take thu
imperial visitors by the canal in his
gardens facing the west front Of tht
palace to the Trianons.
GALLERY OF BATTLES.
This excursion is to follow a lunch
in the Gallery OF Battles and a Ions
rest of the imperial visitors in hi.
suite of small rooms fitted up by Marie
Antoinette as a private residence
They are pokey little rooms and al
look out on dingy, narrow courtyards
But they are different from the state
rooms, the grandeur OF which was
wearisome and his discomfort dread
full. The small rooms are a bath room
salon and reading room; they look like
a dolls house. Fluted brocade. or satin
Of tender and yet lively shades, cover
the walls. The furniture is dainty
but it is in the style affected by mer
cenary beauties of the corps du baller
towards the end of the last century
Old courtiers were shocked at the friy.
olous prettiness of these rooms. In tn,
blue room, or salon, there is a daint,