New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-26


norish Of the Madeleine and il is assumed ina
tho rector is able to attend TO the spiritual wei
fare Of Frances Chief Magistrate without I'M
latter requiring the assistance or any piF"
chaplain attached to the household.
THE PRESIDENTS SALARY.
The President OF the French Republic receVe
n salary of $12J 900, and allowance OF one KIM
or another to the extent of as much i"oie
That is to say, the expenses Of the Presiuen'i"
establishment cost the Nation the tdy Htte 81"
of S2J0OO year, which does not com
prise the military pay or allowances OIL th
Army officers attached to the Executive mousse
hold nor yet the keeping in repair of the f'lysee
or of any other Of the palaces used by the IreSI
dent For the ElysGe is merely the town resi-
dcnce Of the Chief Magistrate, and for summe
and autumn use he has at his disposal th'
former royal palaces of Fontainebleau ana
RambouilIet which are furnished and man
tanned in habitable order at the expense OF th'
state. quite outside the Executive allowances
The Nation likewise maintains for the use
the President n number OF valuable preserves
Marty and elsewhere with a large corps o
forcstcrs and gamc-kcepers, where the Chie
MAGISTRATE is accustomed to entertain M
friends President Loubet, was Faure, u
never so happy as when pottering about VIII
a gun and may bo expected to make full us'
Of his ncw-hodged prcrogativcs in connection
with tho game preserves differing therein IRON
poor President Carnot who never got over th'
fact that at one Of his first shooting partie'
after becoming President he wounded GreVy
Controller General BrugGre il the lower part o
the back the general in consequence thereo
being kept on as chief Of the household in lieI
Of receiving his dismissal which had already
been determined upon at tho time.
I'll. Kitchens Of the Elyste are in charge Of Z
man cook. who is entitled the chef de Bouche'
Of the President. He is assisted by four SUB
chefs. 1t is he. however who takes charge %
All the purchases and Of the compositions of th'
menus, which he submits to the President every
morning on the occasion Of Presidential balls
or Of big receptions. a supplementary force {"
cooks is engaged. these entertainments gencrallA
cosfina, the Pre- siocnt about So head. OF course
this cxtravarancc will 90 against the grain Of
an economical housewife like Mime Loubet. The
apprenticeship which. however. she may be salo
to have served at the palace of the Luxembourg
during her husbands Speakership Of the Sen
ate as we'll as her own good sense. Will prevent
her from following the example Of Nine. IhIers
who while mistress Of the Executive Mansion
was wont to haggle in person with the dealers
regarding the disposal Of empty bottles or OF
Nine. Grtvy under whose regime the servants
were in the habit of placing plates in the CLOAK
room at the EysCe. and openly TO solicit the
Presidents guests for tips, the person VINO
placed a fve-franc piece in the plate being IN
variablv more quickly assisted in getting his
WRAPS and his carriage than one who conteh'ed
himself with donating a two-franc Bit
AN OFFICE WITHOUT SOCIAL EMINENCE
Tho office of President Of the French Repub-
lie confers no eminence in what is known a.
French sociefv. The latter affects to hold alooi
from the Elystc not SO much as protest
arainst tho republican form of government as
80, tho ground that the entire Executive as well
as its surroundings. are plebean-this, too in
spitc Of the fact that there is hardly a single
noI,lc family in France which has not through
mrsalliance got strong strain Of plcbeian blood
in its veins In fact. there is little or no inter
course between the Elyste and the great world
Of France. and the President cannot Toe regarded
as exercising the slightest degree of influence
over what is known as the aristocracy, or upon
that element Of French society that wishes to be
considered as belonging thereto.
As stated. however. it is at the Elyste rather
than in the so-called noble Faubourg that
everythi most sensible and most respectable IN
France is to be found. and this being the case
II is to lie regretted that the large American
colony Of residents and visitors on the banks OF
the Seine should. with the object Of securing adj
mission to the salons Of the nobility, make a
point of ignoring. as far as lies IN their power
the President Of the French Republic.
EX-ATTACHE.