The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-31
FAMOUS BEAUTIES RECALLED.
Paris Getting Ready an Exhibit of Carriages
of Noted Demi-Mond aimee.

Partisan manufacturers are preparing some
curious features for the Exposition and among
others ono planned by celebrated French car
rago builder is sure to attract attention. II is
q consist OF perhaps a hundred carriages. exact
reproductions Of those used by tho most famous
dem. M ondnine beauties chiefly OF tho Second
Empire As Is well known. thcro was never a
time. oven in France. when tho celebrities OF tho
dem monde were more audaciously and eNtrava-
GAntly conspicuous than they we're underN apoleon
the Little and in nothing nd their errontery
display itself moro reoklossly than In the equip
ages In which they took their daily drives through
INC Bots All the Partisan v orld knew the colors
and tho ianciful coats OF arms and notices.
a the reig ming beauties well as they knew tho
Imperial livery; and IL has been easy for tho
rago makers TO obtain the designs for their TO-
productions Ten OF twelve OF tho carriages nro
already finished. and arc monuments to tho art
OF tho carriage maker and the Of the original
dcsigners
The carriage OF Anna Deslions heads tho list
Tho owner was. in hor day the cause Of more dueis
than any other woman In Europe: and. for that
reason. she chose a. her device. two golden lions
deyourng each other, tho emblem as well az
her assumed name, having reference TO tho handles
Of the Empire who wcTo popularity dubbed les hons.
The Dcslions was said TO be tho only woman in
France OF whose beauty the Empress Eugene
was Jealous, until the Countess do CastigiiOne
appeared upon the boards
The carriage OF Nine. Georges, the actress,
was in royal purple, and bore, as device, all eagle
holding in his claws a ribbon inscrl bed, Daughter
Of the CTsaIs The original eguipage was a
actress exceedingly, in spite OF the snub she ad,
ministcred TO him when he asked her what favor
SIRE She said, give me back my soldier
brothers and my lover, whom You have slain"
Marie DYplessis, the heroine Of camille
for, running round her carriage doors. she had
painted garIands Of her iayoritc cameias, all
droopnE and lHding; and beneath them, the
Lola Monte tn" a Ian, e., who played for the
sS OF " in h. s,rrrs p ~ uch h h Wn1
under flowers in Tie streets OF Paris, showed no
touch OF the Duplrssis sentiment, and bitterness
Her victoria was sky blue, and drawn by white
horses loaded with golden uappings. On tho
carriage panels was painted q lighted cigarette,
encirclcd. with the commercial motto, SO habla
Nile ozy, the flower girl Of the Madeleine who
left a wake Of death and ruin behind her, rode In
crimson, and on the panels OF the carriage were
two hands, the one pouring gold pieces, the other
champagne. DraZct the actress, and the witticst
and most fascinating woman Of her day, appeared
always in Tho same carriage an open one apple
green in color and ornamrntcd with garlnnds Of
painted field flowers and pink ribbons BEARING
the motto "liZrtr aud the fair weather" liOr,
tcncc SCHNEIDER lhr singer, adorcd by half tho
crowned heads OF Eur9pr put upon her yellow
la Belle Helene, tho learned and witty, sportcd
her family coat OF arms upon her mauvc cqupagc,
but wrote beneath II, w hAtS the difference
Judic. who was adorable before she was fat had
accrisr carriage, more claboratrly decorated than
any other Of her time, Grcvin made the design,
which showed field Of peoples, in the ccntrc q
which erasshopprr leaned against letter H."
and played n guitar, while above lowered crowds
Of LIMITS Tho grasshoppcr and tho pOppics
were almost as suggestive as the fading camclias
Of the Duplrsss, but Camille died uagcally
Jude grew old and fat and ugly.
Tho collection NJ carriages will b. beautiful
that IN sure; French exceedingly French. and a
fair text for pocB, philosophers and noIalistA