New-York tribune., 1900-12-09
PARIS.
FAILURE OF EFFORTS TO EMBARRAss
THE GOVERNMENT.
GENERAL ANDRES VICTORY OVER REAC-
TIoNARIEs-NEW THEATRICAL
PRODUCTIONS


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IBT CABLE TO TEE TRIBUNE.l
Paris. Dee. s.-Paris has az last recovered
srom the Dom Paul fever, and the national pulse
Is once more beating in a healthful. normal con-
dition. An atrocious series Of murders, including
shst OF a young man whose body was carved up
anto small pieces-"besux crimes" as they are
sermed by the boulevard press-serves as a coun-
ter irritant for the snti-English agitation which
the speech in the Senate on the invasion Of Eng
land. pronounced by General Mereier. failed 10
Eevive.
The great fashionable event Of the week CEN
tired IN the Chamber OF Deputies yesterday. when
the galleries Of the Pslais Bourbon we're lined
with hundreds Of ladies Of the Faubourg Saint
German. wearing exquisite gowns and delieately
pluued hats. 10 witness the grand Clerieal-Roy-
mperialist-resctionary onslaught upon
General Andre. Minister OF War But this for
iorn hope to overturn the Cabinet was repulsed
with such crushing effect as 10 make the Wal
deck Rousseau Ministry more powerful than
ever. The battle was opened by the Count
d'Aulan who interpellated General Andre for
having punished twenty officers Of the 18th Regi-
snent OF Dragons, quartered at Melun, for boy
cotting one OF their brother officers. General
Andre replied that the origin Of the difficulty
was that one OF the officers OF the regiment had
married a woman who had been divorced. and
that the other officers had got together and pub
lioly announced that no French oficer should
ever marry a divorced woman. In view of
shese facts" said General Andre. i deemed II
my duty to prevent any ohicers OF the French
army from thus placing themselves in open re-
bellion against one Of the fundamental laws Of
the Civil Code" At this the Clerical reactionary
Right was IN frenzy. NJ. Lagasse a Republi-
can Deputy, added fuel 10 the flames by the in
quiry: Why, after all was not Napoleon him
self divorced?" When the vote was taken the
Government won by 3Ol ballots against 224.
The inquiry into French colonial methods and
particularly about the alleged tortures inflicted
by French officers upon natives led to such un-
savory details that all the women who had
brought their daughters 10 the Palais Bourbon
hurriedly got up and left. The result was an
other Cabinet victory. this time by 900 votes,
against ll6.
There wss fashionable gathering al the
Hotel Drouet to-day at the sale Of the Lortic coll
leotions Of rare books. fine copy Of lie Re
euei des Fetes Publoues Donnes par la Vile de
Paris g roccasion du Marriage du Dauphin en-
1oso.' with sixteen engravings, bound by Pade-
1oup In red morocco. covered with gold lace with
the arms Of its former owner. Mime. Marie Ade-
lAioe Of France. in the centre. was sold 70 an
American for $3.50 francs
There is unusual activity at the Partisan the
atres' which just now, during the rainy weather
monopoze the attention OF the public At the
ooeon the production tonight of Massenet's
score 10 accompany 'Phedre" executed adni-
rably BY ColOnne and his orchestra was an
unquestionabie success. Racine's play thus being
transformed into a tragic opera
The performances OF Nine. Bsrkany the Hun.
Earian tragedienne. in Marie Stuart" Mazda .
The Tanning Of the Shrew," etc, at the Ma
rigny Theatre are extremely well received by IN,
Partisan public
The Napoleonic plays continue more In voeu,
than ever; the revival OF Henrequin's .Du,
dEnghien" at the Theatre Libre is a great hit
There is much talk OF a forthcoming play. Ia
Prince Imperial" giving sketches of events 1,
that unfortunate young mans life-his birth nj
reception into the Grenadiers Of the Guard nj
baptism OF fire at Saarbrack his adventures a
Woolwich. In South Africa, etc. The author Is
militant Bon0partist. former friend Of Gam
BETA and member OF the Municipal Council
Al the Porte Saint-Martin preparations ar
being made for the production OF QUO vadis {?
dramatized by Emile Moreau. who has put int
dramatic form several inspirations drawn fror
sardou. The part OF Nero VIII be taken eithe
by Duquesne or Jean coquelin
Albert clemeneeau is writing a play for Nm,
Re1ane called Les Plus Forts" taken from hi
novel
IL Is disappointment for those who tax
PRIDE IN the French stage 70 find that n
samuels, manager OF the Varietks = thea+r