New-York tribune., 1901-08-25
PARIS.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE VISIT OF THE
RUSSIAN EMPEROR.
sCALE-AN UNUSUAL NUMBER OF AMER
ICANs IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL.


Copyright. 1901: fy The New-Yori TribuneD
IBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE.l
Paris. Aug. 24.-The all engrossing subject IN
Paris al the seaside and at other summer abodes
of fashion is the coming visit Of the Emperor
and Empress Of Russia, which puts France IN
excellent humor with herself and with all the
world The country just now is in a mood TOT
fireworks and smart frocks. and preparations
10 welcome the august ally" are being made
on a scale which bids fair TO exceed the magnif-
cence of the reception Of the Car and the
Czarina five years ago. The French fleet which
will be assembled st Dunkirk under command
of Admiral Gervais for the great review. wsl
be composed Of the Northern Squadron. a di-
vision Of the Mediterranean Squadron, all the
coast guard battleships of the ports along the
Channel and the Atlantic coast. and six subma-
rine boats including the Narval, from Cherbourg,
in whose recent evolutions the Car has eX-
pressed great interest. The troops TO be con-
contracted on the vast rolling plain north OF
Rheims comprise four complete army corps,
four independent cavalry divisions and two d.
visions of chasseurs pied and mixed detach-
ments from the Vosges Mountain region, alto
gether $4,000 men, under command Of General
Brugere. Generalissimo Of the French army.
Five years ago. at Chalons the number OK
French soldiers reviewed by the Emperor was
sixty thousand.
Six hundred workmen are already busly en-
gagged renovating the Chateau de Compiegne
under the direction OF NJ. Mollard, Of the Pro-
tocoi Department, and NJ. Locquet. head Of the
Garde Meuble administration, assisted by archi-
tects, painters and scuptors TO avoid all
possibility OF anachronisms of style. Extra fur
niture and supplementary works Of art are TO
he brought from Fontainebleau and from the
Tuilleries. The historic bed and bedroom at
oraA
Napoleon III. viii become triply historic by
being allotted TO Emperor Nicholas IL The
same may be said of the bed and bedroom Of
the Empress Marie Louise ana Of Empress
Eugene which viii be used by the Empress
Alexandra, and the smaller rooms formerly oc-
cupied by the late Prince Imperial, and also,
singularly enough. by the infant King Of Rome.
Will serve as anterooms 10 Empress Alexan-
dras apartments The chamber selected for the
Czarinas reception room IS the one in which
Napoleon I received Marie Louise when she
arrived from Vienna, and the room set apart
for the Cars study is that in which Louis XIV
received Marie Antoinette when she came 70
France TO wed the Dauphin. afterward Louis
XVI. There viii be imperial shooting and hunt
ing parties and theatrical entertainments given
at Compiegne, with e smartness and splendor
worthy OF the days Of the Second Empire. The
forest OF Compiegne is being stocked with game
ana its 450 acres OF park grounds are being
trimmed clipped and planted by the most expert
gardeners and florists. The scale Of prepara-
tion for the three OF four days stay Of the
Gar and Czarina at compiegne may be imag
tined from the fact that the renovation and en-
bellishment Of the interior apartments alone will
cost over 100000 francs
In Official circles Il is persistently denied that
the imperial visit will be followed by a
Russian loan. and there are differences Of opin-
ion expressed 10 the advantages. prospective
otherwise. that may result to France from
the dual alliance: but from the point OF view OF
French republicanism the Cars visit is a mas
terstroke, and VIII confound the enemies Of the
present regime. who have been denouncing
President Loubet and his ministers as con-
spirstors against the army. and General Andre.
Minister OF War, as its supreme disorgsnizer.
And now here comes the Emperor OF Russia to
WISH the army OF his ally and the "disorgan-
izing' minister offers the Car the spectacle
OF $4,000 men under arms al Rheims, which
VIII be the most imposing and perhaps the
largest review held in France. The diplo-
matte success OF bringing about the Cars visit
IS due 10 President Loubet himself who six
months ago seized the occasion of a call made
at the Elysees Palace by the Grand Duke
Vladimir. the Cars uncle and conhdant and
through him urged the invitation upon the En-
pefor, whose inability TO come TO Paris during
the Worlds Fair OF 1900 owing 70 the condi-
tion Of the Empress. persistently nlisinter-
preted by the French Opposition press as q
manifestation of dislike toward President Lou
bet and NM. waldeck- Rousseau. Delcasse and
Andre The visit OF the Car and Czarina. who
both had already met and tailed with and been
favorably impressed by President Loubet. at
the time Of their first visit. I'm October. 1895
when NJ Loubet. president OF the Senate
was already the second parsonage OF the hier-
srchy OF the republic, will set matters right: and
Russian personage who stands very near the
czar. intimates that Nicholas II has greater
sympathy for simple, honest, unpretentious
man like Loubet. of sound, shrewd common
sense and judgment, than for q man like fhe
late Felix Faure. who had monarchical Ieaninss.
and toward the end Of his term OF Office seemed
20 have somewhat lost his head owing 20 i'm
perial honors
There is unusual number OF American
tourists just now in Paris After few days
OF sightseeing and shopping they go to switzer-
land and Germany; and there is a large and
increasing stream OF American travel setting In
toward Belgium and Holland Aix-ies- Bair,s
where have just made brief visit Is az .he
height OF its season. The King OF Greece has
been giving series OF dinners there at the
Wills des Fleurs Among the Americans TAX
Ing the waters otherwise cn1oying th.,nI-
seives al AK are General Horace Porter. MIR
ard Mrs. Gebhard. Mrs Cebhard Major B,e-
WORT, Nr. Frank Ellis and his family and Nr
and Mrs Peter Cooper Hewitt who arrfved