Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
AMERICANS IN PARIS
Richest and Most Influential
Foreign Element
ALONG M ANY Ii MES
IN HIGH SOCIETY AND IN ARTS
TIC LIFE.
Chamber of Commerce and Its Work
Heiresses and French
Noblemen.
ALONG MANY Ii MES

Copyright 1902, by Frank G. Carpenter)
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
PARIS. France.
I am told there are about 10000 Ameri-
cans who live in Paris all the year round.
There are more artists and art students of
our nationality than any other outside the
French and the American millionairess is
so common in the fashionable quarters that
you see her automobile or carriage in al
most every block At the time of the dedi-
cation of the Rochambeau statue. the FL
caro- devoted two columns to the American
colony, speaking Of its members in the
highest terms 1t described them as the
most influential Of all the foreigners. say
ing that they were celebrated in industry,
science and art, and that they did much to
rejuvenate the old French capital. 1t COM
pared the American visitors who come here
every summer 10 the rich flood tide Of the
Nile. saying that they enriched this city
as the Nile does Egypt.
The American element entertains eXtrava-
gantly Many Of the richest of New YOrk's
40O are here every season and the Astors,
the VandeTbilts and the Goulds are regular
society figures. Some of our rich people
own magnificent houses along the Champs
Elysees and in the avenues about the Arc
married into high French families that
there has been a steady invasion of Ameri
can millionairesses into the hearts and
homes of the nobility.
American Girls and French Counts.
Tho Figaro gives almost a solid column Of
names Of rich Americans who have married
titled Frenchmen. I have room for only
few. Among such marriages are those of
the Marquis dc Ganay with Miss Ridgway;
Of the Comte de Nontsaulnin with Miss
ZSorowsIla: Of the Comte Jacques d. Ara
mon with Miss Fisher; Of the Comte de
Castcliauc with Miss Gould; Of the NicOmte
de Chezelios with Miss Dussen Reed: of
the Comte Arthur de GarbriaC with Miss
Fithilm; of the Due DeCaZes with Miss
Singer tprobablv # the sewing machine);
Of the MARQUIS de BrCteuil with Miss Gar
ner; Of the Due de Dino with Miss Stevens;
of the Comte de Sers with Miss Niven. and
OF the Comte JaSqueS de Bryas with Mss
Clymer. niece of Miss Ridgway. Among
the other marriages are those of the Duo
de Ia Roche fouCauld with Miss Matte
Mitchell, the daughter Of the Oregon sena-
tor; Of The Marquis de Chambrun with Miss
RivesNichols, and of Paul Desprez, the
French minister, with Miss Mcclellan, the
daughter of our illuStriouS general.
/ might 80 on with score or so moro
names, but I will give only few. The
Comtr lean de kergolsy's wife was Miss
Carroll; the Due de Nalencdy's was the
daughter Of Levi =. Morton, and that of
Baron Raymond Seilliere was Miss Liver
more. Emile PaScaIS wife was form rly
Miss Townsend, and the Comte de Moy of
the foreign Office has an American wife who
was formerly Miss Glib. Madame Pate
notre. the wife of the French ambassador
to Madrid is an American, as is also the
NicOmtesse de Couryal. the Comtesse de
St. Roman, the ComteSse de Trobriand,
and many others.
The American Chamber Of Commerce.
There is an American chamber of COM
merce in Paris which is becoming very i'm
pcrtant to American trade. 1t has its Of
fees in the Rue Scribe just back of the
Grand Hotel, and under the shadow of the
Grand Opera House, in the very heart of
business Paris. The chamber was founded
eight Years ago with ten members, and it
has now two hundred and thirty-two, en-
braeing the leading Americans OF the
French capital. Its business is to further
commercial md industrial relations be-
tween the United States and France, and to