New-York tribune., 1902-10-19
Paris. October 6.


Assassination in Paris has not yet become
one Of the fine arts. but the details Of the latest
sentimental murder which just impassions
the public furnish evidence that klling-at
least when due TO romantic causes. as is almost
always the case in Paris for IT is only in the
country that murder is committed for lucre-
has become accomplishment like skating,
dancing or golfing. Information obtained at the
Prefecture Of Police shows that 81 per cent of
the murders and homlcides recorded IN Paris
are due directly or indirectly 10 love or 20 NOR
bid sentimentality.
II is only the surfeited boulevard butterfly
that keeps up the Partisan reputation Of love
making purely pastime. The great ma
jority Of Parsians women as We'll as men. re-
gard affairs of the heart much more seriously
than IN the ante-bellum days. when students
and grisettes derived their inspirations from
the jOvially exuberaut and merry tales os Paul
de kock which seem Ike pastoral lullabies be-
side the refined scientific psychological analyses
that Flaubert made the let motif Of Partisan
love making so marvellously developed. and
saddened by Marcel Provost. Paul Bourget and
other feminist writer's OF to-day.
Within the last few weeks IL So happens that
have been on terms Of intimacy with students
Of the University Of Paris-brght active youths
the French counterpart Of undergraduates Of
q princeton.
students greatly differ from college men at OK
ford or Cambridge: they lack the manly give
and-take pugRaci,y Of English students they
have idea OF athletic clubs and mess rooms
they have not yet attained the homogenelty Of
university men at the great American or Eng
lish universities. but their nervous pliabil.ty
and logical intelects bring them into resem-
blance to college men in the United states far
more than their English prototypes
The salient feature Of the French student Is
that he takes life. and especially affairs ~ the
heart. far too sadly. He takes his keynote
from Flaubert. Bourget and Huysmars rather
than from Rabelais. Balzac Guy dc Maupas-
SAINT. This sadness Is particularly noticeable
al students recreations at such once merry re-
sorts as the Bal Butler. the Concert Eouges.
and the numerous beer houses and music halls
of the Latin Quarter. At the Concert Rouges
the other evening dozens of students were listen
ing alphabetically 10 the music Of Grieg admi-
"a bly, executed by the small but perfect orches-
ira OF the establishment OF NJ Ruuges but they
We're indescrbably melancholy and were
their women companions. who nowadays are
entirely different from the gay little Mimi Pin
sons joyfully portrayed by Alfred de Musset.
In wandering about at the students balls one
recalls I'm vain the saying attributed 10 Cham
fort that students love affairs the
change Of eyanesCent fanCieS.' During the Pc
riod ~ Musset. Paul de Kock and Chamfort
love was not sombre nor profound. but neither
was It cruel and ferocious. The epidemic of
spleen and mOrosty that characterzes Partisan
students has already spread TO Partisan youths
I'm general. and the motto OF the love passion Of
the day seems to be: "Sos a moi et moi seul.
on je te tue,' Such, at least, ia the motive of
the series OF sensational murders that mark
the opening OF the present Partisan season. \
forcible example OF the latest type of assassina-
tion evolved by the mOrose melancholy that
dominates lovemaking I'm Paris is found In a
sentimental tragedy that took place a few days
ago. The crime is interesting as "a human
document" illustrating the life OF Partisan
youths of to-day.
Albert Loste was a young of thirty and
an ex-law student. His parents, who live at
bordeaux. sent him 500 month for his main
terepce Albert was goodloOking. lazy. smoked
many cigarettes and had an impressiOnable nat
ure He occupied a small fiat of three rooms
,uodestly but neatly furnished with Liberty
sila Japanese rugs. and tables. chairs and bed
% mitch pine. His fiat i'm the nth story OF
a., apartment house. No SO Avenue de Clchy.
NTarcelle Perrin, the heroine and victim Of the
trovedy. was an extremely attractive blonde OF
.,,,eptv-two tall, 1.-the. captivating, and pos
sossirp a pair of soft blue eyes. Her father is
gnnn a
a, .ta Faubourg aint-Denis with his wife and
-, ..o children MarcelIe and her brother. who
q. a., engra%er's apprentice. Narcotics romance
=, 1u,o that Of many young Partisan girls ex-
aod n the temptations OF the capital When
,aan she worked at a we'll known dress
o.,,,,0 house in the Rue de la Paix, largely
.ontzed by fashionable American women.
t.oo,ra soon became a "mannequin''-the tech
,,ooI term for the willowy young women who
80 ~, the customers dresses and walk with
,to+ine steps before the intended purchaser,
,,I.,-;ne TO the best advantage tulles. silks or
'-I.iaaI,,es At the age OF eighteen Marcelle met
-, veterinary surgeon who was completing
-, a,udies at the medical school The veteri-
-, orreeon was called away on a government
"a-' -, % Africa child was born to Marcelle,
o,rotted the return OF the father who had
"'O % "reguIarize" the situation by mar
Nrsrcelle meanwhile continued TO live
rae ho- elderly father and mother IN the Fau-
win WI" coint-D Denis, and the infant was recog-
s and cared for in the country by It's
fathers parents .-,
az az a, .he heart OF young Partisan woman
bu' . - are absent are always wrong" One
'hos .ta place de la Trinite Marcelle Perrin
oay ~ .,,art I.oste met. 1t seemed to be case
anu ~ first sight One August afternoon
oi ~, ,..Iored their mutual affection Marcelle's
theS ~unnosed that their daughter was still
P-,, AZ the fashionable dressmakers In the