New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-27
TOPICS IN PARIS.
Credit for WaterIOo Victory-Noted
Figure Of BouIeUards Gone.

Especial to The New-York Tribune by French Cabe)
Copyright; 1908: BY The tribune Association)
Paris, Dec. 26.-The German Emperor's recent
toast, i raise my glass to the German legion
that saved the British army from being defeated
at Waterloo has renewed with extraordinary
animation the discussion Of the strategic and
tactical controversy over that battle General
Andre Minister o. War expresses the opinion
that the most nasterfuI and most lucid sum-
mary Of the Waterloo campaign is due to the
American writer the late John C. Ropes. Of
Boston General Andre agrees with MI Ropes's
conclusions that if the result of the battle was
due to the Prussians the glory of IL belongs to
the British. Henry Houssaye the French
Academician and the foremost authority on
Waterloo literature in France says: Emperor
Williams toast contains an incorrect statement
It is not true that the German legion saved the
British army. The victory Of the Allies was due
above all else. TO the bulldog tenacity with
which the British army obeyed to the letter
Wellington's orders to hold the position to the
last man. for had they not done so the arrival of
Butcher and his Prussians would have been too
late"
American visitors to Paris will miss 2 well
known figure the boulevards caused by the
death on Christmas Eve in the seventy-ninth
year of her age. OF Nine. du Perron, the oldest
fury a familiar figure of Paris life Owing
to her perfect knowledge of English she OBJ
tanned a sort of monopoly of the sale OF Ameri-
can and English newspapers. which she dealt In
after the year 1867. The late NJ. de BIowitz was
Of her oldest friends She was indeed TO
the famous London Times" correspondent
very much what Moliere's charnberrnaid was m
the author OF lie Bourgeois GentIlhomme" NJ
de Biowitz almost every day before writing his
dispatches would chat with Nine. du Perron to
judge from her straws the direction OF the politi
eel wind, for what she did not know OF the goa
sip of the boulevards and of the real trend of
Partisan feeling was not worth knowing The
late Sir Campbell Clarke. correspondent Of Tine
Daily Telegraph" also used to consult this sure
barometer Of the boulevards. King Edward
when Prince Of Wales not infrequently would
exchange q friendly greeting with her; and
James Gordon Bennett also derived now and
then a valuable hint inspiration from the
lips OF the venerable newspaper woman The
late Lord Dufferin, when British Ambassador at
Paris. used to give her friendly Good morn
ing on many occasions. For forty-two years
she had only been absent three days. through
Illness from her newspaper stand at the corner
Of the Rue Scribe, where she presided from
O'Clock in the morning until after midnight.
For thirty years she had not tasted meat
drank a single glass OF wine spirits. Each
morning her repast consisted of cup Of tea and
one boiled egg; at 230 o'clock she had bowl OF
mashed potatoes brought TO her at her news
Stand. IN the evening at o'clock she took a
glass Of warm milk or chocolate and rice. Her
Death was due to an internal hemorrhage. the
result OF taking cold in the recent Paris fogs.
She was a remarkable woman and never had
the curiosity to visit the Eifel Tower, and al
though she went 10 see the exhibitions OF 1854
end 1867, she never thought it worth while to
tool, st any Of the subsequent ones
Tn snite OF the threatened strike OF bakers
80 butchers on Christmas Eve, the ami
vprsary was celebrated with more than the
nspsI enthusiasm and with extraordinary va
,1etv. The bakers strike was nipped in the