Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-28

his father, NJ Baptiste Adolphc Duval,
the founder OF the so-called "Bouil-
Ions or middle-class restaurants,
which have become so characteristic
feature of modern Paris. NJ. Baptiste
Duval died in 1870. month or two be-
fore the outbreak of the Franco-Ger-
man war.
WHERE HE GOT HoRsBFLESH.
/ was very anxious To know how her
restaurants Jared under the Commune
and during the terrible siege of Paris
and in the course of a chat with NJ
Alexandra Duval. the other day, ] ask
ed him to tell me something quite in
edit" quite new.
"Ah! | was alone at the head of the
administration during the siege" re-
piled NJ. DuVal, with twinkle In his
eye, land l can assure You we did
not close our establishments one single
day."
But how did you manage to get
supplies"
''Eh bien, with another twlnkle) I
had special sources. l went to Gen.
Trochu and said: Mon. General.
wish to warn you that l have dealings
with suspicious individuals, people OF
evident bad faith. and ! buy without
asking questions You know, If don't
buy. the citizens will simply starve
What am l to dO?'
And Trochu replied: 1t Is bettcr
that Paris should be fed and that you
should wink at the sources. NJ. Duval.'
And so / bought up every beast that
my villainous purveyors offered TO me.
1t WAS nearly all horSehesh and | had
to pay a frightful price and cash down;
and l knew all the time that they had
in nearly every case come into possess
sion of II by dishonest means. The
poor peasants from the outlying dis
tricts would arrive al the city walls,
fleeing before the advancing Prussians.
and some kind disinterested friend
would advise them where their horse
or COW could be stabled-and In tho
night 1t would disappear and be served
up in my establishments on the NOR
row. But If | had asked questions,
there would have been no food"
But how did YOU get on under the
Commune? Wcre not your restaurants
attacked
WALTERS BECAME LEADERS.
"No. not once. You sec, many OF our
walters and employees left us when the
Commune was declared and some be-
came quite 'grOs bonnets' (blg wigs)
among the l@aders, and they would nor
allow us TO be sacked. Poor fellows !
saw very few of them again when the
| insurrection had been suppressed. ] eX-
| the streets and behind the barricades."
1T speaks volumes for the respect and
| affection of the employees for their pa
! iron" that NJ. Duyal should have passed
| unscathed through such a period OF
| lawlessness. But so II was and tho
| Embellishments Duyal remained open
| and supplied over 100000 meals during
those terrible years. 1901, the net
| profits of the company for that same
| period of two years being 100000
Anyone meeting N. Alexandra Duyal
| today would never suspect that he had
| for nenrly 40 years borne the burden Of
vast business administration on his
| shoulders He Is astonishingly young
| and one would have to look very closely.
| / think, 10 discover % gisy hair His
| figure Is slight and OF the middle stat
| ure and he strikes one at once as being
| perfectly "glouWed" He has an the
| elegance OF manner which Is so very
| charming la The true French gentle-
| man NJ. Duyal Is "A Partisan of Pa
| risians. "A true bOuleVardler HIS taste,
| his dress, arr by common consent per-
| feet and inlmllaple' iis claNals are
| famous ana IN this respect he has but
| one rival. NJ he Bargy OF the Coincide
| Francalse pf-re ", however. one im
| Dortant poini I'M which he leaves lie
1 Rargv fac behind and mat Il In his
4 head gear. I'm order 10 appreciate his
! low -crowned Aat-biimmed hats You
must see Thorn aud then you wiz grasp
how this Beau Nash Of the boulevalds
Is the admiration and despair of all
the othnl' heauS For you must under
stand U,at NJ. DuVal's hats, whether
they be beavers on bowlors, are his own
Creation" iusi as much as the hat OF
that dainty lady going down ne Rue DC
la PaiN IS the t2O0-oleation OF q great
| modiste lie Is his own designer lust
| as much as his father was, and every