New-York tribune., 1910-09-19
THE rue EDOUARO VII"
Paris to Have New Street
Named After Late King.
Paris, September 6.


Edouard VII. after the most Paris
ian of Kings" and as a fashionable
shaping and lounging thoroughfare
it will probably rival the Rue dc Ia Paix.
The Rue Edouard VII will be a rain
bow-shap ped street, about quarter OF
a mile I'm length, situated between the
Rue Scribe and the Rue de Caumartin
and abutting on the Boulevard des Ca
pucines near the middle of the quaint
and rapidly disappearing Rue Basse du
Rempart. between the Jockey Club and
the Sporting Club just opposite to the
Cercie de PUnion. NJ. Alexandra Duvai.
an eminent Partisan capitalist, who first
suggested this appropriate site for the
Rue Edouard VII, is a parsonage who
figures in Zola's novel Mana" In his
youthful days he lost his heart to the
beautiful Cora Pearl. many years his
senior and upon her refusal to accept
his devotion he dangerously wounded
himself with a revolver in a vain at
tempt to commit suicide.
Some Of the smartest restaurants, fin
est dressmaking and millinery shops
and several well known jewellers will
occupy buildings in the Rue Edouard
VII Among the eighteenth century
houses that are being demolished to
make room for the new street is one OF
historic and sentimental interest be-
cause it was successfully the home of
four of the prettiest and wittiest Paris
ian women of their times. Mile Duth6.
Mile Raucourt, Mile. George and Nine
Recamier.
Rosalie Duthe was the captivating
danseuse of the Opera, whose portrait,
with fair hair and blue eyes. is one of
the most brilliant works OF Natter. She
was the great beauty Of her day. and
became the favorite of the Comte d'Ar-
tois. afterward Charles K, who spent
a fortune in embellishing for her the
Chateau de Bagatelle The Conte d Ar
tois's wife a Princess Of Savoy, was not
particularly liked at the court of Marie
Antoinette. and when Beaunarchais was
asked what he thought about the artistic
restoration of Bagatelle he remarked:
An excellent idea. The Conte d d'Artois
no doubt suffering from an indigestion
necessary to 'prendre une tasse Du-
The!'"
The next tenant of the vanishing
house was the talented tragic actress of
the Theatre Francais. Nile. Raucourt,
whose marble bust by Patou was one of
the finest pieces of sculpture in the col
lection of Talleyrand and is now in the
court lived in her sunptuous house. on
the site of the future Rue Edouard VII,
when Voltaire wrote 10 her from Ferney
in 1872 asking that he might be allowed
to call and congratulate her on her
dramatic triumphs at the Francais in
the part OF Medea.
When Mile. Raucourt died. in 1915, the
Able Marduel, curate of Saint Roch. de-
clined to perform a religious ceremony
a. her funeral. because it had been the
long established usage in France TO con-
slider actors and actresses as excom-
rnunicated persons. unworthy Of the
rites of Christian burial" This refusal
caused a hostile manifestation of ex-
trerne force The crowd invaded the
Church of Saint -Roch and the Able
Marduel narrowly escaped being cruel
fed Louis XVIII, near by in the Palace
Of the Tuileries, hearing the noise of the
rioters prudently interposed in behalf
of public opinion. and saved the situa
ton by authorizing the religious ser
vice. Among Mile. Raucourt's ardent
admirers were Louis XIV, Voltaire and
La Harpe.
Mile. George, who was a pupil of Mile.
Raucourt, was the next occupant Of the
house in question. Mile. George was
brilliant tragedienne, and her superb
acting SO impressed Napoleon that she
became his favorite. and in her society
at Paris and at Saint-Cloud he threw
aside his wonted severity and chatted
and gambolled about like a frisky
schoolboy.
Nine. Recamier, whose personal in
f1uence in French society during the first
half of the nineteenth century is familiar
TO all. and who was the companion of
Chateaubriand, of Benjamin Constant
and of Nine. de Stael. lived in the house
that had been occupied by Mile George
previous to renting her better known
residence in the Abbaye-aux- BOis, where
she founded her memorable salon.
visitors to the Louvre will recall to
mind the famous full length portrait, at
tributed to David, Of Nine Recamier in
classic Grecian robes reclining on a
couch of the First Empire period
The souvenirs Of these four Partisan
beauties lingering over the site of the
Rue Edouard VII, lend an appropriate
charm to the future smart, fashionable
street. which will mark still another
stage in the application of the law of
stantly move toward the setting sun.
This is especially true in regard to
Paris. where the most distinguished CEN
tres have ben. successively. since the
time of Louis XIII. the Place des Vos-
ges. the Palais Royale, the Rue de Ia
Chaussee d'Antin and the Place Ven
dome. while fashionable residences have
moved westward along the Faubourg
Saint Honore and Champs Elysees to
the neighborhood of the Arc de Tri-
omphe The Rue Edouard VII Will in all
probability become the most select shop
ping quarter OF Paris. II is expected
that il will he open TO the public next
spring. c. l. B.
PAPAL LEGATE AT WINNIPEG.
Wiunineg Sent IS-CardinaI Vannutelli