Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
PARIS TRIBUTE TO EDWARD.
Home of Famous Beauties Comes
Down for Rue Edouard VII.

Paris Correspondence London Telegraph.
Four of the oldest houses of the boule-
wards in the curious side alley of the
Boulevard des Capucines-still called the
Rue Base du -Rempart because it was
on a level several feet below that Of
what was once a real boulevard with a
rampart-will soon have disappeared. and
by the breach made the new Rue Edouard
VII will abut on the Boulevard des Capu-
cines few hundred feet from the Jockey
Club on the same side and almost exact
ly opposite the Cercle de fUnion Diplo-
matique- 1t certainly Is well chosen site
for street to be named after the most
Partisan of kings The original pro-
near the Hotel de Vile in the midst of
busy trading Paris. An Edward VII
street abutting on to the Boulevard des
Capucines is obviously more appropriate.
The four houses which are coming
down. and one of which indeed has al
ready been demolished to its foundations.
never were picturesque and will be no
great loss. But memories cling to one of
them at least, that which has now all but
vanished. 1t was successfully the abode
of four famous Partisan beauties at a
time before the boulevards existed. The
latest of them was Nine. Recamier. pIa-
tonically beloved for quarter of CEN
ttTy or so by Chateauoriand and painted
by David. Even her time long preceded
that when the neighbOrllood Of the Made
leine became fashionable. When the first
of her three predecessors lived in the
house the quarter was distant suburb
Some mysterious attraction drew our four
famous beauties In succession to an un-
distinguished house in an out-of- the-way
street.
The first was Resale Duthe, described
in memoirs Of the eighteenth century as
having a face rare of shapeliness. an
adorable smile. hair of gold and eyes of
heavenly innocence. The next beauty
was an accomplished tragic actress, Mile.
Raucourt She was already living there
when in 1772 Voltaire wrote to her from
Ferney craving the honor of being al
lowed to visit and compliment her upon
her triunphs at the Francois. The bit
compliments. Later another beauty and
tragic actress Mile Georges, went to live
In the same house in memory Of La Rau-
court, who had first noticed her and en-
couraged her to act.
The new Rue EdOuard VII. on the site
of the house where four famous beauties
lived, will now certainly be one of the
most fashionable streets of Paris, perhaps
something like second Rue de la Paix.
Paris follows even faster than any other
capital in Europe the mysterious impulse
which always carries cities westward
Already the boulevards east of the Rue
de Ia Chaussee d'Antin are taking on a
sort of city, Cheapside. LudRate Hill.
even an East End look and character
The western boulevard to the Madeleine
has long wanted some such opening up
as the new Rue Edouard VII will give it,
Some day. Parisians hope. though they
are beginning to despair, that the Place
de IOpera will be itself again instead Of
chaos of rocky mountains and bottom
less pits with steam cranes and huts
perched here and there. which by munich
pal mismanagement which Is universally
agreed to be public scandal. it has been
allowed To remain for years. When if
ever the Place de rOpera Is restored to
Parisians their fashionable shopping.
walking and iounping beat will be from
the opera to the Edouard VII.