The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-21
Foreigner Held in Contempt
By Partisan for His Actions
BY IA RAcoNrEvsI

~ ~ UCSONs6OS6
Paris, May 20.-If Americans COM
ing here for the first time filled with
great anticipation concerning genuine
Parisians and glorious Bohemian
nights in the resorts of Quarter Lat
in and Montmantre. return to America
convinced that the real Partisan is
nothing but beautiful myth, l, for
no wonder.
Not that the real Partisan does not
exist, for he does. and as a matter
of fact he and the members OF his fam
lily have changed very little since the
name Prudhomme was first applied to
his type. but the is exclusive. shy and.
aside from business, feels a most hear
ty contempt Of the foreigner. who
ruins his dear city. and seems to have
no other object in life but to amuse
himself in the noisiest most unattrac-
tive manner, and throw away money.
which In most cases he has not earn
ed.
No visitors in Paris do not see the
real Partisan, they see only the mai
tres de plaisirs of all nationalities and
their hirelings. who have taken po-
session Of the most beautiful city in
the world to give cosmopolitan
crowd of visitors just what they are
looking for.
The tourist season is now and the
Partisan has withdrawn from the life
OF ia vile lumiere." but we have
salad Russian season at Theater Sar
ah Bernhardt. and English company
playing the Quaker Girl" at theCha-
telet. at the vaudeville they are going
to have Oscar Wilde's AN Ideal Hus.
band" with Mile Marthe Reguier in
the leading part.
Suppose then you come over from
New York. landing at Havre or Cher
bourg, intending to do Paris before
you go over to be fleeced and bored
to death in England during the Coro-
nation. these are the chances you will
have OF seeing the real Partisan:
You stop at one of the large hotels.
where the PORTER is German Swiss
and where all the walters speak En-.
glish with more kinds of foreign &C.
cents that you had ever suspected ex-
listed.
Then you go to Cafe de lie Paix or
Cafe Richie for lunch to find that your
waiter has served at Sherry's, Del.
monico's or Waldorf and speaks En-
glish like true New Yorker. In the
evening you go to a theater where you
see Russian dancers. or a musical
comedy from Vienna, or, If you hcoose
to go to Folies Bergeres, or Olympia,
you will find that all the -gest turns
are performed by Irish Americans.
Rather disguised you decide to take
little supper on Montmartre, where
you meet denizens of New York, Phil
adelphia and Chicago. While the
place itself reminds you of nothing
more than of Coney Island with the
ocean left out. Then you hail a cab
and go back to your hotel wondering
II you have not by some mistake drop
ped into a wrong town, or If parhaps
some enterprising countryman Of
yours has put the real Parisians into
a reservation where the tribe may die
out in peace.
There is an interesting story at.
tached to some lace which has come
into the possession, temporarily. OF a
Paris lacemaker. This lace. owned by
the Empress Marie Louise. fell into
the hands of a wealthy foreigner. and
has remained in this family for near
ly seventy-five years. Only two per-
sons have seen 1t since it was brought
to Paris.
And now the history associated with
it. Five months before the birth of
the King of France, Napoleon I order
ed curtains Of Valenciennes lace. Lace
makers had become rare since the rev.
olution, so marvellous piece made for
Marie Antoinette. or some Princess
OF the House OF Bourbon, with branch
es of lilies was offered. The emper-
or accepted the offer, and had a hive
of bees with the imperial crown ad-
ded to the lace. When she became
Duchess of Parma, the Empress Ma
RE Louise, who had taken the lace
with her, had the imperial crown re-
moved, and short time after her
third marriage she sold the lace, as
she found herself in need of money.
She took care. however, to sell it un-
der such circumstances that no one
should know of the transaction. Now
1t has reappeared in Paris.
Nine. Lame de Pougy, the actress.
and her husband, Prince Ghika, met
with disconcerting surprise on their
return to Paris, which they left on the
day after their marriage year ago.
They found great changes in their
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