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412 OUR TRENCH CORRESPONDENT.
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4> Jan. I9t7i, 1862. Never L/A.Dies Was ...
withstanding all this misery and a corresponding number of complaints , the streets look as gay as they have ever looked ; and
whenever a gleam of sunshine makes its welcome appearance , what Is In French parlance called " the whole "world " goes out to bask In its beamsattired in toilettes which would completely deceive a
stranger as to , the real state of things beneath the brilliant surface of Parisian life . The lady wrapped in the richest furs Is not more
gay-looking than the poorest ouvriere _, who also goes out to see and to be seen on the beautiful promenades lately created in and
around the capital . The severe frost , which this moment brings the mercury down
almost to the level that it marks at St . Petersburg ]* , only develops what appears to us this French tendency to meet care with a merry
heart , if our Gallic neighbors can at all be brought to meet it ; and the gardens of the Tuileries and the Luxembourg are alive with the
most joyous-looking crowds imaginable , including every rank and sex and size . The Bois de Boulogne is now well said to be in
age skates , , and more than sixty thousand were to-day on . the upper and the lower lake along the Route de St . Cloud . Parisian society has
during for two this emp week ty chairs been dividing in the Academy its attention ; the between " Monde the Moral candidates , ' '~ by
Charles Lambert ; " Vespers" by Madame Gasparin ; the rejected lay of Edmond About ; but giving a greater share to the art of
p skating and making practical applications thereof on the long shallow pond exposed to the . sharpest winds which can blow from a
north-easterly point , and adjacent to tlie Porte Madrid , where the Empress amuses herself during this very frosty weather in a sliding
chair . The piece of water favored , whenever It is frozen over , by the continual presence of her graceful , gracious , and still blooming
Imperial Majesty , is behind the stand house of La Marche , and extends into the smoothly shaven turf of the review ground of
St . James's . The prettiness of the surrounding landscape is unquestionable ; and the resemblance which the old windmill , built
by Blanche of Castile , the Prefect ' s Italian-looking villa , the Long- _* champ tower in front of it , and the famous cascades hard by , give
to this spot to a scene in the grand opera , is heightened by the Imperial equipages waiting there , and by the imperial household
turning out upon the ice . The toilettes worn by the distinguished .,:., and in many instances lovelywomen who go there to skate , or to
look on at the skaters , will doubtless , deeply interest your feminine readers . The fair Eugenie wore to-day a _jDelisse of black velvet
fitting closely to a very slender but not seemingly stays-distorted waist ; it was trimmed with ChinchiUi fur . The Empress ' s gown was
of the same material as the pelisse , and looped up in the English fashionor rather a la Pompadeur ; for this mode of drapery ,
arranged , by means of little pulleys , is but a revival of a fashion Invented for the ladies of the Louis Quinze period . Her Imperial
Majesty evidently sets her face against the bonnet which advances .-
412 Our Trench Correspondent.
412 OUR TRENCH CORRESPONDENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/52/
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