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OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENTS 257
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I Pakis, May 18, 1863.
bod bushy were , and extremel her ears and delicate eyebrows and her in proportion habits daint . y Her and luxuriant paws and ;
y y , she Her lived food in was a glass served house on , and porcel slep ain t , on and a rose she -coloured drank out silk of cushion to a silver .
Imperial goblet which Majest she y for won 1 , for 000 the francs proprietor . Many . of She the King was sold Charles Her and
were pug-dogs not of them were unfrequentl where bought y sold priced at the or not same at 400 I cannot price and , 500 and say . francs the The Eng , Eng but lish lish whether terriers dogs
many counted evidently receive less than d their twent names -five answering from French to the name proprietors of " Miss . , " I
which the no majority of the y visitors pronounced " Meece . " There nearlcalled " Sir " ' " Stop" " Miladi" " Milor /'
were " Box" and y " as Mistress many "—the French , mode , of pronouncing , our ,, more modern word " Mrs . " almost
brated every The morning animal Dog Show , painters whilst , at here it the lasted Jardin Kosa , the and d * Acclimatisation rendezvous Auguste of Bonheur , all was the were cele in
-. open constant to the attendance public . at The it , walls each morning of the Exhibition , before the of doors 1863 were will l
doubtless be enriched with canvasses in which our friends < Ranger " and the Irish spaniels , " Coquette , " and a few of the St . Bernards ,
will be immortalized . The Fine Arts Exhibition in the Champs Elysees hasduring
the It is last rich week in talent , supersede but d the in exhibition genius . In of this the respect brute it creation , is "but . poor
, the dominates reflex of over the all present the others empire to . the At great it the loss realistic of those school who thirst
pre-Flandrin very after unpoetic something ' s portrait medium hig of her , of the than what Emperor , the we see mere , Fagnani around reproduction ' s us of at the 1 every , throug Chevalier instant chef h a .
d Ni ' _ceuvres gra , and in Cabanel the 2 ' s 217 " Birth paintings of Venus exhibited " are among in the the Palais few de - _l'lndustrieoras M , . Edmond About wittily calls it , the Halle _auac
, , Arts . Not being an artist , I shall but sh not all attempt t to to g lace ive it a before _technical tke
reader description from of the either oint painting of view , from which attemp the p majority of those who visit the Exhib p ition see and admire it . . referhis
Majesty of In a general the is portrait represented officer of — - the unfortunatel standing Emperor . y , He to I think which is dressed , for ive I the in vul , brick the -coloured Imperial uniform official
trows look to ers what , the otherwise epaulettes would and decorations be a classic , althoug ga h not garl a y classical p and icture the . left The holds , right —but hand does of the not Emperor —the , is hilt placed of a upon sword a . table At ,
one side , . between two trophies of grasp flags , is seen the bust of the _first
Our Paris Correspondents 257
OUR PARIS _CORRESPONDENTS 257
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 257, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/41/
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