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Three thousand guests were bid to Notre Dame by Baron and Baroness Tyrrell. The suave gentlemen and sparkling ladies of the Corps Diplomatique, the dowdy but invincible aristocrats of the Faubourg St. Germain, the most presentable of the Nouveau Riches, a sprinkling of tail-coated French statesmen, a dash of the long-haired Boul' Mich (for the Baroness Tyrrell gives literary suppers), these along with the most eminent Roman Catholics of the English and U. S. colonies jammed vast Notre Dame de Paris...
...lifelong enemy, "the cat that lived at the Ritz." The final tale, "The Apothecary," is a grim parable of the vulgar and aging rich who gather around them impoverished Parisians with cheap titles and cheaper morals. In a "quaint" apartment over an apothecary's shop in the Faubourg St. Germain, a noisy female parasite gives a dinner to consolidate her waning position. To jaded guests she offers, as entertainment and prey, a virginal American heiress, Anne. A curious decadent odor hangs over the affair, waves of sickening smell choke the perverted conversation. Anne, suffocating, escapes from the room. Downstairs...
...Buttressed with wealth, Mrs. Mackay assailed San Francisco society, made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand of horsemanship, exhibited in the Bois du Boulogne, was the despair of French equestriennes. Meissonier painted her portrait. Ludovic Halevy portrayed her in L'Abbe Constantin, the novel which won him a seat among the "40 Immortals" of the French Academy. While...
Attention! The band fell into place; gendarmes along the rue de Faubourg St.-Honoré stood stark, forcibly restraining Parisians crowded against the cordons in hopes that there would fall upon them in blessing the bright eyes of Cardinal Cerretti as he sat beside His Eminence Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois, Archbishop of Paris, as they were trundled along in the state coach, accompanied by two squadrons of cuirassiers, to the crowning...
Down the rue de Faubourg Saint-Honore swarmed a cheering mob of ragged Parisian children. As les enfants hurried past the famed emporiums of oriental pearls, certified antiques and exorbitantly priced Russian knickknacks which line that haughty thoroughfare, shop-keepers looked out and prayed to le bon Dieu that He would spare their windows the contamination of too many noses...