"TOUT PARIS."

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 222, 12 June 1908, Page 5

"TOUT PARIS."

': recovering. from/ our .annual ? rlt ' sh ?..th6'*Paris? ; cMrespbri-- . dent thef- bu£/.< though-Ve ; are . accusfcomed;to -see ' the boulevards -.Anglicised e.very..Easter,.; we-.-havo'- hot -for ■■ many-years known -a. conquest such as this. Ilotclfr f®. e P® rs -?nd;..the:. ra j] W a y. companies 'bear out' the testimony;■ that : the;.receiitinflux 'from, the, other/,side. of ■tho Chahnel 'is,practically unprecedented.. .The French language : has I been at.terly ,drowned .by .'.the'.English—in- : u.ccd,. it..is to=be by this .;{tasmon-: of .'over in such'.'.numbers at one; and the .same.itimo,: the-British t'ourist does not'defeat-his own-ends. . For around him he:;sees. v Enghsh , and .hears English : ho eats English (goes.'ito; English' ■ f«»£'■ w'-ft■ ls^ ruo :he . e° es ' a iso::to the Louvre,- but. does; heviiot '.want '• to -flee Vhen he hnds scores. of his '. own compatriots in' every room, . tearing, round; anxious- ,to : seo n aS P? ss,bl V" as ''We time as posrjf -?. MS >, ■ not .want, to flee from the W^ en ' v? • sees thera cr owded' with in Jish /who do not—ono regrets .to be forced to admit it—altogether enhance' the picture by their presence? 1 ... .We, ;of Paris,: are accustomed, to two'distinct clMses ¥ o^.English, people, .one' of which IS , not .-disagreeably - conspicuous,; ; while tho . other, is. - To_the . latter we. accustom our.,selves with difficulty..''"The:.former go to the best , hotels _ and restaurauts, , and. in their ;domeanour behave as .people of their class The others/stilljdress;/ loudly and eenertiinrlfl wV l, at t e M tl0 " by - a ' costum e and : atwh>ch strikes, a singular note overy- *^ re ; . The y.' o'inot. realise that the for- . , always in ,the wrong, and that hfrtiS? w°- °ii wbateyer -' 110 can t° right '' hi? hit' Ivlll . )I never . .succeed completely, but l»s efforts will receive 'acknowledgment ' .^ ofs^ 3t Pa ? s -faster. hardly represents.. a . chango.for English people• are to be found-at every turn: ' Our ■tea-shon right on,-the.tourists' .special' line of route' advertises-. Hot Cross Buns."- The music- ' S J ? ngli ? h Prances .with and American performers Several; theatres 'advertise . English plays on „ tbeir bills. ; The last, straw sis Mr. Lepine's • mmt t ?r Pans policeman's accomplishments should comprise a conversational ac- ; quaintancp,with the English language" H aa anyone ever thought of teaching the British . or American.. tourist. French ?. .