"HIGH LIFE" IN PARIS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1980, 12 May 1875, Page 3

"HIGH LIFE" IN PARIS.

On the faith: of an animatGd; pictHve; girea in a Boulevard paper, I went; yesterday to vritness the achievemeuls ot Parisian "high life" on the Madrid skating-pond. "Le High life," let me say, for the benefit of those,yrho may too closely connect it with the aristocratic excluaiveness of English;, fashionable weddings, is a term imported into France' under the Palmerstonian entente cordiale. After becoming naturalised, it has ac-: quired a French signification. Stationers' in the Rue de la Pa'is profess to sell "High Life" note-paper. The counsel of a man milliner,^showing cause the other day why a duchess should pay 10,000 francs for adressa strolling actress mi"ht well ask an indemnity for wearing, said "Le High Life" had adopted the style in which it was made. In those Chroniquea setting up to instruct simple readers about the mundane gaieties of Paris, you may read—"All 'Le High Life' met. this morning at the Church of St. Augiistin to pay funeral honours to Mdlle. Blanche Paqueretto, a pretty sinner, who has just died of. galloping consumption.'' Again, the same Chronique relates that " Amongst 'Le High Life' at the Italian Opera, the night before lait, there were the fine flower of the Faubourg St; Germain, and the

richest cream of the Ghausee d' Antin Finance. Those transatlantic belles, the Misses Bloodgood, from Petrolia Springs, sat in the balcony, and were greatly stared ati although, their vis-a-vis was Mdlle. Nellie Tertefaille, wearing as mnny jewels as the ostensoire of Kotrc Dame!" "Le High Life," you will see, has nothing of that plebeian character which descends to enjoy itself below stairs in the kitchen. Nor has it any of the aristocratic exclusiveness of a Belurnvian wedding. An Ambassadress of an Imperial Court, the heiress of a fortune made in

shoddy, the crack shot at the Monaco j pigeon matches, the journalistic duellist handsomely subsidised to push sinking causes at the sword's point and the pen's point, the Conservative duke and his handsome young wife, the self-ennobled marquis, the doubtful banker, the adventuress sailing under the matrimonial flag, and the franker one setting up, complexion and hair excepted, to-be simply what she is, are lumped together iinder the term of "Le High Life."— i Correspondent of the Daily .News. '