Paris herself again in 1878-9 . in fullChamber by a Bonapartist Deputy with having formerly been acountry grocer, on the very smallest of scales, he replied that suchwas certainly the fact; and that the father of the honourablegentleman had been a customer of his, and had forgotten to settlehis small account for Reunion coffee and Jamaica rum. Meanwhile, the pleasure-loving Parisians have been spendingPalm Sunday in their own characteristic fashion. I fancy thatthe churches of London were all most decorously well attendedyesterday, and that the last week in Lent left nothing to be desiredin th
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . in fullChamber by a Bonapartist Deputy with having formerly been acountry grocer, on the very smallest of scales, he replied that suchwas certainly the fact; and that the father of the honourablegentleman had been a customer of his, and had forgotten to settlehis small account for Reunion coffee and Jamaica rum. Meanwhile, the pleasure-loving Parisians have been spendingPalm Sunday in their own characteristic fashion. I fancy thatthe churches of London were all most decorously well attendedyesterday, and that the last week in Lent left nothing to be desiredin the way of devout observance. Otherwise, if you in Englandwere afflicted with such remarkably disagreeable weather as we 2G6 I>ARIS HERSELF AGAIN. suffered yesterday, I fancy, again, that your Palm Sunday musthave heen socially an intensely dull and dreary one. It was other-wise here. The barometer, meteorologically, went down; but thespirits of this most mercurial population went up. They made aday of it, miserable as it The devout spent the season in their ownway. There were matin and vesper sermonsby friars of great oratorical eminence at NotreDame. The fires of Lacordaire and Hya-cinthe yet live, it is asserted, in the ashes ofthe French pulpit; and in the religiousjournals you read of nascent Massillons andcoming Bourdaloues, of Flechiers hithertounknown to fame, and even of anew Bossuethourly expected from orthodox Provence, andwho between this and Easter maybe expectedto recall the thunders of the Eagle of concerts at the Sainte Chapelle aregreatly in vogue ; and the Lenten congrega-tions at St. Germain lAuxerrois, St. Etienne du Mont, and especi-ally at Notre Dame des Yictoires are crowded. The offices at the PALM SUNDAY ON THE BOULEVARDS. 267
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