Paris herself again in 1878-9 . FROM LA VIE PARISIENXK. IN THE BOIS. 259 wealthiest and liorsiest of foreign grandees nocked to the bril-liant Court of the Tuileries, and the niineuscs of ten years since—they were called cocottes then—vied in the splendour of their. ^W> \ equipages with the great ladies of the Empire and the foreignAmbassadresses, just as, a century ago, La Morphise vied withthe Duchesse of Yalentinois. All that is played out. TheDuthes and Guimards and Morphises of the Second Empire seemall but entirely to have disappeared. They may be keepingbureaux de tabae, or opening b
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . FROM LA VIE PARISIENXK. IN THE BOIS. 259 wealthiest and liorsiest of foreign grandees nocked to the bril-liant Court of the Tuileries, and the niineuscs of ten years since—they were called cocottes then—vied in the splendour of their. ^W> \ equipages with the great ladies of the Empire and the foreignAmbassadresses, just as, a century ago, La Morphise vied withthe Duchesse of Yalentinois. All that is played out. TheDuthes and Guimards and Morphises of the Second Empire seemall but entirely to have disappeared. They may be keepingbureaux de tabae, or opening box-doors at the playhouse, or wait-ing in white aprons at the Bouillon-Duval, for aught I know; andin the Bois de Boulogne I failed to count more than a dozencaVeches or victorias, occupied by unmistakably yellow-haired en-chantresses. There was one on horseback in the Avenue deSuresnes ; but she was stout, and forty. O, stylishness of theBois, what has become of thee ? On the other hand, there abundance of exquisitely-neat little private broughams andcoupes, with quiet-looking ladies and gentlemen inside; a numberof very badly appointed and worse driven dog-carts and T-carts, twoor three mail-phaetons, a solitary tandem, and any number of right- 8 2
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