PAR D. JOUAUST

.E XXV AVRIL U.D.CCC.LXtJ

-- L'abbé HiciiOD. dont nous Bvoris anuoacé la mort, n'eiail ^vi «eulement conou par la StatutiQue monumenlaie de la Cltarente et par sa lotiuade graptiologi']ue. Il a écfil une Eistmre de Jésut en deuï volumes. H on lui attribuait eénëralemeni les romans de l'alibeX... qui produisirent une si vive sensation il y a quelque quinze ans. Le Maudit surloul. Od n'a pas oublie ce livre qui Fut suivi de trois autres ouvraffes : la Religievie, le Moine, le JétuUe. L'abbé Hichon se défendait d'en être l'auteur, mais noua avons quelque raison de croire qu'il ; mettait de la modestie.

Etincelle to Ui« Cbrnet ctuii Ufx^àain. B«r triia unne 1» th« Gotnteise de P«yronnjr. Sbe U • joang and oharvadnff lady, amicàbljr separated Trom her hutbaad, and liTiac by her pcn. Blie U tibe danffhtBr of Mme. Biard, a woman of lettors, alao formerly.ieparated flrom ber hniband, tbe celebrated peUnter, at tbe eud of a acandaloua adyeature which happened under the reUin of Louis PhiUpoe, aad of wblcb Victor Hofio wai the hera I may tell yoB in confidence tbat Mme. de Peyronny regarda Victor Hoffo as her father, and tbat tbe Rreat poet doea not repadiato this paternity. Accordincly it is not astonisbing tbat Unie, da Poyronny ahuuld bave embraeed tbe vocation of literature and a^plied tt in iti mundane relationa.

Sho bas inade for herself in Figaro a place apart, infilciently well defined for that journal to give ber 30,000 francs a year. or 2,500 francs a montJi, for her daily chroiùoles. I bave to tell you also, still in confidence, Utat tbcae cbronicles signed by ber alone are a collective producuun. Mme. de Peyronny reçoives communications frora ail persous wbo give soirées aiHl from ail tbe fasbionablc dressmakcrs wbo wi^h that tbe toilettes made by tbe m sbould bo ^nokcn of. Tbe great ladiea vrbo wcar them are mucb astonished to see tbem niinutcly described in tlic /'l'varo, witb which Journal thcy bave no relation. It is the treacbery ot the drcsj»makcra

Vnrious men of the world are also secret collaboratora of Mme. de Peyronny, One of tUo most prccious for her is M. Lucien Duuble, the soKaciuus and Tvitty historian, the demulisher of Charlemagne, as M. Gambetta calls bim. 1'

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