L'Illustration, No. 2501, 31 Janvier 1891 (Illustrated)

a death of Crown Prince of Belgium was mourning for Paris. At the first performance of Thermidor , the President of the Republic has not held its preliminary stage and the Duke of Aumale tub remained empty. It was even melancholy to see this unique grilled bath in this bright, sparkling bathroom, all dressed. A first if ever there was.

A big deal this Thermidor , which set in motion the whole artistic curiosity and the entire political passion. After a hundred years, we can not, it seems, about the Terror in a theater without being accused of bombing the Republic. We Has told you enough for months about Labussière actor, hero of the piece Mr. Sardou, the arrest of French actors guilty of having played Pamela , a piece that was so anti-civic! My word, he still find people who can decree of accusation artists who received and played Thermidor .

I'm not kidding, I see. For fans of politics, a man who wrote an article, a book or a piece unpleasant ideas, is also guilty qu'Eyraud and Fouroux and we would ask for him no reprieve.

- The grace of Fouroux! The grace of Eyraud!

I see only snippets of this kind in the newspapers. It seems that we must pardon Eyraud because of his family. Had he thought of the family bailiff Gouffé when he does not pardoned? We will also, I think, have the grace of this WLADIMIROFF that seems to me a pretty type of modern love. It has not been good in front of the judges, the hero of "drama of Ville d'Avray." This slave Chambige - sorry, I insult Chambige - did not conquered the public and especially the female audience. However, at the Assize Court as in the theater, you need to self women.

- Look for the woman, police said.

- Train women, say the playwright and lawyer.

And he did not train at all, the woman, it WLADIMIROFF! He was content to kill in the person of Ms. Dida.

These assassins love (thus they intitulent) are also very curious. They swear: 1 kill the beloved object; 2 kill himself after. But, after completing the first part of their task, they usually stop at the second.

However, it is this second part that is most difficult to accomplish. It's pretty easy to tell an unhappy: "Let us die together, will you?"

And for the love of the sentence, the other also meets without difficulty: "Yes, let us die together!"

It adds even sometimes being romantic:

- With joy, my loved, with joy!

But when the lover, Antony, the two Werther , added: "Come with me into eternity," and pulled the trigger of a gun when the woman fell, Antony is opposite a corpse, he suddenly thought, Antony, he hesitates, he finds, with a speed at least equal to that which he set to push the trigger, he suddenly discovers that life, that rag, yet amiable tatters and he runs against the gun itself is held in a much less firm than he pointed it at the victim's hand.

And he saw, Antony, or at least he would live! But the police are involved, and also the judges Naughty education as professional assassins - who willingly despise assassins love - call in their slang, curious .

Curious who are not devotees of curiosity , that is to say of the collection, as Champfleury which they sell books, knickknacks, ceramics and autographs this week. Very interesting sale because Champfleury was a hoarder of documents, a hunter of curiosities.

As Trublet which was said:

It compiled, compiled, compiled ...

one could say of him:

He piled, piled, piled ...

Revolutionary bases, poetry of the revolutionary period, poetry of the Romantic period, interesting books, lithographs by Daumier, drawings Gavarni Champfleury buried everything in his office Sèvres where death came, taking and dispersing all these collections to the largest joy of others curious.

Paul Eudel wrote a pretty good preface to the catalog of this sale. He tells pranks Champfleury, who had remained a hoaxer , as Labussière, and also anecdotes that show flair nester artwork.

- I'm not serious, said Champfleury there is enough serious people without me.

And said Eudel, he added that tone saddle it was personal:

- I enjoyed myself lately. In the rue Geoffroy-Marie, at the headquarters of the League of men of letters, was on the wall for this indication at the bottom of the stairs:

Going wild and Co.
on the mezzanine.
It always annoyed me when I passed this address. So one day, I could not resist, I had to scrape some of the inscription, and now reads:

Wild ....................
on the mezzanine.
Joke old kid. But there is there any character and any time.

Here the researcher now:

One day at a brocanteuse Boulevard Saint-Michel, Champfleury - I have borrowed the story Mr. Eudel - seen from a lot of old earthenware a porcelain Siamese that seems wonderful. This merchant.