AN INCIDENT OF PARISIAN JOURNALISM.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1168, 18 July 1884, Page 3

AN INCIDENT OF PARISIAN JOURNALISM.

The Marquise Manoury d’Ectot, who wan'ed to profit by her wide knowledge of society and to fill her sails with the radi cal wind that blows, started some months ago a spicy little Boulevard journal called Le Succe s. She was managing direciress aid rasponsiblejeditress. One Duval undertook to print, and a business man named W.-il >o push, tbe paper The Marquis* uses to come to the printing office on her way to the Bins <le Boulogne in u splendid carriage, with two lacqueys behind. Un race days her equipage was drawn to the course by four horses, ridden by positions ala OaiiDionr. She at first got noblemen of conserv itive principles in wiite under uv, sumcd mines for the journal, but as sbi was exacting on the score of cleverness and grammatical correctness, and did not like to pay highly, the aristocratic-idlers who are often embarrassed ah tit gambling debts fell away from her staff One day, the Marquise being at Cannes, the sub editor and publisher were in extremis lor copy, and fell bock upon an article by the noble editress which the “Gil Buis” might have shrunk from giving, its suggestive title was “ l.es Cent- (lures Paillards Aapearing in Lent it created a violent sensaion, and all the more so bee wise it was thrust forward in newspaper shops near the churches. The article wa* denounced as an outrage on public morals, and a prosecution was ordered. The Marquise, run dng off to Belgium, has been trie" by definite and sentenc e! to a month’s imprisonment and KmOfr fine. T e printer and publisher plea <e < th t th»y were short of matter, and confide i in the taste and fe 1 n ; of a lady of quality wfio had twof otmen and postilions attached to her eqqinago. They .were sentenced respeotivelv o lOJfr and 5(Kr fine, and reminded by the Judge that rank and fine surroundings were not infallible guarantees of decency. —Daily News.