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People generally do + not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due to these three + aspects of the same problem. The brilliant display of shops as rich as the + salons of the noblesse before 1789; the splendors of cafes which eclipse, + and easily eclipse, the Versailles of our day; the shop-window illusions, + new every morning, nightly destroyed; the grace and elegance of the young + men that come in contact with fair customers; the piquant faces and + costumes of young damsels, who cannot fail to attract the masculine + customer; and (and this especially of late) the length, the vast spaces, + the Babylonish luxury of galleries where shopkeepers acquire a monopoly of + the trade in various articles by bringing them all together,—all + this is as nothing. Everything, so far, has been done to appeal to a + single sense, and that the most exacting and jaded human faculty, a + faculty developed ever since the days of the Roman Empire, until, in our + own times, thanks to the efforts of the most fastidious civilization the + world has yet seen, its demands are grown limitless. That faculty resides + in the "eyes of Paris." + </p> + <p> + Those eyes require illuminations costing a hundred thousand francs, and + many-colored glass palaces a couple of miles long and sixty feet high; + they must have a fairyland at some fourteen theatres every night, and a + succession of panoramas and exhibitions of the triumphs of art; for them a + whole world of suffering and pain, and a universe of joy, must resolve + through the boulevards or stray through the streets of Paris; for them + encyclopaedias of carnival frippery and a score of illustrated books are + brought out every year, to say nothing of caricatures by the hundred, and + vignettes, lithographs, and prints by the thousand. To please those eyes, + fifteen thousand francs' worth of gas must blaze every night; and, to + conclude, for their delectation the great city yearly spends several + millions of francs in opening up views and planting trees. And even yet + this is as nothing—it is only the material side of the question; in + truth, a mere trifle compared with the expenditure of brain power on the + shifts, worthy of Moliere, invented by some sixty thousand assistants and + forty thousand damsels of the counter, who fasten upon the customer's + purse, much as myriads of Seine whitebait fall upon a chance crust + floating down the river. + </p> + <p> + Gaudissart in the mart is at least the equal of his illustrious namesake, + now become the typical commercial traveler. Take him away from his shop + and his line of business, he is like a collapsed balloon; only among his + bales of merchandise do his faculties return, much as an actor is sublime + only upon the boards. A French shopman is better educated than his fellows + in other European countries; he can at need talk asphalt, Bal Mabille, + polkas, literature, illustrated books, railways, politics, parliament, and + revolution; transplant him, take away his stage, his yardstick, his + artificial graces; he is foolish beyond belief; but on his own boards, on + the tight-rope of the counter, as he displays a shawl with a speech at his + tongue's end, and his eye on his customer, he puts the great Talleyrand + into the shade; he is a match for a Monrose and a Moliere to boot. + Talleyrand in his own house would have outwitted Gaudissart, but in the + shop the parts would have been reversed. + </p> + <p> + An incident will illustrate the paradox. + </p> + <p> + Two charming duchesses were chatting with the above-mentioned great + diplomatist. The ladies wished for a bracelet; they were waiting for the + arrival of a man from a great Parisian jeweler. A Gaudissart accordingly + appeared with three bracelets of marvelous workmanship. The great ladies + hesitated. Choice is a mental lightning flash; hesitate—there is no + more to be said, you are at fault. Inspiration in matters of taste will + not come twice. At last, after about ten minutes the Prince was called in. + He saw the two duchesses confronting doubt with its thousand facets, + unable to decide between the transcendent merits of two of the trinkets, + for the third had been set aside at once. Without leaving his book, + without a glance at the bracelets, the Prince looked at the jeweler's + assistant. + </p> + <p> + "Which would you choose for your sweetheart?" asked he. + </p> + <p> + The young man indicated one of the pair. + </p> + <p> + "In that case, take the other, you will make two women happy," said the + subtlest of modern diplomatists, "and make your sweetheart happy too, in + my name." + </p> + <p> + The two fair ladies smiled, and the young shopman took his departure, + delighted with the Prince's present and the implied compliment to his + taste. + </p> + <p> + A woman alights from her splendid carriage before one of the expensive + shops where shawls are sold in the Rue Vivienne. She is not alone; women + almost always go in pairs on these expeditions; always make the round of + half a score of shops before they make up their minds, and laugh together + in the intervals over the little comedies played for their benefit. Let us + see which of the two acts most in character—the fair customer or the + seller, and which has the best of it in such miniature vaudevilles? + </p> + <p> + If you attempt to describe a sale, the central fact of Parisian trade, you + are in duty bound, if you attempt to give the gist of the matter, to + produce a type, and for this purpose a shawl or a chatelaine costing some + three thousand francs is a more exacting purchase than a length of lawn or + dress that costs three hundred. But know, oh foreign visitors from the Old + World and the New (if ever this study of the physiology of the Invoice + should be by you perused), that this selfsame comedy is played in + haberdashers' shops over a barege at two francs or a printed muslin at + four francs the yard. + </p> + <p> + And you, princess, or simple citizen's wife, whichever you may be, how + should you distrust that good-looking, very young man, with those frank, + innocent eyes, and a cheek like a peach covered with down? He is dressed + almost as well as your—cousin, let us say. His tones are soft as the + woolen stuffs which he spreads before you. There are three or four more of + his like. One has dark eyes, a decided expression, and an imperial manner + of saying, "This is what you wish"; another, that blue-eyed youth, + diffident of manner and meek of speech, prompts the remark, "Poor boy! he + was not born for business"; a third, with light auburn hair, and laughing + tawny eyes, has all the lively humor, and activity, and gaiety of the + South; while the fourth, he of the tawny red hair and fan-shaped beard, is + rough as a communist, with his portentous cravat, his sternness, his + dignity, and curt speech. + </p> + <p> + These varieties of shopmen, corresponding to the principal types of + feminine customers, are arms, as it were, directed by the head, a stout + personage with a full-blown countenance, a partially bald forehead, and a + chest measure befitting a Ministerialist deputy. Occasionally this person + wears the ribbon of the Legion of Honor in recognition of the manner in + which he supports the dignity of the French drapers' wand. From the + comfortable curves of his figure you can see that he has a wife and + family, a country house, and an account with the Bank of France. He + descends like a <i>deus ex machina</i>, whenever a tangled problem demands + a swift solution. The feminine purchasers are surrounded on all sides with + urbanity, youth, pleasant manners, smiles, and jests; the most + seeming-simple human products of civilization are here, all sorted in + shades to suit all tastes. + </p> + <p> + Just one word as to the natural effects of architecture, optical science, + and house decoration; one short, decisive, terrible word, of history made + on the spot. The work which contains this instructive page is sold at + number 76 Rue de Richelieu, where above an elegant shop, all white and + gold and crimson velvet, there is an entresol into which the light pours + straight from the Rue de Menars, as into a painter's studio—clean, + clear, even daylight. What idler in the streets has not beheld the + Persian, that Asiatic potentate, ruffling it above the door at the corner + of the Rue de la Bourse and the Rue de Richelieu, with a message to + deliver <i>urbi et orbi</i>, "Here I reign more tranquilly than at + Lahore"? Perhaps but for this immortal analytical study, archaeologists + might begin to puzzle their heads about him five hundred years hence, and + set about writing quartos with plates (like M. Quatremere's work on + Olympian Jove) to prove that Napoleon was something of a Sofi in the East + before he became "Emperor of the French." Well, the wealthy shop laid + siege to the poor little entresol; and after a bombardment with banknotes, + entered and took possession. The Human Comedy gave way before the comedy + of cashmeres. The Persian sacrificed a diamond or two from his crown to + buy that so necessary daylight; for a ray of sunlight shows the play of + the colors, brings out the charms of a shawl, and doubles its value; 'tis + an irresistible light; literally, a golden ray. From this fact you may + judge how far Paris shops are arranged with a view to effect. + </p> + <p> + But to return to the young assistants, to the beribboned man of forty whom + the King of the French receives at his table, to the red-bearded head of + the department with his autocrat's air. Week by week these meritus + Gaudissarts are brought in contact with whims past counting; they know + every vibration of the cashmere chord in the heart of woman. No one, be + she lady or lorette, a young mother of a family, a respectable tradesman's + wife, a woman of easy virtue, a duchess or a brazen-fronted ballet-dancer, + an innocent young girl or a too innocent foreigner, can appear in the + shop, but she is watched from the moment when she first lays her fingers + upon the door-handle. Her measure is taken at a glance by seven or eight + men that stand, in the windows, at the counter, by the door, in a corner, + in the middle of the shop, meditating, to all appearance, on the joys of a + bacchanalian Sunday holiday. As you look at them, you ask yourself + involuntarily, "What can they be thinking about?" Well, in the space of + one second, a woman's purse, wishes, intentions, and whims are ransacked + more thoroughly than a traveling carriage at a frontier in an hour and + three-quarters. Nothing is lost on these intelligent rogues. As they + stand, solemn as noble fathers on the stage, they take in all the details + of a fair customer's dress; an invisible speck of mud on a little shoe, an + antiquated hat-brim, soiled or ill-judged bonnet-strings, the fashion of + the dress, the age of a pair of gloves. They can tell whether the gown was + cut by the intelligent scissors of a Victorine IV.; they know a modish + gewgaw or a trinket from Froment-Meurice. Nothing, in short, which can + reveal a woman's quality, fortune, or character passes unremarked. + </p> + <p> + Tremble before them. Never was the Sanhedrim of Gaudissarts, with their + chief at their head, known to make a mistake. And, moreover, they + communicate their conclusions to one another with telegraphic speed, in a + glance, a smile, the movement of a muscle, a twitch of the lip. If you + watch them, you are reminded of the sudden outbreak of light along the + Champs-Elysees at dusk; one gas-jet does not succeed another more swiftly + than an idea flashes from one shopman's eyes to the next. + </p> + <p> + At once, if the lady is English, the dark, mysterious, portentous + Gaudissart advances like a romantic character out of one of Byron's poems. + </p> + <p> + If she is a city madam, the oldest is put forward. He brings out a hundred + shawls in fifteen minutes; he turns her head with colors and patterns; + every shawl that he shows her is like a circle described by a kite + wheeling round a hapless rabbit, till at the end of half an hour, when her + head is swimming and she is utterly incapable of making a decision for + herself, the good lady, meeting with a flattering response to all her + ideas, refers the question to the assistant, who promptly leaves her on + the horns of a dilemma between two equally irresistible shawls. + </p> + <p> + "This, madame, is very becoming—apple-green, the color of the + season; still, fashions change; while as for this other black-and-white + shawl (an opportunity not to be missed), you will never see the end of it, + and it will go with any dress." + </p> + <p> + This is the A B C of the trade. + </p> + <p> + "You would not believe how much eloquence is wanted in that beastly line," + the head Gaudissart of this particular establishment remarked quite lately + to two acquaintances (Duronceret and Bixiou) who had come trusting in his + judgment to buy a shawl. "Look here; you are artists and discreet, I can + tell you about the governor's tricks, and of all the men I ever saw, he is + the cleverest. I do not mean as a manufacturer, there M. Fritot is first; + but as a salesman. He discovered the 'Selim shawl,' <i>an absolutely + unsalable</i> article, yet we never bring it out but we sell it. We keep + always a shawl worth five or six hundred francs in a cedar-wood box, + perfectly plain outside, but lined with satin. It is one of the shawls + that Selim sent to the Emperor Napoleon. It is our Imperial Guard; it is + brought to the front whenever the day is almost lost; <i>il se vend et ne + meurt pas</i>—it sells its life dearly time after time." + </p> + <p> + As he spoke, an Englishwoman stepped from her jobbed carriage and appeared + in all the glory of that phlegmatic humor peculiar to Britain and to all + its products which make believe they are alive. The apparition put you in + mind of the Commandant's statue in Don Juan, it walked along, jerkily by + fits and starts, in an awkward fashion invented in London, and cultivated + in every family with patriotic care. + </p> + <p> + "An Englishwoman!" he continued for Bixiou's ear. "An Englishwoman is our + Waterloo. There are women who slip through our fingers like eels; we catch + them on the staircase. There are lorettes who chaff us, we join in the + laugh, we have a hold on them because we give credit. There are + sphinx-like foreign ladies; we take a quantity of shawls to their houses, + and arrive at an understanding by flattery; but an Englishwoman!—you + might as well attack the bronze statue of Louis Quatorze! That sort of + woman turns shopping into an occupation, an amusement. She quizzes us, + forsooth!" + </p> + <p> + The romantic assistant came to the front. + </p> + <p> + "Does madame wish for real Indian shawls or French, something expensive or——" + </p> + <p> + "I will see." (<i>Je veraie</i>.) + </p> + <p> + "How much would madame propose——" + </p> + <p> + "I will see." + </p> + <p> + The shopman went in quest of shawls to spread upon the mantle-stand, + giving his colleagues a significant glance. "What a bore!" he said + plainly, with an almost imperceptible shrug of the shoulders. + </p> + <p> + "These are our best quality in Indian red, blue, and pale orange—all + at ten thousand francs. Here are shawls at five thousand francs, and + others at three." + </p> + <p> + The Englishwoman took up her eyeglass and looked round the room with + gloomy indifference; then she submitted the three stands to the same + scrutiny, and made no sign. + </p> + <p> + "Have you any more?" (<i>Havaivod'hote</i>?) demanded she. + </p> + <p> + "Yes, madame. But perhaps madame has not quite decided to take a shawl?" + </p> + <p> + "Oh, quite decided" (<i>trei-deycidai</i>). + </p> + <p> + The young man went in search of cheaper wares. These he spread out + solemnly as if they were things of price, saying by his manner, "Pay + attention to all this magnificence!" + </p> + <p> + "These are much more expensive," said he. "They have never been worn; they + have come by courier direct from the manufacturers at Lahore." + </p> + <p> + "Oh! I see," said she; "they are much more like the thing I want." + </p> + <p> + The shopman kept his countenance in spite of inward irritation, which + communicated itself to Duronceret and Bixiou. The Englishwoman, cool as a + cucumber, appeared to rejoice in her phlegmatic humor. + </p> + <p> + "What price?" she asked, indicating a sky-blue shawl covered with a + pattern of birds nestling in pagodas. + </p> + <p> + "Seven thousand francs." + </p> + <p> + She took it up, wrapped it about her shoulders, looked in the glass, and + handed it back again. + </p> + <p> + "No, I do not like it at all." (<i>Je n'ame pouinte</i>.) + </p> + <p> + A long quarter of an hour went by in trying on other shawls; to no + purpose. + </p> + <p> + "This is all we have, madame," said the assistant, glancing at the master + as he spoke. + </p> + <p> + "Madame is fastidious, like all persons of taste," said the head of the + establishment, coming forward with that tradesman's suavity in which + pomposity is agreeably blended with subservience. The Englishwoman took up + her eyeglass and scanned the manufacturer from head to foot, unwilling to + understand that the man before her was eligible for Parliament and dined + at the Tuileries. + </p> + <p> + "I have only one shawl left," he continued, "but I never show it. It is + not to everybody's taste; it is quite out of the common. I was thinking of + giving it to my wife. We have had it in stock since 1805; it belonged to + the Empress Josephine." + </p> + <p> + "Let me see it, monsieur." + </p> + <p> + "Go for it," said the master, turning to a shopman. "It is at my house." + </p> + <p> + "I should be very much pleased to see it," said the English lady. + </p> + <p> + This was a triumph. The splenetic dame was apparently on the point of + going. She made as though she saw nothing but the shawls; but all the + while she furtively watched the shopmen and the two customers, sheltering + her eyes behind the rims of her eyeglasses. + </p> + <p> + "It cost sixty thousand francs in Turkey, madame." + </p> + <p> + "Oh!" (<i>hau</i>!) + </p> + <p> + "It is one of seven shawls which Selim sent, before his fall, to the + Emperor Napoleon. The Empress Josephine, a Creole, as you know, my lady, + and very capricious in her tastes, exchanged this one for another brought + by the Turkish ambassador, and purchased by my predecessor; but I have + never seen the money back. Our ladies in France are not rich enough; it is + not as it is in England. The shawl is worth seven thousand francs; and + taking interest and compound interest altogether, it makes up fourteen or + fifteen thousand by now—" + </p> + <p> + "How does it make up?" asked the Englishwoman. + </p> + <p> + "Here it is, madame." + </p> + <p> + With precautions, which a custodian of the Dresden <i>Grune Gewolbe</i> + might have admired, he took out an infinitesimal key and opened a square + cedar-wood box. The Englishwoman was much impressed with its shape and + plainness. From that box, lined with black satin, he drew a shawl worth + about fifteen hundred francs, a black pattern on a golden-yellow ground, + of which the startling color was only surpassed by the surprising efforts + of the Indian imagination. + </p> + <p> + "Splendid," said the lady, in a mixture of French and English, "it is + really handsome. Just my ideal" (<i>ideol</i>) "of a shawl; it is very + magnificent." The rest was lost in a madonna's pose assumed for the + purpose of displaying a pair of frigid eyes which she believed to be very + fine. + </p> + <p> + "It was a great favorite with the Emperor Napoleon; he took——" + </p> + <p> + "A great favorite," repeated she with her English accent. Then she + arranged the shawl about her shoulders and looked at herself in the glass. + The proprietor took it to the light, gathered it up in his hands, smoothed + it out, showed the gloss on it, played on it as Liszt plays on the + pianoforte keys. + </p> + <p> + "It is very fine; beautiful, sweet!" said the lady, as composedly as + possible. + </p> + <p> + Duronceret, Bixiou, and the shopmen exchanged amused glances. "The shawl + is sold," they thought. + </p> + <p> + "Well, madame?" inquired the proprietor, as the Englishwoman appeared to + be absorbed in meditations infinitely prolonged. + </p> + <p> + "Decidedly," said she; "I would rather have a carriage" (<i>une voteure</i>). + </p> + <p> + All the assistants, listening with silent rapt attention, started as one + man, as if an electric shock had gone through them. + </p> + <p> + "I have a very handsome one, madame," said the proprietor with unshaken + composure; "it belonged to a Russian princess, the Princess Narzicof; she + left it with me in payment for goods received. If madame would like to see + it, she would be astonished. It is new; it has not been in use altogether + for ten days; there is not its like in Paris." + </p> + <p> + The shopmen's amazement was suppressed by profound admiration. + </p> + <p> + "I am quite willing." + </p> + <p> + "If madame will keep the shawl," suggested the proprietor, "she can try + the effect in the carriage." And he went for his hat and gloves. + </p> + <p> + "How will this end?" asked the head assistant, as he watched his employer + offer an arm to the English lady and go down with her to the jobbed + brougham. + </p> + <p> + By this time the thing had come to be as exciting as the last chapter of a + novel for Duronceret and Bixiou, even without the additional interest + attached to all contests, however trifling, between England and France. + </p> + <p> + Twenty minutes later the proprietor returned. + </p> + <p> + "Go to the Hotel Lawson (here is the card, 'Mrs. Noswell'), and take an + invoice that I will give you. There are six thousand francs to take." + </p> + <p> + "How did you do it?" asked Duronceret, bowing before the king of invoices. + </p> + <p> + "Oh, I saw what she was, an eccentric woman that loves to be conspicuous. + As soon as she saw that every one stared at her, she said, 'Keep your + carriage, monsieur, my mind is made up; I will take the shawl.' While M. + Bigorneau (indicating the romantic-looking assistant) was serving, I + watched her carefully; she kept one eye on you all the time to see what + you thought of her; she was thinking more about you than of the shawls. + Englishwomen are peculiar in their <i>distaste</i> (for one cannot call it + taste); they do not know what they want; they make up their minds to be + guided by circumstances at the time, and not by their own choice. I saw + the kind of woman at once, tired of her husband, tired of her brats, + regretfully virtuous, craving excitement, always posing as a weeping + willow...." + </p> + <p> + These were his very words. + </p> + <p> + Which proves that in all other countries of the world a shopkeeper is a + shopkeeper; while in France, and in Paris more particularly, he is a + student from a College Royal, a well-read man with a taste for art, or + angling, or the theatre, and consumed, it may be, with a desire to be M. + Cunin-Gridaine's successor, or a colonel of the National Guard, or a + member of the General Council of the Seine, or a referee in the Commercial + Court. + </p> + <p> + "M. Adolphe," said the mistress of the establishment, addressing the + slight fair-haired assistant, "go to the joiner and order another + cedar-wood box." + </p> + <p> + "And now," remarked the shopman who had assisted Duronceret and Bixiou to + choose a shawl for Mme. Schontz, "<i>now</i> we will go through our old + stock to find another Selim shawl." + </p> + <p> + PARIS, November 1844. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <a name="link2H_4_0002" id="link2H_4_0002"> + <!-- H2 anchor --> </a> + </p> + <h2> + ADDENDUM + </h2> + <h3> + The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy. + </h3> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + Bixiou, Jean-Jacques + The Purse + A Bachelor's Establishment + The Government Clerks + Modeste Mignon + Scenes from a Courtesan's Life + The Firm of Nucingen + The Muse of the Department + Cousin Betty + The Member for Arcis + Beatrix A Man of Business + The Unconscious Humorists + Cousin Pons + + Ronceret, Fabien-Felicien du (or Duronceret) + Jealousies of a Country Town + Beatrix + + Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles-Maurice de + The Chouans + The Gondreville Mystery + The Thirteen + Letters of Two Brides + + Victorine + Massimilla Doni + Lost Illusions + Letters of Two Brides +</pre> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <hr /> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1475 ***</div> +</body> +</html> |