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Cambridge University paid its custo cafés-chantants of.. Montmartre knows mary tribute to the memory of Samuel the name of Aristide Bruant, though Expre on February. And, when the Pepys perhaps tow may actually have heard birthday dinier was held ab Magdaisne him. He was a famous Paris chansonster College, where Pepss was a scholar and. of the old school-one of those who com-
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Bevant's songs depicted in racy and vigorous language the file and types of the outer quarters of Paris. They were very popular and had sufficient literary merit to be published in several editions. He himself was a picturesque figure, in- variably dressed in a broad black wide- awake, dowing cloak, Scarlet mufer, baggy breeches, and top boots. He re tired from the café chantant stage, if such it can be called, in 1806, and was beginor a preacher, and seemed to be widely CALCUTTA-HONGKONG JAPAN LINE ning to be an almost legendary figure separated from the great personages of SHANGHAI HONGKONG LINE until he made a brief appearance last literature. Yet Pepys had the myster HONGKONG-MANILA LINE year at one of the Paris music-halls,
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he wrote with unique freedom, únique Because he wrote only for his own eyes
simplicity." Naked and unashamed, Pems catered for many people. If one liked going to church or the theatre, if learaing, or ingenious conversation. so. one liked arts, music, hooks. science,
too, did Pepys No one would write down the small things which Pepys wrote down less they were absolutely true, and it was because of that that they knew Pepys the man better than they knew anyone else. (Cheers.)
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The Cabaret Bruant was for long one of the things to do in Paris. There Bruant himself and his assistants would recite their poems, ar monologues, sing their songs, which few visitors, unless deeply familiar with an ever-changing slang, could fully understand. Bruunt recited his verses standing on the table, and an attendant hawked among the audi- ence-copies of his volumes of verses.
Wheri Bruant retired many years ago the cabaret was carried on by others, but now and again. on special occasions, Bruant que l'on croyait disparu." ne a Paris newspaper put it in April, 1005 would appear in public uhd recite his
verse.
The famous chansonnier retired to a handsome property at Courtenay, not for from Paris, where he cultivated his garden and settled down to be a good parishioner. His two series of songs and monologues," Dans la Rue" (the later
Lord Le of Fareham, responding to the toast of the guests, described Pepys as one of his abiding heroes. ** Were I able to spetid a day with Pepys at the present time." he said, "I would take him to the First Lord's room at the Ad- miralty and show him the portrait of himself which i dag up from an obscure corner and put before the First Lord's desk as an example of one of this coun- of which has the imprint: "Paris, Aris-try's greatest public servants and a way tide Brunnt, anteur éditeur. Château de iour of the British nation. I would also Courtenay (Loiret) had a very large show him a more convivial portrait I sal partly due, perhaps, to the extreme-hard hung up in the First Lord's dining- ly glover and sympathetic illustrations by room, and ask him. us a good judge of Steinlen. Many, if not all, of the the other sex, what he thought of the original drawings appear to have remain- women of England to-day and of shing. ed in Bruant's possession, and were soldling (Laughter.)
The guests invited included:
Lord Desart, Lord Hood, Lord Cran-
at the Hôtel Drouot in 1005, when, with some drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec, they realized over 24,000l. Apart from the two volumes above named Bruant in 1901worth, Lord Braybrooke. the Bishop of published a volume on L'Argot an 206 sivele" which reached a new edition insident of Magdalen College (Oxford), the.
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