| Show an eccentric parisian club the lioums ark in 1867 is famous for its practical jokes and wag geries henri regnault the brilliant painter of the salome who was killed in one of the battles near Paris in 1870 was the chief joker of this motley company so long as be lived each member used to make it a point to ar riveSt the in some novel and start ling fashion generally disguised in such a manner As to attract al one day henri regnault had himself brought aalto the dinner by four men h appeared to be covered avith blood and was followed even into the restaurant by a vast throng the police ap eared and wished to know aher e ye sub cido bad been placed they could not refrain from when they saw Regnault seated atthe table and tranquilly i taking his soup without having remove e the achre ochre with abi ch h e had stained ilia face his neck and his hands the amiable gentlemen occasionally give a theatrical entertainment after their din nari tile who play the femi nine golej are chosen from t he models who frequent the studios some years ago the play of the sea son was called abraham or the patriarch who deceived ilia wife co u e 1111 cadet and coquell f il aine bott played in this astonishing piece the role of hagar was so very free and emy that the model w lo 10 bad been selected for it declined to appear in it whereupon she was put I 1 alto durance vile by the painters who ref used to give her anything to at oi to let her out of the studio which served as the prison until she would agree to play in the piece she threatened legal but it was of no avail the performance for mance Is said to have been quite startling two or three years after ward this model committed suicide the was given in a mansion belonging to one on the boulevard and it ili related of him that tie tore out half a dozen partitions in order to make a ball large enouf h forthe occasion the songs that are dg at this club are rather too parisian to be quoted here |
