820 To such delights the noble wits he led Which him reliev'd, and their vaine humours fed With fruitles folies and unsound delights.

There are cinema theatres too, at prices which would delight the English public addicted to those insidious entertainments, but horrify English managers; and the Teatro Salvini at the back of the Palazzo Vecchio is occasionally transformed into a Folies Bergères (as it is called) where one after another comediennes sing each two or three songs rapidly to an audience who regard them with apathy and converse without ceasing.

Rue Folies-Méricourt: Nos. 51, 64, 75.

Great Scott, Ralphno wonder your wife's pining for the Folies Bergère!"

Americans in Panama hats sauntered down the Rue de Rivoli, staring in the shop windows at the latest studies of nude women, and at night went in pursuit of adventure to Montmartre, where the orchestras at the Bal Tabarin were still fiddling mad tangoes in a competition of shrieking melody and where troops of painted ladies in the Folies Bergères still paraded in the promenoir with languorous eyes, through wafts of sickly scent.

It is what a French friend of mine called la folie des obus.

But for a long time it was impossible to recapture the old spirit of these haunts, especially in the music-halls, where ghosts passed in the darkness of deserted promenoirs, and where a chill gave one goose- flesh in the empty stalls, Paris was half ashamed to go to the Folies Bergères or the Renaissance, while away là-bas men were lying on the battlefields or crouching in the trenches.

Si la sagesse renonce à consoler cette pauvre race humaine, trahie par le sort, laisse la folie tenter l'aventure.

SEE Reeve, Arthur B. MALLARME, STÉPHANE. Igitur; ou, La folie d'Elbehnon.

La haute folie et

La haute folie et

Folie de grandeur.

La Ferme en folie.

SEE Reeve, Arthur B. MALLARME, STÉPHANE. Igitur; ou, La folie d'Elbehnon.

Folie de grandeur.

La Ferme en folie.

As regards their position, one should be guided by Napoleon's maxim, Les femmes n'ont pas de rang; and regarding them in other things, Chamfort says very truly: Elles sont faites pour commercer avec nos faiblesses avec notre folie, mais non avec notre raison.

" "I am afraid the name would not then be Feu-Follet, but Ghita-Folie," said the girl, laughing, though she felt a bitter pang at the heart, that cost her an effort to control; "no more of this now, Raoul; we may be observed and watched; it is necessary that we separate.

" So, in the winter vacation when Payson, Sr., fagged from his long day at the office sought the "Frolics" or the "Folies," Payson, Jr., might be seen at a concert for the harpsichord and viola, or at an evening of Palestrina or the Earlier Gregorian Chants.

It was a lance with a cross-bar at its extremity and a crown on top, and the monogram consisted of the Greek letter for Ch and R. LABÉ, LOUISE, poetess, surnamed "La belle Cordière" as the wife of a rope-maker, born in Lyons; wrote in prose "Dialogue d'Amour et de Folie," and elegies and sonnets, with "a singular approach to the ring of Shakespeare's" (1526-1566).

every article is really very much reduced, &c, &c. AT THE FOLIES-BERGÈRE.

la bonne folie!...

The first of these, written in 1712, though not published" until 1737, appeared under the several titles of Pharsamon, les Folies romanesques, and le Don Quichotte moderne, and was, as one of the titles discloses, an attack upon the romantic novel, as exemplified in those of Mlle. de Scudéry.

Pharsamon, ou les Folies romanesques, novel in ten parts, printed in 1737.

sa folie est de bon goût. ARAMINTE. N'importe, je veux le congédier.