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MEMOIR of MADAME LAFFRAGE

The following is a summary of Madame Laffarge's
Life, now in the course of publication in Paris in three
volumes octavo :

Marie Cappello was born in 1816, at the chateau of
Villers-hellon, in Picardy, belonging to her mother's
father, M. Collard, ex-contractor to the Republican ar-
mies, and the intimate friend of M. de Talleyrand. Her
grandmother (the adopted daughter of Madame de Gen-
iis, and said to be descended from one Colonel Compton,
an Englishman), was brought up with the Orleans fa-
mily; and, speaking irfildt: memoirs of her grandmother's
origin, Madame Latfarge ii4ds that this story was related
to her only with mysterious reserve, which would appear
to confirm the accf6elffed report of the prisoner of
Tulle having Royal blood in her veins. The eldest of
M. Collard's three daughters was the mother of Madame
Laffargo, and was married in 1815 to M. Cappelle, a
Captain in the, Artillmy; Or second was united to M.
C. 14ron de Martens, "0 4•1;-fini.shed Prussian diploma-
' fist, and the youngest to M. Garat, Governor of the
Bank of France. The first part of Marie Cappelle's life
passed away, half amidst the noisy gaieties of Strasbourg,
where she spent the winter, and where her father was
garrisoned, and half amongst the rustic festivities of Vil-
lers-hellon, whither she repaired every spring. She de-
picts the visitors at her father's house with great anima-
tion ; these, for the most part, appertained to the high
classes of society. She says of M. de Talleyrand, who
often came to her grandfather's, that he " limped with art
and wit." She relates the promenades at Villers-hellon
of the Orleans family, stories of Mdlle. Mars, to whose
house her godfather, Colonel de Brack, used to take her;
of the climbing morning parties given by General
on the rich mamelons of the Vosges ; of the elect com-
pany of Strasbourg ; the country neighbours ; the Mon-
tesquiou family ; the Princess of Eckmuhl ; Madame de
Cambaceres ; the beautiful Chatelaine of Montgobert ;
the Montbreton family ; the de Valence ; the phalanx of
Paris dandies swarming to the shooting and gipsying
parties at Corey, or at Villers-hellon. In a word, all the
masculine and feminine celebrities of the French aristo-
cracy are analysed and dissected by Mdme. Laffarge,
who renders their portraiture with a fidelity most des-
pairing to the subject.
Marie Cappelle's first trouble was the loss of her fa-
ther, in consequence of the wound inflicted by the
bursting of a fowling-piece in his hand.
Her mother, who was young, married again ; she
thus describes the wedding-day :—" The day of the
ceremony was dull ; we were compelled to assist at it
without allowing a tear to flow from our hearts to
our eye-lids, and to leave off our mourning, although
we became orphans in a two-fold sense ; we were ob-
liged to smile at the consecration of this oblivion ;
to smile in abdicating a portion of our mother's heart
to the rule of a stranger. M. de Coehorn was a Pro-
testant ; the religious rites were performed in the
drawing-room ; the work-table became an altar ; a
gentleman in black read us a cold sermon, and next
gave a simple blessing. Shall I confess it ; I was
pleased the ceremony was so meagre, that my dear
little church of Villers-hellon had not been decked out
—that the wax flambeaux of the altar were not
lighted, that the censors were left without incense. I
was pleased that the Grand Cross, the Virgin, the Ta-
bernacle had not been dispoiled of their trappings to
bless the oblivion of my father."
In order to tame her ardent disposition she was sent
to the Maison Royale de St. Denis ; but by the lapse of
some months she had fretted herself to sickness, and
she was set at liberty. The pleasures and rejoicings at
Paris succeeded the austere life of St. Denis ; she fre-
quented the balls at the Tuileries and at the Palais
Royal.
In 1832 she lost her mother, and her grandfather
followed not long after ; she was thus in the midst of
the world without a guide, without a prop, having but a
slender fortune, and possessing the superficial affections
of her family, judging by the manner in which she was
cast into the arms of a man unknown to her.

The, part of the memoirs in which Madame Laffarge
describes the period when she was considered mar-
riageable is extremely interesting, and here began her
connections with Mademoiselle de Nicolai, actually
Madame de Leotaud.

The history of the theft of the diamonds is related
with minuteness as to the hour, the spot, the accom-
plishment of the robbery. Her story is, the same as she
told at her trial.

Marie Cappelle leaves Busaguy for Corey, a country-
seat belonging to Mdme. de Montbreton, who had con-
ceived a lively affection for the young orphan. In the
midst of a round of pleasure, and whilst playing her part
in a comedy got up for the amusement of the visitors,
she is called away to Paris by her aunt, Mdme. Garat,
to face a twelfth or a thirteenth suitor, M. Laffarge, a
man recommended by an office-keeper, M. de Foy, whose
employment is making up marriages for a certain remu
neration, based upon the property of the contracting indi-
viduals. M. Laffarge was not prepossessing ; he was
unknown,--his character, his habits, his tastes, his fa-
mily,—but he gave himself out as worth 35,000 E (1,4000
per annum ; that Miss Cappelle's dowry, by allow-
ing him to increase his business, would in a year in-
crease it to 50,000 f. (2,0000 per annum. He was pro-
vided with pompous letters and friendly recommenda-
tions ; a Parisian artist -had drawn up for him a superb
painting of a castle, with terraces, waterfalls, and draw-
bridges, and he had not beheld his future wife a minute,
ere he declared himself deeply in love with her, "smit-
ten with an eternal lore."

In his rusticity he was mild and obsequious, and the
young girl was allured by the 50,000 francs revenue.
The marriage was solemnised, and within three days
the youthful female and her dowry were in the power of
a man whose morality and character were more than
doubtful; who was overwhelmed with debts, and who
sought a wife to save him from a bankruptcy which was
declared three months subsequently.
The ceremony was scarcely at an end before a post-
chaise received the couple, and bore off Marie Cappelle to
unknown regions. Her description of the first tete-a-tete
is charming, but we cannot give it here entire; the fol-
lowing are a few extracts :
After describing the prospect around her, and the in-
cidents on the road, at some length, she continues,
" Amidst all these beauties I looked about me, and cast
my eyes on Laffarge; he was asleep. I began to reflect."
" A jolt awoke M. Laffarge, who extended his arms and
mouth with a sonorous and lengthened gape ; he kissed
me on both cheeks and said, Now my little dear, we'll
breakfast.' M. Laffarge seized a cold fowl, which was
in the coach, by the wings, and divided it, offering me
the half, which I refused with a degree of disgust that
made him suppose me ill. He became uneasy, anxious,
kindly attentive, begged me to take at least a glass of
Bordeaux, but on my refusal, drank off the entire bottle
to himself, saying—for thee and me, who are one. As the
odour of the repast was unsupportable, I got on the box,
exchanging places with my maid Clementine ,• towards
noon I re-entered the carriage, and attempted to con-
verse on literature, on theatricals, of Villers-hellon and
the fine forest, which latter part of the conversation ap-
peared to interest M. Laffarge ,• but my ignorance of the
prices of wood and of charcoal reduced him to silence.
He took from his pocket a portfolio, and buried himself
in calculations which appeared to occupy his mind dis-
agreeably."
Madame Laffarge, who had dreamt of Romeo and
Juliet's affectionate scenes, was destined to be deceived
on every point. At Orleans the deception was more tan-
gible. It was here that the scene of the bath took place,
which was adduced on the trial, and Marie Cappelle re-
lates it in detail. The husband shakes the door, and
when his yet virgin wife begs him to wait as she is un-
dressed, he brutally replies "it is because you are un-
dressed that I will come in; do you take me for a nin-
compoop ? Do you think I am going to be made game of
by a young wench of a Parisian?" and when the young
girl, offended at this indelicacy, resisted energetically,
and he went away, it was in saying " this may do for
once, but let me get you to the Glandier, I'll soon bring
you to your senses.
Her arrival at the Glandier dispelled the magnificent
illusions of Madame Laffarge. The fine castle, so beau-
tiful upon paper, was but an old tumble-down house,
open to the winds and to the rain ; the young stranger
brought up to the refinements of Parisian life, arrived
there at night by frightful roads, through pelting rain,
fatigued by the length of the journey, horror-struck at
the thought of the future prospects that awaited her, of
the menacing night then approaching, and which would
surrender her to the brutal caresses of her rustic spouse.
Under these impressions she obtained leave to retire to
her chamber, where she wrote the famous letter in
which, in order to obtain the more easily permission to
quit immediately the sad and solitary dwelling whither
a culpable deceit had led her, she accuses herself of ima-
ginary crimes. This letter, which bears the stamp of
the delirium of terrified imagination, was the foundation
of the accusation:
The scene which follows is disgusting. Madame Laf-
farge has unwittingly produced the famous scene he-
tween Rebecca and Brian de Bois Guilbert in Ivanhoe.
Like the ferocious Templar, the Limousin blacksmith
retires before the intrepidity and resolution of Marie
Cappelle.
The MS. in our hands leaves us here. The sequel has
not yet arrived from Tulle; it comprises the whole pro-
ceedings at the. Glandier, after the second journey to
Paris of M. Laffarge.

Whatever the judgment pronounced upon Madame
Laffarge,
must recognise in her the qualities neces-
sary to a great writer. If this woman is innocent, what
a fate is her's! If guilty, what an infernal organisition?

FETES AT BOULOGNE.

THE COLUMN AND STATUE OF NAPOLEON.

• FRIDAY, AUG. 13.—This being the first day of the
fetes in honour of the inauguration of the statue of Na-
poleon, the ships in the harbour were, early in the morn-
ing, gaily dressed out in their various national colours,
that of France, the tri-colour, of course generally pre-
ponderating. The various public buildings, crowned by
the ancient turretted belfry in the high tower, also ex-
hibited tri-coloured flags of goodly dimensions ; whilst
throughout the town and along the cliffs, from almost
every house, smaller flags of the same colour, projecting-
from the windows, or upreared on the gable-ends of the
roofs, danced in the breeze. The effect, particularly
from the sea, was gay and striking in the extreme.
The town is already very full, nearly as full as it can
comfortably hold, and yet the boats keep coming in from
London, and Dover, and Ramsgate, with heay.y and still-
increasing loads. The military alone in the town and
neighbourhood is estimated at from three to five or six
thousand troops. The " solemnities" began with that
very national sport, horsemanship.
THE RACES (FIRST DAY.)
The course is situated near the sea., about six miles on
the Calais side. On the way you pass the column of
Napoleon, and, not far from it, another memorable mo-
nument " to fallen greatness" on the spot where, in 1785,
Pilatre de Rosier and his brother " intrepidaeronauts"
fell from a height of some 5,000 feet. The course, which
was very well attended, was kept by a detachment of the
18th regiment of the line. The races began with a
Hurdle Race, 100 francs each, 500 f. given by the town.
Heats, one mile and a half. The winner to be sold fbr
9 000 f if demanded.
Mr. Simons' Trim, aged
Mr. Burton's Dangerous (late Meteor) dr
First heat : Trim went off with the lead at a mode-
rate pace, cleared the first fence in gallant style, and
was landed on the other side without any accident, to
the astonishment of all the French ladies. The pace
then . became ire moderate Audit the -neitittreidie-,- when
the jockey put his horse into a canter. Nothing was
near him and he had it all his own way, for the simple
reason that no other horse started. This, I believe, is
what the regular chroniclers of the turf call—" a walk
over."

Second heat ; ditto repeated. The pace rather more
moderate throughout.
Maiden Plate of 500 f. for French three-yrs-old colts and
fillies.

Mr. Burton's Miss Exile, by Exile, —Sweet Moggy-

Another 'walk over.

Plate of 2,000 f., given by the Minister of Commerce,
100 f. each.
Count d'lredonville's Astonishment, 3 yrs 1
Mr. Quick's Black Bess, by Cadland 2
Mr. Santerre's Maid, by Felix

The two went away at the first starting at a slashing
canter, and kept nose and nose for about half-way the
first round. Black Bess now began to find the pace in-
convenient, and dropped a little astern. On passing the
post the first time the distance between them had in..
creased to about three lengths, the pace was becoming
more and more moderate, speed being evidently unne-
cessary. Eventually, as people had long expected, As
tonishment came in an undoubted winner by several
lengths, Black Bess saving her distance cleverly in a long
trot.

Sweepstakes of 200 f. each. One mile and a half.
Winner to be sold for 3,000 f. if demanded.
Count d'Hedonville's Astonishment 1

Count de Schlokotch's Father Time, Shrewsbury Clock 2
M. Santerre's Ophelia, by Shakspeare dr
Mr. Bushell's Festival

This was another dead thing, Astonishment having it
again all his own way ; Father Time making a waiting
race of it, in hopes of catching him tripping. In short,
it was another walk over ; heightened in interest by the
ingenious regulation requiring the distance to be per-
formed within a certain time—five minutes and fifty se-
conds, as we heard. Nothing very fearful in that ; and
Astonishment was again a clever winner.
So
.ended the day's sport. The :next days fixed for
the same amusement are Tuesday and Thursday next.
To add to the gaiety and excitement of the town, this
happens to be fair time. One of the shows pretends to
give a representation of the fluidal procession of Na-
poleon at St. Helena, done with card or pasteboard fi-
gures about a foot high high, and very cleverly done,
too, for the price, only two sous a head.

SATURDAY, AUG. 14.—A1l was bustle and preparation.
The streets festooned with. ropes of foliage and flowers—
tri-coloured flags, and other insignia appropriate to the
occasion. The only public event was the distribution of
prizes to the students in the college,.
SUNDAY. MORNING, EIGHT O'CLOCK.—The guns com-
menced firing salutes at day-break from all the forts in
the harbour, in honour of the day; the like was also
done at sunset last evening. The weather, which has
been a little threatening, is now clearing up, and every-
thing promises a grand and imposing day.
The Statue, the inauguration of which forms the all-
engrossing subject of men's' thoughts and conversation
throughout all France at the present moment, is from
the design of M. Rosio, and was cut in 1840 by M. H.
Denis. The Government has paid 60,000 francs for it ;
there is said to be unevenness in the bronze, but it is
considered a fine work of art, and of very surprising ap-
pearance. It is habited in the imperial costume : the
head wreathed with a circle of laurel ; the right hand
supports a sceptre, on which is surmounted the eagle ;
whilst the left holds the star of the Legion of Honour.
The story about the " right arm being stretched towards
the sea in the attitude of domination," is therefore apo-
cryphal. The column on which it is erected, was adopted
from the model of M. Labarre, the architect of the
Bourse in Paris, and M. Moilte designed the three bas-
reliefs with which the pedestal was to be embellished.
The discovery of the box, which was inserted within
the midst of the stone staircase of the column at its com-
mencement, containing crystal portraits of members of
the Royal' Family, and several coins of the reign of
Louis XVIII., with a bronze tablet and proces verbal
of the whole proceeding, will strangely puzzle an anti-
quary of some ages hence. The statue is at this mo-
ment lying on its back on a platform, a little above the
base of the column, and it is said it will be got t 3 its
position to-day (Monday), by the assistance of a cele-
brated engineer, who has arrived from Paris for that
purpose.
The King has been, and is still expected to honour the
clay with his presence. Nothing certain, however, will
be known on this score until the moment arrives.