Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1858-11-17
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Madame De Stael.

ron de Stael was little more than "a person"
and not much Of any body. Indeed. ae was
only known as the husband Of his wife. Mad.
anne de Stae shone 10y her own splendid aud
overpowering radiance the bright particular
star in galaxy Of stars.
The mother Of Madame de Stael was the
early love Of G,bbon. the historian. Her IA
ther was plain James Neekar. The youag
Marie Louise was unlike either father or moth
err From her cradle, she seems to have been
the incarnation of genius, aud impulse Vi
vacious, vehement. aud full Of rich fresh en-.
thusasm. she rushed after knowledge, and
social pleasures OF every kind aud the .lm,
frigid faultlessness Of her mother. failed in all
its efforts. to impose ordinary restraints upon
the volatile aud brilliant abandon OF lhe
daughter. At twenty. she had attracted the
attention OF many celebrated men, acquired
the dangerous reputation of a VII, aud set at
nought the restraints, aud trampled on the
cooventionaliiies Of society in most unpre
cedeuied. and superb style Of independence.
The men excused her, because She was so
dazzling. and 80 fascinating. aud the old maids
even dil the same, because she was so uaeom
moniy ugly
Madame dc Stael loved her father, with
fervent and exalted d.votion. lie was
proud of her genius, and delighted to call
forth her splendid powers, and to give them
that philosophic aud exalted direction in
which his own ranged with such pure pleasure.
Har hpr W
and bore herself te wards her gifted child, with
precise aud oppressive Journalism.
The auihoress of Corinne. spoke and wrote
of Lore with beautiful feryor, and startling
insight Some dared TO say it was only mat
ter of speculation. aud not of deep, and soul
absorbing ,rperienee. BE iha. it may. when
il came TO marriage, she made marriage de
convenance," as she would have any other
piece of business. She did not marry for love.
4 Eric Baron de Stsel was noble, handsome, re.
spectacle, au attache, To the Swedish Embassy
and was himself TO be an ambassador BY
, marrying him, she could reside permanently
n Paris the spot Of all the world that she
adored She therefore married Partisan So
ciety, and not the Baron. She seems never to
have imagined there could be happiness in
domestic life, and never complained that shs
. had not realized it.
The Baron de Stael. and his splendid lady
lived very harmoniously together. but were
by no means essential to each other. Society
/. seems To have been entirely oblivious of the
Baron. excep, that he had made Neckar's dis
iingnished daughter, Madame ambassadrice
a And it is said that the authoress Of Corinns
h. never loved-that that mighty intellect neve,
i bowed before the noblest passion | viii
give some extracts from her pen in order t.
prove that SO great woman, must haue loved
and that "a loflier being brings severei
cares" In Corinne. page 37o-she expresses
the following beautiful and true sentiment
"It j. not the first Lre which is ineffaceable
that comes from the ned Of loving. But when
after having known life; and in all th,
strength Of his judgment. one encounters th'
mind aud soul. which he has. till then, vsnl,
sought, Imagination is suljuga,ed by the truth
: aud one has a right to be miserable An,
= Corinno says: "Do YOU not know that in tn
deserts If The New World, would have bless
- cd my fate. If you had permitted me to follow
~ YOU therei Do you not know would hay
, rro>tra,ed myself before you as before mess
- cnger from Heaven. if you had faithfully ioy
ed met" These are the unerrins utterauce
Of genuine passion.
For three years after her marriage. Madam
u. De Stael "a The central star of the most bril
W liant society Of Paris. The most celebrate
&c men of that remarkable epoch. clustered abou
rs her. aud bowed davn before her unrivalle
We genius. aud were astounded at the riquancs
k scope, and power. Of her conversation. Th
" times we're a very hot bed for the developmcr
u such mind as hers. The frivolousoess
French society had somewhst abaied. usd.
tho pressure Of those great events. which wei
premoui,ory Of that gigantic convnlsioi
which destroyed every social aud moral stru'
ture in Fame The mightiesi ini+lects wei
bracisg themselves Tor a tremendous shock
The sfsndest events were casting tbci, sha,
ows b,f,re The widest hopes-ths madde
schemes-the darkest alarms eonvulsed soci
ty by turns. Every thing was rushing t
:, wards terrible denouement. Events assnu
IL ffhltAto+ ~ ~ttttt'@ " te'f
opiuion surged up against the powers TIA
we're. Madame de Staei's idullzed fatht
~ith iexibie. sneertzin hand. aud gidjy brat
was the pilot al Ibis dsrk AID stormy hour
To be weak. - not 20 miserable. bat 10
weaker than our tax T. there's the r0b. ~
that strange man. Carlyle. New, ali the Po'
ere Of this gifted woman were aroused. ;
visited, talked. an tfig oed and wsole ,neessar
ly. Add when The "Rsign of Terror" rra
plsd France. with It's demonise hsnd. and 1
sd, orgies OF a Saturn ALA which outshsmed
Paxanism began. aud NsekAr fell. sBd Fran
wallowed IN the streams Of her o~n lsle-blos
N,ekars daeghtsF. slsnr 10 the soul with :
eny used her titles and beer infaenee only
sscear ana To save. With all The pure lers
hoo Of her busning eiequerce. she plead wish
brutsl Revolutionary chiefs for neicy. slu'
for mercy She threw herself. With all
IN noble abandon of her nature. against the q
n Of is.g current. but cvep Asr Pewets we're Of
ned avail. she concealed the emigres IN
that hose. ~ae scattered her Pecunisry resources
rsrs he winds In behalf ef the suffering and
n to pressed. she incurred frarfui peril IN hers
fise and her ehildreo and then f,llo "a her frs'
q v into exile OF Der residence IN England.
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