The Shasta courier., 1867-05-25

prime Of beauty. just above middle height
her form was perfection, developed sufficient
ly to be voluptuous, yet not sufficiently tt
lose delicacy of outline. Her complexior
was dazzling, her features small but perfect
her eyes large, black and lustrous. Tht
expression of her face varying with ever,
thought, and her thoughts were bold, origina
and full of fun her conversation was like
reviving draught to the old King.
From the first interview he was infatuated
But it was impossible that Jeanne Vanber
nier could hold position at court. 1t wa,
and title. The indefatigable Count Jear
soon found them in the person of his younger
brother, country BOBBY, who consented tt
give his hand and his name for d price
which made him rich the rest of his life. 81
on the first of September, 1768, Jeann,
became Countess du Barry, and took hel
place among the nobility of France.
After much difficulty she was at last pre-
sented at court, where her perfect manners
full Of dignity, reserve and grace, won thu
admiration of the whole court, and secured
for her the friendship of the Kings daugh
ters, five old maids, who lived in the palace
but amid circle of their own, remote from
the court and all its irrelevances.
Nine. du Barry then set up grand es
tablishment, and sent out invitations to sup
per with this postscript:
" His Majesty will honor me by his
presence"
Louis XIV. revived under her influence
Good-humored, young, gay, eccentric, re-
strained by no educational or courtly ira
dltions-she was new sensation to hindu
Barry's power exceeded Nine. de Pompa
dour's
Every one loved the new favorite. Nine
de mpadour-pedantic, revengeful. ex-
acting, had many enemies. Nine du Barry
had none. Extravagant for herself she was
liberal to her friends Whatever lampoons
were written against her, she laughed at
Nine. de Pompadour sent the authors to the
Bastile. She was generous, charitable, full
of fun, and good humor, outraging court
etiquette in every action, not over faithful to
the King, but fond of him, and ever read Y
to amuse him. The last days of Louis XIV.
were the happiest of his life.
On the first day of her attending Mass in
the chapel at Versailles, she beheld among
the crowd the young man who had prophe-
cied her exaltation-" Are YOU not now
Queen of France?" said he. Mime. du Bar
ry had not time to reply. He had mingled
with the crowd and disappeared, and she
never saw him again until the day the King
was buried, and she was leaving Versailles
forever
You will see me but once more" said
he, " after that your eyes will never look on
anything on EARTH"
The du Barry family cost France thirty.
five millions of francs. besides its dignity
Nine. du Barry gave audience to the foreign
transacted the business of state,
played antic tricks with ministers and plen.
ipotentiaries, to the great delight of the King.
Once she made the Pope's Nuncio put on.
her stockings. Another time she made the
King, whom she called La France, grind
the coffee for whole assembly of courtiers
The King and the fatterers around her find
ing all this charming.
During her prosperity she built for her.
self a magnificent chateau called Luciennes.
in which she accumulated every kind of
luxury and riches. Here she frequently re-
ceived the King, improvising fetes and sup
pers for his entertainment, and she intended
to retire after the death of the King, and
enjoy her immense fortune and the many
years of youth still left to her. But she had
not the moulding of her own fate.
After the death of Louis XIV, the row
King, the vrtuous and chaste Louis XVI,
exiled her from court, condemning her to
exile in a convent Through the influence
of the Kings aunts, her former friends, she
was, after a year, given permission to leave
France, and accordingly retired to England,
entrusting her chateau of Luciennes with all
its treasures to her favorite, the Governor
of Lucienne, a young mulatto named Ia
MORE
With all her faults, Mme du Barry was
not ungrateful, although the Bourbons had
exiled her, although Marie Antoinette had
treated her with contempt, she did not for
get that she owed her fortune to Bourbons,
and remained faithful to them and to their
cause.
In England she assisted all the royalists
refugees. During the Imprisonment in the
Temple, she secretely sent sums of money to
the adherents of the family, to try and obtain
their freedom by bribery. Deeply she Ia
mented the termination of the tragedy,
openly she expressed her execration of the
revolution, and when Marie Antoinette was
executed, she went into the deepest mourn
ing.
All her actions were of course known to
France it was therefore the very height OF
impudence for her to attempt to return to a
country in full revolt to the family and
opinions she professed to love.
But buried under tree in the park OF
Lucienne, was an immense treasure in gold
and diamonds This she desired to possess.
The secret had been shared but by three.
Herself, the Due de Brissac. and Zamore.
Brissac, her lover, had been assassinated
before her eyes. Now only she and Zamore
possessed the secret.
She came secretely to Luciennes, secure
in the devotion of Zamore. But the fever
of the revolution had seized him he had
learned to think ingratitude to his bene-
factora a virtue. He had learned to love
power.
A few days after her arrival in France,
denounced by him, she was arrested and
dragged before the relentless revolutionary
tribunal.
There was no hope of mercy she knew
it from the first moment of her incarceration;
her courage left her. She implored, she
bribed, she even tried to seduce by her
beauty, that bad won the admiration of the
world, but all in vain; her sentence of death
went forth.
Dragged from the prison, she was placed
IN the cart, despite her shrieks and struggles.