The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-31
A DEAD LOVE.
OF JOHN NJ. DANIEL-HIs
LOVE IN TURN-TnE CHANGE IN THE
LADY ~ s.e

Moncure u. Conway Is writing some very
gossipy interesting lettersfrom the French
Watering.places to the Cincinnati CONNER.
ctaL The letter from which we make an
extract is written from Trouville, and the
distinguished American referred to is the
late John NJ. Daniel, the editor and proprfe.
tor Of the Richmond Examiner. The letter
says:
/ Madame George Sand has gone to Cabourg.
where SHE, promenatles tllersands all day with
her grandchildren. Thera is any amount of
choice watering-places ih the neighhorllood, :,
from the most ornate, like Trouyille, to the
most primitive, like Iport. Saint Adresse is
this year rather popular. The most interest
ing resident of Saint Adresse was Madame
Pauline de Noirfontaine. who died there last
week. Twenty-Five years ago her drawing
room in Pari, WAS noted for its soirtcs at
tended by the most eminent people i'll that
metropolis. She was hospitable tn tiersuns
Of all shades Of politics, hut her particular
friends were among the Republicans, who
atterward caused the events of 1918. NJ.
Louis Blanc and Marshal Valiant there
met in 1864. But her salon was par
rticiIlariy noted as that in which the
famous clairvoyant Alexis begun his
Seances when he produced such profound
sensation in. Paris. l do not know whether
Madame de Npirfontainc was one of the in.
Vulnerable converts who 0ocked to Alexis.
and who did nothing for the rest of their
lives but try to galvanize or magnetic them
selves and other people; but her house was
the chief centre from which first spread the
In, .so oh hnc CT,
vived in SO many shapes. She was long the
personal friend of Queen Christina, who had
n marine villa at Saint Adresse, and to be
near her built, several years ago, the pretty
chalet in which she has just died.
Very different associations are aroused BY
the sight Of that brilliant Italian Countess
whom l have already mentioned as being ut
Trouvillc, but whom | will now call Ma
dame Il. Inhcrting .....
ONE OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED NAMES
that the world has ever known-but name
which covers as little moral principle as any
in recent history-she has for years glittered
in every Court of Europe. At last she gained
such notoriety that some Of the Courts began,
to close doors against her. 1t was rather
curious that one of the first to exclude
Madame 4. Qhcn Madame b. from its recep.
tions should be that whose moral odor is the
very worst in Europc-tMt Of Italy. But
SO it was that some years ago, when a grand
ball was to be given at the palace in Turin,
the beauty sat i1 her villa expecting the in.
vitation which did not arrive. Her most in.
innate friend there, according to Italian gos.
sip, was young American, who, after having
achieved the reputation of an intellectual
phenomenon, streaming through the south.
ern skies with a brilliantly newspaper
for his comet-tail, had been made Charge
d'Atfaires at Turin. This young Minister
was 4 man of genius and Il scholar, but Inc
was very erratic. Hc~llad fought
A DOZEN Dl ELS In HIS NATIVE VIRGINIA,
and politically he WAS tre-catcr. Yet /,
who knew him well through many years
knew that he had Il tue and tender hear,
deep beneath the proud and formidable extc.
.rior he chose to- put forward in The eyes OF
the world. She who has since become Ma,
dame Il. found out the same, and managed 10
5s.aj object of as deep passion as
sTis.. ! for woman. Despite the sc.
i, !45zgu of the Italian Court NIL the