The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-03
A DEAD LOHE.
A Reminiscense Of john NJ. DanfeI-Hfs
Love TN Turin-The Change In the
Lady.

Moncure ID. conway 10 Wrlllng Dome very
and interesting letters from the
French watering places to the Cincinnati
Commercial. The letter from which we make
extract is written from Trouvllle, and the
distinguished American referred to Is the late
John NJ. Daniel, the editor and proprietor Of
the Richmond Examiner The letter SAYS:
Madame George Sand has gone to CaDourg,
where she promenadns the sands all day with
her grandchildren. There Is any amount OF
watering places In The neighborhood,
from the most ornate, like Trouviile,' 10 Inc most
GEAR very popular. The most interesting res
ident of Saint Andresse was Madame Pauline
de Nojrfontaine, who died there last week.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago her d~raWing.room IN
Paris was noted for lis soirees, attended by
the most eminent people In that metropolis.
She was %hospitable to persons OF Gil snades OF
politics, but her particular friends were
among the Republicans, who aiterWard
caused the events of lS4s. NJ. LOUIS blanc
and Marshal valiant there metin 1854. But
her salon was particularly noted as That IN
which the famous clairvoyant Alexis began
his seances when he produced such q pro-
found sensation in Paris. l do not Know
whether Madame de Noirfuntaine was one Of
innumerable converts VINO hocked 10
Alexis, and who did nothing tor the rest OF
their lives but try to galvanize or magnetic
themselves and other peoples; but her house
was the chief centre from which first spread
the PSYCHOLOGICAL epidemic which has since
survived In 40 many shades. She was long
the personal friend of Queen Christina, who
had a marine villa at Saint Adresse, and 10 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 I have already mentioned as being at
Trouville, but whom I will now call Madame
r. 1nherlting
ONE OF THE MOST DIsTTSGU
that the world has ever knowl-but a 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 notorlety that some Of the courts began
to close doors against her. It was rather
curious that one OF the first 70 exclude Mad
anne R. (uhen Madame b. from is receptions
should be that whose moral odor Is the very
worst In Europe-that Of Itely. But so 1t was,
that, some years ago, when Q grand ball was
to be given ct the palace In Turin, the oeanty
Sat In her villa expecting the invitation, Whlcn
did not arrive. Her most Intimate friend
there. according to Italian gossip, was q young
American, who, after having achieved The
reputation OF an Intellectual phenomenon.
streaming through The southern skies with q
newspaper for, his comet
tail. had been made charge d'affaires at Turin.
Tbis Young minister vas q man of genius and
a scholsr,~but he was very erratlc. He had
fought ,,,,
and politically he was a fre.eater. Yet /, who
kneW him well through many years. knew
hat he haa q true and tender heart deepee,
meath the proud and formidable exterior ne
chose to nut forward In the eyes of the world.
She who has since become Madame R.
found out the same, and managed to be-
come the object OF as deep a passion as
man ever felt for woman. Despite the
severe exclusion of the italian Court,
ali the more because Of II. the lntri-
eante resolved that to that ball she would go,
and SHE invoked the aid OF her lover. the
American charge, to tale her there. lake
her he did. He asked al Invitation for her;
f. was refused. Nevertheless, when the ball
was at Its height, in walked the American
with the ostracised beauty leaning on his. arm.
ana uresseul 10 @ way tnaG might lIHve excluded
her even had her character been less the sub.
iect Of gossip. In the great day When inc sea
gives UP LIS dead the correspondence Wnicn
Ithis event occasloned bntween the Virtuous
:Jobn B. Floyd and the charge at Turin, and
between the Turlnese ard Washington Gov
ernments, may see the light. Inc row was
t%remepdous, though It YVES carried on IN dip
iomatIc circles, and the public heard only a
lille of It. A gentleman who saw the lady
now Madam Ron that occasion declared 10
me that she was the most beautiful beng ne
ever beheld, and filed his iaea OF 8 Roman
goddess. remembered the remark when l
saw her at tho last carnal In Rome, dashlng
along the Corso in q fine equipage, gaily
dressed, and throwing bonbons and flowers 10
the crowd. The masses did homage to her
beauty. Her husband, one OF the most emf
nent italian statesmen, stood, l remember,
with us In the crowd, and as he smoked his
cigar looked with O half comical, half cynical
expression upon the sensation bis brilliant
vile was causing.
Bnt when / met her the other evening, In q
room for the first time, I wondered where the
beauty had fled. l saw O woman, not, H.
deed. without some attractions, but with Q
great deal of holiness and q strong inclina-
lion to be fat. Her complexion was artistic,
and she had that most painful expression OF O
woman clutching at her vanished youth. May
r. not he hat the anclcnts. In what They mar
rate of faithless, unchaste veslals buried alive,
cunninely slgnIied the tendency of luxurious
ladies' to become entombed In heavy masses
of flesh {? At any rate, Madame R. seems 10
he here at TrouVille q person whom l am glad
INV moor dead Southern friend cannot look
nnon. He took her to the great ball. he offen-
dsd the court and offended his own govern.
ment by It; he escaped o recall by the SKID OF
his teeth; all for her-and she
Fitted AWAY FROM HIM LIKE A BUTTERFLY
at the first call Of some martinez IN scarlet md
gold. HIther, thither, from flower to flower,
tn1u,InD nav nal fhQf in tho