The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-07-23
The Beloved of Many Women.
The Career OF the Due De Richie.
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Tron TIA New York Times9
The opening scere Of one of Dumas his
sorical novels Introduces US 70 a dinner
party at Mnh. Du Barry's. Among the
very distinguished company is Cagl,ostro,
who reads the fate of these present in a
glass Of water. He announces that all the
company will die natural death save one,
the Duo De RicheIieu,-who, albeit the
oldest, was the livsliest of the party Per
ffaps 10 noting was the marvellous luck
which attended this extraordinary person
more conspicuous than in the fac. of his
dying 10 his bed the very year before the
awful outbreak Of 1889, for if in the king
dom there was one ar'stocTat more certain
OF co@'ng to the guillotine than another
had ne li~ed till then, it was the duke.
There are few families in whom SO much
interest centred as ir that of Richclieu.
The mare is almost uniquely conspicuous
in tbs annals Of the seventeenth and eigh.
teenth centuries ghe duke, so beloved of
women, was great nephew of the famous
cardinal. He was born in 1000, and lived
in the reigns Of three French and five Eng.
lish soyereigns. He WAS eighteen when
Queen Anne died, yet was the contempt
rary of George w.
The announcement is NOW made Tint a
snr;, ~ collection OF .he letters Of this king
of hxap killers will shortly be published, and
those wb, love the chronicles OF St. Simon
are no doab anticipating dainty feast
In. bis da, n. en- began life early. MARI
bornush. Lisesn, eu'porary, was gallant
of Chsr,es r.. oou It early in his teens,
and N, lie bye De Fr. on vac the title Richie
lieu bore in his fasser's lifetime, was PRE-
scented al she court 81 Fl lncs at an age
when beys of his rank IOWA lays are scarce
~ catering college. Mime. D. NJ Nntenon
has recorded in one Of her letter the ''ordi-
Il reception Of this fourteenryear Old o'r-
tier by the Or and Hoaarqns: Il am charm
ed she writes, "to tell. you ha~ com, 0lese
ly your son has succeeded at Marty Ne yer
did q young man make t better debut Ia
the greas world. He delights both king
and court. AR he does, he does we'll. lie
dances well, and sits his horse to. perfee
ton; is neither forward nor sh-, but be- |
cemingly deferen,is,. lie amuses, and rs
very yreeable 10 conversation; in a word,
there is nothing lacking in him, and have
not had tha slightest fault to find With him.
Then she adds: tThe duchess of Burgun- |
dy-a princess of the blaod-takes crest
nstice of him These last words reveal |
condition Of things which presently render
ed active steps necessary in the eyes of the
higher powers to nip in the boi attentions
threatening danger. Accordingly, in Feb
ruary, I'LL the boy, then barely fifteen, |
was, in defiance of his wishes, married. |
Events soon showed the folly of this course.
Nine. De 'Aiaintenon's hero Of lilo had by
April, iii, developed every species Of
fashionable vice. He gambied and lost,
provoked his father, neglected his wife, and
fruit in the shape of the aforesaid princess,
and within SIX weeks Of his marriage. NJ.
le Due De Fronsac exchanged the pleas
ares Of Marty and Versailles for apartments
in the Bastile. 1t was salusary change.
The months passed there were usefully
employed. An able had been selected,
probably by the care. of Mime. De Mana
tenon,-who had an extraordinary liking
for the boy,--to accompany him, and his
neglected education was improved
The death of louis XIV, in SEPTEMBER
IT'S materially altered Richelieu's position,
and six yeara afterward he took his seat as
peer OF parliament, in right of his duchy
Of Richelieur. In 1874, Louis XIV. being
thin upon the throne, he entered upon
rev phase Of life ms ambassador to Vienna.
From this time ambition seems to have
teen his dominating passion. His embassy
~as completely successful, and was reward,
Cd by the ribbon of Sc. Louis in january,
112s, when he was thirty-two. In 1874
he married, secondly, the second daughter
of the Prince De Guise, who was absolute
" devoted to her Lothario lord. and brought
lin fortune which r.raired the breaches
made in bis purse By the unprecedented
splendor with which he represented france
n Vienna He presently devoted himself
70 the task Of ingraiiating himself with
Louis wv, BY the vile pandering by which
alone it was possible to eoncilis,e the favor
Of that most despicable Of despicabIe mon.
archs, aud, a. usual, be succeeded.
With the death of Louis XIV, in TIA,
The dukes public career came TO an end,
but six years later this man, who, albeit
born prema.ursiy by TWO months, snd ad,
dieted from the age Of fourteen to every
eassibe abuse Of his constitution, lived to
ninesy-sxo, married again, and but for an
accident weald have been q father BY bis
third wife. Eight years later he passed
gently away, Without struggle or pain, men
tai or physical, from life to death.
Although his career is not ediiying, il i,
one 10 be remembered BY the student Of
history. in AZ much a hs vas typical G. th.
period IN y hich he hyed, presenang slsr
sssoas con binsIion Of sbilliy, COURAGE sres
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