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Nine. RatazzI.


A writer in Lippincotts Magazine
tells the truth about Nine. Ratazzi' as
follows Whether as the Princess de
Solms, or as the wife, and now widow, OF
ltaly's eminent statesman, on whom fell
the mantle of the great CaYour, Nine.
Ratazzl must take her place as historic
parsonage, No chronicle Of the Second
Empire will be complete il it omits the
name and career of this member OF the
Bouaparte family, whose ecceutrivities,
imprudence and poisoned shafts aimed
at the Empress Eugenie rendered i'm
perative her banishment from her impe-
rial cousins court. la Florence, as in
Paris, she has heen social power, it not
OeiDg denied that the marked sympa.
thy with French policy that has of late
years swayed the Italian government is
manly due TO this feminine potentate
behind the throne. Nine. Ratazzi's eu-
emies haSing painted her portrait in the
darkest colors, and sent it broadcast
through the world, il is due to the equi.
pose of history that her friends should
now hold the brush, their enthusiasm
presenting US with rare combination oil
the muse, the grace and the angel. The
fall of the Empire and the death OF hel
illustrious husband have restored Nine
Ratazzi permanently TO Paris. Emerg
ing from the secluslOn OF her widowhood
she has reassumed her leadership in
the capital OF the world Giving last
touch 10 some musical inspiration, di
recthhg under pseudonymn hebdom
sdal review, perchanee writing new
book, she yet linds leisure to receive the
notahilities, native OF foreign, who
throng her salon in the Aquila palace
Legitimists, Orleanists, members o
all parties, diplomatisls, artists. the
ly-Aedged poet and the suave
laureate, ieuilletOnists and great jour,
nalists, all are thPrE Nine. AleXandrt
preludes, like St. Celia on the organ; al
hour later Therese is raptdrously ap
plauded, eclipsed ia turn ny the diva
from the ltaliens OF Rachel . successor
at ths FrRncase, these divers social ele
ments being fused into harm sny by the
hostess, who in tact, quick perception
and grace of conversation is . high-bred
Parisian, seductive in the kindness, sym
pathy, aud ready memory which place
her guests 1T eRse and display their indi
vidual gifts to advantage II her novel
l.onis de- Kellneg,' Nine Raiazzi
-hile tracing with u mastery hand the
por,r6it Of her heroine, nuGonsciously
sat for her 6vp; II ia said to be her living
pborogrsph: Tall, slender, her figure
is exq1isilely shaped, Sts'b softly rounded
shoulders and broad chest; her arms art
modelled after the Anuques; her hand'
worthy OF queen or fairy; the mouth I
perfect in contour, the seductive smile
revealing the pearly teeth beneath the
coral arch; the straight nose, with Its
transparent nOstrils is spiritual, even Sc
we're, while her Jet black hair frames a
noble forehead and brilliant complex
ION" If Nine. Raiazzi's beauty is ltal
ian in sculpiured. outline. her soft
dreamy blue eyes IL that OF anapghter
OF the far North, Il Volkyui from Odin'i
Paradise; in repOse she is q goddess es
capped from Olympus; when she speaks
she is woman whose Irresistible mag
netIsm is not surpassed among women.
70 quote one OF the most noted writers
OF France, "wh0ever has merely seer
Nine. Ratazzi cannot forget her. while
one privileged to he near her cannot es
cape the intoxicating charm of her pre-
sencc.