The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-15
NINE. CLEMENCEAU.
She Seeks a Divorce From Her
Famous Husband.
How he Won Her When School Girl-Their
Happy iite-His Copjugal Infidelity-
She Returns to America.

Especial to The HERALD-EXaminer Dispatch
New YORK, March IA cablegram
from Paris announced on Saturday that M.
Georges Clemenceau, the French deputy,
leader of the extreme Left Cthe radical
party in the French chamber), and the
most prominent man in France to-day, had
been divorced by his American wife. The
same cablegram said that Nine. Clenen-
ceau han left for America on Friday. This
part of the dispatch was untrue, for Nine.
Clemenceau has been in America for
two weeks past. She is stopping with her
old teacher, Miss Aiken, in Stamford, Conn.
She was accompanied only by her maid,
and did not make herself known to any
body aboard the steamer. Many people
recollect when M. Clemenceau arrived in
New York in 1865, an exile. Failing to es
tablish a practice in medicine, he obtained
a situation as French instructor in Miss
Alken's school in Stamford. Among his
pupils was Miss Mary E. Plummer, who
subsequently became his wife. They were
married in New York in June, 1869. Three
days after the marriage M. Clemenceau
started with his young bride to Paris. He
has never returned to this country. Nine.
Clemenceau returned once before this
present trip. That was sixteen years ago,
ceau was called the loveliest woman, and
the charm was as much in her manner as
in her face and perfect form. 1t was said
that no woman in the capital was as grace
full as she. 1t was not long before abe had
French gallants at her feet They paid
her the prettiest compliments, and
were amazed to find they made no
impression. The purity of her nature
was her shield. One woman said of her
once that she never knew when man was
making love to her. There Is no doubt but
| that great many men tried to make love
to her and that they were absolutely non
plussed. She wouldn't do them the honor
of getting offended; she didn't seem to
think that it meant anything. And yet she
was not prude. They had had experience
with that kind of people. She was simply
pure and innocent, true to the ideals of her
girlhood, which she brought with her to
France. Of Nine. Clemenceau it may be
said that not breath of scandal has ever
been breathed against her, and her husband
was proud of her, of the admiration she ex.
cited and the dignity with which she car
| ried herself.
An intensely Jealous man, he never fol
one moment doubted his wife nor did he
ever doubt her devotion to him. Three
children had come to them. The eldest
Madeline, is already married. Therese, the
second daughter, is seventeen. The young
est child, Michele, a youth of fifteen
Whed Michele was five years old a change
came over M. Clemenceau. He no longer
found in his home all his pleasures There
was, for instance, the notorious affair with
Mile. Reichemburg, Of the Coincide Fran
caise. Boulanger finally supplanted Glenn
enceau in the fair actress affections
These reports came to Nine. Glenn
enceau's ears, but she paid no at.
tention to them. She believed in heI
husband. She only strove to max,
her lovely home more attractive. But a.
the years rolled on there could be N
doubt that M. Clemenceau had suffered
a change during the past few
years how great only two or thre
people beside herself know. At last tn
American woman could stand it no longer
She applied for a divorce. The application
was made secretly, that it might not iujur
her husband, and when every thing ha
been done that she could 90, Mime
| Clemenceau made up her mind to oul
Paris, and come back to her native lano
and SO she came back to her warmes
friend, her old school teacher, Miss Aiken
, in Stamford. Not more than a dozen pee
} pie outside of those in school know tina
she is in America Yesterday she wouldn'
talk about the divorce she had hoped tn
sad story would not become known. If
, divorce has been granted she has not bee
informed of it.