The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-30
ALove FrAIps OF MEN OF RHNowN.


Talleyrand never was in love but
once. and that was when he was about
16 years old. When Napoleon ordered
him to marry and picked out wife fer
him. he pleaded this youthful attach
ment. which. was Immediately scoifed
at by the great matchmaker as
piece of nonsense.
Hazlitt fell in love with the daughter
of his landlady, a young woman who
helped the servants In the work of the
boarding house. and seems to have
been a little too familiar with the
boarders. The letters of the charming
essayist to this young person verge on
the borderland of idiocy.
Mozart fell in love with Constance
Weber, a young lady whose chief char
acteristic seems to have been her indis-
cretion. In one of his letters to her he
of her acquaintance to pull off her shoe.
He solemnly remarks: mo young
lady of proper sensibilities would bave
permitted such thing"
Israel Putnam. the sturdy American
hero. fell in love with a young girl at
u festival in which the pairing of apples
for drying was the leading employ
ment. He tossed one long peeling over
his shoulder. after the manner of the
fortune-telling then common. and 1t
fell in the shape of the initial of her
name.
Herod the Great loved Marianne. his
wife, so devotedly that when he was
summoned to Rome by Augustus IL an
Swer certain charges made against him
and was afraid he might never return,
he left her in care OF three trusted SER
wants. with orders that If he himself
To hx, Sh G,
to be Immediately killed.
Dante's "Divina Commedia" was a
monument to Beatrice. He fell in love
With her when she was and he was ,
yeais old. She aftet wards mar Iried an
othe man, and he another woman, but
thes little incidents do not seem =
nave cut any figure, though the course
of true love, In his case. ran no more
smoothly than it is said to do in most
others.
Gibbon fell in love with Mile Church
ard; his father told him to forget her.
hich he promptly did. When he grew
old, he became enamored OF Lady Eliz-
abeth Foster. and falling, on his knees
before her i'm her garden. declared his
passion. Unfortunately. the poor his
torian was so fat. he could not rise,
even with the lady's kindly assistanc.,
ana Sne was IOTceu u cdii d iuoluiah "
help him to his feet.
william the Conqusror fell in love
with Matilda, the daughter of French
nobleman. She refused him, where
upon he lay in wait. and one day when
she was riding, pulled her off her horse
and beat her with a stick. The act
won her admiration, she Immediately
concluded that he must be a very brave
knight to give her a thrashing In sight
of her fathers castle, and Few
months later married him.
When Marshal Bel thier was in Egypt
with Napoleon he was insanely in love
with Nine. Viconti. and committed 80
many absurdities that among his inti-
mates he was known as Chef de la
Faction des AmOureauX.> Among his
other fOllies was the erection Of tent,
next to his own. he converted it into a
temple to the Madam, erected an altar
| to her picture, before which he burned
incense every morning.
When Prince Augustus Frederick Of
England was idiotically in love with
Miss Gum. he wrote to her, IF you do
not marry me at once | shall die. "
Probably to prevnt his dying before his
time she permitted the ceremony to be
performed and they were married by
an IsHSliSA Cici Sy SoJcuiHlHS III
Italy. Not long after the marriage
was annulled by act of parliament with
the full consent of Prince Augustus
Frederick, who survived for cons!d
cradle time.
When Leigh Hunt was in love, he
says himself that he got up at o'clock
in the morning. went about sullen and
morose. until II o'clock at night, when
he cursed his stars and went to bed, all
because OF a little girl whom nobody
knew and who was not particularly
bright OF even intelligent. He wrote to
his sweetheart little, pedantic letters,
in which he called attention to her
spelling, and desired that she should be
careful in the use of capital letters and
| marks of punctua ton.
Crunden. who prepared the Bible
Concordance, fell in love with a young
woman named Elizabeth Abney, who
did not reciprocate, although he wrote
her every day a long letter setting forth
the state of his heart. She left Lon