The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05

the deepest poverty, while your wife
gives dinners and balls. If you continue
to see her, could you not compel this
woman to grant her husband an allow
ance of one or two thousand francs a
month";" He would have her Judged
as man, and pertinently asks what the
world would have thought had the po-
sitions been reversed, and the husband
had left the wife 10 starve. But as yet
there is no talk of exile though by 1905
she Is banished from the capital as an
element of disc0rd. ''She pretends," he
tells Fouche, that 1 have allowed her
to come to Paris, and she wants to stay
There. Let her be off to Coppet; you
Know that l am not imbecile enough to
wish her within twenty leagues of
Paris"
A year later he is convinced that this
"coquine" is not far off, and again he
orders her lot to approach hts capital.
But her persi silence is almost as great as
his own. and in a few months another
order is necessary to remove the mis-
ohievous intriguer forty leagues from
Paris. In 1907 another furious letter is
necessary. Among the thousand and
one things which ifall into my hands
from Mime. de Stael'' (Fouche is again
the reeips enO this letter will show you
what good French woman we have
in her. If it were Prince Louis, our
frantic enemy, who comprised the loss
of his monarchy, she would have done
her best ITO see him. My intertion Is
that she shall never leave Geneva. Let
her CO. If she likes, with the friends of
Prince Louis. Today she toadies the
great tomorrow she is q patriot and
democrat; and in truth you can not
curb your indignation when you see all
the forms assumed by this -" even
the French editor suppresses the word;
and presently the emperor consigns her
forever to her Coppet to her Genevese,
H. AF.,t-
leave her in peace even In that distant
seclusion. He Keeps a record of her
visitors and is ready to treat the slight
est friendship with her as a crime. He
falls in an access of rage upon Prince
Augustus. of Prussia. whose ill-conduct
at Berlin is reported to him. II am
not surprised he admits to Marshal
Victor, for he has no sense. He has
passed his tzae in paying court to Nine
de Stael ait Coppet where he c5uld not
pick up any but bad principles. .
Tell him that at the very first word you
will have him arrested and shut up in
a castle, and that You will send Nine.
de Stael to console him. II NY rlen de
plat CONNIE tous ces Princess de Pru s a!''
One would think that the limit of detes-
tation and contempt was reached, but
presently Napoleon devises a more strin-
gent method of suppression At last
he finds her in correspondence with one
Cent?, who belongs to a gang of. shuttle 8
In London. Henceforth Punishment is
insufficient for her crime. 'T desire
that she should be watched at Coppet,"
says he to Fouche, land you will give
the necessary orders to the project of
Geneva. A Jason with this individual
can only be for the detrment of France.
You will inform her that hitherto she
has only been regarded as mad, but
that today she enters into plot against
the public tranquility. I have also or
dered my minister of foreign affairs to
instruct my agents in foreign courts, and
TO have her-watched wherever she goes.'
But he struck his heaviest blow when
she published her book ON Germany, the
fruit of long exile and deep research.
First he would know whether she had
a right to the dignity of baroness, which
was fiourished on the title page, and
then he would suppress so many pas
sages that the book did not appear in it's
proper shape for many years. Such is
his campaigR against this persistent blue
stocking, and whether or no she was
worth his ceaseless vigilance and his
fierce resentment, at least he succeeded
in the suppression of what he believed
a danger 10 the state.
His hatred of England is more easily
Ineligible and far worthier his i'm
perial majesty. For England was his
one serious Antagonist, and despite his