The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-16
A DAY WITH
MADAME LOUBEl
The Wife of the President Keeps on
Her Even Way While France IS
Upheaving Around Her.

tn snend n day with Madame LouDe1
g. ,.,,ft. alfareut from visiting Madame
FaiIre who is an aristocret' ana VIZ
tbouob she is no longer In the t.lysgo
paIaca maintains more state III i@' - -
d,,, unon the income left her boy the la'e
president Faure than Madame i'0U00
maintains upon the enormous salary u"
the President OF France. Ihey say ''i'e
Madame Faure. TO live IN such slyIe 10
She nov keeps up. even though j" ii'"''
i,, needs must be benehung by ths
IDEALS" which are laid az the door or INV
late president But that Is nellher mere
nor there This has TO do with the W.Ie
NJ the President of the French h'ploHc'
tho woman who to-day stands De'"eeA
tho BourbOns the Bonapartes anu Ill'
throne. the woman who viii nold 'he ~
niiblic together 81 ever woman hau IL
In her power 10 DO so.
Madame Loubet was BORN II not poor'
an least of humble parentage. LIE Lou
bet she came OF the people, those Whom
the French call bourgeoise. Her iather
MAS from Picardy; very malicious aris'o-
crafts saw that he was once "A tramp put
that Is not proven
Ills name was Denis and he worked as
AN ironmonger until he had saved enough
money to start a store FOR himself. Iraue
I'M France as i'm America is the beginning
al money and soon he had nice little
sum saved up. so that when his daughter
Marie fell in love with the young lawyer
roi.bet there was no objection 10 the
marriage. ..,.., ,so.
The French think more Of a dot than
they think Of love. Love without oot
4, inaccessible. The .pOOr girl who fans
An love goes to Paris and works out un'ii
sha earns "A small dover. II is not an
independent fortune by any means Dut Il
h. sufficient. when invested. 20 clothe neF
fo. the rest OF her life. That IS the poor
French girls idea of a dot-enoush 70
dress her well without asking the re"
francs month that are necessary
Rut Marie Denis had the dot without
working for IL. and young Loubet saw
that he was doing we'll An honorable
Young lawyer with a wife with some
money has a fine chance in any country
and so Inubet got his start.
LEFT HER A FORTUNE.
Years afterwards Denis died and LETT
fortune Of 10000 francs to Marie. Mean
while he had been sending money periodl-
callv IN his daughter: and 50 the bouoets
always had a lift over the hard places
After Loubet went to Paris taxing MS
Young wife with him, he began TO meddie
in politics and soon he became a senator.
Then he was elected president or the SEN
ate: and Marie and her husband went 10
live in the palace OF the Luxembourg. 10
show that NJ Loubet had money during
This time one need only recall his connec-
ton with the Panama matter, when ere
ated such a scandal twenty years ago lie
was said with the others. 10 nave put
money in the concern. and TO have drawn
out a great deal more than he was entl-
tied TO. The poor mans francs were said
10 have found their way into the Panama
business through the hands or many
statesmen OF France. Loubet among the
rest But that Is another bit OF gossip,
and in recalling these things one must al
ways remember that gossip inseparably