Evening star., 1899-03-18

he told that great upheaval to the very
date. For 1872 he wrote:
beginning this year, there will be the
greatest persecution of the Christian
church. Mobiles and bishops shall be de-
stroyed. The fair land of France shall be
desolated by fire and sword. These unhap-
pinesses win cause renewal of the world,
which is to last hundred years"
AT the expiration of this hundred years
the troubles are to reeommence. The land
will be torn apart. Brother shall strive
against brother. A great and evil genius
rises. who shall contend with the stars
themselves"
Mile. C0uedOn's Predictions.
The eccultists of Paris have what they
consider perfect answer to the objection
of vagueness in the ancient prophets and
astrologists. They say, first. that the pre-
dfutions are not vague, because the dates
are given. The old seers beheld the future
in broad lines. If you want prophecies
with clearer details. dealing more minutely
with the present times, you have but to
consult the utterances of Mile. Couedon.
Every one will remember the first excite
meM over the voyante of the Rue Paradis
IN 1896. when she was consulted by person.
ages as diverse as Charcot, Zola, Felix
faure and the archbishop of Paris Being
chosen, according to her firm conviction, TO
warn her contemporaries of great events
prepared for the near future, she has never
ceased to prophesy. Her foretelling of the
hre of the Charity Bazaar is admittedly in
eXpltcable on rational grounds. while her
prediction of the death of Felix Faure and
the voting of the retroactive law which is
TO remove the Dreyfus case from the iuris
dlcton OF the criminal chamber are circum-
stantlal enough to satisfy the most exact
ing.
Ii was in May, 1896, during a visit of the
Comtesse de Maille and several other fash
ioDable ladies, that Mile. Couedon fell into
trance and repeated the following verses;
Pres des Champs Ely Near to the Champs Ely
sees. sees
Je ,S vols un endroit pas see place that is not
oui nest pas pcur la That Is not for piety.
piete, But approached for char
Mais qui en- est approche ify" -'' e""'-
Dams un but de charlie, Which is not the verify
Je vols lie fen s'eleyer / hear people srreamin;
1t les gems hurler. 800. l see flesh crilied
Des chairs grflles, And bodies calcined
Les corps caicines, | see them by shoyelfuls
j en- vols CONNIE par pei
letees.
lnterroSated by the ladies. she declared
that none of them should perish in the fire
ThiS turned out as true as the sinister pre-
diction itself, for in May, 1897 a year later
on the date of the catastrophe two of these
laoiss were travelling, while the Comtesse
de Maiile made miraculous escape from
the burning shed itself
Ine prophecies of Mile. Couedon are given
to the world in doggerel verse of such mo-
hotonous character that no violence is done
10 IL IN a simple prose translation. Her
rhymes almost invariably end in ''e' or
er, the commonest French termination
which may be compared to ing in En-
sish. 1t is as if poet should write: "As 1
was walking, L heard some one talking"
her hrst fntimation of the taking off of
fellx taure and the terrible tragedies that
are to follow was published in Nav 1SoS
when she said:
La France sera ehatieer France will be cbas
farls sera la Vile la tised- Paris will be the
Pi'is eprouvee Cne cpl city the most tried. Epi-
uemie a Ia hn de Tan denies and catastropfes
nee, des catastrophes de of ali sorts wifi des5late
toutes sortes desoleront the country AT tha and
la France. La guerre &C. of the wear The war
Litefa will break out | sec
DE vols des gems massa-' people massacred and the
cres Seine red with blood. At
III la seine .le sang tein- this moment Felix Faure
zee will have demiSsioned.
&C moment Felix Fau- Nations will be dismem-
re demssionne. bered