The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-26

SO accessible In ss2srax4es that bis srs-
,yrrgsszs over his ewr future In oar past
ned no recital Essentially French, he
dealt largely with the fate Of his own
country TWO hundred years before the
French Revolution ne told that great nfa-
haavas TO the very date For iis2 he
wrote.
..par{nrlrr this year there will b the
greatest persecution Of the Christian
church Nonses ard bishops shall be de-
strorea The fair land % France shall
be s3eSoiated BY fire and sword These
szrasa pgdnesses VIII cause q renewal az the
world which Is 90 last "A hundred years.
Al the expiration Ncf this hundred years
the troubles are tn Teconrnence. The
land VIII! be tern apart. Brother shall
ssrive against brother. A great and evil
genius rises. who shall contend WITH tue
stars Themselves
Mile. Cauedon's Predictions.
CHE occultists 81 Paris have what they
consider a perfect answer to the objection
Of ystgueaess in the ancient prophets and
astroIogists. They say. first. that the
predictions are not vague. because the
dates are given. The OLD seers beheld the
future III bread lines. II yon want proph-
ecies with clearer details. dealing more
niinuseIy with the present times. you have
bat 30 consult the utterances OF Mile.
Goneaon.
Everyone VIII remember the first ex.
citefnent over the yoyants cf the Rue
Tsaradis in 1885, when she was consulted
BY pefsonages as diverse as ChaFcot Zola.
Felix FauFe and the archbishop Of Paris
Being chosen. according 10 her firm con-
vietior. 10 warn her contemporaries OF
great events prepared for the near future,
she has never ceased 10 prophesy. Her
foretei.iag OF the fire Of the Charity Bazaar
grounds. while her prediction OF the death
OF Felix Faure and the voting OF the re-
sroaciive law which is to remove the
Dreyfus case from the jurisdiction OF the
criminal chamber circumssantiaI
enough to satisfy the most exacting
II was In May, lsss' during Visit of the
contesse de Mai.le and several other
fashionable ladies. that Mile. Couedon fell
Into trance and repeated the following
verses:
Pres des Champs Eiysees.
Pc vols un endroit pas eieve.
Qiif nest pas pour In piete.
MaEs qui en- est apprnche
Dams Tin but de charlie.
Qui nest pas la verite-
Je vols ie feu s'eleyer
III les gent hurler-
Dies chairs griilees.
Dies corps caicineS,
J'en vols CONNIE par pelletees.
Translation:
Near TO the Champs Elysees
see q place that is not high.
That IS not for piety.
But approached for charity
Which is not the verify
l see the fire lift itself, r
hear people screaming
see flesh grilled
And bodies eaicned.
/ see them by shoyelsuls.
Interrogated by the ladies. she declared
that none of them should perish in the
fire. This turned out as true as the SIMS
ter prediction itself. for in May, 1897. a
year later. on the date OF the catastrophe.
two Of these ladies were travelling while
the Comtesse de Maille made "A miraculous
escape from the burning shed itself
The prophecies OF Mile. Couedon are
given 10 the world In doggerel verse OF
such monotonous character that no yio-
lence Is done TO it in q simple prose
translation. Her rhymes almost invar-
iably end in ''e" or Ger the commonest
French termination. which may be COM
pared to ing in English. 1t Is as II a
poet should write. las / was walking
I heard some one talking" Her first in
timation OF the taking of Of Felix Faure
and the terrible tragedies that are TO
follow was published in May. 1875, when
she said:
Ia France sera chatlee, Paris sera la