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and unbalanced character"

leans posed the duchies OF Orleans, OF
Charities. the county Of RlOis, and
revenue Of a million Of Iivres. His wife
was the richest aheiress in the kingdom
She brought il dover the sovereignty
Of Dombes; the principality Of La Roche
sIlr-Yon; the Duchess of 8Iontpens.er.
ChateIlerault, and St. Farggau; a number
OF estates. MademoiseIIe was born at
the Louvre on the 18th of Marcm. 1877;
her mother died on the seventh day after
her birth. The child was educated at
the Tuileries, which had not yet the di-
mansions they afterward acquired, and
were then. 50 10 speak, IN the country
She had a royal establishment IN army
Of servants and attendants. Her govern
ess was Madame de Saint-Georges. who
knew the court well. She confessed after
wards that she was very badly educated;
people spoke to her only Of her high
rank and of her great wealth. Madame
de Safnt-Georges was old-fashioned. and
not one of those whom Moliere afterwards
described in the '.Femmes Savantes''
She believed that the greatest Princess
in France knew enough If she knew how
10 read and write. The memoirs Of Mad
emoiseile show US the court OF Louis
XII, and the great event Of her time
as they might be viewed by the most
ignorant child. Cardinal Richelieu ap-
peared 70 her as a sort Of monster. al
ways ready TO interfere with the amuse-
ments Of the court Speaking Of her
OF the tine when her father had left
France. and had become a rebel, and had
remarked secretly with q sister Of the
Duke of Lorraine. she SAYS:
= great many things happened at that
time. I was a child. / took part in
nothing and could remark nothing. All
remember is q ceremony in which the
Duke 'Elbeuf and the Marquis de Ia Vieu-
vile were degraded from their orders.
1 saw their arms taken from the ranks
OF the others; asked the reason. was
told that this injury was doze TO them
because they had followed Monsieur.
L Immediately began to weep.
When Mademoiselle came OF age. the
choice Of a husband became the great
pre-occupation Of her life. Would her
husband be a King. or merely a royal
highness2 The first candidate, who
amused her for only a moment, was the
Count de scissors, who was commonly
called Monsieur Ie Comte, a cousin OF
hers, q brilliant soldier. but very or
binary man, who had followed the cause
OF Monsieur IN his second rebellion. NJ
lie Comte was killed at the battle Of la
Marfce and AIademoiseIle understood. so
she says simply, that they were not
made for each other" MademoiseIle
cast eyes on the Cardinal-Infanta, Fer
dinand, the third son Of Phillip, III. who
commanded in FLANDERS the army of the
King Of Spain. He was archbishop Of
Toledo, but he had not been ordained
as q priest. and he might take wife.
The Cardinal-Infanta died on the 9Th Of
November, 1641, after a very short III
ness. We read in the memoirs that the
Spaniards were accosted Of having pois-
oned him. for fear lest ne should make
himself master OF Flanders by an al
lance with France"
Soon afterwards the famous conspiracy
OF Saint-Mars opened the eyes of Ma
GemoiseIle to her own fathers character.
Monsieur" says Arvede Barine, sur
passes himself in this crisis. He trem-
bied an dhe cried, he lied and denounced,
with 50 much abjectness that the noise
of his shame filed France and pene-
trated the Tutileries, where it threw Ma
de1aolselle in despair Her father de-
ranged her theological IDEAS regarding
Princes of the blood. How could a being
who partook OF divinity be so utterly con-
temptible.
When the Queen Henrietta of England,
daughter of Henry ", and wife OF
Charles / took refuge in France, she
thought Of marrying her son 10 Ma
demoiseile. but the Prince of Wales was
then very tirnid. He was younger by
three wears than the MademoiseHe, and
made a very unpleasant impression on her
by his awkwardness. She tells US that
at representation OF "Orphee" at the
Palais-Royai where she sat on throne
significantly dressed. with the Prince Of
Wales at her feet, she took pity on
him: Ihad it in my mind TO marry the
Emperor.
She was for q time possessed with the
idea Of becoming Empress; so much 50
that when Ferdinand III took his wife.
she said: The empress is enceinte and
WIFI die in her confinement" Curiously
enough. she did die. and Mademoiseile's
hopes We're revived.
The desire to be Empress she says.
which followed me everywhere. and
which always seemed to me 10 be near
fruition. made me thinkit would be well
10 cultivate beforehand habits which
might be in conformity with the Emper-
or's humor. I had heard that he was
devout. and. following his example. I
became so devout myself. thar, after hav-
ing feigned some time to co so. I eX-
perienced for a week the desire TO make
myself a nun at the Carmelites, but
couaded this to nobody. I was so oc-
cupied with it that I could neither eat
nor sleep. I can say that during
that week the Empire was nothing 70 me.
[ was not without some vanity in the idea
OF leaving the world at such a ooniee-
ture
This is certainly a most extraordinary
cese when Arvede Barine says. Having
begun for political reasons TO make the
gestures and take the attitude Of devotion
she fell into her own trap and deceived
herself 10 the point Of wrathing u enter
q convent. There is no more curious ex-
ample of the power OF auto-suggestion.'
After short tire. NademoiseIles re-
lsslous crisis was over and she threw
herself into politics. Ike 50 many great
ladies Of her time. we have three Eroat
Izdies7 wrote AIarzarin 70 Don Louis
dc Haro. who would he capable Of gov
erning three great kingdoms or of turning
them topsy-turvev. the Duchess Of Lon
gueviile. the Princess Palaune, the Duch-
ess Of Cheveuse" Her adventures are
Part Of the history OF France \ Ths
daughter OF CASTOR d'Orleans ha5 grown