The sun., 1902-03-09
FRENCH WOMEN MAKE A STIR,
xoRLELADIEs WHO WOCLDOVER-
THROW THE REPUBLIC.
70 Do II they Propose to Cut OnAll Their
supernuous Expenscs-Two Famous
women Dead Bernh~dts Seweled
sceptre and s,bii sandsrson's Laces,

won,eo Dead BcrnhWdts .beweiiec
a..,tre and s,biI sanderson's Laces,
In one way or another women have ooou-
nied the foreground Of public interest In
Paris during the last few weeks FOR one
thing, there Is the League.
The women OF the Royalist party in.France
have always been Plus roydhste que Ie
Roi- Now, once more they are demon
strsting their hatred Of the present Gov
srnment and Of all things republican.
There is nothing new in the situation.
The famous Duchess d Uzes did her best
In the Boulanger affair and other noble
ladies have poured money and sympathy
into the cause OF the Due a Orleans.
The one interesting feature OF the new
League about which all Paris Is gossiping
"A set forth in the circulars issued as an
explanation of the Leagues aims and as
an appeal for more recruits among society
folk This circular SAYS:
"Inthe presence Of the crisis throuRhwhich
France il now passing, with her material
and moral interests mcnaced, her liberty
violated, ard with the terrible spectre OF
socialism before her. we wish TO point
out TO all friends who understand the grave
condition of affairs the line or conduct We
have adopted:
-First--To givo up according to our
respective positions in life and with due
respect to the 6tuess of things, all super
fuous expenses such az parties, receptions,
toilettes. &c
Second To give our ua6esppple to
understand the motive which causSs us TO
act momentarily in this manner. no that
by their votes they will cooperate In the
common work Of saving France"
The League wants TO change existing
conditions in France and plans TO 10 1t by
obtaining the success Of the anti-republcan
candidates at the Nav elections. but there
seems little cause for republican candidates
TO tremble.
Only the tradespeople whose coopera-
ton is urgently requested seem likely TO
suffer from the movement. and unless
Partisan tradespeople arc altrliistic 20
marked degree their enthusiasm over the
League will not he pronounced, oven though
assurance is given that the movement il
but momentar v.
At the head of the League isthe popular
and socially powerful Countesse Aimee de
la Roohcfoucauld. and with her are
the vicomtesse d'Auglemont. Comtessc
Castellane, Comtesse Dude Rohunchabot
and other women OF the most exclusive
ST. GerInain set.
II will be interesting TO see how the noble
ladies interpret their respective positions
IN Hfe," and "the fitness Of things" and
what their individual ideas OF "superfiuous
expenses" may be: but il saems safe To wager
that few of them will sacrifice a new spring
hat OF frock To the Nav elections. and that
the amount OF pin money saved on enter-
tanning and toilette. before May, will not
materially change the existing social con-
dtions of France, or topple the republic
to its fall
While fair modern politicians have been
planning campaigns, the onlookers have
turned aside for time 20 talk Of q French
woman who was famous in an earlier day
for her wit. her beauty aud her political
intrigues and who has Just died. II was
Alphonse Karr who gave her the name OF
Princesse Brouhaha. and Princesse Brou-
haha she was to the public. though she began
life as Marie Bonaparte Wyse. grand
daughter Of Lucien Bonaparte, and by
three successive marriages gained title
TO three separate names.
Her first husband the Comta de Salms.
hoped, through his wifo, TO obtain footing
at the Tuileries; hut Napoleon III. would
have nothing to do with his cousin and
her husband, barred them from court and
forbade their using tho name Of Bonaparte.
Then the Com'esse made her first bid for
the notoriety she loved by going TO law
and beginning IN" most sensational suit
of the day
As result she and the Comte were eNiled
from Paris and T1unl n home At Nx-icS-
Bains, where prn 'esse BrouhGha's salon
was a rendezvous for politicians and literary
men, and acquired European fame, The
Comte died and his brilliant widow travel
led in Italy, creating "A stir wherever sho
went by her brains and beauty and
audacity.
In 1852 she returnedto France and opened
q salon whose keynote was cytravagant
rcpublicanism LA Princesse" boosted
herself a universal republican and gathered
about her cosmopolitan crowd of patriots,
Irish, Polish. Hungarian, Russian, Italian.
Literary mon too. frequcnted her salon.
Henri Rooherort, Sain, Beuve. Eugene Sue,
Kossuth were in her clique. She was the
friend Of Victor Hugo.
In her Aix-Ies-3ains days, when she held
her queer mixed Bohemian court in exile,
she founded a review. which she called
Mdttnees dA,r-ies- Bans Later, as she
changed husbands. marrying the famous
Italian politician, Signor Ratazzi and later
the wealthy Spanish Scflor de Butte, she
changed her review 20 Mdtn6es It0lionnes
and Motirfes Fspoo7oies. At last it settled
down TO la NoureHG Rerue Ndfion1le and
Nine. Butte edited IL successfully until heI
death.
Her beauty f11ed, but she never admitted
the fact. and 10 the last the little, withered
PAINTED, half-blini. half-deaf old LADY
chung pathetically TO the airs and tradi'
tons Of her earlier beauty and power.
Notoriety was the breath Of her life. and
notoriety she would have. She believed
she was a socinl power. She beloved sht
was still beautiful, still fascinating and il
her apartment on the Boulevard Poissonier,
she kept cup wan travesty OF n salon.
Artists and literary folk we're still he
guests, but they were not as in the ole
time, OF the first rank. Occasionally, from
curiosity. important guests would stra,
into the circle but the habitues were
heterogeneous'lot Of minor poets, artists
writer's.
Nine. de Butte determined 70 have society
took what she could get. She kept ope
house. Her invited guests brought thei
uninvited friends II they cared to do il