Arizona republican., 1902-05-04
BY MRS. ANDREW DOWNING. (Continued from last Sunday)
MADAM DE STAEL.

l were turned | El1nC2-W2rd. q pfiiEE and brilliant woman. the Baroness da Stael. moved in political circles. and | stamped her name irdelibly upon the | literature Of the day
 Anne Louise Necker was the dauGh- 1 ter Of Eecker. the celebrated finance minister Of Louis XVI. in the period immediately preceding the revolution. In her earlier years sine was subjected 1 to rigorous discipline by her mother. 8 severe character. As . consequence. 1 the daughter was not warmly attached i to her mother. while she passionately- l admired and loved her father who was ever indClgent.
 She was precocious child. and would listen eagerly and lntelligently to t.c conversation of the Parisi':n savants who freQuented hes fathers house At the age of twenty she was married to an elderly gentleman. the l Baron de Stael-Holstein. Swedish min ister at Paris Three children were | born to theIi..
 The marriage Goes not seem to have been q happy ore. for an amic&ble | separation took place.
 Madam de S'tael was enthusiastic in her sympathy for the revolution in it's earlier stages. but subsecuent atroci- | tltS ttE uS1t q i=Dlfltltu EtdtLlOU. iltl grief was extreme by reason of the failure cf the royal ramily to escape. and she herself fled with her father | fo Switzerland.
 The news ct the kings execution iI expressibly shocked her. and she sought to save the life Of the queen by publishing d vigorous defense, but it | was :oc late to he effective.
 In 1I05, order being restored under ! tha directory. she returned to Paris. From the first she distrusted Napoleon. and suspected him of selfish designs. and her salon became the headCu"rte1s of the anti BorapaTtist faction. In vain was she offered S4090CO. due lsr father from the national treasury since 17SS: sna declined the bribe. and neither fear no" favor could lead her to dis guise her hostility to Napoleon. He could defeat armies aid dethrore kings but he was powerless to arrest this wCina;l's pen. or to silence her t0nguo.
 Naughty children are sometimes sent from the room because they talk tGo much before company. Just ther. Ma poieon had royal company. so to speak. th-y had acute ears. and Madam de StaeI would say things he did not wish tEs!n to hear. He was wise enough to forbid her living in Paris. and suhsc- GucntIy eXiied her from France. Mean while she had greatly increaGed her reputation by the publication of Del phine." and ether works. Shn now traveled fer two years in Germany, making the acquaintance of Goethe. Schiller and other celebrities. Late she was permitted tn return t0 Paris. and there. ia 1897. she published her famous "Ioriane, or italy whose sUc- cess Was instant and immense.
 Fresh difficulties with Napoleon cc- cured and tho uurestr2ined spiteful- ness O na" antaSonism caused her to he banished crc'v to Switzerland. l Her son. Baron AuSustc then seven teen years cid. sought to intercede fo. his mother in q personal interview granted him by the enperor whose in cXorable deliverarcc on that occasion vas characteristic and amusing. He said: ''She has 9 little manner. ;t way . o1 tossing aershead that means uoth- ing. and yet wins proselytes. 1 nave seen 1t myself
 After this. Giscusted with life ia Switzerland in, exile rushed restlesslv ever Europe to Vienna. Moscow, St. Petersburg. thence to London. where in 1913 she published her great bCniI. "GarmGny." previously suppressed in Paris. Ii was the first decisive revela tiCn Cf the genius of Germany to the French people. ranking as the most inl- portant and influential of her works. 1. At the Restoration she returned to [ her beloved Paris. She was most gra- cious!y received by Louis XVIII. and restitution was granted her of the $4G0,oG0 cn her fathers account. She died in 1Sl1. By her will the fact was revealed that five years before hef death she had been privately married to AI. dc Bccca, 9 French officer ol !iussars.
 France burst into laughter because Of the large balance of years on tine WCmans side of the ledger SIC being forty-siX years of ago and he but twenty-five. The people called the marriage. on her part. "a frivolous , escapade." Remembering the seniority of her former husband. she had merel.- given practical endorsement to that venerable maxim. What is sauce for the goose" etc. But being unsup- ported lay the later examples Of George
 Eliot. and the Baroness Coutts she chose to veil her marriage in secrecy.
 She was Undisputably woman Of q | hlgh order Cf genus. and one who pos seSsed great intellectual force.
 THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE,
 Josephine de h Paserie was born in he island of Martinique. in 1763, where her father was captain of the port of
 St. Pierre She had a meaGer colonial education. but possessed qualities ot mind and heart which even more than
 her beauty. won universal regard. At the age of fifteen she Was taken
 to France. and a year later WAS mar
 ried to Viscount Beauharnois. rhey
 had two children, Eugene and Hor-
 tense.
 During the Reign of Terror her Eus-
 band was guiliutined and sine was left q young widow in such reduced cir
 culnstances that. at one time, it iS said she was deeply affected by the gift to
 her little girl of pair of shoes