New-York tribune., 1903-01-03

a.
XIII. makes a figure the most picturesque. the
most amusing. and in some phases the most
piteous. She meant so well. she fumed with
such energy. she posed romantic amazon
with such hearty belief in her own goddess
dignity And all that she really accomplished
was to make herself aoored by the Parisians
and twice the life Of the Prince de
Conde as he fought under the ramparts of the
great city. Their is no more comical episode
of feminine sentirnentality than her military
occupation with her two field marshal ladies'
OF the city o. Orleans -.As Mademoiselle
pleases' meeky said the town authorities. and
lavished bonbons. cheers and courtesy upon her;
but all the same her army of the FTonde re-
mained outside the holted gates and the fair
haired commander in the gray habit laced with
gold threatened and ordered in vain that the
bolts he drawn. This not a prodigious eX-
ploit; but il old nothing to cure the princess OF
her conviction that she had great military abll-
tiles One of her plans. the author reminds us.
was to raise TO equip and to maintain an army
at her OWE expense: The Army of Made
moiselle'': and dreams OF victories as absurd as
those of a fairy tale surged through the blond
head. But there was something true and daring
behind the romantic pose-witness the fashion
in which she stormed down the SNUG bourgeois
cowardce Of the authorities the Hotel de
Vile and forced them to open the gates to
troops. She was twenty-five years old. stately,
taIl-Ia Grande Mademciselle-and imperious.
The leading citizens in the council room,
frightened and obstinate; the staring Paris mob
outside waited TO what their beloved princess
could accomplish. She rushed into the council
room a third time. She pointed to the Greve
where the people stood with eyes fixed upon the
windows then stretching her arms high above
her head she cried violently: Sign that order!
will call
in my people and let them teach you what to
dor' They signed; and Anne Marie-Louise
Killed her skirts about her and herself to
open the city gates TO the bleeding men who
that day, at least, had acted the hero with
courage worthy OF a better cause
In her childhood La Grande Mademoiselle, the
greatest heiress in France, determined TO live
up TO her blue china eas very magnificent prin-
cess and heroine, destined to still higher fort
unes. She was born into time when faint
stirring of wish for education was observed in
women but il was not felt by her TO any notable
degree. She could read and write very badlyD
and she had a knowledge of court etiquette; put
there the girls training ended. and when she
first came undel the influence Of the Precieuses
Of the Hotel de Rambouillet she displayed some
thing of the manner and temper of an ire
pressible young trooper-swearing included In
that serene temple of the MUSES. the ways of
her were considerably ameliorated. and her
natural cleverness and wit took on more re-
fir ed flavor. She owed much OF her turn OF
mind the author declares. to the dramatic plays
that she had watched from infancy, the infiu-
exec of Cornei!le being especially effective. She
looked forward to deeds of high eInprise to the
welding of great powers. Love she left entirely
out OF her plan of life though. she schemed in
cessantly for fine marriage Now It was the
Emperor now the Cardinal-Enfant, brother of
the Queen: now the Prince de Condo Of only his
delicate wife would die,l: and for years she
cung to the hope that her cousin. Louis XIV
no was half her age. might he induced to take
her to wife. ''The voice of glory" was forever
calling TO this daughter OF France. i do not
know what it is to be anything but heroine!
she said To her father when he reproached her
with playing the heroine Il am Of birth so
high that no matter what 1 might do L never
could be anything but great and noble And
they may call it what they like 1 call it fol-
lowing my inclination and taking my own road
] was born TO take other" The way Of hero
ism did not lie in the direction of accepting the
hand Of the exiled Prince Of Wales. afterwarG
Charles II of England. She found him STUPID
and unresponsive, well as poverty stricken
the uncertain prospects discouraged her most
of all
C=oaded by his mother, he frequented the
T'uileries and besieged the heart of his cousin.
whom he amazed by the sluggish obstlnacy OF
his attentions. He paid MS court WIN lne IL
CONSEQUENT air of a trained parrot, the details
of his lovemaking were ordered by ms 1nother,
and when, tormented by personal an1ieties, the
Queen Of England forgot to dictate his olscourser
he sat before Mademoisele with lips closed
He talked so little that it was said he opened
his teeth only TO deVour lat meat
Poor Henrietta Maria, How she must have
yearned TO see her boy in possession OF the
riches of his fair cousin-for those were the days
when the exlled royalties Of England had hardly
o,o,,s,b IN eat F1erhaDs the young Charles was
not unreasonable in mis- happy absorption OF
the enormous piece Of beef mentioned in this
veracious history.
The period in which Gademoisele d'orleans
played her frank, strenuous. masculine part Is
one which is absorbingly interesting TO the
student of history. Cur author has used his
opportunities with ardor and discrimination,
and the great personages who troop through ms
,,ases are very much alive. Richelieu. MaZarin,
Anne OF Austria ana her weak husband the
brave Conde and the. base CASTOR d'Orleans
are as vividly drawn are the strange customs
of court and people. In misery and horror un-
sneakable France was making ready for the
revolution to come, and that tide in her affairs
forbids dulness in the Chronicler. This narra-
tive might with advantage be more compact ana
consecutive; and the translation leaves much
TO be desired. But in spite of some defects we
are GLAD TO welcome this picture Of the youth
of a woman whom one ever called petty
coxzardIy or false La Grande Mademoiselle
was never liar; she never betrayed friend or
foe- She was brave and generous; and it was
NOT her fault if when nature placed her soul
in the form of woman it gave her the mien
and the inclinations Of a man"
Charles w. Dahlinger, Pittsburg lawyer, has
,,renared q history of THE German Revolution
Of ls49' which viii be issued by G. p Putnams
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