Evening star., 1905-11-04
RANAVALO IN FRANCE
Exiled Queen Of Madagascar
Settles at st. Germain.
HER LONELY ARRIV AL
REACHED PARIS IN THE RAIN
AND WAS NOT WELCOMED.
But the Republic That Abducted Her
Has Raised Her Pension to
$4,000 Year.
HER LONELY ARRIV AL

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, October 16. 1905.
When the Marseille express rolled into
Paris at 6 o'clock the other morning two
ladies and a little girl had to get out and
hunt their trunks alone
They were cold. tired and hungry. They
took a melancholy cup of coffee at the rail-
way buffet. They hunted up three cabs and
started with their trunks across Paris in
the rain to the railway station for st. Ger
main. And there they had to wait an hour
before the first train left
No one met them. Yet one was queen,
come to Paris by the special invitation of
the government of the republic, which has
made itself her very particular guardian.
In a word, it was Ranavalo- Manjaka III,
ex-oueen-abducted queen-of Madagascar,
accompanied by her old aunt the Princess
Ramazndrazana and her niece, the little
Princess Marie Louise.
Paris was ashamed when the news was
learned. Street boys asked: why was
there no one to meet RanaYaloF smart
ladies-who will not be likely to meet her-
scolded the government for its negligence OF
politeness. And business men admitted that
II was not the thing. In one day poor KAMA
valo obtained more sympathy than she hao
won before in years.
So Paris walked to the fact that the queen
OF Madagascar has at last been aHoWed 10
make an indefinite. free movement visit 10
Paris like other women, and that she Is
AT present making her abode in a smart
villa boarding house at st. Germain. that
fair old town beside the palace and the ter
race of the ancient kings of France, some
twenty miles down the Seine
Not Permitted to Visit Exposition.
She wanted to visit the exposition OF 1900
and was not permitted. She might have
seen In the Madagascar building the two
gigantic silver vases from which, on the We
randas Of her palace at Tananarive. she used
to dispense royal iced lemonade to TIE wives
and daughters of English and American
missionaries. She might have heard the
Hovas brass band playing the Marseileise.
In 1901 she was brought up on person
ally conducted trip TO Paris, special dele
gate of the minister of colonies never quit
ting her. At the same time they told hum
dred stories of his quaint guardianship, such
as. Let the queen keep on that gown TO go
TO the circus. 1t Is good enough. The
princess will keep hers also. They Will wear
their new hats. 1 will call for them at u
o'clock" And: The queen is not TO receive
those women from the Rue de la Paix
dressmakers. They will only entice her into
credit dealingsi
When will be allowed to go about Paris
like other women?' the poor queen had
asking ever since 1897. The answer was to
be delayed during four more years; but 1t
rain, when she was allowed. at last, to land
In Paris like other womeu'-very much so!
Perhaps the neglect, which has not been re-
peated. was intended as a kind Of sign and
symbol.
The next day was Sunday Ranavalo,
brought up by Anglo-Saxon missionaries, Is
q stanch Methodist. Therefore off she went
from st. Germain TO Paris, TO the Oratory
OF the Rue St. Honore, where the Huguenot
pastor, Robexy, preached from the text:
Let not your heart be troubled. in my
Fathers house are many mansions"
Was Ranavalo thinking of her st. Ger
main boarding house? Installed in a high
backed pew with the aunt Ramazindrazana
"a noble ruin, given to alcoholic stimula-
tion according to the general Partisan opin-
ton-with little Marie Louise and Madame
Pelpeux. her governess. the devout young
woman listened to a sermon that lasted
nifty minutes by the clock
Did she apply the text to her own condi-
tion and estate? She has been deprived of
her ancestral palaces and has much to de-
sire all around. Up TIL 1885 an independent
queen among queens. she was made a vas
sal queen by the treaty OF Tamataye. which
stipulated that thenceforth the kingdom
should be represented In all its exterior re-
lations by France. England recognized the
protectorate In 1890; and since then France
has simply given notice to the other gov
ernments that she has annexed Madagas-
Abducted by France.
In 1897 the queen was abducted, put on
board French man-of-war. and taken to
Reunion. Having thus made itself her
guardian the republic did certainly hold the
tutoria! bonds tight. Up to the eyentfuI
change OF the other morning In the rain, Il
had continually indicated to her her place
OF residence. the amount anu disposition of
her pocket money, the nature of her occu-
pations and even the choice and duration of
her friendships.
An example of the latter was disclosed
during visit paid by Ranavalo to Madame
Calve at her villa in the south of France.
The eX-queen and the great singer had
long been fast friends; and, following the
French proyerb that THE friends of our
friends are our friends" Ranavalo per-
mitted herself to revel In English CONVEX
sation with three English-speaking guests
OF Calve- She had spoken English before
she knew a word of French, which she
speaks badly today; and you can imagine
her innocent pleasure In showing on the
little ACCOMPLISHMENT
Well. II Is affirmed that Ranavalo sudden
ly received a tn rno nm hat