The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23

etc. Its society is condition
ally renewed. They to visit the illustrious
exile who Is pursued by the rancour of the EN-
peror Madame de Stael receives with grace
anu without aifectation she leaves her company
iree all the morning and they unite in the evening
1t is only after dinner that they can converse with
her. she then walks into her salon holding in
her hand a little green branch and her words
nave an ardor quite peculiar to her; it is i'm
possible To interrupt her. At these times she
Prouuces on one the effect of improvv tricc
Baron de Voght wrote thus about bor to
Madame Recamier:
This sublime and beautiful soul how
much better she is than her reputation She is
an angel sent from heaven reveal the divine
goodness upon earth! Your sublime friend
LOOKS ana gives life to everything. She imparts
intelligence to those around her In every rart
Oh the house some one is engaged i'm composing
a great work. Corinne' is writing her do
.ightful letters about Germany. The Shuna mmitish
Widow an Oriental meodrama, which she has
Just finished will be played in October Comet
Will be filed with tears. Constant and Aupuste
are both composing tragedies; Sabran is writing
a comic opera, and Sismond history Schlegel
Is translating something, Bonstetten is busy with
philosophy ana am busy with my letters to
Juliete."
49, The lovers of Madame de stael were numerous
"heh she was a girl General tiuibert was her
beau IDEAL Then came NJ. de Narbonne (I,ouis
ANl's Minister). with whom she fell in love after
she was married. She saved his life once during
the French massacre, hiding him in her house
lhen 1t was Camille Jordan who lived for some
TIME IN her house at Saint Owen. Finally came
BenJamn Constant who known as "Constan Mt
the inconstant" Their relationship was melo-
dramatic He wrote of it, himself Il am more
ANXIOUS than ever to break it off She Is the
most egotistical. the most eXcitabe the most nm
grateful, the most vain, and the most vndctive
or women. must have done with her or die
one is more volcanic than all the volcanoes in the
world but together He fled to Lausanne But
wine there ne wrote: What was the good OF
coming here? Madame de Staci has come after
me and all my plans are upset In the evening
IN the morning Finally this impusive lady visited
Lausanne a second time, of which he wrote: She
came; she threw herself at my feet; she raised
rlshtful cries of pain and desolation! A heart of
IRON could not have resisted. am back at Comet
charlotte is expecting in a month NV Cod"
And then the end of ALL II have lost Madame
de Stael and shall never recover from the blow "
Now was to follow the last act of the Comet
-drama-the last lover. Albert de Rocca
young french officer came into her heart He was
OF great physical beauty. y Spanish woman find
ing him left for dead the battle field carried
MN nome. saying: 1T is pity that such a beau
tiu young man should die She brought him
BACK TO health He was only % and Madame de
Stael was 10. but he became fascinated bv her
and his youth triumphcd her passionate heart
so she married him. But their love coup did not
last long Madame de Stalls health had already
oeeh undermined and at the end of lingering
illness. while in Paris she died This was in 1871,
itocca only lived for few months afterward. dying
as the result of his broken down constitution.
She was buried at Coppe her tomb bears a
Latin inscription which translated means:
Here rests one who never rested"
She was indeed wonderful woman Her life
mas been narrated in many thousands of pages in
European histories There is hardly n detail of It
vital factor in the of many people who
in their turn important factors in Continental