The evening world., 1912-02-23
Historic
Heartbreakers
BY Albert Payson Terhune.

Copyright. 1912. I, IN. Press PubnaMs Co. chs New s T~O.
No. I4-MIRABEAU, The "Uglv Apollo"
NANE EN- thousand women in Paris that day we're weeping" writes
- a French chronicler, "for Miraseau, the beloved OF women
lay dying"
Honore Gabriel Riquet,. Count De Mhabeau. was one
more instance of the rule that beauty is not needful to a heartbreaker. HIS
face vs' marred and his complexion ruined by smallpox; his speech wa:
slow because he had once been tonguetied. Tie wa born not only tonguehed
but with a twisted foot and two big teeth) He was huge, bulky. IA IAN
ts sns no s.' q 20 no ,T ru' , n n@ o so 'Uvs, = . ,aaa a. "S his rai
says Watson. that after the first start of horror the awed beholder felt
attracted" De la Marck writes Of him:
His unusually large head ms made to appear larger by a mast Of
curled and powdered hair. His dress vas a n exasgeration Of fashion and in
ness a most conspicuous when he a talking to women"
s Nns.S., writ" vi. t has .r err q , to- him MA Is r r%. V sHsa aDono, VINO coo,. an n
career FOR him. Scarce had the lad left school and entered the army than he be
With a pretty girl h nvsd near thu resmenu, barracks Mrassau calmly 70.
4 soyI. ri: .:a nor s.n for hi. samslns ass. and dus' his
u., s,s1 e., :%;:s n: : t., !; NJ. so: sss DAY: A s,s ', ,s.
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By hi. father to marry,h h daughter Of he Marqu. dc NIarsnane. me ex:pr.:
stormy There were other women. There we're daci. There~ we're debts Th".
pack to prison. rs time to the Chateau f mad famous by Monte crao"
ea: :' y y ,ss. Of v s' '% %s ~s above. va to rss,: :'' * S"i IL ss ss@ Hs a; Of r 20 tar n
MARIE r sr n%t s:' de- d %sSss OF ;" %a ssm' as nSRns s%i " .ssp 'S VII" , .so ss'i FANNY i y' ss
sSssd hin him .ssrs .o oDs hs M ss' s,ss.r escaped pee . to s" W.T. ,hs an sSa s.0h as
y" s's srrs.r vi" 40, ' S. ,a n% Sae ors III" and as ss aH fpns "s so TO or "oHan ~hc, sA ss me :.
maincd for three and a half year. When he was set free he found he as tire
Mir. M,ras sSu went Y% ~ psns sSn and s...ss.ss; a. IN , n~ .s ss% death a sms"; ;m re.
Thu. latest swesthear, "a Mime. de Nehra. daughter o a Dutch tn,esman and
.nes over sn was good, n h. reused his brilliant mind to the fats hat have
The French Revolution wi. at hand. and Mr,S.,u plunsed hear, an soul
hated the Rims. IN he sided with the King who hated he rcvouionLss lie
sided, Lin fact,w with lmost every one yt few dared calf him a double dealer. He
accepted brteesa n annexed graft. yeti people uuEed him an looked up 70 him..
Another man with half his iauts n vices would have
( Pa. ia, x been Jailed or else wouldh nay been branded as n outcas
the People. .ha-n ~ ad u, en- rs,r wonnsr. ns,r,. rmw 49,
l~-~ him the idol ~ the hour The mo adorei him. HIS
enemies ,oud make no headway aganst him SO thyp plotted against his inA
Mhabeau laughed at IN warnings that reached him. Word came to him me
evenng In 1884, as ne war leaving a state banquet that during the meal he had
been poisoned. He laughed. nd. paying 10 need to the pleas OF his friends that
h see a doctor at once stronei " 20 cal on a woman h hd recently
fallen IN love with him The poisonlf poison It was-worked surely an swiftly.
Next la he was dying Nj PaEs wa hushed ad horror stricken at thu new
| a.. AZ some national calamity. Thousands Of people stood bareheaded In the
sreet to learn ews Of Anrabeaus condition. N ar " as vibrant with womens
weeping
81 an hooked at such honors paid to Suh a wretch" smuNy wrote Gouver-
n-ur sfors. United states Minister to France after behddhng the szef Of ~
French " their tdors coming DEATH.
And the dying alrabeau when hs ws told Of the sorrowtns thrns in Gss
street mrmured:
1T = u, I al glad I devoted IN y life to the people Now let % Sleep"
to his burial.