The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-21
ViUid Vamps Of History
 Vsmp6 From Trimming Hats Trimming With Madam Dubarry
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! Louis one time. so why not try another throw of the dioe?"
 What do I get out of thisg' asked Lebel
 Whereupon they drew up a set of plans. granting each a flock of territory Or a sum of money for Marie Jeanne to give each one should the plan work out But no one could he presented at court with out title.
 You marry her. DuBarry." commanded the duke
 T wish could, I'd stand better chance for clean showdown, but the law woE' t allow ne but a single wife, and I've all ready annexed one. worse luck However I'll keep the honor in the family, I've got a brother who is not married. Wen get him 10 take her on''
 So Marie Jeanne was married to Gull laurne du Barry. and Lebel went back to
 lay out the Kings dress suit Louis came in yawning and Lebel be- gan to splutter. Mon dieui Such a l woman"
 Louis could hardly get his jaws to- i gether he was so excited.
 Do you want me to die of cracked 1 iaws?" he stormed. The idea of you telling me about a woman when you see
 I have my muuth open yawningI Fool
 variet! We'll, don't look stupid; who Is
 this bird you're raving overr'
 Bird is clever. sir; bird of ParAdisel
 Such eyes, such lips, such curves, such :
 manner, distant. yet kind! An. sir. such
 a womanf'
 T didn't ask you to keep on rAvtng;
 tell me who ste is,- commanded the King
 The Madame du Barry. sir. snd beau tiful as the sum
 Ts,,k Al. attend the ball tonight. Has she any handicaps such as husbandr' She has one, sir, but when shs sees you--Ah. sir, what suit shall I lay outr'
 ''The doggone best have- answered Loofe. absent mindedfy. How old Is she7''
 Madame dn Barry had been prAot4utng lowing before every object in the house to be sure she acted right when she met the King. Count du Barry had instruct ed her how to treat tho people of the court She was to be cool and quiet around tho ladies, but let herself go around the men. many of whom she had met at his house.
 Don't waste time on women,- he told her "A king will never be jealous of women, but when he sees a flock of men around you he will want to know what they find attractive about you. Stick to the men, they do not mind slang, and you don't know any other way to talk But don't cut loose flow of slum talk before the women, if you don't want to be quoted very unkindly"
 Madame du Barry would wander away and begin curtseying before chair or a table again
 When she was led before Louis her knees began to shake so she nearly fell down. She knew if she got down to curtsey she would never get up. But she tried it, and nearly toppled over She looked up at him and laughed. Here. France. pull me up,- she com manded, and Louis was so surprised that he reached down and pulled her to her feet
 "Oh, goodness" she ccolly remarked. Here I've done nothing but bow to every stick Of furniture in my house. since heard you wantsS-s6 meet me. and to think I would pull a bona like ! that!-
 Louis laughed and when the men gathered round him heard that he had wanted to meet her, they joined in, and laughed long and loud.
 So Du Barry moved her wardrobe trunk to Versailles.
 lN Right from the start she ruled Louis. When the Due de Chiseul said he didn't 1 like her, he was dismissed gently but firmly, and when the Parliament struck in sympathy with the duke, Louis ap- pointed another Parliament of strike l breakers to fill their place. Du Barry had picture of Charles the First of England placed in her boudoir, and when ever she wanted something, and Louis hesitated about | softly:
 France. one day thy Parliament will cut off thy head"
 Du Barry didn't like Versailles. so she laid a trap for Louis, and caught him flirting with chorus girl Where upon she pulled a melodramatic scene. and threatened to leave him forever. Louis was deeply touched. He was get ting on in years, and had got "sets' in his ways. He didn't want a new vamp hanging around the place and he felt as though people wouldn't recognize nm without some vamp' on the string so he begged her to stick around.
 sNot in this shack!" stormed Du Barry. T hate it. want house with modern improvements. I'm tired of having to have fire built under the tub every time I want to take a bath. l want house with a real plumbing in it"
 So Louis built her the palacs of Luciennes. But she had hardly moved all the furniture from Versailles to Luciennes when Louis left to look for
  DuBarry lost good friend when he died. The rest of the court had always poked fun at her low birth, and now they wouldn't even speak to her. She was banishsd to convent, but Marie Antonnette, the new Queen, being kind hearted, interceded for her, and she was allowed to live on at Luciennes. In 17s2 she took a flying trip to Eng land to pawn some of her hardware and the principal actors of the French revolution, heard of it, and when she came back to Paris a year later she was arrested for selling the states jewels and sentenced to be beheaded Now wouldn't that knock the props from under your Aae exclaimed, when told of the sentenck. Going to lose my head. And it's a good old. head. toov' By this time Marie Jeanne was 47, and in the stress of the times she couldn't buy any powder or paint. 50 her charms were lost on the leaders of the revolution. They carried out the sentence in December of 1793. Poor old girl. Her heart was as big as all out Of doors as is the case of most women who use a flock of slang and are misunderstood by their com patriots. She meant well, but she had been misguided from her youth. puBarry didn't meddle much in poli- tics. She did pretty much as she was told. When one of her friends wanted a grafting office she got it for him, and when they told her to. tell Louis to do certain thing she told him, and he did it, but she never tried flyer in politics on her own hook She knew | her limitations. Most of her political ventures were in Marie Jeanne's inter