Show A A A WAIL VAIt Monroe Mouroe Saved Sand Wife from the tho In of Terror Hol many people know that Mme wile of the great French who was the friend of the United States State was saved from the guillotine by the rIfe of the author or of the Monroe doctrine An old spells the generals names LIl La Fayette Farette and not Lafay laCay this account of what It calls cals A Touching Incident When Mr r Monroe was minister from the United States at Paris and when General Lafayette was confined In the prison nt at by the emperor ot of Austria word was brought to the rain Ister that Mme etto had been thrown Into prison and that site she would be guillotined In a few days Her mother and grandmother had died by bythe bythe the guillotine laris was In the hands ot of the mob and Mr Monroe alone could save her herand and could save hr her enl only b by appealing to 10 and arousing the sympathies of oC th the people The destruction of oC life lICe had been so great Ireat In ever eer state of society where opulence was perceptible that In order to avoid certain death all lUll lux tines and splendor had been blen laid aside by the tho wealthy who Instead of tiding In their splendid carriages either went wenton wenton on foot Coot or rode In the hIred cabs of Paris It therefore created a great sensa sensation tion when the splendid ot of the American minister appeared at time the gate of the prison and Mr Mrs Monroe toll told the keeper kep r that she had come to see the tho wife of General Lafayette The news newl spread In nil directions and be before before fore Mrs Monroe drove droe away from the prison oll thousands of people had gath ered crell about lice her and says sas the theold old chronicler the ho feelings elicited b by bythe the meeting of at two such uch females In such sucha a situation arrested the ax of the exe an ami eventually set et the cap captive the tive free The feelings ot of Colonel Monroe during the absence ot of hIs wife wHo cannot ho be real realized Urna be asked Why Shay did he not accompany her It would not have hac been Politic for tor limo him to do indeed have thwarted the accomplish meat or of the In view When Mrs ides Monroe mot met Mme Lata Lufay ette the Ioor l was In a state ot of perfect frenzy supposing that she Will pus about to be led lea out to timi When she found herself embraced b by the lad lady of the tho American minister withIn the tho of that gloom prison from which ont oni a few tew days before her mother and grandmother had been led forth Corth to execution It Was WOI 1 a long time before fihe ho could realize her situation Mrs Monroe not only onty assured h her r that she be should hould be saved but said that Mr Jr MOnroe had bad determined to risk all it If to accomplish her deliver mince The plain Inference Is that th execution tion ot of Mme Lafayette would hAve provoked a wet b Franc and the United |