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Show x-x-m-m-mx-;-x-:-x-:-xx-:-i-x-m-:-x-;-x-:-x-:-x-m-m-x-:-X'M-m-;X'M-m.:. Writes in Defense of Lucretia Borgia Anatoie France In a charitable mood could not resist the temptation to whitewash even Judas Iscariot, and now comes the celebrated historian Doctor Cabanes, to tell us that Lucretia Lu-cretia Borgia was not the unscrupulous, unscrupu-lous, licentious woman that common tradition has made her out to be. At worst, she was only a slightly damaged dam-aged saint. It appears. If her lovers and husbands were poisoned or stabbed. It was not I.ucretia's fault. She really felt the greatest devotion toward them. These little matters were accomplished only In the Interest Inter-est of the state. Lucretia knew how to separate business and pleasure. What If she was present at baeeha-nalla, baeeha-nalla, the like of which would make the present-day orgies of the bazaars of Cairo look Innocent, "it was merely the custom of the day to nmuse oneself one-self in that manner," the doctor tells us. Her Illustrious father gave the example. ex-ample. He Invited women of the street to come and dance for him "What about It?" says Doctor Cabanes. Ca-banes. "Was he not a sovereign prince?" And what if Lucretia came Into his apartment to watch the performance per-formance and distribute gifts to the prettiest damsel? "It showed. If anything, any-thing, that she was a woman of spirit, of naive and Innocent chnrm," says the. historian. Pierre Van Paassen, In the Atlanta Constitution. |