Show BEAUTY WON HEARTS M MADAME A M E R E C A M 1 E R W WHO H O 0 F fascinated A S ana C 1 A T D U OY Y H HER E R C CHARMS 1 i A R M S the khe thoroughly ill lr the tile art of fairn illila A lt mtr kable woman who life W not 1101 sorrow special letter MOG NIONG the littries which have hale inter estel u its cinci th the I 1 1 I das da a at 0 napoleon none has a aleater W i charm and romane 0 o J than that of f madame Re camler 4 the beautiful and a cco ni ill p I 1 I 1 Is a li e d te preach woman wo man 4 with none ot of the th talents talent which immortalized modam tie de madame lle Ite camler cantler won for or herself a place ut of do less social influx enc among the men ind women oc at her day it Is to no special brilliance th that a t h her e r ascend i tl ce t id incy t ne y his h L s been b e t n traced t r her le r t friends r fe n d s s speak p ea k 1 in n r raptures a pt u r e s 0 ol 01 her letters but bhe it appear appears took to get them back toward the tad end ot of litt life an ani I 1 left or lers to burn after her death the packet containing them together with the me moira which she bid h td N written during her halt half blind state it was not her beauty alone that lent this singular power at 0 fascination to ill that ehe she said for or this power remained unimpaired long after bhe she cons cloua as she aall that the little bAlo yards no longer turned to look at her in the streets af ond nd long aftin her wealth had gon gons brilliant men and clever women bow ed to her autocracy the secret witchery which was so la madame Rc ReL imler lay perhaps more in her warmth of at heart something in la her nature even elen beyond her delicate and indefinable tact afforded the nays mys derious charm saint beuve a e remark I 1 I 1 MADAME RECA MItat that ehe she carried carr leil the ort rt ot of to perfection gives jio the true key to her character such stich coquetry as ahe she poi pas jessed erose rather from a desire to please than from any other motive thee vaa one short and romantic passage in her life fe when the ardent admiration of prince augustus of pro ill 11 seemed to arouse a responsive nelv flame but the faint passion died away before the pathetic appeal of her husband the child wife could not find and li 14 in her heart to break oil off when age and adversity had settled upon him the platonic ties ol 01 a moro prosperous perou day her ifer relation with her husband lius band waa was always more filial than conjugal the banker was 42 and bis his beautiful bride but 15 16 when their marriage took in 1793 at 18 her salon became the center of wealth and taste and her beauty was the talk of all paris she met the emperor but ice and whatever admiration her beauty may have inspired in him seemed to have been lust lost in the jea jealousy louy of her influence Na napoleon roleon wae was weak enough to give out publicly in the alon salon of josephine that he should regard u a his personal enemy any foreigner who frequented the house of madame He Re camler bearing car her influence and yet politic to the list degree be lie made overtures through louche with the view of attaching the beautiful woman to bla his imperial household her ifer refusal was wa never forgiven by him and no doubt added weight eight to his moties lu in exiling her beyond forty le agues of paris in 1311 at the lemaide of madame de madame madams Re made the acquaintance of and between this ihl interesting te couple grew that friendship friend thip which gave to the subsequent subie quent life of rach each its it chief tone her ifer friends cretu nd mid for her peace of mind from eon coa tact with so tumultuous a nature but her serenity and belt self control I became became the means of chastening ana and quieting thi passionate and disordered gout soul of the poet idolized by his bontempo contempo con tempo rales ani aril spoiled by enthusiastic women omen chateaubriand Chateau briand bad had become enamor enamored pd of himself lie had sunk like byron lato into abat melancholy to dispel the cloud that absorbed his hi genius became the mission of madams madame Rc camler in writing to her be he said I 1 ou have transformed my u r sire fill gelf self absorption became lesa less conspicuous and his soothed the death of M f re amler ind and also of madame de chateaubriand Chateau briand left the poet 10 i to offer his hand to the idol of hia his heart I 1 hy should we marry was her reply to his proposal she improbably probably felt the ridicule that might attach to auch such a union years and the blindness that had been stealing over her to confer the rig t of her bat eating for him during his and at hie his bedside her anguish vis isis 1 a I tenil tensil fled led by the thought that she could not see hid hie dying look in fn losing toeing elm 11 in itai W tj of t her life wa was rw |