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Show "GYP," THE WftlTF.n. AND HER WORK. Very few people are aware, when reading the wcirka nf "(lyp." one ot the most recent of which IIIJou," hat Just been translated Into English, that the author li the great-grandnlece of Victor de ltlquetl. Marquis de Mlra-Lieu Mlra-Lieu It It a fact, however, that tho Comtesse de Martel de Janvllle, whose family name li Marie Antoinette di Mlrabeau la descended In a direct line from the man who figured so promlu- H ently tn the Trench revolution "(lyp " too, Is n revolutionary, and of bo pronounced a type that It hai been said that ahe drteata everybody and everything, such Is the vigor with which she ridicule people In her novels nov-els now so numerous that all count of them has bon lost Her work has heen done too hastily to be firet-ratr There Is one character which 'Oyp' haa created, however, which la a atroke of genltit namely, the chief character of the novel ' Petit Hub " Hob It the depraved child of rich nnd drgenerato parents not the enfant terrible iincon-scions iincon-scions of his faults but I lie conscious little tinner, surrounded on alt ildet by bad examples, who doea hla level H best to shock everybody ho meets. Tbe salon ot the Comtesse da Maitel de Janvllle It one much frequented by the fashionable people of Paris. Many literary men visit at her house. Oyp"' la one ot the few titled ladle who I aa avowed socialist Another thing "OYP." ; which distinguishes her from the ordln- ' ary aristocratic lady of Prance Is hor dreas She Is noted for wearing the l moat extraordinary drcaaea and ban- .' neta tn be found In th whole of the I Bay capital of France |