Show A PETR OLEUSE many of our readers have heard of the terrible dagg in may 1871 when the french government troops irom versailles entered the city of paris after a moat sanguinary defense on the part of the insurrectionist commune which in its last agonies of despair even put tho incendiary torches to the petroleum drenched wall of the tuileries Tuil eries city ull louvre and other magnificent structures which partly fell a victim to the vandalism of a vindictive and ax rebellion in those day when mens hearts failed them even women caught the devouring sark of revolution and anarchy and taking mens clothes and mens arms showed more than mens courage and worse than the beat ferocity in defending that maniacal chimera of radical government called the commune of paris ono of the few women who did not fall under the company fire of tho versailles troops in the three days terrific barricade carnage was louiso michel the who has of late been frequently mentioned in our paris dispatches and whom some well informed co temporaries have made a man loquiao michel who at the occasion of her recent return from the exile in new cales donia was so enthusiastically received by the adherents and friend of the commune of 1871 and who bus since declared herself in fiery harangues as petr oleuse by principle was born ia 1830 oa the castle haute marne the illegitimate daughter of the lord of the manor and a servant girl the legitimate son of the lord not bowing the desired respect to his fathers mistress mis treBs disinherited and dig owned by the nobleman and louisa was adopted and educated aa an heir of due wedlock air youth therefore was happy and sunny an contrast to her corn mu womanhood abo displayed fan extraordinary talent for music and poetry and even odes victor hugo who predicted great thing of her the latter even presented her with a dameie paris with an autograph dedication with all this her conduct was exemplary abid her charity AS well as her talent proverbial in the whole neighborhood at that time she devised plans for romances and oems titles aro still extant ind prove that she had victor hugo or a prototype after her fathers death his legal widow continued her enevol enco to the girl in the former died and left louise with only th legitimate heir took possession of the castle and louise retired with er mother to where he accepted teachers dillom di in thu position however the remained not long the sold her prop erty making considerable the poor of the tillage and then removed with her mother to paris n one of the populous suburbs of he great metropolis in re she opened a school which lo wever was soon closed again in Us condition ibo was overtaken ever memorable year of 1870 when an empire burst like n soap bubble anil republic shot up like a mushroom although then of the nias turo ago offo ity louise biichel was kindled by the revolutionary spirit bat swept like wildfire through the of tho capital of franco she the pro gressot gress mt cluba and joined passionate y tho anost subversive wing of the red radical anarchists the daush er of a nobleman of the ancien rf giff even soiled the arms of an in and fought as an ama toa of the regeneration of state and society amidst the most bitter do fenders of tho commune when he superior numbers of the pitiless versailles troops had crushed the rebellion under h hail of their bullets and balb michel was apprehended and sent into exile in now caledonia where sho passed through many a weary horrors without being broken in body or spirit only the last general re leased h aad no bad fhe touched the be lored toil of Is chert trance than sho again the principles which had led her int leviso michel is a psychological A virtuous benevolent cultured lady of fifty and still a petro louo if only in princ plo surely something u rotten not only in hamlets denmark but in victor hugos head of europe U WU frame |