THE TIMES, NEW 1JL00MFIEL1), PA., NOVEMBER 23, i860.
A Woman's Intrigues.
IF the Parisian mob which dws not
hetiltate to pillage churches and con
venla, has tmreti that. niHgnlflCfiit
treasure-house of art, there Is still hang
ing In the gallery of the Louvre a little
crayon drawing tloue hy La Tour,
which pofwMen rare )iislirlo Interest.
The ph'.i lire iereeiit n nolile lady In
the prime nml pit.le of her youthful
beamy. Tlie Blender and clegaully
formed neck rUeft from superbly shaped
thuuMers ; the head Is cat In the finest
mould of clusslo loveliness ; the broad
and Homewhut severe lirow softened by
eya of tender hue and wonderful bill
llancy ; the nose Is as perfect In outline
as If Phidias had chiseled It; the lips are
slightly compressed and surcasin rather
than smiles linger about, them ; anil
over the whole countenance there Is
flung (hat nameless, ludescrlbable some
thing which betokens daring and un
scrupulous ambition, coupled with ex
quislle tact aud resistless fascination.
The costume is that of the middle of the
last century; the hair being slightly
powdered, a flowing, elaborately flower
ed brocade robe displaying the prettiest
of feet, Bbeatbed In red heeled Blippers of
quaint yet tasteful desigu. On the table
upon which she leans are a number of
Volumes, among which we nee Mont
esquieu's " Spirit of Laws and Encyclo
pcedia;" and an open album showing a
small engraving of an artist plying his
cunning graver In the portrayal of
sensual liueaments of Louis XV. For
this stately dame is Jeanne Antoinette
Polsson, better kuown to fame of a
questionable sort under her courtly title
of Madame de Pompadour. As a per
sonage who, by her owu misdeeds, and
the pernicious iufluence she exercised
upon her royal paramour, contributed
as much or more than any other one to
the downfall of the Bourbon dynasty,
and the political chaos in which France
has struggled for nearly an hundred
years, she deserves and shall receive
brief attention at our hands.
The father of Pompadour or, as the
old chronicler wickedly phrases it, " her
mother's husband" was attached to
the commissary department of the
French army ; though some biographers
assert that he was a butcher of the In
valides, condemned to be huug ; and
Voltaire declares he was a farmer of the
Ferte sous Jowarre. But without dis
cussing the question of paternity, it Is
sufficient for our purpose to know that
Jeanne Antoinette was born In Paris in
the year 17.0 she herself always said
in 1722 and when quite an Infant was
adopted by the Feruiier-general, Lenor
man de Tourneheim, who appears to
have cherished for her a most ardent
affection. As soon as she was old
enough, he gave her every advantage
for intellectual culture; procured the
best music and drawing-masters Paris
could furnish, and took the greatest
delight in the rapid development of his
protege.
Her beauty, grace and precocity speed
ily attracted the attention of such liter
ary celebrities as Fontenelle, Voltaire,
Duclos and Crebilllon, who were regular
visitors at Tournebeim's mansion ; and
they spread the story of her acquire
ments and her charms far and wide.
Voltaire seems to have beed on intimate
terms with her, for in his memoirs he
says "she once owned to me that she
had a secret presentiment she would be
loved by the king, and that she cher
ished in secret a violent Inclination for
him."
-This strange Idea evidently had gained
a strong hold upon the young girl's
mind, and aided in the formation of her
life, and we are told, even went so far as
to familiarize herself with the etiquette
of the palace, and the details of those
ceremonials in which queens take part.
Meanwhile she was only Mile. Poisson,
an obscure maiden, upon whom the
dangerous sunshine of royal favor was
never likely to fall.
Monsieur de Tourneheim was a bache
lor and immensely rich ; he had a
nephew whom he intended should in
herit the bulk of his property, while at
the same time his adopted daughter was
to be liberally provided for. Naturally
- it occurred to him that if the young folks
could intermarry it would save all
trouble in the division of the estate,
increase bis own happiness, and be
exceedingly advantageous to them. He
proposed the alliance and met with no
opposition from - either. Lenorman
d'.Etoiles, an amiable and inoffensive
person, was already madly enamoured
with his prospective bride, who for her
'part was thoroughly indifferent "ac
cepting him," as she said, "with resigna
tion, as a misfortune which was not to
iast long." There is no doubt that this
matchless intriguante commenced to
lay her plans for the conquest of a royal
lover while the ' orange blossoms were
yet fresh upon ber brow J for she imme
diately arranged her household In ac
cordance with the most aristocratic
requirements, gathered in ber saloons
the most famous wits and beaux ' of the
day, and did all In ber power to pique
the curiosity and secure the homage of
Louis.
In the gorgeous apartments of the
Hotel d'F.tollles might be Been Fonte
nelle, wl6 believed In nothing; Voltaire
who believed In less ; Maupertula and
Montesquieu, both sceptios and mockers;
and a host of kindred Bplrlts who de
lighted to baBk in the smiles of their
gracious hostesB, and offer the Incense
of adulation and flattery at her altar. In
such an atmosphere the principles of a
saint would have become contaminated ;
but Madame d'Etollles was no saint
only the sweetest of sinners; and she
grew In know ledge and in fuscluatloii,
waking Impatiently for the time when
.die could bring these forces to bear upon
i lie it) rone itself, where sut the Idol of
her dreums.
Among ilia roues and literateurs who
fluttered around her shrine wan one per
son for whom our heroine seems to have
fell a pure aud uuseltisu regard Pierre
Bernard, a poet of considerable celebrity
whom Voltaire nicknamed "Ze Oentil
Bernard." She was accustomed to pet
him like a spoilt child, and he returned
her kindness with a devotion which
never changed while life lasted. When
she had attained the summit of her
ambition, and the patronage of the
kiugdom was at her disposal, she said to
him one day "What can I do for you,
my dear poet?"
The poor rhymster could not utter a
word, but simply raised her hand to his
lips aud kissed it. The marchioness
received the caress with a laugh, merely
remarking " Go to, Pierre, you will
never get on lu the world." She gave
him, however, the appoiutmeut of libra
rian to the king, and built for him at
Cbolssy a charming cottage ornee, which,
his brother bards used to call "the Par.
nassus of the Freuch Anacreon."
Meanwhile Mine. d'Etollies passed for
aud for all we know was the model
of the virtuous wife ; always declaring
that no man living could ever alienate
her affections from their legitimate lord,
unless that man should be the king of
France. Louis heard of this curious
reservation in his favor, but contented
himself with saying" I should very
much like to see this hunband."
The lady then prepared to go to
Mahomet, as Mahomet showed no dis
position to come to the mountain ; and
she began her attack in a thoroughly
feminine manner. Monsieur d'Etollles
owned an old chateau in the forest of
Senart, and madame's health suddenly
failing, her skillful physician recom
mended a change of air and scene.
What better place could there be for a
temporary home than the leafy dells of
Senart V especially as the king was in
the habit of traversing the forest with
horn and hounds. The chateau was
accordingly repaired and refurnished,
and the amiable invalid took up her
residence there. In order to facilitate
her recovery she had built three or four
elegant carriages of different styles, and
in these she drove out every day when
the weather permitted ; "sometimes,"
says Soulavie, "arrayed as a goddess
from Olympus ; sometimes as an earthly
queen ; at one time she would appear in
an azure robe, seated in a rose-colored
phaeton ; at another in a robe of rose
color in a pheeton of pale blue." She
met the royal cortege frequently. On
the first occasion Louis took no notice
of the brilliant equipage or its mistress ;
on the second be complimented the
borses ; on the third he complimented
the carriage, and on the fourth be made
some trifling remark upon the lady's
beauty. But matters went no farther.
Baffled in ber attempts on this line,
she tried another. Private theatricals
were gotten up on a grand scale at the
chateau ; the court was invited and
came, and Madame d'Etollles assumed
the principal parts. But she strove in
vain to tempt the king behind the
scenes ; . Madame de Chateauroux was
the reigning favorite then, and was
shrewd enough to see through the
designs of her rival, and kept the incon
etant monarch always within the limits
of the royal box. So two seasons passed
away, and then the star of the bold
adventuress began to rise above the
borison. Chateauroux was dead, and
the grand Turk needed another sultana
and the sultana was ready. In Decem
ber, 1744, there was given at the Hotel
de Ville a series of brilliant fetes ; the
ladies who attended being required to
wear masques. Thither, of course, went
the aspiring spouse of poor d'Etollles ;
and, during the evening, she contrived
to bave a tete-atete with bis majesty,
when the conversation ran in this
wise:
: "Sir," said the lady, " you must
explain to me, if you please, a straDge
dream. . I dreamed that I was seated on
a throne for an entire day ; I do not
affirm that this throne was the throne
of France, yet I dare assert that It was a
throne of pu. pie, of . gold, and of dia
monds. ' This dream torments me ; it is
at once the joy and torment of my life.
Sir, for mercy's sake Interpret It for
me!"
." The interpretation is very simple,'
replied Louis, "but In the first place it
Is necessary that velvet masque should
fall."
" You have seen me."
" Where?"
" In the forest of Benart."
"Theu," said the king, "you can
divine that we should like to see you
again."
The finale of such an interview can be
easily Imagined ; but Madame d'Etollles
having paid the price, was determined
to enjoy the substantial fruits of the
perilous investment. A month or two
later she drove to Versailles and de
manded a persoual audience with the
king. She was bIiowii iuto the cabinet
of Louis, and made her point thus :
" Sir, I am lost I My husband knows
my glory and my misfortune. 1 come
to demand a refuge at your hands. If
you do not shelter me from his anger,
he will kill me!"
So Madame d'Etollles eutered the royal
household as Madame de Pompadour,
and never left it again until she went to
her grave.
Yet the task she had undertaken was
a hard one. Louis was thoroughly Mate;
a worn out debauchee who required to
be continually amused, and this amuse
ment taxed all the ingenuity of his
mistress. But her beauty, her accom
plishments, and her tact were valuable
auxiliaries, aud she employed them per-
Beveringly. Twenty times a day Bhe
would change her dress; change even
her style of walking and conversation,
in order to catch the attention of the
tickle prince. Whole mornings she
would pass at her toilette, with the king,
who lounged in an easy chair and sug
gested the different costumes to be
adopted. But in spite of all Pompa
dourlan devices, Louis became wearied,
aud as a last resort she had a little
theatre constructed, and selecting a
choice company of actors and actresses,
began a dramatio season at Versailles.
The Duke de Valliere was stage man
ager and director, and abbe was pro
moted to the prompter's place, and no
one of less rank than a marquis was
admitted into the troupe. The audience
waB limited to a small selection from the
proudest nobility of France, and the first
piece presented was written by the poet
Dufresny, and entitled " Le Marriage
fait et ronipu' in playful allusion to
the marriage of La Pompadour with ber
discarded husband, d'Etollles. She her
self was the only actress of any real
merit, and in such characters as Collette
in Rousseau's "Devln de Village," is
said to have been wonderfully effective ;
playing with a truth and tenderness
which completely captivated all who
saw her.
The histrlonlo abilities of this marvel
ous woman completed the conquest of
Louis, and from time forth, she reigned
securely and without a rival. Born with
instincts naturally noble aud refined,
she endeavored to make the monarch a
patron of art and belles lettres, but the
degenerate Bourbon was framed of too
coarse material to be susceptible of such
elevation, and she was forced to content
herself with maintaining ber position,
and allow him to follow the bent of bis
own inclinations. That position was so
firmly fixed that neither cliques nor
cabals could shake it. Through her
instrumentality the fall of the Jesuits
was decreed; 'she set up and pulled
down ministers; made and unmade
nobles, and even shaped the diplomacy
of the kingdom. " Not only," said she
one day to ber confidante, the Abbe de
Bernis, "not only bave I all the nobility
at my feet, but even my lapdog Is weary
of their fawning."
It was through ber policy that Corsica
was annexed to France, and thus Napo
lean Bonaparte owes his birth as a
French citizen to the far-seel og genius of
Pompadour. Loving revenge as only a
woman can, she rarely forgave and
never forgot her enemies. An incautious
word sent Latude to the Bastile; an
unlucky couplet caused the exile of the
minister Maurepas ; and Frederick of
Prussia's jest about "le regno de cotil
lon," laid the foundation for the Seven
Years' war.
Every Sunday morning she held a
reception, to which all the most cele
brated artists and literary men at court
were invited ; and while the titled nobil
ity of France were compelled to dance
attendance in ber ante-chambers, the
two Vanloos.de laTour,Boucher,Coohln
Duclos and Crebillon, i were always
promptly admitted and warmly wel
corned. But La Pompadour grew old
and as years rolled by, they brought
with them the indubitable marks of
age. One night, during 1760, . she was
seized with a violeut trembling, and
next morning ber face bore the traces
of the first wrinkle. From that moment
she showed herself in Paris no more
and at court only appeared in public by
a candle-light, costumed like an oriental
princess, crowned with a diadem of
diamonds, ber arms loaded with Jeweled
bracelets, and wearing a costly India
shawl embrodered in gold and silver.
In April, 17G4, began the mortal illness
and when the cure of the Madeleine
who attended ber death-bed, was about
taking leave, she whispered, "Walt a
Monsieur le Cure, we will go to
gether." And those were the IttBt words
f i
Madame de Pompadour. '
The heartless king ordered the oorpse
at
once removed from the nalaoe to her
house In Paris, and standi nir bv the
lndow while the funeral train moved
away in the midst of a violent hall
storm, he remarked, with a grim smile :
i tie marchioness will have bad weath
r for her Journey." And this was the
eulogy and epitaph of Madame de Pom
padour.
Well might Diderot exclaim: "What
iw remains of this woman, the dis
penser of millions, who overthrew the
tire political system of Eurone aud
left her couu try dishonored, powerless
auu impoverished, both in mind and
resources? The treaty of Versailles.
which will last as long as it can : a
statue by Boucbardon, whioU will al
ways be admired ; a few stones eugraved
by Gay, which will astonish a future
generation of antiquarians; a pretty
little picture by Vanloo -and a handful
of ashes."
Emerson's Lecture.
One evening, when lUlph Waldo Em
erson was engaged in preparing his new
lecture, Mrs. Einerou, who had that
momeut flattened her linger while try
lug to drive a nail with the smoothing-
iron, thrust her head into the study,
aud said :
" See here, sir I I want you to drop
that everlasting peu of yours for a
minute or two at least, aud go down to
the grocery aud net a mackerel fur
breakfast."
"My dear," replied Mr. Emerson,
looking up from his work, "my dear,
can i you go r xua see I'm billed in a
dozen places to deliver this lecture on
1 Memory,' and it Isn't half finished
yet."
"And that's what you call your in
fernal lecture, is it?" said Mrs. Emer
son, sharply. "A nice party you are to
deliver a lecture on ' Memory.' "
"And why not, my love?" said Mr.
Emerson, meekly.
' You never go out of the house that
you don't forget to put on your hat or
boots, and you never take a letter of
mine to mall that you don't carry in
your pocket for six months or a year.
unless I happeu to find it sooner. Dur
ing the past thirty days you have car
ried out of this house aud forgot to bring
back no less than Beventy-flve or eighty
umbrellas; aud you know yourself the
last time you went to chureh you took
out your false teeth, because, as you
saia, iney nurt your corns, ana came
away and left them in the seat. I say
you are a nice man to talk to a cultured
audience on ' Memory,' and if you don't
trot right off to the grocery I'll expose
you before you're tweuty-four hours
older."
Mr. Emerson started on a jump for
the grocery, and when be got there be
couldn't for the life of him recollect
what be had come for.
A Sensational Item.
The other afternoon, just as the thun
der of our new lightning press began its
private earthquake in the basement, a
youth of about teu summers, panting
and exhausted, rushed into the office
and gasped, as he held up a paper :
"Here you are red hot I'm in time
ain't I?"
"Too late to get anything in this
issue forms bave all gone down," re
plied the urbane manager. "Anything
Important ?"
"Well, I should think so. We
wouldn't have it left out for anything,
Everybody will be looking for It."
" Indeed 1 Something remarkable hap
pened ? Whole family murdered ? City
Hall on fire?"
" Oh, no little thing like that. This
Is something immense. How much
would it cost. Mister, to stop the
press ?"
"About 12,000," said the manager.
getting excited.
" I don't think we've got that much
in the treasury," said the boy, thought.
fully ; "but it really ought to be done."
" Is it anything very pressing ?" said
the manager, winking at the bookkeep.
er: "perhaps we would get out an
extra."
"Ah I that's just the thing now
you've struck it. You see we played the
last game of the Juvenile champion.
ship series to day, and the Yellhards
that's our fellows beat the Greenknees
by fourteen runs; here's the official
score."
And proudly banding over the record
he hurried tome, to shake enough out
of bis savings-bank to buy four copies.
A Foolish Mistake
Don't make the mistake of confound.
ing a remedy of acknowledged merit
witn tne numerous quaes memcines mat
are now so common.: We apeak from
experience when we say that Parker's
'Ginger Tonio is a sterling health restora
tive and will do all that is claimed for it.
We bave used it ourselves with th hap
piest results for Rheumatism and when
worn out by overwork. Bee adv. 45 4t
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CENTRAL STORE
NEWPORT, PENN'A.
Mow oner the publlo
A BARE AND KLEGANT ABSOBTMENT OF
DRESS GOODS
Consisting af all shades suitable tor the season
It LACK ALPACCAS
AND
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A SPECIALITY.
BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED
MUSLINS,
AT VAIUOU8 P11ICE8.
AN EXIH.BSS SELECTION OF PRINTS'
We sell and do keep a good quality ol
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And everything under the head of
GROCERIESI
Machine needles and oil for all makes ol
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CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST,
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CENTRAL STORE,
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X attention ol I lie citizens of Perry oounty
that he has a large and well delected stock of
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DKUUS.
WINES ft LIQUORS.
IKON.
NAILS,
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STEEL.
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ALSO, ,
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The best Is the CHEAPEST.
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the Very !owest Trices for Cash or approved
trade. His motto Low prices, and Fair dealings
to all. Go and see him.
Respectfully.
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Liverpool, Perry Co. Pa.
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A OOOIl FARM OP ABOUT THREE HUN
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