Widow Of Feuillet

v aierie teuiiiet nad been brought up a Royalist in the provinces by her mother, Madame Dubois, who belonged to the most prejudiced anciient regime, and there are pretty anecdotes t( little I Valerie's childhood, when she we.a bidden to kiss a lock of blonde hair belonging to King Henry V, who was to be King only in exile, and when her pretty, dainty, I frail mooier going to some ball in a sedan chair, took Valerie witii her as far as the threshold of the fete and then sjggfffr home to the oíd Norman house where the little girl had flrst seen the light, writes "Th. Bentzon" (Madame Blanc) in a charming sketch of "The Romantic Career of Madame Feuillet." The mother of Madame Feuillet was own niece to a heroine of the revolution, Mademoiselle de Ste. Suzanne, who saved her father from the guillotine by going alone on horseback into the midst of the battle-field to ask the condemned man's pardon of General Hoche. Monsieur and Madame Dubois Grecoeur, sometimes in the little city of St. Lo, the ultra-provincial society of whicb is described by the author of the "Memoirs" with an extraordiñary spirit. It is very easy to find in these portraits the types which inspired her husband with the delightful "Story of Sibylle," and with the provincial scènes jf "Camors." In fact, there was always between them a kind of involuntary sollaboration.