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Blanc (MARIE TH R SE THERESE BENTZON)

MARIE THÉRÈSE (THERESE BENTZON), a French novelist and littérateur, born at Seine-Port, Sept. 21, 1840. She has been for many years on the BLANC editorial staff of the "Revue des Deux Mondes," to which she has contributed notable translations and reviews of many American, English, and German authors.

Her literary essays on these contemporaneous writers were collected in "Foreign Literature and Customs" (1882) and "Recent American Novelists" (1885).

Her first work to attract attention was "A Divorce" (1871). Two other novels, "A Remorse" (1879), and "Tony" (1889), BLAND who was deposed in the Revolution of 1868. Blanco led a successful counter revolution in 1870, became President, and retained the office till 1882. In 1893 he was appointed Minister to France, where he resided till his death, July 29, 1899. were crowned by the French Academy. jects from the Sahara in a westerly di- Other stories are "Georgette" and "Jacqueline" (1893). The fruit of her first visit to the United States was "Condition of Woman in the United States" (1895); "Au Dessus de l'Abime" (1905).

She died in 1907.