LUCIEN MILLEVOYE
Lucien Millevoye (1850 - 1918)
Politician and supporter of general Boulanger, a conservative who favoured the return of the monarchy.
Maud met Millevoye shortly after the death of her father. She was twenty and about to inherit a fortune, from her mother's side of the family, which would make her independent for life.
Millevoye was thirty-two, unhappily married and, she thought, totally in love with her. She admired his nationalism and enjoyed the company of a man with a passion for politics, something she had shared with her father. Her attraction to him, her sense of adventure, and lack of concern for social norms, at first blinded her to his counter revolutionary nationalism.
By 1900 they parted ways, politically and emotionally incompatible.
Iseult would later say he was licentious. Perhaps that was because of his treatment of her mother or because of his attitude towards herself.
Maud told Yeats later that she married John MacBride as a reaction against her separation from Millevoye.
Politician and supporter of general Boulanger, a conservative who favoured the return of the monarchy.
Maud met Millevoye shortly after the death of her father. She was twenty and about to inherit a fortune, from her mother's side of the family, which would make her independent for life.
Millevoye was thirty-two, unhappily married and, she thought, totally in love with her. She admired his nationalism and enjoyed the company of a man with a passion for politics, something she had shared with her father. Her attraction to him, her sense of adventure, and lack of concern for social norms, at first blinded her to his counter revolutionary nationalism.
By 1900 they parted ways, politically and emotionally incompatible.
Iseult would later say he was licentious. Perhaps that was because of his treatment of her mother or because of his attitude towards herself.
Maud told Yeats later that she married John MacBride as a reaction against her separation from Millevoye.