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 of Bavaria. She was betrothed to Childebert, but rejected by his mother, the haughty Brunechild. She afterwards, in 589, married Anturi, King of the Lombards, with whom she lived in great affection; when In 690 he died, not without suspicion of poison. The people were very much attached to her; but that turbulent age seemed to require a stronger hand than that of a young girl to sway the rod of empire. She therefore found it expedient to contract a second marriage with Flavius Agilulphus, who, as her husband, was invested with the ensigns of royalty before a general congress at Milan. She was destined to be a second time a widow. Agilulphus died in 615. From that time she assumed the government as regent, which she maintained with vigour and prosperity; she encouraged and improved agriculture; endowed charitable foundations; and. in accordance with what the piety of that age required, built monasteries. What was more extraordinary, and seems to have been rarely thought of by the men sovereigns of that day. she reduced the taxes, and tried to soften the miseries of the inferior classes. She died in 628, bitterly lamented by her subjects. Few men have exhibited powers of mind so well balanced as were those of Theodelinda; and this natural sense of the just and true fitted her for the duties of government.

THEIS DE CONSTANCE, MARIE, PRINCESS OF SALM DYCK, born at Nantes, 7th. of November, 1767. After having received a very brilliant education, she, in 1789, married M. Pipelet, a physician of considerable celebrity, and established herself in Paris, where she indulged her taste for literature in a congenial atmosphere. One of her first works was the poetical drama of "Sappho," an opera in four acts, which was adapted to music by Martini, and went through a hundred representations at the Theatre Louvois. Poetical Epistles, Dramas, and various other productions in verse, read by Madame Pipelet at the Athenaeum at Paris, and afterwards published, obtained for her an honourable reputation in the literary world. She has also published several ballads, of which she composed the melodies and the piano accompaniments. In 1803, she became the wife of the Count de Salm Dyck, who took the title of prince in 1816. Since that time the Princess de Salm has lived alternately on the estates of her husband, in Germany, and at Paris, where, by wit, her conversational powers, and her amiable manners, she has always rallied round her the élite of artists, and men of letters.

THERESA, SAINT, born at Avila, in Spain, in 1585. While reading the lives of the saints, when very young, she became possessed with a desire for martyrdom, and ran away from her parents, hoping to be taken by the Moors. But she was discovered, and was obliged to return, when she persuaded her father to build her a hermitage in his garden, where she might devote herself to her religious duties. In 1537, Theresa took the veil at the convent of the Carmelites at Avila, where her religious zeal led her to undertake the restoration of the original severity of the order. In pursuance of this object, in 1662, she founded a convent of reformed Carmelite nuns at Avila; and in 1568, a monastery of friars, or barefooted Carmelites, at Dor-