MADEMOISELLE DE LA SEI GLIER,E, sa'glyar, novel by Jules Sandeau (q.v.), published in 1848 and dramatized in 1851.
MADERO, Francisco Indalecio, President of Mexico: b. San Pedro, Coahuila, 18 Oct. 1873: d. Mexico City, 23 Feb. 1913. He came of a wealthy family and was a grandson of a former governor of Coahuila. He was educated at a Jesuit college in Mexico and at the University of California and spent the years 1889-95 in France. He returned to Mexico, engaged in cotton-planting and in banking and increased ncreased his fortune. He took up his residence in Mexico City in 1900 and came keenly interested in political reform. Of a naturally retiring disposition, he displayed an initiative that surprised his most intimate friends, and by 1905 he was the unquestioned leader of the reform element. He actively posed the rule of Diaz, and in 1908 he published his 'La Sucesion Presidencial en 1910,' a ingly well-balanced attack on the evils existing in the political and social life of Mexico. He advocated suffrage reforms, a single term for the Presidency and opposed the absolutism which characterized the rule of Diaz, while crediting him with the many achievements of his administration. The book caused a tion and was promptly suppressed by the gov- ernment. However, Madero was nominated for the Presidency in 1910, running against Diaz on a platform advocating a single term for the Presidency. He was arrested on a fabricated charge in July 1910 and imprisoned until it was too late for him to interfere with the re-election of Diaz. Madero then headed a plot for a revolution against the government, advocating reforms in suffrage, land distribution, freedom of the Press and the single presidential term among other measures. The uprising began at Puebla, 20 Nov. 1910, spread through Sonora and Sinaloa, and upon capturing Juarez, dero set up his government and appointed a cabinet, 11 May 1911. The Diaz government then entered into a conference with the tionists and peace was declared 21 May.
dero was elected President 1 October. amentally a dreamer and idealist, Madero found himself checked upon every hand in his tempts to carry his projected reforms into effect. He was unable to manage the politicians of the old regime, or the insurgent element, and in 1912 revolts broke out under Zapata in the south and under Felix Diaz, nephew of President Diaz, in the north. He was charged with being slow and irresolute in his tration of public affairs, of favoring his tives and of personal peculation from the public treasury. The Diaz revolution was suppressed and General Diaz was imprisoned. Madero, however, was of a forbearing disposition and suspended the death sentence pronounced against the revolutionist. An uprising among the soldiers in Mexico City took place 9 Feb. 1913 and released Diaz and another enemy of Madera, General Bernardo Reyes. The Federal troops for a time resisted the revolutionists but on 17 February General Blanquet with a force of 1,200 arrived in the city and joined General Huerta, Maderos commander-in-chief, in throwing the government. Madero was rested and imprisoned 19 February and plans for his exile were under way when it was decided to bring him to trial. Together with the President, Pino Suarez, Madero was being ducted from the National Palace to the tentiary when both were shot. No reports cept those of the government were available and the official version was that an intervention in behalf of the prisoners was made by Madero sympathizers, whereupon the prisoners tempted to escape and were shot. Huerta was generally held responsible for their deaths and was eventually forced from office because of them although he persistently denied complicity in the affair.