The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-18
From the Foreign Correspondence ofHie Boston Alta
ANOTHER PRAsLIN AFFAIR.
The Murder OF Mad D'EntrecasteauI.

From the Foreign Correspondence ofhe Boston Atlas.
ANOTHER PRAsLIN AFFAIR.
The Murder OF Mad. D'EntrccasteauI.
The Prashn affair has caused singular
excitement in tue calm Of rural life. As the
news is longer topic in the chateaus than
in the city, they still speak Of this terrible
tragedy in our private circles, 1t is said, and
Justly too, that the assassination of the Ouch
ess is not crime OF our time. Yet we need
not go back to the middle ages, to find in the
highest OF French society a similar instance.
In this connection, we shall here introduce
an actual affair, which made great noise at
the end Of the last century, and which an old
Chevalier Of st. Louis, contemporary of the
fact, and who knew the principal parties,
lately related in our hearing, in the chateau
de l.
1t was in the year 1885, at AK, in Pro-
vence. There was on that day grand SOL
rec, at the mansion Of the Marquis de CAL
lefet, where were collected the nobility Of
the robe and the sword AT this soree, there
were present the President d'Entrecasteaux,
one Of the four superior Judges of the Par
lament Of Provence, and Madame the Mar
chioness de Cubre /, young widow no dis
t;nqu;sbed bv the graces az her mind as nv
~ charms r her nerson M d,Entrecas-
teaux, who was brother to the celebrated sal
lor ~ that name bad conceived a v;olent
nass;on for Madame do Cubre Rmt he was
married, and the widow, as virtuous as was
lovely, would not listen to him. Yet the
President. who was an agreeable and i'm
FASHIONED man. made some impression upon
her heart. and at this soiree. at the Maru,,is Of
Gallefet's, Madame de Cubre replied to the
tender protestations of M. d'Entrecasteaux
with a sigh, 8. can only love the man who
can become my husband Were you free,
like myself, | would marry you willingly"
Who would have supposed, that these words,
spoken lightly and without thought, in the
midst of the elegant and polite society, by a
virtuous woman, to man distinguished by
his intellect, his elevated position, would
bear within them so fatal germ The day
after. very early in the morning, the Mar
auis de Arlatau de Lauris, who, when quite
young man, held the post of procureur of
the King, having gone to make his usual
promenade, saw large gathering in front
of the door of M. d'Entrecasteaux. He en-
CURED the cause that collected this multi
tude. and learned that an assassination had
been committed in the hotel. The magis-
trate asked the name of the victim: They
told him il was the wife Of the President
Madame d'EMtrecasteaux. with whom he
had passed the evening before. and from
whom he had parted. at the door of her man
sion, at one in the morning. He went in
and assembled TO the chamber of the unlor-
tunate Presidents lady. whom he found ex-
tended on the carpet. batbed in her own
blood her head SUMMARIZED bv an armchair.
and having in her neck large and deem
wound that had caused her death Her
husband was present He was 4 small man.
mick and irritable If slender form and
agreeable face He was in his mornino
dress, clothed entirely in white, and his
clothes were remarkably fresh and Clean
His appearance, his attitude, his face, all ex-
pressed great grief. He threw himself into
the arms Of the young magistrate, CRYING,
+" am most unhappy!'' So great was his
despair, that the procureur could obtain from
him no information, no details. of nature to
found the first elements Of an inquest. They
knew not in what direction to turn their sus-
picions. No robbery had been committed.
and nothing induced them to suppose il an
act Of vengeance.
In the profound and deep emotion that api-
tated the whole city of AK, in the trouble
and alarm caused by this terrible event. the
most contradictory versions were circulated
in all directions. But suspicion. still unde
cided, foated here and there, without finding
a solid resting place, and without once touch
ing the real culprt They commenced the
inquest, and the magistrates instituted the
most minute examination Of the hotel DEN
trecasteax. The servants Of the house were