New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-04
The Empress EugenIe--DouBts of Her
PnterMItR.

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The lofty and prominent station attained by that
distinguished lady who shares the throne of France
with Napoleon III, has attracted public attention Of
late to some law proceedings which took place some
time past at Faladolid and Asevallo-preceedinps
which throw some doubts upon the paternity Of that
lHustrlOus lady There has been great demand for
the Spanish law journals Of 1927 and the following
year On searching through the files OF that period
we find the subioined account of the nullfty Of 4
divorce pronounced in 1913 between a Spanish wife
and husband
Don joaquin de Montijo, captain of the regiment
of Segovia, married, in 1910, Donna Maria de Penan
sande, belonging to respectable family OF Fontepe
tayo, near Segovia. Shortly after his marriage he
was taken prisoner of war, and was carried off to
France, whittier he followed by his wife as soon
as she ascertaned that he had obtained an appoint-
me9t as eommandant Of prisoners Of war which
made some addition to his pay. Although DOnra
Maria went to France in compliance with her hus-
bands request, she does not appear to have lived
happily with him. Discussions soiled the domestic
hearth-mutnai denominations, each charging the
other with adultery, brought about a separation,
Don joaquin having lost his appointment in con.
sequence of the removal of the prisoners Of war from
Bourges to Dion took service in tine French army
being driven there by want His wife, finding again
that he bad the of supporting her went to his
reglmental quarters, but was repelled by him with
disdain and refused admission. Their divorce was
finally pronounced by the French law courts in No
Vember, 1873. On the return of Ferdinand VII to
SPAN, Donna Maria returned to FontepelayO with
her son, aged two years aud half and lived there
for six years with her family. Her husband remain
ed in France till 1920, when Ferdinand took oath to
renew the constitution Of 1872. He then returned
to Spain, and resided at his native town of Areyallo
where he had some property from thence he wrote
to his wife to CLAIM his She refused to send the
child Don joaquin went to exercise his paternal
right but Donna Maria refused to give him up Don
Joaquin returned home without his child bpt after n
few weeks he went back to Foutepelayo fell in love
again with his wife and proposed that they should
live together again and say nothing about the divorce
which was known only to her family and his brothers.
She returned with him to Arevallo and there resided
with him until October So 1928, when he died from
the effects of fall from his horse. Her son inherited
his fathers property, under the guardianship of his
mother, who continued to reside at Arevallo. We
say her son, because although at the death of Don
Joaquin she had daughter, aged nine months. the
child died shortly after the death of his father.
In the year 1880 she had the misfortune to lose her
SON. and her grief was embttered by the conduct of
her late husbands brothers. Don Antonio and Don
Branti0 de Montiio, who ordered her to leave their
late brothers house, she having right to call her
self his widow having by her infamous conduct ne
cessltated divorce She refused to leave her house.
Proceedings Instituted before the CorTegidor of
ATevallo, Don joaquin Beneito, who delivered his
sentence on the 10th of June, 1927, that whereas
divorce had been pronounced in France, in 1913 1t
had not been annulled by after cehabitation couse
quenty in default of heirs direct she must restore
the property OF Don joaquin de Montijo to his
brothers. Against this sentence Donna Maria went
to the Royal Ghancery at Yaladolid and after many
months litigation the original judgment was quashed
whereas Donna Maria de Peansande was married
on June 3, 1910 to Don joaquin de Montiio and
whereas the divorce was pronounced in a foreign
country, then under the ru1e of an usurper under
government as illegal and irreligious and not recog.
nized in Spain and whereas such divorce had been
annued by the ultimate remOrse of the parties de-
clares Donna Maria entitled the life interest in the
property Of her late husband to revert to his broth
ers at her demise.
Now dates are troublesome things. The French
nG fba /, 81.
Empress Eugene had attained her thrty-second year
on the preceding day, and had received the congrat
ulations Of her friends on the occasion According
to the official Donitelt, therefore, the Empress EG.
genie was born on the Sd of June 1926, and accord
ing to the undsputed testimony of registers and 9TH
documentary evidence, her father died on October
30 1928, from the effects Of fall from his horse.
These things doubtless admit Of an explanation, but
none has yet been given. Indeed the French Gasette
de Iribunaur, OF September q, 1881, which CON
tains the rerbatm report Of this cause ceiebre has
been foreibly distracted by Imperial ukase from the
files of that journal which are kept for reference at
the f. ding rooms