The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-27
a SPANISH RosrANcE.
AStory Orthe French RuIc In spain..
90 A lawsuit inc. ReaI1If

n story of the French Rule in SDnin.--
A lawsuit the Result.
Z .Acorrcsp of the London Times
tolls the following romantic story:
" A curious case has just becn decided
before the civil tribunal, of the Seinc.-
Most Spaniards, and not few of the
other foreigners who have been. much
in Paris during the Inst twenty years or
so, are aware of the existence, in the
Rue Yivienne, not far from the Boule-
ward, of a sort of private hotel--such MS
in Spain is called a casa dc h,tcspeties-
kept by a certain Luisa de NoeIl, and
where those countrymen of the greatest
of knights-errant who partook sufIi-
GENTLY of his truant propensities to
wander thus far north might reckon on
finding Comfortable quarters and some
of those peculiar national dishes bV
which the Spaniard abroad loves to be
occasionally reminded of his nntive
land. Miss de Noell married, had no
children, and lately died. Thereupon
her fathers brothers and their children
laid claim to share of inheritance, as
did also n brother of her mothers, ono
Salgns, a tailor ut Palafurgell, in Cata-
lonia. But they We're opposed by NJ. de
bGuOuG1 GuS huSBdLIuI WuOC1hAIlHQ 10 D9
sole heir. The following facts appeared {:
In 1873, when the French rule in Catai
lonia was on the eve of its downfall,
there dweltnear Corona n young SPAN
ish girl of remarkable beauty, named
Colombia Sa1gas! A Frenehman, Ba-
ron Damiens de NoelI, belonging to
one oftrthose old southern families
which had eInigrate1 during the reVo-
luton, loved and was beloved by her.
1t is said, they were regularly married
in 1913 by Spanish priest named Pla-
nella in tho cathedral of Gerona. But
where is the act or certificate establish
ing the celebration of the marriage? ?
Was it drawn up ut the time? Here
lies the doubt md the difficulty. On the
Colombia Salgas and Damfens de Noell
were not to be found. 1t was the time
when Suchet had concentrated his eX-
hausted forces In Catalonia, and was
expending his Inst desperate efforts in
defence. Blood flowed IN the streets of
Corona, the town was dismantled, it's
buildings were in flames, in which, be-
,yond any doubt, many public registers
were burnt. Was the proof OF the
beautiful Colomba's marriage thus de-
stfoyeii? |? Hersurvivipg relatives main-
tnin that it was. If they can prove her
marriage they share the inheritance. -
an. de BedOut, the widower, on the.
contrary. nlulnL0l1S rEleEE9 WAS no mar
rinEe. If the illegitfmucy of his wife
be admitted by the tribunals all that
she has LEFT becomes his. Tho circum-
stances brought ont ut the trial were
most curious. and a romance might
well be built npon the Whole story. In
the absence of tile Spanish register the
wOuld-be heirs sought to prove the
marriage by fhcts subsequent TO II. In
1914, after sharing the fatigues aud dam
ger of the retreat To France, COLOMBIA
gave birth to a child, inscribed i'll its
certificate of birth MS legitimate SON of
Dnnliens de Noell and of COLOMBIA SAL
gas, his lawful wife. But the father,
absent mt the time, never signed the
act. Exactly the sane was the cAse on
the birth of Luisa de NOEL, whose de-
cease has given rise to the present liti-
CATION. a third child WINS born in 1878,
at st. Esprit. NJ. de Noell, who had re-
turned to France with the Bourbons,
was captain in line regiment, and was
then with his wife in the citndel of st.
Esprit, and declared It his legitimate
son. For some years after that date
there is difficulty in tracing the history
of the divided pair. NoeI1 abandoned
his wife and children; they returned to
Spain; he passed from garrison to gar
rison. y = ~. - . :. p ~ -
.sBut in 1923 an Important event oc-
Cured. Madame de NOEL, finding
herSelt in Stfa1tened circumstances, re-
solved to compel her husband to assist
her and her children. Before any step
could be taken, proof of her marriage
was indispensable the registers were
searched, but no record of It was to be
found. What is called an act of noto-
riety was then drawn up, in virtue Of
which the ecclesiastical tribunal order
ed the marriage act of COLOMBIA Salgas
TO be inscribed ON the civil registers,
which was accordingly done, under the
dSts O. lsl g1 y the yeEy priest vi who had
now in a position, after the accomplish