The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-28
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The Countess Guiocloh daughter Of Count CAM
bal Marquise de Bo,ssy. made famous BY reason OF
her intimacy and association with Lord Byron. the
poet. has just died In Rome. She had almost CON-
pieted the seventy second year OF her age. When
Byron after his separation from his wife, took his
departure from England, IN the year 1916. smarting
rom the wounds OF . thousand taunts and with
ing under the load OF odium which was heaped
upon him-unjustiy, az he assersed-he went to
Switzerland, and thence joUrneyed to Venice. Pisa
and Ravenna. At Ravenna he lived In the most init
mate relations with the then youthful Countess Guio-
ci0li, lady endowed with an imaginative nature
and OF poetic temperament almost akin TO his
own. When her father and brother--the Counts
Camba-were expelled from Ravenna for poiti
Cal reasons Lord Byron took the whole family
under his protection and removed TO Pisa Here
the Countess followed and joined him. The poet
just then lost by DEATH his illcgtimate child Alle
gra, and his friend Shelley These events rendered
his mind still more gloomy. In the year 1922. the
residence at Pisa becoming dangerous TO tine Gam
bas, the Countess family and Byron removed to
Geneva, where they a-the Countess her brothers.
cause OF Greece drew Byron to that country Here
BYTE ByrSn died. his last words being "My wife. my
Count Pletro GAMBIA took charge OF his remains
and escorted them TO England. Countess Guicciol
remained on the Continent. Her central peints OF
was married, some years since, to the Marquis de
Boissy well known legislator and statesman Of
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spend the remainder OF her DAYS on her beautiful
estate At settlnello near Florence. in which city
Count Gambia. her only surviving brother, re-
sided. Her hotel In the Cite dc L0ndres. so well
known for twenty years as place of reunion
world Of fashion, art and science was dis
mantled and lett for q term OF years; and her
Paris, and the house almost ruined internally.
Fortunately. the superb arras in the grand salon-
six IN number, representing the wcll-knOwn pic
time OF Louis XIV. which covered the entire walls
two beautiful three-quarter portraits OF Nine. de
Pompadour and Nine. du Barry, presented by the
were removed before the arrival Of the Germans
1t would be impossible, IL was said to describe the
accumulated filth left in the villa by the prussians
No less than seventy cart loads were taken from
the rooms. The departure OF the Marquise from
Paris deprived the city Of the last OF It's salons.
and one which had continued uninterruptedly
since 1848. In her rooms were discussed, by the
Ministers themselves, the probabilities OF Louis
Prince Napoleon was constantly seen when candi,
President It may be said that scarcely
celebrity IN Europe has not at one time or an
other, been seen in her drawing room. Habitues
thereof were celebrities like Lord Palmerston and
Golden, the Marquis d'AzeglO and Professor Mat
teucci, Lord Malmcsbury and Miner Gibson, Mon
talembert and Emile de Grardin, Leverrer and
Scribe the Pope's Nnncio ana the United states
Minister, Djeml Pacha and Cardinal MOrlOt, the
beautiful Greek Princess Cantacuzene and the
charming Andalusian Duchess of Medina Coil.
wearing the famous pearl necklace, the heirloom
OF her husbands house, valued at more than two
millions OF francs; the Countess OF Harrington,
with her daughter, Lady Geraldine Stanhope
Countess OF Miltown), daughter OF ByrOns friend;
then Colonel Stanhope, who accompanied him to
Greece. Pages could be filed IN recalling the
names OF people OF celebrity and note have met
in that house. The Faubourg st. German and the
Faubo9rg st. Honore met there on neutral
ground; there the black ribbon OF the
Knight of Malta to merit which one must
have had a hundred ancestors, was seen side
by side with the scarlet OF the Legion of Honor.
worn by some marshal OF the Empire, whose family
originated with himself and his good sword. Few
houses were better adapted to entertaining and
the superb dining room might have well served for
best actors In costume. Rotations by RstOri and
Others OF like rank music by the great artstes ieats
talk OF the Paris is world, ieSersemain, amusements
Olevery kind in fact, were there at different times,
but dancing was entirely out OF place. although there
works of art which graced the walls. by Vatican,
Boucher, Gericaut and others were all sold, the
shs Of o anS
by FagnanL The Marquis left the whole OF his
vast fortune to his wife during her lie at her death
daughter, the late Duchess de Rohan. The Mar
quise in her SEVENTEEN year showed no en-
r we're as souna sSse Of
woman OF twenty. OF her beauty, also, the best
remain. Since the publication OF her book, called
"Lord Byron Judged by the Witnesses OF His l.fe,n
stupidity translated as my Recollections Or Lord
Byron" she superintendent and assisted IN the
Boissy. y and mas also Written personal RccoIlec
tions OF Lord Byron" Her first book was never
intended for the purpose it was made to answer;
she wished to prove to the Parisians. who seldom
take the trouble to examine into things, what
other people, who were judges, knew and SAID
about the poet in contradistlnction to Lamartne's
resume OF Byron, which was often accepted as
fact.