Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-22
MARRYING A TITLE.
Monsieur de BrimOnt and Hi
--,I Wffe's Relations.

Prom the New York Tribune.l
A cable dispatch has informed our
readers that NJ. de Brimont has obtained
verdicts in the French courts in his suits
against the proprietors of two Ameri-
can newspapers, amounting In the ag-
gregate to some $1,000 A small fine
was also imposed on both these journals.
The offense which has been thus visited
was the publication of the report of the
suit brought by M. de Brimont against
the family of his late wife, to compel
them to support him. As the scandal of
these libel quits rather adds to the dis
agreeable notoriety which the young
gentleman had already attained before
the public of New York and Paris, it is
fair to conclude that he brought them
for the money he might gain from them; F.;
and as legal proceedings are not so ex-
pensive in France as they are here, he
probably considers the balance which
will be left after feeling his lawyers a
sufficient compensation for the addi-
tional stains which have thus been in
Aicted upon an already variegated char
acter. Two thousand dollars is not a
very large sum to sell a character for,
but to a young French nobleman of mar
row resources and expensive habits, 1t IS
better thaa nothing. He was considered,
several years ago, to have made a for
tunate marriage, and in spite of certain
untoward circumstances he still works
it with great energy and reasonable sue
cess.
The story is one which has always
been touched upon with delicaey, out Of
respect to the feelings of an honorable
family deeply outraged. A young and
lovely American lady, whose parents re,
sided in Paris, met in the gay world OF
that city this de Brimont. He had the
entree to what was called the best socl-
ETY., the manners and appearance OF a
gentleman, an aristocratic name, some
debts, no money, and few scruples. He
married, as most men of his class do, tor
a maintenance. He had no idea OF any
such thing as mutual obligations. His
duty was fulfilled in the bestowment Of
his name. He went on in the usual
course Of life, robbing and maltreating
his Young wife until she died, her death
fastened if not absolutely caused by his
unworthy conduct. De Brimont finding
his means of subsistence thus suddenly
cut off, insisted that his wife's parents
should continue to him the allowance
| they had made to their daughter. They
naturally declined paying any such pre-
mium to the man who had rendered their
home desolate. He sued them, and ac-
tually obtained verdict for pension
upon this preposterous demand. They
thereupon left Paris, and this enter
prising son.in-law followed them to New
York. and brought suit in the United
States Court to compel the payment of
the sum fixed for his support by the
French courts. Judge Woodruff made
short work of the matter, however, and
M. de Brimont returned to Paris, where
his last exploit is that of striking the
newspapers which reported the trial.
If YOU bray the Parisian-American
Young lady in mortar it is perhaps too
much to hope that you can cause to de-
part from her the desire to marry title.
| But one would think that the contempls-
6on of few such cases as this would do
much to cure those of average common
sense of any tendencies in that diree-
tiou. We would not waste words In ad-
dressing young people who fall In love.
A whole college faculty failed recently
in persuading a bright and good young
lady to give up an adventurer who cal led
himself Count, and whose back rlValed
that OF the zebra in stripes received In
many lands. This was proved over and
over to the young lady, end she an
swered all the proof with the exasperat-
ing but irrefntable statement that she
| loved him, She married him, and II
may be that she will never regret it.
She had money enough for both, and
some thieves treat their women kindly
Rut In most cases Of foreign marriages,
| Il Is a question purely OF vanity on one
side and of greed on the other. The
Iady thinks only Of the coronet and the
gentleman cnly Of the bank account.
| Sometimes, for such accidents cannot
be guarded against, enc OF the
parties falls in love after marriage
and NJ. Drsz in q recent novel gives
a mastery delineation OF the misery
which results in that case. a young
LADY Of large fortune uerries ruined
rome with a noble name. De treats her
with contemptuous neglect and throNs
away her money upon gamblers ana
wan,ons. She knows this, and loves him
All the more for it, She says 70 her con
fessor, at is because be despises me
and prefers these drOlesses 70 aei y q
because be wastes my money aud breaks
mr. heart, that an wild about him; ioE
~ this shows tkai he is noble and ! am
So,rVeoiss. In most Of these inter
Sstional marriages, however, there Is nc
sgoh depth Of feeling rn either SIDE
Tbsre & partnership which each party
,-.,c,1s IA nuderstand, but in which ths
pretelul - --.---s.iiv cheated She