The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-07-13
HdndsOmest WOman in France.

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/ Tribune, in his account of the recent ball in
Paris to Don Carlos, says:
However, as FAR as the entertainment it.
self went, Don Carlos seems to have had
more luck than in the Basque mountain.
His great success was in waltzing with the
Duchesse de Chaulnes, and assuredly he
could have found no lovelier partner. The
/ 0uchesse de Chaulnes (born Princess Gal
litzin) is bride of two years SANDING, and
just 19. She is, perhaps, a slight degree
too tall for standing beside Don Carlos
who is good six feet high, the difference
OF height struck no one. But being per
fectly proportiOned and slim and willo Wy,
the tallness of the young duchesse is no
draw back. Her complexion is of the most
exquisite pearly white, nov and then family
lighted up by pale rose blush her large
! eyes are of the darkes. hazel, and a fine,
/ broad, open brow is crowned by such a
! mass of pale gold chestnut hair as never
/ was seen on a human head, unless on that
of the Empress Elizabeth of Austria. The
! Duchesse de Chaulnes is not as lovely as
| the latter, because probably no other born
! woman ever was or will be. She has not
! that strange radiance, that sovereign grace
! that undeiinable something" that instant
/ ly compels and proclaims the goddess the
! Venus reluctantly surrendered to tue sea
but though not equal to the absolutely su-
! pernatural Elizabeth of Austria, the fair
| Ducbesse de Chaulnes is by common con-
| sent the handsomest woman in France aud
! walks youthful Juno in the world.
! Her story is fairy tale, and has been
/ enough of an ''eveut' to bear recording.
| The Prince Galitzin married French wife
! and lived in France. eXiled by Russia for
| having turned Catholic. He bad one
! daughter, Sophie, who really ''came up as
! a flower" for there was literally less than
oil Il, 10 4
Due de Luynes had died leaving his
daughter-in- law, the Duchesse de Chevre-
| use, a widow, with two sons. The family
! desccuds in straight line from the famous
! Conuetabie de Luynes, who, under Louis
MIL, killed he Italian favorite of Marie
de Medicis, Concini, and reigned over the
young king future father of Louis XIN.)
with absolute sway. Besides this, the
Luynes are among the richest families of
! France. During the war of 1870 the young
Due de Luyues who had married lis cousin
| Golande de Larochefoucauld. and was al
ready blessed with two baby boys, was
killed at the battle of Patay. There were
widows on all sides at Hotel de Luynes,
and the only'e rown man of tue clan was the
Duo de Chaulues, who at % had also won
renUwn against the Germans.
With a large fortune at his command,
nice looking if not handsome, gay and
earth, the Duchesse de Chevreuse was de-
sirous TO see her son, the Due Cbaulmes,
married and out of harms way. But he
was not seemingly of this mind, and lie re-
sisted the maternal entreaties. One morn
ing, however, lie announced to- his mother
that al IA ball the night before he had seen
his future bride, or that no mortal woman
would he wed. This Juliet was no other
| than Mile. Sophie Galii gin, the dJwerless
a OH of a ip q
was an unqualified opposition. But the
! young couple had the luck to get the ,je-
! suits on their side, and 1T was aUthorita-
! lively expuunded to the Duchess mot her of
Chevreuse that the fair Frauco-liusSian
was a perfectly warranted ''nairdc1tljsi,
| that the Holy Virgin of Lourdes was Certain
! to be her friend, aud that altogether the
marriage would bring into the Luynes-
! Chevreuse family a large amount of aaron
! age-in paradise. and an unlimited share
| of the favors of the Church Against this
! the dowager was unarmed. She yielded
! and a marriage took place, the like of which
! has never been witnessed i'll this country III
! modern times, But the medal had its re-
verse too. II the ecclesiastical community
vas universally content, the merely secular
! portion of society was, and remains to this
! hour bitterly irate and unforgiving. In
the first place the moiheIs whose daughters
have not married NJ. de Chaulnes, yet who
| were rich enough To buy any duke, are
| leagued together in eveTla ting hatred and
| abuse of the portionless damsel who has
married him, and in the next the entire
population of used up Young paupeis
| who live in the hopes of being chosen
! by fabulOusly rich heiTeSses do not disguise
their disgust at the Due de Chaulnes and
say openly in their clubs and elsewhere thai
| he is a traitor and has spoiled the trade
| "V a 1ate Js R.etier.'' That is the received
expression. Nevertheless the youthfu
duchess walks-I repeat it-Juno like. ovel
the floor of Parisiau salons, looking rather
as though she knew the enmity she excite1
and repaying il with inconJestIbie disdain
| "
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Every man and woman in America wants
| them.
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Business languishes without them, a
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paradise. and draw prayers OF thanksgiving
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administer 10 the sick and afflicted, an