The daily gazette., 1880-12-07
A BONAPARTE WEDDING.

A MILLIONAIRE GAMBLER's DAUGHTER
AND A GRAND-NEPHEw OF NAPo-
LEON 1.
Paris Letter to N. Y. World.
Prince Roland Bonaparte was mar
ried to day to Mile Marie Blanc, dau-
glitter of the founder of the gambling
house at Monaco. The marriage took
place at the church of st. Roch, on the
steps of which Napoleon I, planted the
cannon with which he swept the Paris
streets of the mob 1t was the most
splendid ceremony of the kind we
have had for long time. The mar
riage came about in a curious way
One Of the papers lately published
series of articles on the "men who had
disappeared"-the extinct volcanoes
of notorlety, SO to speak. Among
them it named Pierre Bonaparte, the
father of Prince Roland and the slay-
er of Victor Noir, and it gave very
piteous account of the style IN which
he was living and of the efforts of his
low born wife to keep the family on a
footing of respectability. There was
even some allusion to the dressmak-
ing business in London which she
used to conduct. This was read by
Nine. Blanc, of Monaco, the widow of
the tenfold millionaire. She sought
out Nine. Bonaparte and offered her
help. From this meeting sprarg the
union of the two families.
Nine. Bonaparte's son was sub lieu
tenant in the line, and in the course of
his visits to his mother and sister he saw
Marie Blanc, fell in love with her and
has now won her hand, with respecta-
BILE number of her family millions as
her dowry. She is charming girl, we'll
educated and ambitious. In this last
respect she is only like the rest of the
family, which is most anxious to do
something to make people forget the
vulearity, not to say the degradation, of
its origin. Nine. Blanc has already
married one daughter 10 Prince Radzi-
Wi, one of the most illnstrious names
in Austria, and the chief members of
the Austrian embassy were among the
distinguished people at the wedding.
Prince Radziwil has pushed forward the
present union by all the means in his
power, and has given grand dinners in
honor Of the signing of the contract.
For the rest the Blancs have been lavish
of their gold. The brides trousseau is
something unexampled even in this
city of costly wonders. She has pearl
necklace which is said to have no peer
among the known treasures of this sort,
except in the famous one worn by the
Empress Eugene.
Among the bridal gifts was a carriage
and horses bought in England for $4,000
francs, and allFthe rest is on this scale.
The wedding was half a political dem
onstrauon owing to the presence of the
Bonapartists, but in this respect it was
som what spoiled by the abstention of
the head OF the family, Prince Jerome.
The prince has never rad any great at
lection for Prince Pierre, aud took no
| notice OF the invitation sent to him, a
the Empress Eugene was equally OBJ
| livious of the invitation sent to he.
They all feel bitter Tancor towards
Pierre because his brutal escapade in
the shooting of Victor Noir was the first
great disgrace which happened to the
| family, and indeed blow from which
il never recovered. Still Bonapartism
in its rank and file cannot afford TO be
squeamish, and all the younger mem
bers of the party, with Paul de Cassag-
nae at their head, were at the church
Twenty thousand people were in the
streets to see the party arrive at the
church, and the old building itself was
:esplendent in hangings of blue and
silver and purple and gold. The solos
in the service were rendered by singers
from the opera. 1t was just such wed
ding as Paris loves and 1t will go far to
| sancLiy in a social sense the wealth ac-
qured by the founder of the Blanc fan
lily and, as nothing succeeds like success
20 atone perhaps for the unlucky shot
whose detonation brought the empire to
the ground. 1t was a truly edifying
spec acle from first to last. Queen Isa'
bella sat in one part of the church and
near her was Nine. Ratazzi on hei
knees.