Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
TITLES.
SOMETHING ABOUT TITLES IN EUROPE
AND THEIR ORIGIN.
The Descendant Of Blue Beard and His
Regal Habits and surroundings
Expelling Deputy.
PARIS. Noyemher Is 1850.

PARIS, November Is, 1850.
distance lends enchantment to the
view" may be said of more than hills
mountains and trees, and the fact that il
America we are unused to other titles than
President, Colonel end such prosaic names,
inclines US to believe that because a man is
called Baron or Count he must be possessed
of superior attributes, and because he wear
crown embroidered on his handkerchief h,
can be no other than one of the elected O
Divine Providence. In Europe, where tn,
article abounds, it is held in no such higi
appreciation, and the numerous Counts anC
Barons themselves are beginning to be lit
tie impressed with their own importance
When people become intelligent enough tc
learn and understand the origin of these
escutcheons which have been for so man,
centuries thrust before the eyes of the
people to dazzle them and command awe
and adulation, they entertain for these pre-
sumptious lords contempt more or less
profound. II should be remembered that
in those
GOOD OLD DAYS
To which the very noble trace their origin,
the king was master of everything and
everybody, and if he happened to meet
with clever juggler whom he fancied, he
did not hesitate to take somebody's housef
and lands and give them to his favorite,
along with title which he often invented
| for the occasion. When the eldest son in
herited the title and fortune, the mobiles
sustained the prestige of power and wealth,
but since the revolution the property
has been equally divided between all the
children, and centuries of idleness and in
activity of brain and hands, without the
faculty of succeeding through their own
efforts, have rendered them mentally and
morally inferior, and with few exceptions
| they are now In France class of poor,
worthless creatures. There are some few
proprietors of immense estates in the west
and center, such as the Duke de la Roche
! foucauld- Bisacea and the Marquis de Tai
houet, who possess considerable revenues in
land, and particularly in forests, that they
may be compared with the rich land owners
of England. Everywhere else throughout
the country the noble is born poor,
with no social position and the grand
monde is the financial, political and artistic
world. Many mobiles at the present day
employ their titles and names at the head
of financial societies, such as President OF
conseil of the administration, Directors and
so on; and when any new enterprise is
started, which is intended to speculate on
the credulity of the simple and uneducated,
as recommendation to their confidence
a long list of names is given, the majority
of which are Dukes, Counts, Viscounts and
Barons. and if perchance the affairs should
prove swindle las is generally the easel
the Dukes and Barons accept the public
censure with immoral Indifference, pre-
pared to begin again whenever credulous
victims are to be found. The first Napoleon
somewhat upset the social scales by
CONVERTING TITLES,
Property and other favors on his Generals
who had sprung from the very heart Of the
people. This aristocraey infused new life,
vigor and originality into the governing
classes, but they soon became as corrupted
as the others through idleness and luxury,
and although they more readily make use
of their mental faculties to gain liveli-
hood when necessary, they seem to have a
prediction for all employments wherein
ruse and cunning may be exercised rather
than for legitimate honest work.
The most striking type of what the no.
bility of France was during the last cen
/ f,,rx 70 a fnup1 i,,+ IF ,jrx,
d Asson, who was the cause on last Thurs
day of the most fearful scandal which has
yet taken place at the Chambers. This
gentleman owns an immense property and
extended tracts of land in Brittany, in a
part of France which railroads have not
yet reached and where the telegraph is
unknown. He there reigns almost as in
feudal times. His castle sits on the top of
the hill, and looks as proudly and deiantly
down on more modern constructions, as Its
owner is taught to look upon the rest of
mankind. So great is the reverence OF
the inhabitants of the country for this
representative OF an ancient race of priv
legged lords, that be lives and rules as a
monarch, and no governments official has
been able to combat his authority. Baudry
d'Asson is what is called sportsman
spends his time principally hunting, and
owns
THREE HUNDRED DOGS,
A number of which are at present at the
Jardin d'Acclimation, and can be seen BY
the public. He organizes at his chateau
grand hunting parties, when he has whole
regiment of servants dressed in the hunt
ing livery of royal days, and ladies accom-.
pany the gay cavaliers in costumes OF red
velvet skirts, long plumes in their hats
and gloves and collars such as worn in the
days OF the Louis. Every thing in fact i:
performed on grand and liberal scale,
and the magni6cence and elegance, and
the almost unlimited power of the chate
lain over his dominion carry one back a
century or two, and he forgets that the
feudal days are past and that humanity is
| busy treading social barriers under foot
| Baudry d'Asson, like all grand seig-
neurs, refuses himself nothing, not even
the pretty girls he accidentally meets in
his equestrian promeRades, but not as his
ancestors, who rode down from the tower
on the mountain to carry off some peasants
sheep or COW by force, and as frequently
/ CdIIltu Oli HIS WIG VI uOce
he win the fair maids, but through
CENTER means, for which 60 much gratitude
Is felt that he has been stamped a gallant
hommc He is the direct descendent Of
the famous "Blue Beard" the hero and
horror Of our infantile days, and he pos
sesses himself handsome, long, fine, black
beard, which adds much towards strength
ening the rumor. He is what may be
called bon garcon, is neither vindictive
nor cruel, is in fact gentle in his manners,
but he does not differ from other members
OF that society which he represents, and
is dull and unintelligent, with no taste fol
nything outside OF dogs and hunting and
whenever he does appear at the tribune his
speeches are not only absurd and illiterate,
but are spread over great sheets of paper
in letters SO large that a sx-year-old chile
could read them. On last Tuesday, OF
the reopening OF the Chambers, Baudry
d'Asson incurred the penalty of