New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-06
THE MOBILES OF rHsglRsT BKPiRH


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Some dim remembrance of her former state seems
TO have chung to tho late mserly Prncesse de u Mo
kova, since she kept half dozen male and femAl2
servants. With these douestics, and eometimce
nightly game Of besiqne at halfpenny the " fcbeys
counter IL being, however. understood that any
sye. rising on Two 70 &c eySn' t1y s
doors The annual income OF TINS more than ceceus
tric lady was estimated at about thirty thousand
pounds sterling We call her o more ~ saa n. eccentric
fortunate as to suffer mental alienation, and the
future Princesse de Ia Moskova born In lunatc
Aib,ps Laitts were as spefdidly golden as those d
Hoods fancied Miss Kilmansegg." Born IN 1908
she was old enough to remember IN all its rnagnih-
cence the Court Of Napoleon i. ana Maria Louisa. ,
The title so long borne BY the deceased Princesse
de Ia Moskova will devolye on NJ. Edgar Ney, the /
last surviving son of the ilfated Marshal who was
years ago. The new Prince de IL Moskoya- should
he come TO don the shadowy ranks an elderly and
chiidless gentleman; and e. his death the pr.nci
t be assumed by the late Prineesss nephew, General
the Duke Of Elckingen.
Republican France Is. IN all probaoDlty snpremeY
fc dignties created for bis satraps and oounseors
by Napoleon the Great the dukes and counts and
"paryenus.S They sprang from nothing. AID TO
nothing they are returning Even IN the case OF tn
penurious Princesse de Ia MOskova there II no dry
actual success as O fnancier. was an AuverRnat
peasants and her husbands father. the hero of the
M0ekova "the bravest of the brave,n had been
originally mechanic at Sare-Louis II we turn
over NapoleOns roll of peers we shall be surprised
to find how few among the descendants Of that
bright band of warriors and sagee have made any
mark in public life. In the person of the devoted
adherent Of the Empress Eugeaie we are, indeed,
reminded of the existence of Maret, Duke OF bas-
sapo but the once glorious title of Lanne', Duke
of M0ntebellO, is now chiefly suggestive OF cham
payne brand. The Junots, Dukes OF Abrantes, seem
to be wholly submerged; and the WIDOW or ING
original Marshal, who, as sergeant, sanded VITO
the earth thrown up by cannon ball the dispatch
which he was writing on gun, ct the dictation 81
B0naparte General Of Artillery at Toulop, was re-
duced in her old age to the drest indulgence.
A Clarke, Duke of Feltre, was dimy heard OF as
the last General Elections In France; and there
may be somewhere in French society representa-
tive 0f Dav GUST, Prince of Eckmuhl but the Ial<
leyrand-P erigords have long since ceased to call
themselves Princes of Beneventum; and there Is no
Murat who is Grand Duke of Borg The existing
descendant of Marshal Bernadotte may say proudly
Plus ultra There Is need for him to call nim-
self Prince of Ponte Corvo. He Is King Of Sweden:
There may occur from time to time just faint and
Dukes Of Otranto, and of the Savarys, Dukes OF
Rovigo but for half century no active part has
been taken in French politics by the descendants OF
the noted Police Ministers Of the First Napoleon.
And what has become of the Soults, Dukes OF Das
malta; Of the Macdonalds, Dukes Of Iarcntumj OF
the Massenas, Princes of EsslinR; OF the hegniers
Dukes of Padua; of the Suchets Dukes OF Hbufera;
of the Dukes OF Reggie and Treviso and Dantziot
They all seem now as shadowy beings as Arthura
Knights of the Round Table and the Paladins %
Charlemagne.