New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-13
TOPICS IN PARIS.
1850 NOTABLE PEOPLE.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS uNFoH'O""
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pn'n,s Feb 26.-The suicide, murder OF "'0i
snntaI death of General Ney. Du" dElc.nSon;
.na ssnsation of the day. The Duo h"u n0"l'n
--oalth fine sounding title. historical h"no' "nu
onnarently long life before him. why 0No
ne his personal friends and brother oin'0i9 80
have committed suicidef He was entreS 49,
M those sensibilities which urge men OIL Vho H"
temper ament to give themselves tneir qu''Tu',
General Ney talked like Pere Ducheno'
tonaue early acquired the habit OF COARSE su"t
room lingo and the brain was not stro"e c-ea
% forca II into the use of more rehneu
rooohrlarv Good cheer he liked, and MS fortune
soohlsd him to indulge in it. His WIG proueu0
him an income of 100000 francs e"'ueu Wy
several generations of Heines IN DankihH oS'"'-
',.s,.ont a. Ramburg. The Due PElcingen was
fond of Hooded horses, fencing pigeon-snoOtlng
and exciting the envy of his nelghoorS oS his nne
.bow of wealth. The six children which grew up
about him were remarkably handsome. They de-
rived their beauty from their mother who was
natural daughter OF PyTenean glrl-han beggar,
nolf neasant-and of Charles Hene, the banker,
hrotber of Heinrich Heine the poet. Heinrich
might had he entered his uncles counting house,
have come in for all the money which was to de-
vove to this wOmaus child, whom Mime. Charles
Heine. on the recommendation of her husband on
his deathbed, adopted. little OF the wealth OF
the Heines would have been very grateful to poor
Heinrich when paralysis was stealing over MN.
But because he scohed at stupid preiudces and
worshipped fantastic but certainly heaven-born,
albeit sarcastic muse he was not to have any of it,
Charles was held in the family to be the good boy
and Heinrich the ne'er-do-weel. Accordingly the
latter was disinherted. How his .ironical spirit
would jeer and mock if it cou' have foreseen the
destiny of the money-bags so carefully CLOSED
against him. lie felt on his deathbed the wretch
edness that want of money combined with ILL
health inevitably brings Wealth was heaped up
in the family and more wealth was being plled
upon it for the benefit of a hectoring Bonapartlst
officer. who, being sensualist, made we use OF
several of the bass of money. Whenever chlid
was born to the Due dElcingen, the adopted mother
of the Duchess settled million of francs on It,
The Elcingens were set up with on theiI marriage
with superb town mansion in the hue de Mon
ceau. Madame Heine who had resided IN the hue
de Berri came to live in a no less splendid house
next door to them to watch over the Duchess ana
her children, and to groan at the rig the Duo was
running. She also purchased for the ducal couple
one of the finest seats in the envrons OF Paris that
of Rocquencourt which LouvOls, Louis the Four
tcenth's Minister, built for his daughter.
A DESCENDANT FROM IdE OhhAA suHiNoHHL'
When the marriage, which gave great name to
the daughter of the unwedded Pyrenean damsel
and the fortune from which the poet Hcine was
cut Oft TO swashbuckler, the Empire was in its
glory and the Due dElcingen was the favorlte
orderly officer of the Emperor. He and the Marquis
do Gallifet and the Marquis de Caux were at the
same time members of the Imperial household, and
all intent on lettering their position by watching
for hauls to be made i'll the matrimonial market
General dElcngen was very unlike the grand
seigneurs OF the ancient monarchy. But he im-
tated them in respect. They had their petItes
,naisons studded round Paris and so had he. He
had some time ago a little place at ST. Maur, where
he used to keep bachelors homo when his regiment
was at Vincennes. He had another such establish
ment near Vile d'AvRay which he could visit on hls
way from Versailles where latterly he was quar-
tered TO ROcq1encourt; and three months ago MS
aides de camp hired for him a diapidated house
between ChatillOn and Baigneux. which he used
often to 90 to for the purpose Of secretly firing with
pistol at a target.
PREPARING FOR MURDER
One of the hes. fencers, perhaps, IN the French
army the Due PEIcingen a very bad marks
man At the jung w estyne trial he got irntated
at " oestyne's testimony being received while his
own evidence was disbelieved, and resolved TO
provoke and kill him in a duel. Now as lie
Woestyne would, as the prov Oked party. have
rcht to choose the arms and lie is good shot, II
vas anticipated that he wOnld decide to fight with
pistols The deserted hOuse which stood III
weedy garden surrounded by walls, was the theatre
of the Dues target practice. covered gallery
was erected in the garden. where he could file
away in wet weather but the principal scene of his
target practice was in the vauted basement of the
house. There were windows to it, and the walls
were 80 thick that pistol reports would not be heard
by the neighbors.
SUICIDE. OR -
It was in this cellar that General the Due
d'Elcngens body was found in a pool of blood on
Wednesday morning The details known to the
police were given to me by the Prefet at a Minis
teIial reception on Wednesday night, and repeated
TO me by General BillOt and other officers who had
well known the Due, and they shook their heads
when the hypothesis of suicide was mOOted. lie
was not they said, man TO commit suicide.
discussion took place before me, from which gath
cred that there circumstances which afforded
n parallel to the suicI le of Lord CasteTeagh. At
any rate 1t is certain that General Ney was one of
a Joyous square dinner party. The other three
we're Emile Angler, Labiche, the Palais Royal
dramatst and Arago, the French Minister to the
Swiss Confederation, who would be on such an oc
casion jovial taker and story-tcller. Ney was in
excellent spirits and only anxious on one subject
that of DuCue de la FaucOnnerie's election, the
result of which was not YET known. Ii Dugue were
elected, the General felt he might boldly confess
himself an Opportunst, and show himself at the
Petit Bourbon II he were not elected, it would be
unpleasant for those BOnapartists who had openly
gone over to the OppOrtunist camp. On Monday
morning he breakfasted with the Duchess and the
YOUNG folks, and called for his brougham when his
repas. wa over In going out he met his aide dc
camp, and asked him to say to Madame dElcingen
that he would not be back to dinner. When she
found nsxt morning that he did not return in the