Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-28
PRINCESS WAGRAM.
Married without Love and Buying
a Title.


Paris Correspondent Pail Mall Gazsttc.
The wedding of Mile. Berthe Roths-
child was a sad one She made a love
match. Her relations say that puerile
vanity was mingled with her romantic
sentiments. In Germany Bourse Barons
stand very low in the social hierarchy.
The distinction between the financial
caste and that of the VOus is not in our
time so sharp as it was when Lady Jer.
sey was held of no account at Vienna be-
cause she was a granddaughter of Child,
the banker Still there is shade of arts
tocracy which appears cold even to the
Frankfort ROthschilds The nobility
Of the Berthiers de Wagram is not
yet secular. 1t dates from 1907, but it
has been allied with all the highest
mushrooms" which owe their existence
to the first empire. Through the Clarys,
who were soap dealers at Marseilles when
the Bonapartes emigrated to that city
from Corsica, they. are cousins of the
King Of Sweden and the hereditary Prin-
cess Of Denmark. The Murats are a
connecting link between them and the
Leuchtenbergs and the Roman Catholic
branch Of the HohenZollerns, and through
the Bonapartes they are associated with
imperial bees and purple.
The new Princess de Wagram is not
lnsensible to the worldly advantages
which will accrue to her by the invest
ment she has made of her fortune. which
brings her in a revenue of G124. 600 a
year. Her attitude at her baptism. con-
nrmation and first communion delighted
her catechist, the Able Gallet and the
Archbishop of Paris, who administered
to her the latter sacrament. But it is
whispered that she has no conception of
the graces of humility, and is proud to
be connected with dynastic families.
Nothing could have been quieter than
her religious marriage, which was not
even Tete de fiGniIge, as the only kins-
folk present were her sister, the Duchess
de GramOnt, and her mother. The con-
tract IS all to the advantage of the bride
groom, who has brought his principally
to good market. He is heir to a ma
5orGt or pension of $4,000 a year.
and descends from father to son by or
der OF primogeniture. Creditors, it has
been decided by the Court Of Casa
ton, have no power to divert this perpet
ual income from the use for which it was
bestowed, namely, keeping up the digni-
ty OF the DE Wagram title. BOnaparte
granted a number of major ITS, but the
families thus enriched were in such haste
to enjoy their newly acquired wealth as
to become rapidly extinct. There were
very few exceptions. When the Third
Empire was drawing to a close there
seemed to be danger of the Bethiers of
Wagram going the way Of the Gadarene
herd. The young men Of the family
were fast bloods and kept company with
the late Duke of Elchingen Gen. New
and Prince Achille Murat. The revolu.
ton of the 4th of September tanned them
a little, and now they are on the wrong
side of middle age.
Prince and Princess Alexandra de
Wagram have gone to spend the honey
moon at eros Bots They have for
nelghbors at that family residence the
De Lafayette, whose property of La
Grange touches the estate of Gros Bots
Ferrieres, the estate of Baron AlphOnse
Rothschild, is not far distant AS he is
one OF those who respect the fdit accom-.
p5 when it brings power and prosperity,
he will no doubt, forgive Prince Alex.
andre de Wagram for having drawn so
much money away from the great
banking house. There is, by the by, a
tendency in the Rothschild family for
males to decrease and females to increase
All the fortune of the Gustave branch
threatened a short time ago to fall
en- QuenOulUe. The late Sir Anthony
Rothschlld only left daughters. Lady
ROsebury was the sole heiress of the
Meyer Amschel branch, Baroness Roths.
child, of the Avenue de Friedland, and
has but one Child-the young lady who
so often drives a team of ponies in the
Bots de RnnlOgne