Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-22
Nilsson and Her Husband.


 Paris was indeed astonished when it learned that the great prima donna was about to simply and 60urgeOiSeHleTlt marry g man nam ed Rouzeaud No one seemed to know who he was, and so investigations were entered into It was discovered that the happy hus- band was the son of landed proprietor of Charente, in easy circumstances and of creole origin and that he was an aqeHt de cibGHgs, or broker on the Bourse. Of course the people who insist that kings should in these days still marry shepherdesses were disappointed at seeing the tender OpieliG, the irresistible Marguerite, falling in love with gentleman who sold stocks on margin from 12 to o'clock; and yet there was romantic side to this union II. Rouzeaud had been waiting for her for five long years. For that time he had loved and despaired fer he had seen nation of adorers coquetting around the fair one had heard ardent Parisians declaring themselves with all the dangerous power of sincerity. He waited with patience and he won the prize It was quickly known all over Paris that there had been no prelude to this union which could not be avowed There fore the Nilsson -Rouzeaud family had not, like so many others, to undergo any insulting stages before admission into society. my self have seen Mime. Nilsson at the UldrdIg Of the Theatre Francais, and at the n1ercyesiis of the Grand Opera in boxes into which many swell" Parisians would have regarded 1t as an honor to be able to penetrate, even if only during an entr' acte, and NJ Rouzeaud WAS with her. It was soon known, indeed, that, in order to marry Nilsson, he had to over ride certain objections and quarrel with cer- tain very much coveted inheritances that he had to make the s0nlBiGti0Es rtspdctUSlLSes to his own family, and that since his mar riage he had not touched one sou of his wife's fortune, which at that time amounted to quite :, ,O0O, ,O0O francs He himself was earning by his work and intelligence all the way from 50, ,000 francs to loo, GOO francs year, and this was more than enough to meet all their wants. It was the greatest anxiety of NJ Rouzeaud not to be known as the husband of star" It is foolish for some people to insinuate that this couple did not love each other. Soon after her husband had been taken from her to the private mad house Nine. Nilsson said to me Il am left alone in the world, and deprived of friend whom I adored and who fully returned my adoration-" Those few persons who have been intimate with NJ. and Mime Rouzeaud know that this was the truth. But to be known among his fellow-Frenchmen as the BaaTl de Eet0iLe was more than be could bear
 His cream was to be in domestic life more magnificent than even the impresarios in their greenrooms. This dream for a while seemed on the point of being realized through the Union Generale. He was the cousin of NJ. Feeder, the sovereign master of that bank of the Arabian Nights; and this same cousin gave him private points which many another broker would have been only too glad to have even at fourth hand. Fifteen days more, and he would have held a fortune in lis grasp large enough to permit his wife to rest and enjoy the glory which she has So nobly earned. Theatrical oystions never pleased him. His dignity was offended at certain associations. He was not a man to accept hisrole with & cynical indifference, and to discuss point by point the terms of an engagement, or inch by inch the length of petticoats. He consented to his wife's sing ing in Europe outside of France. alt was to respect this wish of an honest man, said Mime Nilsson, that have constantly refus- ed every engagement which l have been of fered to sing in Paris; ani 1t Is for the same reason that endure without weakness the odious calumnies that have been print ed against me" This was not the first time that the deceased broker had suffered from insanity. Some six years ago he had an at tack of the same dread disease while with his wife in the United States. At that time Mme. Nilsson herself cured her husband. and the world was none the wiser for his illness. This insanity seems to be in the family. as both his first cousin and his uncle LaTs succumb- ed to it.