Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-02-18
DEATH OF AN ADVENTURES.

| woman who never needed TO DC emaIclpateu
from amy prejudices Of morality or sent-
ment painted Jezebel if you like, but q
woman for all that, and woman of the
kind that fascinates, contemporaries and
excites the curiosity ofposterity. Her maid
en- name was Theresa Pauldim Lachman.
Her father was q tailor at Moscow, and her
first husband was FrancoisEilloing, the cutter
Of the paternai establishment. One morn-
ing Theresa left her husband and started
out to conquer the world, having for arms
her beauty and her wit and Il wonderful
talent for music. She came TO Paris, and
her first conquest was the pianist Henri
| Hertz whom she accompanied i'll his pro-
| fcSsiona tours as his wife. Her restless
| ambition led her even 10 induce Hertz 10
! take her 10 court, but some inqusitiye peo-
pie looked into her past and it was dis
covered that the Hertz household was inn
perfect, inaSmuch IS Francois Nilloing was
| still living; indeed, he continued TO live
until 1910. So, when Nine. Hertz made her
! triumphant entry in the Sales dies Mare
chauZ at the Tuilcrics, an official suggested
! to her That she had made a mistake. The
! adventures c0u1prehcnded the situation,
turned on her heel and abandoned Hertz,
| whose flag could no longer cover her. Dur
tiiul Russian had great success in Paris.
! Having broken with Hertz, Theresa went
| to London, and, after a period of struggles
| and disappointments, she succeeded in bav-
in@ half dozen fortunes at her feet, includ.
ing that Of Lord Dudley. Thanks TO this
champion, she was enabled, on her return
to Paris, her tailor husband having died in
the the iheantime,to allow herselfthc luxury
Of third husband, Il genuine husband this
time, The Marquis Arauio de Paiva.
The marriage was celebrated III June,
1871. The Marquis, however, was only a
grandec Of Portugal, and his estates beyond
lbe Pyrenecs were only castles in Spain
There's, took his title and gave him 5000
month to console him for the sacrifice he
made in renouncng her company. SO it
was that the Marquis disappeared and Mime.
;!v p.&iya established herself in fine man
so.i in the Champs Elysees, where she
rcsneti for years over one OF the most bril-
liant salons of the century, rs far as intel
iect Is concerned.
While in London Nine. de Pava met the
Count Hencl1cl de Donnesmarck, an i'm
meuseiy rich gentleman, cousin OF Prince Bis
marck, believe, and brother Of the Count
Henckci, who was governor Of Alsace-L0r-
rain Immediately after the German occupa-
| ton in 1870, The Count Henckcl saw her
! again uL Paris, then ut Baden, then ut Fien-
ma, and then ii Constantmople. One day
he stopped the fugitive whom he was not
pursuing, and offered her his hand. Il
cannot give you mine," she replied. Il
have already been married three times"
Every good, Marquise will wait" The
Count Henckel became one of the friends of
| the house he made Mmo de Paiva q pres
ent Of the immense chateau and domain OF
Pontchartrain, famous as the residence Of
Nine, de In VALERIE, one Of the finest estates
in France, and one of the biggest houses.
The chateau has list as many windows as
there are days in the year. Finally, when
| the Marquis dc Pava shot himself, III 1870,
the MarQuise. once more a widow, married
the Count Henckle, cousin Of the Iron
Chancellor. During the war Nine. de Pal
| vas property in France was scrupulously
respected, and naturally after the conquest
she could hardly resume her old life. The
sympathe,c chain was broken, and those of
her friends who could not forget twenty
years Of charming hospitality only ventured
to come to see her on the sly. For that
matter, since the war she has been
very little in Paris She lived al
most entirely ut Newdelck, i'll Silesa,
where she owned immense mines, and
where she had built by Lefuel Il repro
duction OF the now demolished palace OF
| the TuilericS.
The wealth of Nine de Paiva and the
magniicencc Of her existence were fairy
like and hewlderng. The proof is that she
conlG indulge IN the royal luxury OF build
| iu9 for herself IN exact copy Of the Iulle-
ries Her mansion III Paris, on the left
hand side Of the Champs Elysees, just be-
yond The Hond Point bnilt in 1861, is mar
| vel of richness. The staircase is Of onyx,
the chimney pieces are carved by the first
seuplors OF the time, the ceilings are Bau-
dry's masterpieces, the panels are the finest
insnirations of Hebert. Cabanel and Gerome;
the stables would have delighted Callgula.
It is 4 palace such as one reads about III the
Arabian Nights. AS Tor her diamonds her
level casket contains the choicest pieces of
the collections OF unfortunate crowned heads
from Marie Antoinette down to the Empress
Eugene. On the day of her marriage with
Count Hencllel she wore the diamonde that
the Empress sold at London after the battle
OF Sedan. She had Il pair OF earrings two
diamonds, that cost the one 100000 and
the other $500, 900, without counting the eN-
penses Of an envoy who was sent to India
expressly to make the pair. At Pontchar-
train she employed an army of gardeners
exclusively for the supply of her Paris table
which was most richly served.
This table, according 10 NJ. dc Goncourt was
snlpnditily served all the accessories were eX-
caedingly rich, and the ordinary wine glasses cost
500 or $50 each.
| In arncar ance Nine. dc Paiva was of very pro-
nmnced Russian type. She was brunette, with
enormous eyes almost protruding, the nose slight
~ hattcned in the Calmuck style, the mouth large
and with fleshy lips. She by no means realized
the type of classic beauty, but she had a strange
ness in her physiognomy, singuatlty tnae % Al
| tractcd sud fascinated even moro than beauty.
The shoulders the arms and the hands were sus
perb, aud even when she was over sixty years OF
age Nine. de Pava could appear decol'etee wlthout
fearing invidious comparisons The mascuhni!y
Of the mind of Nine. de Pava revealed itself III
her administrative capacity. 1t was she who cs.
tablshed her mines in siesis, and her mills,
which together employ some 5000 pairs Of hands.
She died last week at Newdelck at the age oil H.