Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-13
PEDDLING OUT TITLES.
THE INGENIOUS SCHEME OF A
FRENCH NOBLENIAN.
Recognizing Children Whose Fathers
are UnknOwn-The Story Of a Bright
American Adventures How She
Flaunted Under the Bogus Empire.

are UnknOwn-The Story Of a Bright
American Adventures How She
Flaunted Under the Bogus Empire.
Paris Latter.
An ingenious French nobIeman. who
was out at the elbows, has discovered a
new opening for impecuniOus members Of
his class. 1t is to ''recOgnize' children
who are inscribed at mayoralities as be-
/ ing those peres iHc0HHus. The code al
lows the boy or girl so recognized to bear
/ the name of the recognizing party, how
ever illustrious it may be. 1t would
seem that the nobleman in ques-
/ tion is making a good income out
/ Of the use to which he turns
/ his patronynic. He is a Marquis,
like Rochefort, Gramont and Maurice de
/ Talleyr and, and, if he survives mis- father,
/ ne will be Duke. 'sMoncher," he said
to an old schoolfellow, whom he met on
/ the Boulevard des Italiens, 'sthe business
I i have Great ed for myself is an excellent
+ one. / only recognize for a good round
sum, and / see that a further sum is
/ placed in the hands Of notary for the eX-
I elusive benefit of the recognize. If.
+ therefore, the mother should be reduced
/ to poverty the child can be deeently
/ schOOled and set up in a trade or profess
sion. have thus no responsibility of any
+ kind, n marital cares, and enjoy thorough
/ independence while awaiting an OppOr-
I tunity to sell cOronet to some parYenue
4 heiress."
/ At the request of a Prince from Lower
/ Danubian State, who is a great amateur
| of modern French sculpture, the noble
man gave his name, couple OF years ago,
| to little boy who lives in kind of pa
/ viliOn, which His Hlghness has built at
/ Asnieres for an eX-member of the corps
! de ballet. This put it into his head to
strike out into the business he now fol-
/ lows with, it appears, excellent pecuniary
/ results. 1t used to be said, before the
revolution, "AFiStOcFdtiQue CONNIE une
/ DUcheSse Gu CONNIE uIle fUe." The adage
/ still holds good. The dancer was not sat
I isfied until her son had a legal right to
/ bear noble and Understanding name.
/ But as she wanted to remain independent,
/ she could not follow the example of Mile.
/ Schumacher, who espoused the Marquis
/ de Maubreuil in order to become real
/ Marchioness. The conditions on which he
/ became her husband were an annuity
and separation at the church door. NJ.
/ de Maubreuil was of ancient lineage, and
/ had been a daredevil adventurer in his
/ youth. He dragged NapOleon's statue
from the NendOme Column, and was tried
in the AsSiZe Court of DOuay for rObbing
the ex-Queen of Westphalia Of $4,000
francs in the forest of FOntainebleau. His
defense was that he was set on by the
King and Talleyrand. The Marquis was
suffered to escape from prison, and to get
away to England, whence he returned
after the death of Louis XVIII. At that
mOnarch's funeral he forced his way into
the Cathedral of st. Denis and gave Tai
leyrand blow in the face, which knocked
him over on the royal coffin. The imper-
turbable diplomatist exclaimed on rising:
(lqfol IL scfa hn int hosr,
that a slap would have involved duel,
whereas blow OF the fist was regarded
as so rutfianly that the injured person
was not expected to fight.
The example of Mile. Schumacher was
followed by very clever American adj
yenturess, who disposed of army con-
sTacts and court patronage toward the
end of the Second Empire. As the story
Of hey career in France cannot fail to have
a piquant SAVIOR, L shall venture to relate
it. The lady came here in the character
Of a widow, and though, as it turned out, !
she had been always childless, she used to !
weep about a defnnct infant whom she
called her lost Lenore. She was small,
young, lively and had a passion for weav-
ing romances of which she was the hero
inc, and interlarding them in her gay con-
versation. Without being jOlie .jOlie, she
was fascinating. There was witchery in
her bright eyes. Her laugh was silvery,
and its apparent wIldness masked
a "smart" and thoroughly prac-
teal intellect. When new to Paris,
the pretty widow lodged in the Champs
Elysees in a by no means stylish qd7Ri, !
and there used to give card paRties.
Though destined ''to go far,'' she did not
know a word of French. American ladies |
who received her in the early stage of her |
career soon dropped her because she said |
che naa no fixed income, and they were
afraid she might ask them or their hus-
bands to lend her money. In less than |
year from the time they agreed among |
themselves to cut her, she was person
age at the Tuileries. This is how she rose |
to that eminence: When condemned by |
her more estimable countryWOmen to the |
exclusive society Of gentlemen she got in |!
with a Chamberlain of the Emperor, who |
now, believe, has become an Orleanist. |
No sooner had she enslaved him than she !
demanded to be presented to the Empress. |
The Chamberlain was thrown IN q |
heap by the audacity of the request. On /
recovering his head he told her that she |
might as well wish for the moon as to be |
introduced to Her Imperial NJ aiesty, who
was beginning to aspire to sainth0od, and !
was a Legitimist in every respect but that
of allowing Chambord's right to the
crown. Scenes followed. The pretty
widow, seeing that the Chamberlain was
getting sick of her tears, wiped her eyes |
and originated plan of campaign which
she carried out with brilliant success and !
splendid skill. 1t was to get possession
of an old name and high title and to be
converted to Roman Catholicism in the
most strikingly theatrical way. Accord
lngly she went to the Ste. Perine Asylum,
which was founded by the EN-
press Josephine for decayed no
bIes, There she asked the director
to introduce her to the noblest
of his pensioners. He was a Marquis of
so, suffering from palsy, and con-
demned to milk diet. The fair visitor,
by the aid of an interpreter, went straight |
to the point, and asked the nobleman
whether he was free to marry, and, it so,
whether he would like a round sum of
pocket-money? The Marquis was raw
ished. He had been fed ON skim milk,
and saw prospect OF getting tactical nu-
triment of a better quality. The lady
told him she would keep COW expressly
for his benefit, and arrange with the dl-
rector that he was to take measures to
insure the Marquis getting the milk she
would engage to supply him with. 1t was
part of her scheme that the Marquis
should quit Ste. PerIne on
congo of a few weeks to be Marie
/ in England and then go back to
the asylum. All that she willed she
executed. After the wedding lettreS de
the Faubourg st. German and elsewhere.
The bridegroom returned to Ste. Perine to
vegetate with few thousand francs In
his pocket, and the prospect of enjoying
milk fresh from the cow for the rest OF his
life. The Marquise next applied to very
chic able, who had been converted from
Judaism, to instruct her in the Catholic
faith. He was delighted, and it is only
Just to say that he believed her heart was
warmed by celestial fire. The baptism
took place at st. Clotilde's, and Nine. De
Montalembert acted as godmother. 1 for
get who the godfather was, but
l remember that Caroline made the
christening dress, and that all the
great ladies who were at the ceremony
were delighted with it and in ecstasies
with the beauty of the neophyte, who
wept and tainted from emotion. The
year 1870, however, spoiled the ambitious
game of the Marquise. She therefore
went back to New York, where, / believe,
she published her experiences Of court
life at the Tuileries. The Marquis did not
survive the siege. Ste. Perine's Hospital
still exists, but it is gradually being