St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-08
TITLED ENGAGEMENT.
The Noble Duke who 10 to Marry the
PRINCESS Amelie, of France.

Princess nellie, OF France.
Paris Letter TO London Truth.
The engagement of the Duke Of Bragan-
"a and the Princess Amelie, daughter of
the Comte de Paris, has pleasantly excited
the small Mutual Admiration Society OF
titled people whom the Comte and Confess
de Paris now head. The fiance, l last
week mentioned, is tall and fair AS he is
now the prominent social parsonage of the
hour shall give more detailed sketch.
The first thing that would suggest itself to
a Frenchwoman on seeing him would be:
''Dieul CONNIE IL Pair commun ct endor-
mi" A Frenchman would say: I'll a
Pair mou ct insignificant; mais IL dolt etre
essex bon garcOn." If his father were a
Briggs or Smith he would be thought a
''caIch' by English girls.
The hair is blond. with sandy shade.
He has still vestige5 of the cherub cheeks
of childhood, and his eyes of Saxon blue
express candOr and sleepy contentment.
What adds to his juvenilty of his look are
the cherry-red of his full lips and the pink
and white of his complexion. There seems
no underlying bone in the face. whether
seen frontwise or in the profile. Maria da
Gloria, his grandmother, had this sort of an
ent members of the House of SavOy-from
the middle of the nose downward.
The illustrlOus aspirant to marriage has
that air which comes from never having to
face the material difficulties of life. He
was, as the Americans say. fixed up"
from the day of his birth with a title,
household and an allowance, and never ex-
perienced what il Is to be only separated by
sheet of brown paper from poverty. His
ideas being secondhand do not tit his in
tellect. When Halevy and Pailleron were,
the other day, doing their best to entertain
and TO make points that would suit an Or
leaniSt gathering, there was no varying
shade Of expression in the cOuntenance OF
the Portuguese Prince; he was patiently in
different. A part of his education has been
to let himself be bored with tolerably good
grace. 1t bore fruit the other day at the
academy. The history of this Crown
Princes life is written in his face. He has
eaten and drunk and learned lessons by
rOte, and submitted to drill-sergeants and
/ fencing masters discipline, and learned to
ride and shoot, and taken the royal mould.
as blanc-mange takes the form of the shape
into which it is poured. Yet hear that he
Is destined to play great part in Ibeaan
politics, Of which more anon.
The lance? Well, she is over twenty.
Her countenance is mild and rather attTac-
tive. Her features are regular. There is
something in her of the late Duchesse
dOrleans, but it wants the expression of in
tense inner life which rendered the plain
face of that Princess almost beautiful.
was very young and had not had a wide
| range OF observation. when saw the COmte
de Paris's mother walking along country
road in DevOnshire, dressed in very unco-
quettish mourning. She stopped TO talk to
some persons whom she met, l thought her
the most ladylike woman l had ever seen,
and what even then struck me in her was a
distinction quite independent of external
/ surroundings. Her face was plain lamp.
| illumined by so fine light that one only
paid attention to its brightness. 1t was
clear that her life had been one of the most
/ cruel moral suffering. The Princess
Amelie has not gTapuated in the school of
/ adversely. and no great latent faculty has
/ been brought out. She is extremely tall.
/ Her appearance gives the idea of frail
| health. Although brought up to take part
in field sports she is of pensive habit
! For many winters she has been ordered by
the family doctor to stay at Cannes. If she
had not been brought up in the fossiliZed
society of which her father and mother are
now the heads, L dare say she would have
been interesting and have personal diStinc-
ton of high order; as it is, she is, in spite
| of her stature, nice looking.