Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-26
PRETTY YANKEE GIRLS.
Some of Those who Have Married Frenc
Politicians and NobIemen

cOhAo VI AnOsS w no haVe Married ET0ncn
Politicians and NOblemen.
propose in this letter to mention briefly
some of the American girls who have
welded Frenchmen, and to give you some
little idea of themselves and their families,
writes Paris correspondent of the New
York Mail and Express. Nine. Waddington,
wife of the French Ambassador to England,
was Miss King, of New York, whose father
was once president of Columbia College.
During the exposition of 1878 NJ. Wadding-
ton was Minister of Foreign Affairs; and I
remember that at one of the grand balls
given at the palace of the Quay d'Orsay
Nine. Waddington and a young gentleman
from New York led the cotlllon, or % GER
man." as we say in America. l was very
proud to see all those dancers following
the lead Of two of my compatriots. One of
Nine. Waddington's sisters married Hon.
Eugene Schuyler. Another sister is the
wife of Mr.. Westenberg, who once repre-
sented the Netherlands in Washington, and
who is now accredited to the court of King
Humbert. On her husbands side she
is well related. Her brother-in-law,
Richard Waddington, represents Rouen
in the Chamber of Deputies, and an
other brother-in-law is professor in the
Sorbonne. The Waddingtons are quite as
much English as French. They were born
in Paris, of English parents, and educated
in English as well as in French schools. Mr..
Richard Waddington's wife is Scotch, and
they all speak English as easily as French,
although Mr.. William Waddington once
said to me that if he wished to make a speech
he preferred to do so in French. The wife
of another distinguished French public man
is also an American. l refer to Nine Gle
menceau. She was Miss Mary Plumber, of
(iroo Oh a. L
husband at a well-known Connecticut
young ladies' boarding-school, where young
DIR. Clemenceau was the French teacher
Nine. Clemenceau is frequently seem at
public receptions with her husband, but,
with the exception of an occasional appear
ance, on invitation, at the United States
Minister'S, she Is seldom seen in American
circles at Paris. This is said to be due to
the influence of her husband, who wishes his
wife to become wholly French" And he
has succeeded admirably. Nine. Clemen-
ceau speaks the language with only slight
accent-less than her husband has in En-
glish-and has adapted herself very quickly
and readily to her new surroundings. Al
though at heart she is strongly American.
ON the surface she is decidedly French and
European.
NJ. Rbot, one of the ablest men on the Re
publican side Of the Chamber, is the hus-
band of the daughter OF Mr.. Burch, once a
prominent Chicago banker.
There is the Marchioness de Talleyrand-
Perigord, for instance. She was Miss Cur
tbs, OF New York. Her father was once a
merchant prince who lived on Murray
Hill and was related to Ex-Governor Hoff-
man and other wen-known Manhattan fam
lies. She got a divorce a short time ago
from her Lothario of a husband, who has
since married another American The sis
ter OF the Marchioness was one Of the pret-
test young girls in Paris when she was IN
her teens-she may be vet, but have not
seen her for several years and married.
some two or three years ago, Prince
Rospoli, member of distinguished Italian
family. Miss Curtis was his third wife.
Baroness de Charette, wife Of the com
Enander Of the Pontifical Zouaves, was Miss
Polk, daughter of Colonel Polk, of Nash
vile, Tenn, and granddaughter Of Bishop
Polk, who was killed in battle during the
war OF the rebellion, not granddaughter OF
President Polk, as has been often stated.
Nine. de Charette now lives at La Basse
Motto, an estate presented to her husband
by the zouaves. Baron de Charette is
nephew of the late Count de Chambord. and
or that reason, If for 10 osher, is - more
nsoyal than the Klng-
The Viscountess de Courval was Miss
hay, OF New York While travelling with
Ter parents IN the Holy Land she met the
Flscount, who was fascinated with her
charms and married her. He died few
years ago. and the Viscountess now lives
alone in her beautiful house, 6 Rue Fortin,
Champs Elysees- Her entertainments are
among the most magnificent given in Paris.
At 81 Fifth avenue lived Miss Elsie
Forbes, who, IN 1874, became the Duchess
de Choiseul-Praslin. Miss Norma Christ
mas, Of New Orleans, is now the Marchion-
ess de Suarez d'Aulan. Like Nine. de
Ch2Eette, she prefers 70 1--WE at her hns-