New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-05
THE BONAPARTE WEDDING
THE EMPRESS EUGENIE'S GIFT-ROYAL
INTERMARRIAGES.

the Princess Lctitia as WcdhInB CIV h"s ,"o
melancholy an interest to be an appropriate one.
1t is like the skeleton ut the Egyptian fcast ana
sbouId he a reminder of the fragilty of human
greatness The subject on the fan is the first
drawing from Nature Of the dead Prince Imperial
It. represents summer house in the garden OF his
grandmother. the Countess de Montijo, now be-
longing to Baron TIrscb The setting is in the
reliouarv STYLE the two outer parts OF the ran
being thick with precious stones, arranged as one
| sees them in what the French call articles dc
! religion
| The entire trousseau will be made up in Italy
| and furnished am told, not at the cost OF inc
brides father, but of her present uncle and future
husband If Plon Plon saw any prospect oil q
Bcnapartist restoration he would. dare say. have
enabled the Paris milliners dressmakers and pur-
veyors of trousseaux to make some money out Oh MS
only daughters wedding, and above all win III
| tie glory which would be of great indirect prom
| bv advertising them As it is, l believe they
will furnish the trousscau all the same, but
! through the Italian tradeswomcn to whom the or
der will DC given. Italian ladies hold In horror
the modish fncry made up in Rome, Florence ana
Turin and whenever they afford it come to
Paris to order what they to wear in the pres
encc of Queen Margherita. This is why Signor
Crspi the Prime Minister, proposed, when COM
mcrcial treaty between France and Italy was
being negotiated to exempt from duty all madeup
articles Of ladies' apparel and artificial flowers
lie even included such aids Of art to defective
Nature the hair-drcsscr furnishes IN the way oil
wigs fronts' tresscs, forehead fringe" and so
forth, or hair done up for head-wear such as
fashion may at any future time devise
The more hear Of the coming royal wedding at
Turin and of the two people who arc to be joined
| aan hofr1
the more 1 am confirmed in the notion already
| expressed namely, that it is bound to end in the
Divorce Court Indeed, on moral grounds the
sooner it will end there the better With an I'M
cc-husband like the Duke of Aosta. the marriage
VOW would be more honored by the Duchess that
is to be in the breach than in the Observance lie,
in common with the rest of his family, has two
good qualities pluck and uprightness. The pluck
urged him when he entered Madrid. just after
Marshal Prim was aSsassnated for giving him the
crown of Spain, 10 ride far in advance OF his es-
cort and quite alone so that if any once felt dis
posed to make him target for n pistol shot or a
hand bomb the assassin would not be withheld by
the fear of hitting any one else. The Duke oil
Aosta's word, truly, is good rs his bond. But
he is so narrow minded, so melancholy, scrof-
ulous, and such frightful person to behold
[ own that he looks as though he were
there is a graciousness in his manner which in a
degree rcdecms it. Otherwise he might serve
as warning against consanguineous marriages,
which were always taking place in the elder line
Of his house until it died out, and have been too
much the rule in the younger one-a rule which,
by-the-by, he himself broke through in marrying
the Princess Vittoria della Clsterna.
Since the line of Savoy-Carignan mounted the
l;,,;o hoe hcop m
that degeneration from which they were escaping
by not making matrimonial alliances with those
few Royal and Imperial Catholic houses which
formed the closest connection that was ever known
in the world Hence the rccoil in point of health
and looks Of Victor Emmanuel's children to types
used up by in-and-n marriages, and the outbreak
in them of that malady which the kings touch
was formerly supposed to cure / recollect DR..
Rcver. who was the medical attendant at the
Paais Royal, saying that the sons and daughters
of Victor Emmanuel all troubled in pre- |
cisely the same way as the Duchess OF Burgundy |
and her sister-in-aw, the Queen of Philip of
Spain, realistic accounts of whose tumors and
gandular swcllngs are to be found in the cor
respondence of Madame de Maintenon and the
Princess DIES Ursins. The Princess Clotilde had |
a neck which looked goitrous and was cause
of perpetual headache and blues" when she was |
Young; and the roughness of her spouse while |
she lived with him did not conduce to brighten |
her up. AS she lived in a narrow round Of re- |
ligous observanccs, l do not suppose she has
any idea of the natural immortality
of the marriage of her daughter with
her own brother
THE Princess Letitia,' writes to me from |
Turin lady who is in position to be well in
formed. has her mothers hair, with. however
a more Venetian tinge of auburn She has a
rudder complexion. | should call her fine |
GIRL and she is very like her brothers Victor |
and Louis, but more agreeable looking than either
From what l hear she has high and buoyant |
spirits, though brought up in the severest man.
ner. The ladies who to form her house |
hold are not yet chosen. Great has been the |
competition for places in it, Princess Clotilde |
will not hear of any who not gloomily religious
and prudish She wants to surround her daugh- !
ter with a parcel of duennas, enough to freeze |
her young blood in her veins. If the future
Duchess of Aosta takes after the ladies of the
Bonaparte family, she will break bounds |
Pauline her great-aunt, you know, kept court |
of love wherever she went, and Paulincs other
great niece, Madame RattazAi, a modern pro- |
fcssor of the gay science wrote much amorous |
poetry, but was the subject Of great deal more !
and still inspires the French painters as Pauline |
did Canova. l hear that half the goddesses eX-
hibitcd at the last Salon done in remem-
brance of her charms by painters who thought |
her at one time the ovliest woman in Europe !
Among the studious young women of the United !
States graduating gowns are a more anxious sub
cct at the end Of the scholastic year than even |
wedding dresses. Most of the girls who expect |
diplomas ore in a lutter as to what they shall |
wear on the day on which they are to receive them
French girls brought up at high schools have
no such causes for sweet trepidation. Their right |
to he educated in n way to strengthen and to fill |
their brains is admitted by the Republic; and
NJ. Camille See, the great champion of that right !
n few years after he carried the statute which |
provides for the creation of lyceums for French |
girls, has the satisfaction Of seeing them in active