The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-03
THE WOMAN IN BOULANGER'S
CASE.
A Sketch OF the Duchess Dues, Who
Has Lately Become Notorious.


Pt1ris Letter to Ne,o Orleans Picayltne
The Duchess Dues was the first of all
the swell women of Paris to take Boulan-
ger up. and he is now quite a favorite at
her splendid mansion in the Champs Ely
sees; the scarlet carnation or red pink is
always to be seen in some part of the dress
she wears, and she has in a manner made it
her property and her pride. Born Anne de
Montemart, and granddaughter of the
widow ClicquoJ, Mime. dues inheri IS
from the mixture of the two races a very
original character, and one full of opposit g
contradictions. she is Montemart until
midday, and Veuve Clicquot till midnight;
hence it is that lately one OF her own rela-
tives alluded to the singularities of ma
ture at once masculine and tender, auda-
cious and timid, showing in some of her
moods impetuous courage, enthusiasm of
soul, great generosity, and in others a solid
ity. a tirmneSS, rather puritanical, perhaps,
in it's impregnability, and ultra-liberal aud
eclectic notions which astonish, sometimes,
those around her.
She is undoubtedly great lady, but wit II
independent disregard of the stric
lures of the bourgeoise; she is
chivalrous with regard 20 the iufatua-
tions which she could scarcely explain salts
factorilY to herself and which clash against
set yet nevert helesS, by her irreproachabla
conduct she holds most exalted position
among other French duchesses. She is the
greatest support of Gel. Boulangsr in the
faubourg st. German, although she does
not live in that part of the town. Proba-
bly, she was attracted by the audacity of
plebeiau pretender who raised to her his
plume, and she rapidly became, so to speak,
the soul of social Boulangism, to whose
service she has placed her purse and her
mansion. Curiosity first of all, thea ca
thuslasIns and opposition to the republic,
the political game has become to her an
amusing and agreeable pastlme TO while
away an idle hour.
The Countess Boutourlne is the last con-
vert to the ranks of the red carnation
crowd, and perhaps for that reason she Is
the most enthusiastic, The most ardent fol-
lower of the general Born Bobrinskoy, and
by her grandmother great-grandchild of
the Empress Catherine, this lady innerits
with her MuScovite blood those Unborn ten
denotes or leanings toward complicated
matters which are to some extent c4arac-
teriStic of her race. Russian by nationali-
ty, French by elegant adoption, she is,
above all, Partisan. Her grandmother
has lived here for forty years, and in spite
of her 81 summers is seen up to the end of
the season at the receptions of her country'S
ambassador. III her younger days the
Countess RobTinskoy was the believe friend
of the Duke de Reichstad, who found, they
say, pleasant distraction in the long con
versatiOns which Frightened the shades OF
Schoenbrun, where, in the arms of the
young countess he forgot the mISeries Of
his life. IL was this sa e Old countess who
brought to Paris the young aud pretty Nine.
Bourtouline. By her marriage with a
Russian cononel the latter occupied AT the
court of st. Petersburg an enviable positior
yheara no &c ~ hrYl n ynf
s-ars, and her departure was much regret
ted when, after her meteor-like appearance
IN different capitals, she finally settled in
his city
Aristocratic, slender, very slender
indeed, with white satin skin,
and much elegance, she is one Of
the most charming of Partisan ladies. But
always mixing with influential people, how
is it that she, by Transformation Of her
sireu-like nature, becomes tie Egeria of a
cause OF which the Duchess d'U yes has con-
stituted herself the guardian angel, and in
which the general is the pretender. In
stalled in the splendid hotel of Quinsonnas
built by the Prince SOiLikOff, this beautiful
Muscovite has created arc ind herself cir
Gle of the elite, drawing from each coterie
of society the most vivid and intelligent
features, and with naughty dis1ain for
conventional etiquette has united around
her persons who are bit famous for some
thing more than both wit and beauty,
Having had the caprice TO know Gen.
Boulangar, mutual friend, the Marquis
de Nilleneuve, satisfied this whlm by con
Quoting the pretty Russian to the little no.
tel OF the Rue Dumont dUryille, and a
few days after she mad the man himself al
her table. The Princess Jeanne Bonaparte
was the only lady invited 10 this dinner,
which, by the way, was the first Of the sea-
son in honor of the 2 general.