New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-29
DE LUYNES-D 'UZES.
AN ARISTOCRATIC WEDDING IN THREE
ACTS.

the wedding, in three acts, of the young Duke
de Luynes 10y name Ilonore d'Albcrt and
Mademoiselle Simonne dues, daughter of the
stsg-hunting. dog-loving Duchess of the same
name. who passes for hem quite rs fond OF
General Boulanger as Of her pack of hounds.
Her Grace is the granddaughter Of Widow Clquot
of champagne celebrity, and was horn Morte-
marta family noted in the olden time for its
shrewd wit and for having produced the keen
tongued imperious mistress of Louis the Four
tenth, Madame de Montespau. The Duchess
dues is on her fathers side granddaughter of
that Duke dc Mortemart who as Ambassador of
Charles at st. Petersburg, witnessed the
massacre of the military corps which did not
wish 10 accept Gar Nicholas as their sovereign
IN the death of Alexander l. The family name
OF the Dues is de Crussol They were chiefly
famous under the ancient monarchy for their
squabbles with other dukes about precedence at
court. The late Duke was killed at hunt by
q stag driven to bay-an event which did not
disgust his widow with the pleasures of the chase
She is good-hearted woman, and so charitable
to the poor that for her sake Louise Michel in
structed at the last general elections the An
archists to vote for the candidate of the Duchess.
General Boulanger. In politics she is behind the
time and freaky. Though born a Legitimst she
for making the Comte and Comtesse de Paris
King and Queen of France, and had grand hunt
ing parties in their honor at her palace at Bonelles
on the verge of the Forest of Rambouillet Put
after the Comte de Paris and his eldest son were
sXiled, she supported General Boulaneer with her
purse and influence. Her first reason was that
she thought he might turn ont General Monk.
and her second and best reason was that she
liked him because he was delightful when her
son was IN military service 1t was even said
that she would have ventured upon matri-
monial union with him if he had succeeded in
divorcing his wife
The Duchess dues is immensely wealthy She
yves this, In great degree. TO the DEVELOPMENT
manufactures near the patemal estate at Nou-
hns, IN TIE Cher, and to the Cliquot VINEYARD
She has three children; namely. the Duke d'Uzes
the Nlscount de CruSsol and the daughter
simonne, the newly married Duchess de I.pynes.
The Duke de Luynes is descended from the
hard-hearted, bird tanning falcon-training Italian
hoy dAlbert, whose deXterity in his ornithooeical
business and supple Florentine manners endeared
him to Louis NH. He helped that King to
emancipate himself from the regency Of his mother
the Dowaeer Queen, Marie de Medicis Her
favorite, Marshal d'Ancre. was murdered by De
Luynes. and his wife Eleanore Galigai foster
before the Sorbonne on the charge of having be-
wtched that Queen, and was condemned and eX-
ecuted and the Quecn-Mother herself deprived Of
all her fortune and eAiled. De Luynes received
the confscated houses. lands and other wealth. and
he and his descendants married hcrcsscs. There
are now three dukedoms in the family those Of de
Luvnes. de Chaulnes and dc Chevreusc. There is
family rule that the titles be borne in rotation
The grandmother of the bridegroom is Duchess de
Chevreuse Her second son. who died few wears
ago, was Duke de Chaulnes, husband of the beauti-
full Russian, Galitzin, who intimate
with Christine Nilsson. The Duchess de Chcv
reuse was a bicot, with good deal of falsity in
her practice. / remember it coming out in the
trial of cross-suit for judicial separation be-
tween the Duke and the Duchess de Cbaulnes that
all the superb diamonds" presented to her as
wedding gifts by her husbands family and chiefly
by her mother-in-law, were paste and bought for
10000 francs
The eventual fortune of the Duke de Luynes
will be. should say, about $500 600 a year. His
estate was at nurse" from $40, when his father
was killed. until year ago. As his brother and
sister are not yet of age it has not been divided,
hut they will probably let him take their share
Of real property at a valuation. His mother is
an amiable woman, very artistic, and has the
a French lady's head She is the eldest daughter
Of the Duke de Observation-Disclosures
president of the Jockey Club. by his first wife,
from whom last she inherited large fortune
when she was in her cradle, and she is TO inherit
large part of her fathers wealth. Though left
widow in her early bloom, her life has been
dignifed and exemplary Don Carlos, who is no
model of matrimonial fidelity, paid great court
TO her when allowed TO winter here and her rea-
tives much more than the Spanish Government
got President MacAlahons Foreign Minister TO
turn him out OF France. The Duchess exhibits as
painter and sculptor in the Salon, AS does also
Madame dues, who takes the pseudynom Of
Manuela.
The Duchess de Luynes generally winters at
Cannes. where she has a villa, resides in Paris in
The spring. in the ancestral mansion Of the de
LuyneS in the Faubourg st. German, and stays
In summer at Dampierre, their family seat in the
Department Of the Seine-et-Oise. II was built
by the bird-catching dAlbert after he became the
favorite CT Louis Nil, and in the style which
came into vogue under that monarch. The house,
In red brick, faced with white cut-stone, would be
called a hall in England. 1t is at the bottom Of
narrow valley, and surrounded with a mOat
filed from a narrow and capricious stream that
meanders through the hollow and spreads out
broadly In The park. lie hills on both SIDES
are covered with woods, which form far-famed
chase The Irince Of Wales often goes TO the
woods Of Dampierre with the father of the Duchess
DE Luynes to shoot One of the artistic curicslies
oil the house is an old silver statue of Louis KILL
I'D heirloom. Another is the polychrome Minerva
WIN lhe sapphire eyes, larger than life which the
M'e DUKE de Luyness grandfather ordered. lie
also employed lngfes TO paint the ceilings Of his
s'a'e-rooms and Of his oratory. lie was a dis
tinguished archaeolo1ist and nunisrnate. and left
rare collection Of Syrian and Greek coins. which
be made himself in the East. to the National
Library Three OF his grandsons were killed in
BATTLE one at the heasi OF the Pontncal Zouaves
In fighting the Garb0sdians at CastolGdordo and
the other two in sorties during the siege Of Paris
Having zigzagged much about the dI'zes
and de Luynes families, let me now describe
the bride and bridegroom and the weddipc in
three acts. She has long and slightly aouiItne