Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-26
TO WEAR "A CORONET.
Another American Woman Will
Marry a French Nobleman.
TWICE CONFINED AS A LUNATIC.
He Claimed Residence in This Country to
Get Out of Scrape.
MRS. J. c. AVER TO WED A REAL PRINCE

PARIS, April 25.-The American colony
here is now excited over the news of the ap-
| preaching marriage of Mrs. Charles f. Liv-
ermore, of New York, well-known social
leader there and at Newport, to Baron Ray
mond Seilliere. Mrs. Livermore is expected
In Paris next Saturday, and the marriage, it
is said, will soon follow.
"The Baron is brother of the well-known
Princess de Sagan, and he is wealthy in his
own right. Many people, however. assert
that he is crazy. He has already been con-
fined in several lunatic asylums.
The Baron has been well known in New
York since 1886, having been introduced
there and at Washington by the Marquis de
Mores. He is tall, slender man, with a
dark complexion. In 1887 he came to Paris
with Count Sala, of the French Legation at
Washington, aud Commandant d. Ullman, a
Catholic Hungarian nobleman. He was
also accompanied by Charles F. Livermore
the well-known banker OF New York.
A POLITICAL PLOT.
The Baron boasted at that time that he
possessed papers compromising to the Or
leanist cause. Invited to dine with his
aunt. the Duchesse de Bergues, he was
seized at her house by party of men who
hustled him into a cab and Is minutes later
he was in the private lunatic asylum of Dr.
Falret, at Vauves. The Baron claims the
whole thing was plot to get him out of the
way. At that time he boasted that he was
engaged to marry an American lady of
great wealth, though it was asserted that he
already had wife living.
hap n od 20 Pm
from the dinner at his aunt's house Mr.. Liv-
ermore and other friends of his suspected
foul play, wrote to the Princess de Sagan,
who replied that he had gone to Germany.
They learned the true facts, however, by
employing detectives, and went to Minister
McLane, who then represented the United
States here, whom they convinced that the
Baron had declared his intention of becom-
ing an American citizen and had taken up
his residence at No. 30 West Thirty-ffth
street, New York.
UNDER AMERICAN PROTECTION.
ton Minister McLane called upon Mr..
Flourens, the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs. NJ. Faillieres, French Minister of
the Interior stated in the Chamber of Depu-
ties that, the Baron having been placed in
the asylum at the request of his family and
having been examined and found insane,
the Government refused to release him. NJ.
Gaillard, in the Chamber, maintained, how
euer that the Baron was not insane and
that his family were seeking to get hold of
his fortune.
The Baron, however, was released or July
20 and Immediately sailed for New York on
the Gascogne, being accompanied by M.
Livermore and Commandant d'Ullman. On
the voyage be exhibited eccentricities OF be-
havior that led many people to regard him
as still insane. He put up at the Bruins
wick Hotel last spring and stopped at the
Livermore Cottage at Newport and visited
Mrs. Paran Stevens. Soon after, he went
voluntarily to the Homeopathic Asylum for
the Insane at Middletown, N. Y, and re-
manned there for some weeks.
INSANITY IN THE FAMILY.
The Baron's brother Frank married In
1880 Diane de Gallifet, daughter of the
French Marquis and General of that name.
There is insanity in the family, for the
Princess de Sagan sent her son, Louis
Helyde Tallerand-P Perigord, to the Asylum
of st. James, from which, however, he was
subsequently released. The adventures of
the Baron have long been notorious among
the American colony in Paris, and as his in
timacy with the Livermores is we'll known,
the reported approaching marriage is an ab-
sorbing subject for gossip. Mr.. Livermore
died within year.
Meanwhile another American lady of
wealth and social position, also a New
Yorker, is reported to have contracted an
alliance in aristocratic circles, for it is said
that no less person than Mrs. j. G. Aver,
who recently broke her arm by being thrown
from carriage in the Rue Galilee, is to
marry Prince Dolgorouki, cousin OF the
morganatic widow of the murdered Gar of
Russia Mrs. Aver is a millionaire and has
fine house on Fifth avenue. 1t is being
debated in the American colony which is
the higher alliance, as Princes are plentiful
in Russia.