St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-01
SIMPLY GHOSTS.
Two Faded Celebrities---The Mar
Quise de GalIffet and the Prin-

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quise de GalIffet and the Prin
cess de Metternich.
Baroness Althea Salvador in the New Yorf
World.
Among the women of the second en-
pire, among those whose names are
written on the roll of beauty, wealth
and popularity, are the Marquise dc
Gallifet and the Princess de Metternich
To-day. only twenty years after the
FrancO-Prussian war, when these two
ce lebrities should be in the prime Of
life, they are both almost dead to the
world. One, the Marquise de Gallifet,
has lost her reason and is kept away
from all her friends. The other, in her
Bohemian castle of Plass, is battling
with death at this moment, perhaps the
conqueror.
The Marquise de Gallifet for quar-
ter of eenturydleld all Paris under the
charm OF her beauty. No hunting party
Compiegne, no theatrical representa-
ton at st. Cloud, was complete without
her presence.
Nine. de Gallifet is daughter of M
Laftte, the banker, and wife of Gen
Marquis de Galiifet, Prince de Marti
CUES, brilliant officer in the French
army. The house of Gallifet is one of
the most ancient in French nobility and
traces back in direct line to Jean de
Gallifet, who. during thereign of Charles
", held high position at court. Mile.
Lafitte was worthy to bear this great
name of Gallifet and to add new Iustel
to its fame. To-day the beautiful mar
quise has temporarily lost her reason.
Why? Has some great calamity come
to her? Has she been bereft OF child,
Of a near relative? No. Perhaps hel
fortune has disappeared; perhaps houses
and lands are sold; perhaps her jewels
and laces are the prey of collecteurs.
No; there is neither death nor poverty,
and the only reason given by those who
are her friends is this: She could moi
bear to grow old-to lose the beauty eel
ebrated torso many years.
Strange that many professional beau
ties have ended their lives in the same
manner. Nine. de Gallifet's reputation
is above reproach, but, like the Duchese
de Montbazon, she felt that the first
wrinkle was an excuse for living nc
longer.
The beautiful Nine. Musard. on whom
the king of Holland lavished his fort
uilCs lOl WllOtil OlOhC NyuOCH OUDIlC >
heart, died in madhouse. The Com
Jesse de CastiglioEe, one of the most
beautiful women the world has ever
known, allowed her reason to leave heI
before her beauty gave any sign OF
waning. The Princess de Metternich
discovered Worth and invented Virot
and she brought into prominence the
best WOrkmen of every class. She
came to France as Australian ambassa
dress when only twenty years old, and
her splendid carriage, with servants in
black livery embroidered in silver, had
only one formidable rival, that of the
MarQuise de Gallifet whose coachman
and footman wore gold-colored livery.
Pauline, Princess de Metternich, was
certainly the woman of the day. This
Viennese, good as an angel and witty as
demon, was the most brilliant star in
the constellation of beautiful women
seen at the Tuileries during the last
days of the empire.
have said that the princess was moi
beauty-far from it, She had not the
slightest pretension to good looks, and
when in Paris she SAID: ''If cannot
be the most beautiful woman in France
| can certainly be the ugliest." She is
daughter of Count Maurice Won Sander
Slawnicza. and her maternal grand
father was the great Chancellor Meter
Mich. Count Won Sanders bravery is
known throughout Europe. In his time
no one could equal him in riding OF
driving, and, like Bayard. he was "sans
peur." The mother of the princess was
a saint, and in speaking of herself
Pauline would often say: "What is
most interesting in me is my father ;
what is best, my mother"
When very young Pauline married
her mothers half brother, Prince Rich
ard Clement Joseph Lothaire de Meter
MICH WiSSembourg, Duke de Portella,
Count de Koenigswarth, chamberlain
and intimate friend of the emperor, and
later ambassador to France. In the
French court the young princess was
really queen, and her gayety was be-
Wilderfng, astonishing. In one house
she would sing French songs and Ger
man lieder, play the piano like an artist,
dance and talk. An old diplomat SAID of
her On one of these occasions: ''That
woman is wisdom with the mask of
folly"
Beside the woman who sung comic
songs. because they amused her, there
was another who studied and interested
herself in serious things. a writer,
painter, musician, philosopher, or poll
tician never left the Princess de Meter
Dich'S presence without feeling that the
entire life of the princess was occupied
with his specially. The Princess de
Metternich is very original converse
tionalist, and she photographs her ideas
and colorS her words unlike any one
else. In the same way she writes. but
although she speaks fuently the French
language, she boasts of never
having been able. to learn
the participles. Unhealthy. imm oral
books have always been banished from
her shelves, but she is thoroughly con-
versant with the best literature of the
day. Although the princess possesses
beautiful castles in Hungary, Bohemia,
beyond expression her apartment in the
"Hotel Stourdza," Paris. There she
comes in the springtime, but Parisians
consider her visits too short, their return
too rare. Soon as her arrival is known
the Rue de Varennes is too small to
contain the carriages belonging to her
friends.
To Vienna she goes in winter. and
here she has the highest rank, walking
Immediately after the archduchesses,
privilege that belongs only to the houses
of Metternich, Arenberg, Schwartzen-
berg. Lobdowitz, etc. The three daugh-
tiers of the princess are married. The
eldest is the wife of the hereditary
Prince of Gttingen-Spielberg, the sec
ond is Princess de Wallenstein, and the
third has recently married the son of
the Countess de Pourtales, another en-
pire celebrity.
Sincerity is the great quality of the
princess. She is generous in the high
est degree. and not an unfortunate one
turns away from her empty-handed.
She is religious. and, practicing what
she breaches, IS respected by all who
surround her. Should the illness of the
Princess de Metternich prove fatal
there would be mourning among the
high and the Iow-among those who
have shared her celebrity and those who
have been recipients of her bounty.
She is beloved; she will be regretted.
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