The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-07
GREAT WAS HER FALL.
u,puER OF A WOMAN WHO'S
FATHER WAS AN EMPEROR.

ooa a. society Leader, But Eventu-
.u,, a Homeless Outcast-Leontine
"a Bouvier, After a Lifetime Spent
Amid All the Luxuries Wealth Could
cocnre. Dies in Philadelphia and Is
pnr,ed by Charitable Strangers.
From, the Philadelphia Inquirer.
II unmarked grave in the Philadelphia
-.-,a+arv maid for by charitable friends, lies
49, hodv Of g woman, Leontine LIE Bowler.
.rbo claimed to be daughter of Emperor
-r.,o1aon III. of France. Her sad ending,
IND noyerty and shame, in house in this
.;,y was the closing chapter in life of dra-
r,otic instances perhaps unparalleled in the
pages of history.
According to the story told by herself,
~ confirmed by statements of, and letters
s.or, her mother, she was born in Paris in
1880 Her mother was Mime. Emelie LIE
porvier. a woman of rare beauty
ard attachments. For years Nine. LIE
porvier was the favorite Of Napoleon, then
voung man, and in the palmy days of his
dramatic reign.
THE DARK DAYS OF PARIS.
nrring this association Leontine was
LRr
ornnaror continued MS visits to her mother
ond recognized her as his daughter. Under
.ba royaI care they were supported in mag
.jeoant STYLE When she had reached her
sivth wear the dark days of Paris came and
che emperor was forced to cast the mother
and child aside.
quarters. where she lived in genteel poverty.
Fron her scantY means she contrived to edu-
cate her child. and when the latter reached
The age of Is she was placed in boarding
school in the outskirts of the French CAPT
tal While studying here she met an elderly
Nexican gentleman of wealth, Antonio De
Noncsda and one day he and she mysterl-
ousv disappeared. She was then hand
some young woman OF II.
A GAY LIFE ON THE CONTINENT.
For some months nothing was heard of
tbe couple but one day the mother received
letter from them, telling her they were
living on the continent. This letter also
contained large sum of money. A short
time afterward the daughter and her lover
returned to Paris, where they lived in
sumptuous style until the siege, in 1871.
During this time De Moncada also supplied
the mother with every luxury money could
procure.
In the awful days Of the commune their
means enabled them to live in better style
capital, and after the establishment of the
republic the mother was provided with
apartments in Paris, while the daughter
and De Moncada went TO Cologne and from
there on a tour through Germany. Their
manner of living gradually dissipated the
Mexican's fortune and in Berlin the girl de,
serted him for wealthy young English
man, who was known as Lord Hastings.
Her desertion almost drove De Moncada in
sane and he made futile attempt at sui
eide.
With her new lover the girl returned 10
France and visited her mother. She re-
manned with the Euglishman until $780,
travelling with him everywhere and spend
ing money like water. In that year he left
her and she went on the stage. Her histri-
onic efforts we're unsuccessful, though they
brought her the friendship of wealthy
English sporting man with whom she eloped
soon after.
her LIFE IN NEW YORK.
In his company she travelled all over
Europe, living on the best in the land and
making liberal remittances to her mother in
Paris. She assumed her new lovers name,
and in 1889 she moved with him 70 New
York. There he bought for her an elegant
mansion on Fifth avenue, in which they
lived. Horses, carriages, diamonds and
money in abundance were provided for her.
Their life apparently was happy, and she
was devoted to him.
One day he sold the house without her
knowledge, giving deed dated six months
ahead. This done, he told her he was going
away on visit. From that day to this
nothing has been heard of him.
Gradually her money faded away, her
home was seized, and at last she found her.
self penniless outcast on the streets of
New York.
She at last drifted into a notorious house
on West Thirty first street, where she lived
until December last under the name OF
Leontine Delouvois. Occasionally she re-
celved letters from her mother, begging for
money, but being penniless herself she was
unable to respond. In December she fell vic.
um Of the grip. She moved to this city and
took up her residence In a well-Known house
on Race street, assuming the name OF Leon
tile Fraugent
THE LETTER NEVER ANSWERED.
few days after her arrival her mother,
broken and bent with age and poverty,
visited her. She begged her daughter to re,
turn to Paris with her, but she turned a
deaf ear to her appeals. The mother left, but
8lterward wrote TO her from New York
1nls letter, which is among her effects
begged her to return. 1t was never an.
s"ered, for not long after it was received
ue1th ended the girls misery.
The woman she vas living with, knowing
ner history, called in an undertaken and
lotus to find the mother, but so far these
eH0rts have been without avail. Letters
auu caoIegrams have been sent to Paris, but
no trace OF Nine. TIa Bowler can be dis
covered. A search # New York has been
equally fruitless The girls letters, con.
nrm!ng her dramatic history, are in the
lands OF the woman who gave her burial.