New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-26

havior toward an American woman. About i've
years ago, while acting one Of the officers oil u
French Transatlantic liner, Il" mad" I'll" ac-
Iulintancc OF young Chicago WIDOW who Was
IA passenger on boaru his vessel. Inc nc Iualutance
rip.ncd into intimacy and low" and Il lew
weeks aitcrwarl NJ. Scrvan and the young wido"
were married IN London hy an American clergy
man The bride was ignorant of IA" fact that
TN" consent Of VI. Servants parents granted IN
proper legal form was necessary 10 render h'r
mairngc valid a'coroing to French law. ana her
subject. Shortly after the wedding. VI S'rIan
obtained from the Transatlantic steamship
Company position a. naval superintendent al
ST Nazairc, where he took up his residence WIN
his wife They lived there happily enough Tor
n time, but in 1887 II -erious quarrel occurred,
and NJ, Scrvan obtained his transfer to Nantes,
leaving his wife AT 81. Nazairc. Having mean
while become infatuated with the beauty and
fortune of a Mile. Dorid"s, OF Nantes. he BEGAN
proceedings 10 obtain, not a dccr'c OF divorce,
but an aunulment OF his marriage on The ground
that the consent of his parents had not been OBJ
tanned, and that the ceremony OF marriage haI
been performed 10y an American clergyman IN a
country where neither Of the contracting parties
were at home. Before the case had even come
10 % hearing he caused the banns of his mar
riagc 20 Mile. Dordcs 10 cc published in Pans
and Nantes. On reading the announcement IN
the papers the American Nine. Scrvan imnc lately
wrote t. the Mayor Of Nantes EXPLAINING her
position and demanding that he shoul refuse to
permit any further publication OF the Danns To-
be made at the Hotel de Vile The Mayor granted
her REQUEST and forbade both the publication of
the hanns and thr celebration of the marriage
until the courts had pronounced their N"rI.ct
a. TO the validity of the London marriage. lnc
judgment given III the case, i'" weeks iat'r was
10 the effect shat III" ceremony performed in Lon
don did not constitute n legal marriage according
10 French law, and that, under III" CIRCUMSTANCES,
no legal obstacle existed to VI. Scrvans marriage
with Mile Dor,s. The unfortunate American
who was thus publicly declared to have no righ,
whatsoever to bear III" name Of SrrvaD fOun
her position thcnccfoith uncomfortable here" and
returned, ] believe. TO Chicago
The salons OF Princess Nourlcwsti. the NOR
ganatic widow OF the late Gar. have become 80
popular and we'll known that universal iclr"t
is caused by the announcement that they VIII be
closcd for some time 10 come, owing 20 the tact
Of their still beautiful mistress being in mourn,
ing for the death Of her brothcrin-aw. General
Count Berg who died here last week The Count
was an aide-dc-camp and particular iavoritr OF
the late Gar. and, indeed, may b" sai 10 hay"
held fhc position of morganatlc br"thrr,in-law
toward him, having married Il sister of Princess
Youricws< Both the Count and Countess have
resided almost altogether in Paris since the death
of the late Emperor of Russia. and the ounicss
was of great assistance to her sister fhc Prin-
cs,ss In mixing the lnttors entertainments "a most
agreeable fcatur" Of Partisan life.
I cannot SAY that ! admire the new .monn-
mont which has jist been erected IN ne ne So :,
called Theirs Chapel at tie cemetery of Pcre-l;i-
Chaise which everybody il Hooking 10 se'-the
work Of the sculptor Mcrcc. The monument is
composed of THREE figures each three metres III
height. which, considering III" fact that VI; Theirs
was under five feet in stature. seems rather out
Of proportion. Theirs i represented standing with
haIfclosed eyes. apparently in profound mcdita-
ton ImmortalitY Offers him crown. and an
other woman, representing France, IL seated on
n broken cannon. Immortality il in bronze.
whereas Theirs and tho figure representing France
are in marble. which gives tho monument a sort
Of pichnld appearance.
II is not generally known that the family OF
the President of the Republic possesses among It's
members an able and accomplished composer OF
music IN IN" person OF the son-n-aw OF NJ.
Carnot. ny name VI. Cmnisset He holds the OF,
time amid his very responsible legal duties TO
compose an oIcra in fly" acts, entitled Charles
dAnou" Tie work has boon produced with
considerable success az the Dion Theatre, the
composers real nam" being yelled under the
pecudonym OF Charles Labor.