The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-02-27
REVENGE OF Al ADVENTURES.
After becoming Wealthy She Bough.
the Jewels Of Princcss.

the jewels 6t n Frlncess.
OF all the superb residences that line the
Avenues DIES Champs Eysees there is not
one, writes the marquise of Fontenoy, that
is so magnificent In all it's appointments
which has been the scene of more extra
Urinary career than nc %, which has just
been acquired by German banker of the
name of Won SalOScln, at a cost of $780,
600 francs. 1t has been but rarely used dur
ing the last eight ten years, and its
vast array of windows We're generally shut
tered, denoting the absence of its propri
etor.
German nobleman, Count Guido Won Henc
KEEL Donnersm2rck, probably the richest OF
all the great territorial magnates of central
Europe. who is principally known to fame
as having been the husband Of that extra
ordinary woman, the marquise de Paiya.
The latter and her sister, who married the
marquis de Noailes, formerly French am
bassador at Washington, whittier she ac~
companed her husband, a brother of the
due de NoaiIIes. We're both daughters of the
little Jewish tailor at Moscow, and bore
the name of Llchmann.
Over the early portion of their career IN
Russia it is best to draw a veil, and even
after their arrival in Paris, the first years
of their life there were the reverse Of rep
utable.
She amassed great wealth. partly by
matchmaking and partly by plying her pro-
fession, and be means of her money was
dDe TO induce a Portuguese IlOpltiAitbtl VI
authentic title but Of great poverty the
marquis de Paiva, to confer upon her his
name and title. | do not think he realized
at the time the indignty Of the sale, for
his wifeS conduct was such that 1t drove
him to suicide within year after the mar
rage. She then assumed the role of what
the French so era phically describe deTui
castor-that is to say, her salon became the
meeting place of all sorts of men proni-
nent in the social and official world, who
- oil tho In 9DT
rank as marduise de Paiva, sat at her table
and enjoyed her hospitality, put who would
have shuddered at the idea OF even men,
tioning the names Of their wives or daugh-
tcrs under heI roof.
Among the men whom she thus enthralled
by her extraordinary beauty and by the
brillancy of her wit was Count Henckel
of Donnersnarck, who. to the establishment
of every one, married her shortly after
the vsr of 1870 Emperor Williams consent
to the match being attributed to the ser
vices which she is stated to have rendered
to the German government before and du.-
ind the war. With true feminine spirit OF
revenge she made use of her husband
wealth in the first place 10 buy ali En-
press Eugenie's jewels that she could find
in the market. incluuuG her mathless world
famed cola of pearls. and then proceeded
to have the empreSs's own architect buIit
for her in The wldS OF Silesia a palace,
exactly reproduction of Saint Cloud, from
which she had been so ANONYMOUSLY eject
ed by order of the empress.
Both she and her sister are now dead
the maquise de Noailles dying last year.
The Countess IenClel Won DonnersmarcF,
like that other famous beauty, the comtesse
de Castiglione. would not permit anybody 10
see her during the last feT years of her life
being unwilling that they should witness The
decline of her charms. Even her husband
was not exempt from this rule and he did
not obtain a glimpse of her features for at
least two years prior to her demise. E'n is
now married to the divorced wife of that
Russian Count Mouraveff, who has just
been appointed minister of justice by tbs
ear, and who first achieved fame as the
crown prosecutor of the nihilists implicated
in the assassination of Emperor Alexander
II