New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-02

after this. to have become imbued with that very
frequent form of lunacy known as the persecu-
ton mania, and to have decided that it was the
Rev. Father de Broglie who was her b!tterest
enemy. From that time forth she began to haunt
his steps and to circulate the grossest calumnes
about him. Finally she came to his church and
began to take him to task while he saying
mass at the altar for the ISLANDERS which she al
legged he had originated concerning her. DESTROYS
at all costs of avoiding a at such time
and such place he promised to call upon her at
her residence; and on his doing a few hours
later, she shot him four times with a revolver
every bullet innicting a wound When she had
finished her awful work she went to see her con-
fessor the Able Bulliot. close By. and told him
that she had killed the Able de Broglle. Know
ing her TO be crazy. he refused 10 believe her.
but her showing him the blood marks on hep
hands and dress he followed her home with the
holy oils. finding the Prince dead on his arrival
1t is impossible to describe the sensation
created by the MURDER for the dead Prince was
such a good and charitable man that he was
about the last person whom would have be-
lieved likely to be the victim OF such out
rage. although during the Commune the nsur-
gents seized and shot his friend, the AbbA
Panchat Of st. Anne, under the belief that they
were killing the Able de Broge. He was for
rnerly in the Navy but abandoned his profession
when about TO be promoted TO the rank Of CAD
tain to Join the church. to which, by-the-bye
three other members Of the house OF De Brogrs
belong The De Broglies Of the most
illustrious families in France-have been So In
fact since 1895, when they migrated to this
country from Piedmont. where they used to bear
the name Of Broglia One Of them Prince Victor
de Broglie who was guiotined by Robespierre
in 1894 was one Of the chief aides Of Lafayette
during the American War OF Independence, and
IL was his son. married 10 the daughter OF the
celebrated Nine. de Sael. who was the father Of
the murdered Able as we'll as Of the present Duo
de Broge.
The latter is one Of the most absent-mndedr
men that 1t is possible to conceive o. and Il
cannot help thinking that 1t Is due to this Pc
culiarity that he made such dismal failure andl
got the Administration into such a terrible tangle,
when acting as Prime Minister to President
MacMahon. have often watched him
standing softly rubbing the palms OF his hands
together. repeating unconsciously perhaps. the
same words over and over again. his mind pur-
suing some train Of thought entirely foreign 10
the words. At such moments you would almost
take him for an old man In his dotage, and
vet all Of a sudden, he would startle everybody
by the utterance Of an opinion clear. concise,
cutting like the keen edge Of knife ana favored
with lust a touch of sarcasm and disda.n. There
are few men either in the nobility or world Of
letters here who more erudite more WHY
brilliant and in every sense or the word N
tellectual than this Duke VINO owes MS scot IN
the Academy not to his rank but solely 10 hia
culture The French which he speaks Is the mos
perfect OF its kind and IS rendered douoy ate
tractive by the fact that. save In the momenu
OF absence OF mind to which have REFERRED
every word carries.
He is undoubtedly one OF the most br'llane
Frenchmen OF his day. and. II may be per-
mitted TO say So this expression OF opinion COM
ing from me Is especially valuable. since, AKe
most other members OF my sex. ought 70 q
preiudiced against him; as the look on the Dukss
face whenever he either listens to the CONVERSE
ton OF a mondaine or speaks 10 her As pre-
cisey that Of some learned sage VINO IS ~
diligently gazing upon the antics OF GuignoL
the puppet or Punch and judy snow whicn
constitutes the great Juvenile attraction OF the
Champs Elysees during the warm season. lie ale
WAYS gives me the impression that he places ouu
chatter even our most clever remarks. on pre-
ciselv the same level as that OF "Gugnol
The death Of the Able de Broglle serves 10
draw attention once more to the decline IN NUM-
Der Of aristocratc names in the ranks OF ths
clergy. In former days II was the custom ior
each family ~ the great nobility 10 devote one
OF its younger sons TO the Church. titles aoouhu'
ing therefore In the prelacy. But no"auass
other ideas prevail and the late Prince "a
Rrorlie and his three cousins. together win
Cardinal Richard de Lavergne. Archbishop OF
Paris: the Marquis de Revere. Bishop OF Mont'
pelller: the Count de Briey, Bishop OF MeauAl
and the Count Costa de Beauregard. canon OF
Chambery. have been about the only ones 'ei''