Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-23
Dnke of Orleans to- Marry

OF all the extraordinary marriages that
have ever been arranged or even mooted,
assuredIy that between the Duke OF Or
lans and the widowed Duchess OF Aosta,
nee Princess Laetitia Bonaparte is as
suredly the queerest. The couple met
for the first time at Brussels the other
day, and since the return of this ex-
ceedingly gay and froIicsome widow to
Turin, where she habitually resides she
has been a frequent and almost daily
visitor to La Mandr1a, where the duke
lies in bed with a fractured ankle. brok-
en- collar-bone and dislocated shoulder,
the result of an exceedingly bad spill
while riding with his sister, Duchess
Helene of Aosta, and her husband.
On reflection, it is at once apparent
that no two people could be more, suited
to one another than the Duke of Orleans
and Princess Laetitia. She is just the
kind of Juno-like woman that he adj
mires, and with her insatiate ambition
and restIessness is likely to act as pow
full incentive to him in his role of pre-
tender. Moreover, her large and broad
way of looking at things to the extent
of extravaganza will serve to correct
the hereditary meanneSS and cloSe-hSted-
ness of the duke in money matters, while
there is no doubt that union of the
Bonapartist and Royalist factions into
one united party would vastly strengthen
the monarchical cause and give it a
chance of success which at present 1t
does not enjoy.
Prince Victor Bonaparte has so COM
pletely realized that he has not the
slightest chance of effecting an imperi-
aliSt restoration that he has gone to the
length of contracting a private mar
riage with q dame possessed of more
years and wealth than lineage or social
eminence. His younger brother, Louis,
49, - L,
ing to abandon his military career in the
Russian army fer that of a Bonapartist
pretender; while the ties of Friendship
and even relationship between the
princes of the house of Bonaparte and
the members of the Orleans family are
daily increasing, the Due d'Aumale call
ing on Empress Eugene whenever she
goes to London, and Princess Mathilde
Bonaparte often receives him to dinner
at her Partisan mansion in the Rue de
Berri. Then, of course, there is the mar
rage between Princess Laetitia's step
son and the Duke of Orleans sister.
The match is certain to be promoted
by King Humbert, who for many rea-
.-nns would be glad to be rid of the
III oral and financial responsibility of his
i..sky siSter-in-law, who is at the same
lime his niece and who has been a
source of anxiety and trouble to him
since she became a widow. 1t will like
WISE UG pIOLHOIcu ny an lHOSC IGlSulhS
houses in any way related to the Or
leans family, such as those of Spain,
Great Britain, Portugal, Austria. Den
mark and Sweden, all of which are
exceedingly anxious to see the Duke of
Orleans converted into reputable and
decent member of society by mar
riage with q strong minded. masterful
woman who will have the energy and
the power to keep him in order. They
will make a comely couple, both of
them exuberant with life and vim, and
should they manage to seat themselves
together on a French throne, there is no
doubt that Paris would witness the re-
vival of such an era of brilliancy and
gayety as has been unknown since the
days of the First empire in the begin
ming of the century.-New York World.