The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1896-08-27
PARIS MURDER
BELLE CT LOUIS PHILIPPE's TIME
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In the highly respectable quarter Of g.
Philippe du Roule. just back Of the
Elysee Palace. has been added to the
series that has been startling Paris dur
ing the last few weeks. The victim this
time was an old lady. so years Of age.
the Baronne de Valley. living in the Rue
de Penthievre. next door to the infan-
try barracks. She was a woman who
a generation ago was known through
out France and had been power In
Paris. One morning she was found
bound and strangled on her bed by the
woman whom she employed to look
after her rooms; her apartment was
in disorder, having been ransacked for
valuables; money. securities and jew
els had disappeared. Within forty
eight hours three boys under 20 haA
been arrested, had confessed their guilt.
and had put the police on the track Of
large gang of Indicators. mostly OF
their own age, with whom they asso-
ciated.
Though Mime. de Valley had never
disguised her name or position, 1t was
some time after the murder before the
Parisians remembered who she was.
Her father was the count de Montbel,
| Minister of Public Instruction, and later
! of the Interior and Of Finance under
| Charles X. He was in office with the
Prince of Polignac in 1880, when the
| July revolution broke out, and accom-
panied his King into exile, dying at
| Frohsdorf, near the Compile de Cham
| bord, in 1851.
| His daughter was married while he
was still in power to the Baron de VAL
! ley, whose father was superintendent
| of the royal palaces. Metternich, who
had taken fancy to her, tried to make
her marry an Esterhazy. She had two
children, who died young, and sep
aration from her husband, due to his
lndiscretions, left her at IS her own mis-
tress She had plenty of money, her
social position was of the highest, 30
that during Louis Phillippe's reign her
salon in the Faubourg ST. German was
rallying place for the Legitimist aris-
tocracy. She became interested in the
movement for the emancipation Of wo-
man, and In company with George Sand
founded a newspaper, Les Violettes
. written by women for women, one Of
= the first organs for women's rights.
Though she always refused to accept
any favors from Louis Phillippe's gov
y eminent, she rendered it great serv-
a Ice by facilitating the negotiations for
: peace after the Prince de Joinville's
s bombardment Of Tangier. She had be-
!. come acquainted with the wife Of the
a Sultan Of Morocco's Grand Vizier, and
/. travelled from Cadiz to Morocco or
n French man-orwar In order to use her
e influence. She spent some time as
/, visitor in the Grand Vizier's harem, and
: through his wife won him over to the
n French side. She had prominent place
y In the "Gallerie des Femmes Cele5res
pour Louis Philippe" She again dis
tinguished herself during the Franco
Prussian war by an adventure at Weis-
baden. A great many French officers
were prisoners there just before the cap
ture of Metz, some of them taking their
meals at the Kursaal One evening a
v German General arose and proposed
n that the company should drink TO the
# fall of Bazaine. The Baroness jumped
d up, went up to him, called him a cow
n / al I'd fnr Inc he USro~
. and slapped his face; then she tainted,
and managed to keep on the sick list
until the excitement had blown over.
Nine. de Valley was connected with
e the highest arlstocracy in France, the
Marquise de Rochechouart-M ortemart
= being her niece She had been on in
innate terms with Guizot and Dufaure,
+" and until his death was in commune
cation with the Comte de Chambord.
About dozen years ago a band OF
3 swindlers and adventures, Frenchmer
and foreigners, cheated her out Of $780,.
1t 000francs and carried off the presents
that had been given to her by her dis.
" tinguished friends. This misfortune
seemed to change her character; she
fell away from her friends, became sus
a picious and avaricious in the extreme
and drifted into a solitary existenc,
and slovenly habits. Her tall form, he
as white hair, and the unmistakable ali
of the "grande DAME" which she re
&c tanned through all, made her marke,
woman.
The house in which she lived, 26 Ru
We de Penthievre, is an old house, marke,
with a tablet testifying that Benjamin
W. Franklin, when agent Of the Unite,
States had dwelt on the spot. She oc
cuped a three-room apartment o.
he the first floor above the entire
sol, opening on the courtyard
Ter her windows opened also on lirtl
garden back of the house and the wa
d. of the barrack drill ground. She live
alone with two little dogs. woman CON
;" ing daily to do her work, while a DO
she had picked up in the streets and bt
m friended ran errands for her.
The Baroness visitors were queer 10
IN There were many of them and of a
classes in society," from milionaires [
"' tramps, judging from their dress. Sf
IN had the reputation of being very ricl
she was known to lend money at high il
In terest, and was believed to keen a got