New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08
BARRED FROM COURT.
THE STRICT RULES APPLICABLE AT VI
EMMA TO THE DUKE OF ORLEANS'S
WEDDING

! whether 1t is not surpassed in this respect by
! that Of France. Since the abolition OF the laws
Of primogeniture and entail at the time OF, the
Revolution 100 years ago. and the enactment Oh
| the statutes which provide that children snail
share alike in the parental inheritance, the pos
sessions of the aristocracy have been gradually
decreasing. each heir being in turn obliged to
| divide up his property among his children at his
| death The only means that the mobiles have had
| Of arresting and counteracting this process OF
| impoverishment has been in the shape Of mar
| rages with telresses, and nasmuch as these
| latter are mostly found among the daughters OF
the so-called princes of industry. OF commerce
and Of finance, there is to-day no aristocracy In
Europe that contains so large proportion OF
| bourgeois blood in it's veins. that has to Its
credit so considerable a number Of mesalllances
! as that Of France.
This fact has been brought home, not alone TO
the French nobility. but likewise to the world at
| large by the difficulties which have arisen In
| connection with the marriage OF the Duke OF
| Orleans with the Austrian Archduchess Maria
Dorothea. which took place last Thursday. 1t
| was at first proposed that the ceremony should
be celebrated in Hungary where the Archduchess
| has been brought up her father being what is
known as the Magyar" ArchdIke. and the head
| of that particular branch Of the House Of Haps-
| burg which has been settled in Hungary for
many years But it was found that this would
| have made necessary the celebration OF civil.
| we'll as a religious marriage in accordance
| with the terms of the recently enacted marriage
| laws OF Hungary. which have encountered such
| vehement opposition the part not only OF the
| Church, but also Of the imperial family. So with
| a view OF eudng this difficulty, the Emperor
decided that the wedding should take place at
| Vienna, civil marriages being yet unknown in
| Austria.
| This however, had the effect OF transforming
| the affair from purely domestic event Of the
| family Of Archduke Joseph into a regular Aus
| TRAN court function 1t no longer the father
OF the bride who sent the invitations, but the
| Grand Chamberlain OF the Court Of Vienna, in the
| name Of the Emperor. and everything in connec-
ton with the matter has become subordnated to
| the strict laws Of etiquette and precedent that
| govern the imperial court Now first and fore
! most among these rules and regulations Is one
which has the effect OF barring from admission
to court all ladies who cannot show that for sew
| eral generations back their maternal as we'll al
| paternal ancestors have been guilty Of no mcsal-
| lance. and have mated only with persons pos
| sessed Of a blood blue their own. The same
rule applies to men, except when they are invest
| ed with some office dignity which ipse facto
renders them what Is known in court phraseoo
gy as "Honahr" that is to say. "presentable at
court" less strictncss. however. being observed
with regard to the qualifications Of mon than IN
| connection with those Of women. Presentation
| at the Court 4 Vienna is. under the circum-
| stances esteemed in europe as n higher honor
| and greater privilege than that at any other
court OF the Old World.
| BEGGING FOR INVITATIONS.
Naturally. az soon az ever It became known in
| France that the wedding TO .akc place at
| Vienna the Duke of Orleans and his relatives
were overwhelmed with demands for Invitations.
| All persons at Paris or the provinces who had
| ever contributed cent toward the Royalist
| cause or who had offered the slightest hospitali
| ~ TO any member OF the House OF Orleans,
| deemed themselves entitled to invitations. and
| hoped thus to have the opportunity of penctrat-
| ing the hitherto closed portals OF { court OF
| Vienna in the wake Of the Duke OF Orleans and
| 0g,rativey speaking. hanging to his coattails.
| Emperor Francis Joseph has. however, no nten-
| ton OF permitting the wedding 10 degenerate
| into n mere demonstration OF French Royalists
| against the Government of the Republic. with
| which he wishes to remain on terms OF friendship
| and he at once Informed the Duke Of Orleans that
| with the view Of preventing the Court OF Vienna
| from being made the scene Of anything that could
| he
| fostation. he would be obliged rigdy to enforce
| the rules and regulations with regard TO admis-
| sion to court In tie case OF all foreign guests.
| eave those who happened To constitute the house
| hold NJ the bridegroom This has been communi-
| Gated 10 the Royalists I'm France by the Duke
through the means OF the "Gaulois'' and other
| monarchicaI organs OF the French press. with
| the result that there is much wailing and gnash-
| Ing OF teeth among those who have hitherto
| STYLED themselves adherents Of the Pretender.
The Duke however has to make up for their
elimination from the festivities at court by ar
ranging for species OF reception when ne
will give himself either In Austria or at Brus-
sels and at which all his friends and adherents
will be accorded the honor OF presentation to the
Archduchess and be permitted to pay to her
that homage which would be hers by right were
she really Queen Of France. But 1t will be but
n makeshft at the best. and the project appears
In no sense to alay the bitterness which has
hcen caused throughout French monarchical
societv by the attitude OF Emperor Francis Jo-
seph
SOME OF THE UNFORTUNATES.
Among thos, thus barred by reason Of bour-
geois blood derived from their immediate an
cestors is first and foremost. the Due de Bris-
sac True the name which he bears Is one OF
the most illustrious in French history and IT Is
n De Brissac OF the Middle Ages to whom
the French are indebted for the fact that the
French language substituted for Latin In
all legal procedure But the young Dukes
mother the welknown Vicomtesse de Tredern
who was at Newport last summer, Is daugh-
ter and heiress OF the multi-millionaire sugar
r,nner Say. 1t cannot be said. however that
she in any way seeks to conceal her parentage
For on one occasion. shortly after her first mar
chn frpot cd
with GOODNESS by the Faubourg St Germain.
when one OF the De Choiseuls pointing to drop
~ tea that had just fallen upon her dress.
marked with a covert sneer, Sugar stains
60 difficult to remove" she looked him straight
In the face and replied: mot half difficult