The age-herald., 1897-11-14
PRINCE DE SAGAN'S LAST DAYS.
Return of the Prince of Fashion to His Wife Has
 Caused Family Squabbe.
iris Letter to the London News

Paris Letter to the London News
 Sad news ccmes'from Paris. The P. ince de Sagan, the modern Alcibiades the dainty exquisite and prince of fashion, whose picturesque caresr equals in in- terest those other heroes of fashion, Beau Brummel and Count d'Orsay and without whose presence no social func- tion could be deemed complete, is dying of congestion of the brain.
 The princes condition is said to be hopeless. He $ witless and unobservant as baby, and spends what are probably the closing days of his gilded career playing dominos with his nurses.
 Last week he was able to leave the club where he has lived for years and take drive in the Bods. Instead of ordering the driver to take him back to the Rue Royale, he told him to drive to tine Hotel de Sagan, in the Rue St. Dominique, Saint Germsin. where his wife lives. The meeting took place and the an- ouncement went forth that hence forward the Prince de Sagan would live with his wife.
 The Due de Montmorency strongly ob- jected to his brothers change, and now the Prince de Sagan's eldest son, Comte Helie de Talleyrand-Pe Perigord, comes for ward with the published declaration of his intention of laying the matter before the judicial authorities and calling g. family council to decide what is to be done. Comte Helie says: 'T cannot un- derstand how my brother, who, for the last twenty years, under all circum- stances, manifested firm desire to re- main at the Rue Royale, should have been surprised into going to the Rue Saint Dominique, being conducted thth- CT under the false pretenses of taking a drive by the orders of a physician"
 Altogether, the case presents a sad spectacle of a family quarrel, of which the man, whose days are numbered, is flfs unconscious Pripancc 6n Sa- gan's residence is a house with history, though new one. It was built by Hope, the banker, out of part of the profits he realized in helping the govern ment of Louis XVIII to pay off the war indemnity which the invaders of France demanded in 1915. Hope had united his destiny with that of beautiful Arle- sienne, who became by her second mar riage Mme. Rapp. To draw company to the house to entertain her he gave Lu- cullian banquets. His chef was the first to cock canvas back ducks in Paris They were brought over alive in tanks from Maryland to Havre and fed on the way on wild celery and other victuals they liked. At a ball that he gave one win- ter there were 30 GOO francs (S6, 000) worth of forced strawberries. He refused to say whether they came from Perpignan or the Riviera. Somebody said to Baron James Rothschild: Tt ds now your turn to trump Hope" T can't afford such Lucullian freaks" said the baron. Hope, however, was cheesepar- ing about small expenses. He one day found an error in his club accounts of 40 cents and went back to claim the money. The cast-off house linen was always sent to the auction mart and Hope went himself to look after the sale. He died dn relative poverty, and his; house was sold for a fifth of what 1t cost to the army contractor, Selliere. father of the present Princess de Sa- eo44s ', 2