The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
PASSING
 OF 4 DUKE
 OF NOTE Triple Right of the Head of IllustriOus
 Talleyrands. Peer of France and Head ofa Feudal Principality
 in Germany. Emperor William Must Select the Successor to His Title
 and Vast Estates. FRANCES LATEST SCANDAL Stir in Society Caused by the Sudden Departure From Cannes of
 Princess Louise.
Emperor William Must Select the Successor to His Title
 and Vast Estates.
FRANCE,sLATEsT SCANDAL
Stir in Society Caused by the Sudden Departure From Cannes of
 Princess Louise.

Copyrighted. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett
 PARIS March 26.-One of those who have passed away during the week and who was as much talked of as any among the most prominent men of the day was the Due de Talleyrand-Peri- gord ct Valencay, who died at the age of S7, at his princely residence in Der lin the other day. With him disap- peared one of the highest and most original figures of French heraldry. Peer of France, Knight of the Golden Fleece, head of the illustrious Talley- rand family, he was a triple duke Duke of Talleyrand and Valencay in France; owner of a fine historic chateau of the latter name; Duke of Sagan in Germany, and head of a fedual princi- pality.
 Although he generally lived in Ger many, where he was persona grata at the court of William II, and where he was represented by notary in the House of Lords. to which he belonged by right, Due de Talleyrand was we'll known in Paris, where he often came and lunched daily at the Jockey Club, enlivening the table by his
  passed him as a grand seigneur combin- ing the bearing of the grand siecls with the elegance of modern society. Although S7, he still hunted on his estates at Valencay, which are among the finest in France. He became sud- denly i'll at Berlin after spending an evening at the opera. The next morn ing his valet found him dead in bed On receipt of the news all the members of the family started for the German capital, where the obsequies have just been celebrated with great pomp in the presence of Emperor William, who will have to decide which of the rela- tives will inherit the title of the feudal estates of the Duchy of Sagan. Those who know what violent disputes exist between members of the family, of which one episode was the recent ab> duction of the Prince de Sagan, when unconscious and paralyzed, by his wife, can we'll imagine the somber drama to be enacted around his coffin one of these days.
 In the meantime the true heir to the name and titles, whom we have known as leader of society and fashion, Prince de Sagan, whose silvery hair and eye glass, with it's black string, formed one or the most cOnSplCuOuS HE uTeS III Paris, 'viVeur ct mondain, the Prince de Sagan, now 66 years of age, has, by the death of his father, become the legal head of the family. The poor Prince de Sagan, motionless in an arm chair in which he will end his life, was the only one absent from the funeral ceremony, and probably in the feeble condition of his faculties is ignorant of the event which creates him a million aire, and of the conflict between his sons for the ducal coronet, which his powerless hands can no longer hold.
 The great names I have just cited are not the only ones that have been prom inent this week. There has been much stir over a story related by the Herald, that of the sudden departure from Cannes of princess of royal descent, whose differences with her husband have been no secret since a certain sen- sational duel. A few days after the de- parture of Princess Louise notice ap- peared in the Petites Affiches of Paris stating that Duke Philippe of Saxe Co., bourg ct Gotha would not be responsi- ble for any debts the princess, his wife, might contract This notice, which was somewhat startling when the persons contradiction in the papers, but it turned out that the denial was a hoax and 1t was repudiated by the Austrian Embassy, to whose authority it was at tributed. It therefore appears that the original notice is authentic and ema- mated from the duke. The step is not a very chivalrous one, but if certain whis- pers in circulation are to be believed if was due to the negotiations for a very large loan for which Prince Philippe would not accept marital responsibility It is reported that a conseil de famille will shortly meet at Vienna to put an end to the situation, which Is giving rise to too much scandal.