The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-23
AMERICAN WOMEN WHO HAVE MARRIED TITLESI


The July number of the Cosmopoli.
tan contains an interesting article by
Frances DeForest, on American wo.
men, who have married titles In part
it is as follows:
Twenty years ago it was novelty
for an American girl to marry a noble
man. but today such an occurrence
.awakens little interest.
1t is not TO he wondered at that these
International marriages are so numer-
Gus, for when one considers that many
of our American girls are now educa-
ted abroad, it seems but natural that
they should marry men in whose soe!e-
" they have been so much more than
in that of their own countrymen.
Most of the women who marry noble
men have wealth and beauty which.
augmented by the gifts of rare bril-
nancy and intellect, make up a combi-
nation so tempting that the scions Of
noble houses can but feel proud to ex-
change their titles for so much that
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Contrary to general report, most of
these international marriages are love-
matches, at least on the part of tue
American girls for European noble
men have such courtliness of bearing,
such grace of address, and show such
a deferautial manner toward women,
that they become at once ideals of ro-
mantle personality in the eyes of DEM
ocratic American maidens, who are
genuinely in love when they walk to
the altar to receive their coronets.
1t has been rumoreG that American
wives of French noblemen are not re-
eeived into the old families of the Eau
bourg st. Germain although their
marriage entities them to such an en-
tree, but this is false, for the refined,
gentle Americans are. welcomed most
cordially, and they bring new life and
Lew ideas into the rather routine ives
Of these aristocratic homes, and they
are treated exactly as if they had oaen
born to the nobility.
The Countess d 'Aramon was Miss
Mary Fisher, the daughter of the late
j. Fisher, Esq. of New York, and she
was married in the late seventies to
Count James d Aramon formerly an
officer in the French army. The Count
apd countess live in the rue Galilee in
Paris, and are prominent in the socie-
ty of the most exclusive nobility. The
countess is very graceful and beau
tiful woman, and is famous for her
rare taste in dress and her charm as d
hostess.
The Countess de la Forest Divonne
was before her marriage Miss Flor
ence Audenried, a beauty and belle in
Washington society, bat since her mar
riage she has lived abroad where she
is brilliant figure.
The Countess Arthur de Gabrias is
one of the youngest and most beauti-
full of the American countesses of
France. She was married in Paris in
October, 1897, and embraced the Ro-
man Catholic faith just prior to her
marriage, receiving the popes blessing
at the altar
The Countess de Gabriac was Miss
Fanny Fithian, the daughter of Judge
j. Adams Fithian, of Santa Barbara
California, and the granddaughter of
Richard Connolly, the city comptroller
of New York, and a member of the
famous Tweed ring. She was born and
educated in Paris, and all her tastes
and manners are French; in fact, She
speaks English with a decided accent.
This is not the first marriage to an
American in the De Gabriac family, for
the grandmother of the present count
is an American, formerly Miss Flor
ence -Phalen. of New York.
The Countess Boniface de Castellane
is perhaps better known to the public
than others who have made as bril-
liant marriages, as the vast fortune
which she took with her to France
caused her marriage to be much COM
mented upon in both French and Amer
lean journals.
The countess was Miss Anna Gould
the daughter of the late Jay Gould,
and she was married in New York at
her brothers house on Fifth avenue in
1894 She went directly to Paris, and
has never revisited her native land
Her marriage has been a very happy
one, and she has two handsome young
sons, to whom she and the count are
devoted.
The count is a deputy from Castel-
lane and has a seat in the chamber
of deputies. He is a strikingly hand
some man, very blond and aristoeratic
looking, and as he pays great attention
to the elegance of his dress he is a no
ticeable figure wherever he goes.
The count and countess have built
themselves a palace in the avenue iu
Bots de Boulogne. 1t is copied
after the palace of the Tri-
anon at Versailles, and was built
at a cost of many millions of francs.
The Castellanes do not entertain
largely, except in summer on board
their yacht, in which they take long
cruises.
The Duchess de la Rochefoucauld
was Miss Matte Mitchell, of Portland,
Ore. She is the daughter of Senator
Mitchell, and was for several seasons
the most famous beauty of Washing
ton. She met the Duke de la Roche-
foucauld on the Rivera one winter, and
the marriage did not follow for several
years, although the two were engaged.
This marriage Is known to have been a
love-match, as Miss Mitchell had no
fortune whatever to offer as a dot.
The Rochefoucauld family is one of
the oldest and proudest in France, and
the American duchess is an ornament
to the society Of the Faubourg st. Ger
main, to which she belongs.
The Marquise de Valori was Miss
Mary Ledoux the daughter of j Lee
doux, Esq, of New Orleans, the family
being one of the proudest of French
Hugueuot descent in this country. Miss
Ledoux was married in the late eight
les to the marquis, who was formerly
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