The San Francisco call., 1899-06-11
Sensational Life
OF
Princess (hirndy
Continued from Page Twenty-Five.

had exploded in Austria. The heir ap-
parent to the throne was shot. The usual
gaggIng of toe Continental press ensued.
The facts were never published. There
were gossips who, not knowing De Chi
may. attributed the shooting TO him. But
there were others who did know him, and
presently It was related that the heir
apparent was shot. not by a jealous hus-
band. but by jealous King. After that
De Chimay took his wife to Paris.
Two children came to the house of Chi
may. but so far as the Princess was con-
Cerned they were mere punctuation marks
in the vivid story she mad begun to make
OF her life in the French capital. Her mar
Velous beauty. her magnificent, wicked
eyes. her marble skin and superb figure
that were the envy Of the gay. beautiful
women Of Paris made adventure an easy
possibility
The spirits of the Princess romped on
February 81 1894. the anniversary of her
twenty-frst birthday. She gave grand
dinner and ball in Paris in honor of the
event. Her startling beauty and the Law
fish gifts which nature had bestowed upon
her made her the idol of the htr of her
class.
Meanwhile her subtle nature was seek
ing for relief from the fashionable world.
She wandered among the cafes of Paris
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was a hunt for happiness. Her nature had
not found it in wealth and titles. 1t was
tho strange affinity of contrast that drew
her
Then she met Rigo. She fastened her
fancy on the Hungarian gypsy, who had
nothing that she had except the keen
spirit of adventure and the love of song.
These were the only ties that soldered the
fate Of the Princess of Chimay and Cara
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him play one night in one of the Partisan
cafes. He was tall and we'll proportioned.
He played with skill all the romantic mel
odies of his nomadic race.
Home, husband and children were not
forsaken on the minute, but finally her
acquaintance with the minstrel became
everybody's talk Rigo, like herself, was
married. and to a woman of his race and
same wild, warm nature. If the Princess
Chimay's was a mad infatuation, the
wifes was frenzy, and in time il burned
away her reason. Her opportunities to
Rigo became unbearable to him. and to
escape them he and his Princess fed.
With fare of trumpets they eloped to
Budapest, Hungary, where the life they
led soon brought them under the eye Of
the authorities. RIGGS wife followed
them there. and in one of the hotels of
the capital one day her mind gave way
completely ana SNe was leo out TO cOn0ne
ment in one of the hospitals for the in
sane, where she has lately died.
The Prince of Chimay did not pursue
his wife. He remained quietly at home
and the Paris courts soon provided him
with papers in divorce, which the Prin-
cess did not contest. On the contrary,
the orgies in which her immense wealth
enabled her and her Rigo to indulge be-
came the broader and more abandoned
From one capital in Europe they went
TO another, staying not long in one place,
for the police drove them out. At times
the Princess would appear with Rigo at
one cafe or another and finally she de-
cded that they both should make the
stage their profession. 1t was but
another vagary of her diseased brain,
but it appealed to Rigo, and they
finally departed for Cairo, and from there
went to Alexandria, where she rented one
of the handsomest villas in the country.
There they decided to stop for time
and begin their stage career