Arizona republican., 1900-11-25

1 perlSn Of want In the Slu1nS or HdrlS,
 ana would have been buried in a pau
 per's grave had it not been for the
 charity of a former servant. It IS long and distressing story, which ]
 nave on more than one occasion de-
 scribed in these letters. The old duch-
 ess had objected to her sons marriage
 rom the very outset, on religious and 1 pecuniary grounds, deeming it terrible that boy of hers should marry a pen
 niless non-Catholic. From the first she
 did everything in her power to bring | about separation.
 The duchess. who was a Russian 1 princess, Galitzin by biIl,h, was but
 sixteen years old when she was led to
 the altar by the Duke of Chaulmes on
 All Fools Day in 1875. The honeymoon, 1 instead of being spent in travel. was passed at old Mime. Chsvreuse's cha l teau of Sable, a gloomy pile inhabited
 only by monks and bigoted old women,
 for the Duchess of Chevreuse was at 1 absolute fanatic on the score Of reh- zion. Save when discussing the short
 comings of her various friends and rel
 atives. heaven and hell formed the al- | formative subjects of her conversation, | all those not doing just exactly as she desired being on the high road Ito per- diticu.
 It was an ill-omansd honeymoon, and
 the duke. being a weak-minded man, it
 was not long before he yielded to his
 mothers influence and began to treat his wife wish neglect. Matters wers ag- gravated by the duke becoming affiict- ed with consumption, the final stages of I, i'm at ah ha | teau of Sable. It was during this tims, | according to evidence subs quently pro- duced in the Paris courts, that one night the bed room of the young duch- ess was invaded at ? o'clock in the morning by her old motherinlaw and | two sour visaged monks, who placed
 before her paper which they demand ed th4. she should sign, informing her
 that it was her husbands dying visa that she should do so. Frightened Dy the threats and menaces used, the young duchess, who was not twenty at the tims. signed the paper without reading it. It subsequently, turned ouia that this document was nothing more
 nor less than a confession of marital infideiity and a surrender of her chill dren, owing to her own worthlessness, | id0 the care of her mothsr-in-law. Two days later. on the strength of this pa per. the woung duchess was turned put | of the chateau.
 Unfortunately for herself one of her admirers, an individual styling himself the "Comt5" de Dion, now president of lthe Automobile club of France, hap pened to be staying in the neighboring town of Sabls. and traveled to Paris by the same train as herself. There | had never b. en any intimacy between | the two. But the man, with the object of deriving the social prestige resulting 1 from being known as the ''cavaliere servente" of the most beautiful and sl-
 egant duchess in France, endeavored | by tine indiscretion of his attentions and '5f his talk, to convey the impress sion that he was in reality her lover. On reaching Paris the young duchess commenced suit against her husband
 for desertion, alimcny, and for the pos session of her children. The court | however, .basing it's judgment on the | wriuten confession and upon the fact that she had, after being elected from Sable, traveled in the same train as de Dion to Paris, returned a decision against her and vested the guardian
 ship of her children in the old duchess
 of Chevreuse.
 At th:s lime the duke was at the point
 of death. and after his demise his Wi dow's case became more hopeles than ever. Two attempts did she make tn | kidnap her children. Each time, how 1 ever, they were defeated Nor was her
 appeals to the tribunals any more sue
 cessful, for 50 enormous was the social power, and above all the social terror
 ism, exercised in Paris by the impe-
 rious old duchess, that no one cared to
 take up the cudgels on behalf of the l penniless and foreign-born young Wi dow, who was quickly deserted by all
 her former admirers, foremost among
 them being, naturally, de Dion.
 It was only after her death from star
 vaItion that the Parisian newspapers raised their voices against the infamous
 intrigue, persecution and cruebty to
 which the young Russian had been sub jected.
 I met her a few times in 1877 and 1878
 at Paris, and she struck me as being a
 somewhat capricious beauty, willful,
 reckless in her deportmenc, one of those women, in fact, whose conduct, al-
 though perfectly honest and true, i'm
 varably gives rise to malevolent talk. I-Marquise de Fontenoy in Washington