The evening times., 1901-05-04
MADAME DE GALLIFFET.
The Trouble OF One OF EugenIe7s
FayoFitcS With Her Hu.b4nd-

ALtplL tue FsfiftHh 4ElG5Ilili2J
More than three decades have gone Dy
since the most brilliant court OF the nine
. tecnth century was dispersed. never TO
/ fJTGgdJheT again. either amidst familiar
or unfamiliar surroundings, for if the
Empire had been restored il wouI1 have
had TO find new habitat Nine lOnths
after Eugene. Empress Of q ne French is
sued Tor the last time from its portals.
the TUiferieS was q mass OF blackeued
ChaTTed ruins, for which not the iucrfmfn-
ated EapOleOuiC regime. but an 5ffshoot
/ OF the then newly established republic.
namely the Commune was to blame. in
the years that followed the women of tI.
Second Empire who had made the palace.
/ built by tathsrine de Medici the centre of
attraction OF the whole pleasure loving
and fashionable world bore their nisfor-
I tunes with dignity and courage
These women formed "a csterie apart in
no way dSSociatiUg with the SpOuSes the
mothers the sisters and the cousins and
the @unts Of the bigWigs Of the Third Re
pubic. while. on the ether hand. they
We're looked at somewhat askauCe By the
more dNLlIUdIeu OF the QByEI gers of tbs.
EaubUurg St Gernain- albeit that in tn.
matter of pedigree there WAS often not a
pin to choose between them. The. court
beauties Of the eTstwhile Second Empire
never troubled themselves to institute or
% invite comparisons They took up the
thread of their amUsemeuts where Sep
tSmbeT J, 1870. hau left them and unGueS-
t1Onab!y whatever delightful entertain
ueUts the Third Republic has had to offer
in the way Of elegant race meetings
and kindred functions at TrouvTle in The
autumn, ana on the Riviera in the winter
We're and are still due TO the initiative, of
the Empress Eugenle' 5 battalion Of court
beauties.
Gradually they dwindled TO a mere
handful only couple OF months ago
the MaTqulSe de Observation-Disclosures went
the way Of all flesh, and on Thursday the
small knot of survivors was stfH further
decreased by the death of the NTarqIise
de Gallitfet, the wife Of the stIIT brilliant
though r. Fl
VINO was recently Minister for War and
whom the Republicans failed to keen in
4 position which would have conferred
much prestige On their administration
II is said that General the MARQUIS de
GaiIlHat IS difficult man to manag ge, and
there IS little or no reason TO doubt the
truth OF the statement That was Droba-
bly, the cause who he and his charming
spouse elected many years ago ia he
friends and TO live aDdrt Roth yvar..
too proud and too sensitive of their own
dignity to VOUChSafe explanations for This
separation to the outer world of which
after all it was 10 concern II NAV safe
y be asserted though, that the modern
Ia [Afd-dnd the term applied to the AIa p
quiS de GaIIinet Is no great t.y.a as,ger-7rior,
is less dOcile and amenable than the
legendary one would have been had ne
cspouSed her who became the yvifa of
SeiSneur de Fluxas
Equally certain is it that Nine. de Flu
NStS thtt was to be imbiued lessons with
regard to wIlely obedience differing from
French haute bourEeoise. whence Nine
dc Gailiffet sprang. She was q relation
bN marriage Of I4dftitTe- the famous
Da iHtT- Nine de CSaIiiffet in common
ial.neSs be il said, never pretended Co dis
SUlSe the real situation. Both her bus-
hiHd and she were great favorites with
the Emperor and the Empress. who after
trying once OF twice 20 bring about q bet
ter understanding between the yoTiug
couple, finally abandoned the scheme in
despair. The last attempt on the part of
Napoleon III was original enough TO be
deserving or mention II was when CALI
ret was terribly wounded in Mexico 1T
would have been shocking" said the
monarch to the marauise. 'if he had died
with this misunderstanding still be tween
You There Is MISUNDERSTANDING
sir was the answer There would be a
misunderstanding if we pretended not to
have an irrem0vable one
he Marquis de tidIIinct was exceeding
~ punCulioUS with regard To the faiut-St
mention of his wife by strangers and on
one occasion a bore found this out 10
his cost He had several times euqyiired
about madane's health. Her health is
fairly good monsieur. was the final
aIa=wer, but I only allow her friends to
enquire so peTtinaCiOuSIy- and 20 judge
from appearance / doubt whether YOU are
numbered among them.