The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
Lane de Pougy, Famous Partisan
Beauty, Captivates the King
of England.
ARousEs IRE OF The NOBILITY
Indignant ut the Pronounced Atten tioR
of tho King to y Woman With Such
Shady ReputAtion-Her Career
Marked by Many ConQuests.

Pougy, who won In the famous Partisan
beauty contest last year. This new
fancy of the monarch and a decree
which those on the social pinnacle OF
society pronounce mean, petty tyranny
has aroused the nobility and the au-
tocracy Of Britain to furious indigna
ton.
His majestys extraordinary devotion
to Laine De Pougy Is considered the
more remarkable since She has little
reputation to spare. The favorite IN
the past Of the king of the Belgians
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, General
Boulanger, the duke Of Cambridge
Prince Henry of Orleans, Lord Onsiow,
Jean Lorraine, the poet. and Of many
other men Of eminence has been here
TWO months from PARIS preparing tor
an appearance at the Palace theater.
The king OF England seems to be her
devoted slave. He has lunched and
supped with her several times and has
otherwise paid her most tiattering at
tentions. The gossips are talking it
over with much avidity and are laugh
ing at the Bo-called pretense OF The
monarch when he first assembled the
throne that he would insist on the pro-
prieties and would give the cold Shout
der at court to those with shady rec
ords or those who did not walk the
narrow way.
a Beautiful Brunette.
Lame De Pougy is slender, splen-
did figure of the Greek type, a perfect
brunette, with languorous expression
and the finest hands in the world. She
was the wife Of a French naval officer,
from whom she had a stormy separa-
ton when he discovered her in the
apartment Of one Of his friends. Then
she launched upon the gay world Of
Paris, where for years she has led
many men to deeds OF prodigality and
some to death.
From having taken small part at
one Of the theaters she called herself
an actress, and later, spurred on by
| the taunts Of C'tero the Spanish
dancer who actually was on the stage
and pretended to regard her with dis
dain because Of her equivocal position,
she studied and qualified herself in d
way for the music hall stage.
| Two years ago a young San Francis
can named Merritt spent few hours
| playing poker with Lame De Pougy
and quit a loser by $4,000 This was
no new role for the famous rctress.
| who for years has been Twin IT,.
gullibility of young men Of sporting in
| clinattons. Lame was heard Of prom
inently when the late Marshal Nc
Mahon was the most conspicuous man
in France. AT that time the infatua-
| ton Of the marshal's cousin Marquis
| De MacMahon. for 1.-THE countess" the
woman called herself, was made public
| through lawsuit.
/ Sued by Her Secretary.
! Lanes former secretary, Suzanne
Junca, sued for 10000 francs which she
asserted her mistress had improperly
used. The secretary summoned the
| marquis as witness to the conf1den-
tial relations existing between her and
Lame. 1t was said at the time that
Lane had played prominent part In
many political intrigues. General
Boulanger was accused Of spending
public money upon her 1t was also
said that Boulanger borrowed heavily
from the woman to bolster up his de-
Ginning political fortunes
Lane was also a favorite of the no.
torious spendthrifts Maxine Gail and
paid 100000 francs for a necklace for
Lane De Pougy. Lebaudy also spent
hundreds OF thousands Of francs upon
her.
The Pougy has for associate stars in
/ the rapid life Of the French capital
such widely known characters as Cleo
| De Merode, Otero. Nellie Neustretter,
| = 'oAAAAS DS AASNAllc anu NaneCGe STAN
| ley, and she may be regarded as the
i CHIEF OF this galaxy Of feminine love-
liness She Is the undisputed queen of
/ Monte Carlo, where she goes eyery
year and where the season cannot be
said to have begun until the newspa-
| pers have chronicled her arrival at
the beautiful villa provided for her by
whom she long ago quarreled and from
| whom she fed.
Otero . Real Rival.
| For long time Pougy had for a riya
| Otero, whose rich, dark beauty and
/ sinuous grace had captivated almost as
many men Of many kinds as had De
1 Pougy herself. The two women met
| often at the great restaurants and re-
sorts OF Paris and elsewhere and there
er's triumph. They hated each other
! as bitterly as woman can hate, and
4 now and then at Paris at Nice. at st.
! Petersburg or somewhere else they
scowled at each other blackly and said
ugly things until finally there was a
4 personal encounter. Then they stripped
4 themselves Of their Jewels, and of even
their clothing. and used the gems and
| garments for weapons Of defense They
4 tore the things off and threw them at
/ each other in a wild rage.
1 Once when De Pougy felt that her
/ star was waning she said she was tired
/ Of the life she led and would die. She
(, swallowed dose Of laudanum. Ply
I.sicians pumped 1t out, as she knew
| they would, and the attempt at self de-
/, structton made hit, as she also knew
It would. Her star went upward and
i has ever since remained firm in the
4 sky.
i De Pougy has written novel or two
4 md play-that is to say, her name is
i appended to the productions.
4 It is no secret that she Is compare
/ lively untutored, that her grammar 81
4, ragged and that the literary produc-
4 tons were written for her by two we'll
! known men of Paris.
i 1t Is said that Mrs. Ogden Goelet of
1 New York once had the, lovely De
! Pougy cast out of hotel at Hamburg,
4 objecting to the presence in the hotel
4 with her of such a notorious character
and more to the alleged fact that d
4 son of the Goelet family was srnitten
4 by the Partisan siren and was paying
4 her devotions.
4 From the thousand and one lively
Il Incidents in the life Of De Pougy there
Is little doubt that the king of England
has found her very interesting com
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