The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06
A GREAT FAVORIIE
AMERICAN GIRL IS .AccLAIMED
 THE PEARL OF MADRID. 7
Wife of French Ambassador Famous for Tact and Diplomacy-Phfla delphia Expects Her to Pay
 Former Home q Visit.

Philadelphia Speial.
 It Is rumored in society circles here and in Washington that Mime. Patenotre. wife s ss PrsnH @ sstnra to 6 the some time during the summer months % visit her relatives and many friends whom she hsssnet seen for four & years esorAss s,ss daughters of Castle and Aragon have ocedpfed considerable space in the Phii~ adelphia- 4press and 1t is safe to preotcr that when she returns to tife home of her Her three children will aecompdny htr. but 1t IS said that her husband will re- main in Madrid
 lta During the. recent coronation of .spsm' z young King Mime. Patenotre was praised and fiattered and courted as was no other woman in the Kingdom. Indeed. she was acclaimed the Pearl of Madrid. Sn4 is favorite of the Queen Regent. for whom she has great fondness. and on many occasions she had the King as. her guest. So faithful and untiring was she in the discharge of her social Obligations that when the festivities were aver she found herself In the hroes of q bad case of nervous collapse. It is for this reason 1t is said. that she is coming back t1 America that she may for while nnH rest and get the benefit of a climate much more invigorating than is to be had at the capitol of Alfonso.
 Daughter of a Philadelphia Million
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 Mme Patenotre's maiden name was Eif- nor Elverson, the beautiful and accom- plished daughter of James Elverson. for~ mer publisher of The Philadelphia Iti- Pennsylvania. The girl had re ceived careful education. In her younger days she was attended by tho most learned of tutors and long before she had abandoned short dresses she was a pupil in one of the most excusive schools at Dresden. For six years ah8 received instruction from some of tna most celebrated teachers In Europe ana when she returned to Philadelphia after her graduation in Paris, society with one accord proclaimed her the most fascinat% ing young woman in the ultra fashionabie set of the Quaker City.
 Langage and music. which had aftract- ed her from the beginning became almost a passion with her. Her facility Tor ac< quiripg foreign speech Is extraorninarSt Before she had been in Madrid ssx months 1t Is said that she could speak tho peculiar dialect of that province With the ease and huency Of a native. She. is equally proficient in German, French and Russian.
 international marriage. When In 1884 her engagement was announced to Jules Pat- enotre, then the French Ambassador ac
 W. gFipeton society i1 foth the Fre-n1 aleiiU,fe wal popular heie ana af h9ia ' and he was regarded as one Of the fisinY young diplomats of the world. Ills en- gagenent to a woman not of his country was received at Paris with regret
 French Government is Displeased The marriage was performed at the homo of Mir. Elverson on March Z, iA9as the witnesses bein~r Sir Julian Paunce-' fote, Prince Cantaeuzane, the Amnassaz dor from Berlin. and many other dis- | tinguished diplomats. The groom was I csa tholic while. the bride reupafiied trua to, her Protestant failh. Howeyer the. ceremony was performed by Cardinal l Gibbons.
 covernrnent at all. Why cannot t French Ambassador marry French wo- mang" was asked and for answer II SO tefmined to punish the young man whs without asking his superior political of- ficers atsParisS anything about It. # was not lofg thereafter before orders were re- ceived by Patenotre to pack his trunk go to Madrid there to represent m nis Gox- the action. like all diplomatic an tifs. was slow and 1t was not until Octopff, 1897, that he left Washington. ltas wite and two children were left behlnd Bs- cause patenotre thought that when ne got to Paris he would have little troupe In persuading his Government that yVash- iugton was the place for nim but ln -this he was disappointed A fsw weeks later about four months prior to the dec. iNration of war between America and Spain Mnne. Patenotre sailed from New York to ioin her husband. From the tnls that hostiIities commenced until the pres ert..her position both in society and as cotl&4 has been the most delightful and cordial character. This is a rare victory for her tact and, 1t Is said. that her nus band feels that it g one or the notapls sncceees of his career; Three cnidren being boy and has been named Ray mond Jame=.