The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-29
LATE QUEEN ISABELLAS
PALACE IND HOUSEHOLD
EFFECTS WILL BE SOLD
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Columbus in his great maritime enterprise.
Senior Calzado thereupon observed:
I'm that case, your highness. Spain would
have had no Cuba to lose. You will admit
that Cuba has paid a hundred thousand
fold back to Isabella's posterity what she
spent on the Columbus expedition, includ-
ing glory"
This the infanta admitted, but she added:
Unfortunately. the wealth Of the new
world had in Spanish hands the effect of
the possession of great fortune by a child
free to squander it as he pleased
FINE FLEMISH TAPESTRY.
Most of the Queen Isabellas household
Flemish tapestry done in the far-back
times of her ancestress. Mary of Burgundy.
and the Emperor Charles and his son,
Philip III of Spain. Those woven for Mary
represent hunting scenes and the CONVEX
sion of st. Hubert. patron of the chase. The
others renaissance. Isabella bought
them of the daughter Of her grand uncle.
Don Sebastian, not long before her flight
into France in 1863 and used them TO fur
nish small country house which escaped
being clasSed as crown property. The Mu-
rillo in her domestic oratory is claimed by
the CONSERVATION of the Madrid Museum
belonging TO the collection of Ferdinand
VII, which Isabella, on being declared Of
age in 1913. made over to the nation. She
reserved for herself the use for life of some
famous paintings, and on her son being re-
stored TO the throne his government recog
nized this right and caused the paintings
in question 10 be sent to the Palais de Cas-
title. she giving her word of honor that she
would not sell them or move them to any
other residence. These paintings comprise
the only authentic portrait of Isabella the
Catholic, who looks in it a fair haired
Basque.
There are some valuable or invaluable
articles of French seventeenth and eight
zenith century furniture also bought from
the heiress of Don Sebastian. The desk at
which the late Queen used to sit when en-
gagged in writing is by the famous Boule
cabinet maker TO Louis XIV. 1t was gift
of Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Duchess of
Burgundy, to her sister, Marie Gabrielle
wife of Philip V. King of SPAIN 1 have not
heard how it ceased to be crown property.
1sabellas palace, furniture, Jewels and
other personalities are valued at 5000, 900
francs and her invested fortune at 1900 OO0
She left 100000 and a number of relics to
the Holy See and 1,250.000 francs to the
Austrian cavalry officer who shared her life
Tor the eleven years preceding her death.
Under her will the Princess Louis Ferdi-
nand is entitled 10 two-thirds of the residue
OF the fortune, and the Infanta isabella
ex-Princess OF the Austrias, TO a third of
the other third, and the Infanta Eulalie to
the rest.
She leaves some insignia OF orders she
wore on famous occasions to her Bavarian
grandsons. and souvenirs to King Alphonso
and his sisters The golden rose goes TO the
treasury OF Notre Dame de Palomina. the
popular virgin of Madrid. 1t was sent her
by Plus TX in testimony to the late Queen s
devotion TO the Holy See and is richly be-
1eweled and finely enameled. II lies in a
case covered with white parchment having
gold corners and the papal arms on the
clasp. The Queen kept it along with her
most precious relics in an iron safe fast
ened into the wall. When she received il.
Plus expected that she would send Span
ish army corps TO Rome to replace there
NanOlPOn
wanted 10 withdraw so early as 1866. when
he began TO look out for a tussle with
Prussia for the military championship OF
Europe. EMILY CRAWFORD.