The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-24


more frequently met with down low than
up high. The manners cOrrespOnded with
the appearance. and were often brusque
trayed want OF delicate early culture. This
was when she shot at an interlocutor
basilisk-like glance. that seemed TO pierce
his soul inside out for the qualification OF
curiosity or 10 make sure there were not
grounds t2T any unpleasant suspicion IA
poleOn, by all accounts. had this searching
or plunging glance. as also had his nephew,
Prince Napoleon IL had more than "A touch
OF savagery in IL, but il could be followed
by winning play of countenance.
MARRIES RICH PRINCE.
When In her nineteenth year Louis Ma
poIeon made AN Offer OF marriage to his
cousin Aathllde which her father accepted
and 10 which she agreed. but without en-
thusiasm. She thought him weak and sen
timental. and his natural cOncealment did
not suit her She wondered whether he had
anything to conceal. But she had COrsican
clannishness and liked him. The betrOthal
promises soon Withdrawn, and other
matches thought Of The Princess of Or
ange. wishing 10 have her near her. wanted
Prince Henry of The Netherlands TO marry
her. and the then Queen OF The Neither
lands. Cies Paulowna, encouraged the
project, Mathilde being her cousin
But Napoleon's funeral at the Invaiides
alarmed the powers. II having sent wave
land states, the match fell through, and
Mathilde married the enormously rich Ana
tole Demidon. Prince OF San Donate
He took her TO Russia, and her beauty
style and the cOusinly protection OF the
Grand Duchess Helena gave her there a
foremost place Nicholas, who prided him
self on chivalrous character, took her by
the hand his kinswOman. and seemed
ready 20 devote himself TO her. Seeing this,
her husband took her TO Paris.
She found adroit friend In Nj. Theirs
and the wealthy BOnapartlSt ladies'.
Louis Philippe and Marie AmeIie had to
ceive her. She and the Liberals entered into
a tacit alliance, and she seemed, in a way,
to become power in the state, when the
news Of her quarrel with Prince Anatole
Demidon burst on Paris
He had every vice OF antiquity with Rus
sian inebriety and barbarian. Under Rus
sian law she had no claim. once she refused
10 live with him. for maintenance beht-
ting his rank and hers. Theirs. whom she
consulted. advised her TO go without loss
OF time TO the Grand Duchess Helena, then
In Russia, state her case and ask her to
prepare the Emperor Nicholas for an APP
peal 10 his chivalrouS sentiments. This
course the princess followed. Nicholas re-
ceived early information of her arrival at
St Petersburg through his police. AS she
and the Grand Duchess Helena sat to-
gether. turning over in their minds the per-
picking situation, the autocrat was an
nounced.l They knew not what TO do, but
Nicholas, noticing their embarrassment, at
once set them at ease by saying: II heard
haf an hour ago that my young cousin mad
come TO visit you, and here am TO bid her
welcome tosSt Petersburg
Then, turning toward her. he said in the
most gracious manner, viii you not, my
cousin, allow me to embrace your old
enough TO be your uncle and | want TO
treat you as a niece"
The story which the Temps gives on the
authority OF its Vienna correspondent,
would be true Of Augusta of Brunswick,
granddaughter OF Frederick, Prince of
Wales. and grandmother of the deceased
princess. Augusta, the wife Of William,
hereditary duke and afterward. by Ma
,l,<arur
met with brutal treatment from him, and
he sometimes thumped her so roughly as
10, 10 leave her plack and blue. she, one even
ing, rescued. te shame him publicly, and,
going to Is court ball with scarf wrapped
loosely round her shoulders, when the En-
press Catherine III came round. let the
scarf fall and revealed a bust naked TO
the waist and horribly discolored from the
marital thumps. Then. falling on her knees
she pointed 70 the bruises and declaring
their cause. implored Catherine to protect
here from the brute 10 whom she was
married.
NICHOLAS GRANTS DECREE.
Nicholas. at the close of the interview
above described. Summoned Dernido to him
and dedicated separation and the condi-
lions These were an annuity of 10000
roubles to the princess. the loss Of exchange
in transmitting il abroad to fall on the
grantor; the possession i'm fee OF the villa in
which the. princess spent her summers on
Lake Mags1ore and the Introduction Of Ana
tole to approach within 300 leagues of any
place where SHE might be residing She
came to live in Paris in 1916 and exerted her
influence and used her large income In help
Ing Louis Napoleon TO restore the empire.
Anatole DemidOff departed this life soon
Gfter the fall OF the second empire He had
been in the sixties allowed TO live in Paris
and he resided In a Louis XIII palace in red
brick. faced with freestone at an angle of
the Rue Castellane and the Boulevard Haus-
semann. and facing the Chapelle Expia-
toire- There he led gloomy existence. with
doctor, major 6omo, reader, librarian and
a large retinue of servants who did what
they could to keep, down his dipsomania-
The annuity OF 10000 roubles died with
him. and she had lost through the break
down OF the empire her civil list donation
OF SO0e francs year, as we'll as the
enchanting mansion. standing in large
grounGs. which the emperor purchased of
the late Queen Christina to give to Ma
thilde for the rest of her life. However
as she had considerable savings and the
DemidOH family agreed to allow her zoo
600 francs yearly. she could not be regarded
as badly on She had. moreover, the Jewels
the Emperor Nicholas obliged Prince Ana
tole Demidoff to leave her and all those
her mother left her. They included the
finest NECKLACE In EurOpe-one in five rows
which Napoleon presented Catherine, OF
Wurtemberg on her marriage with his
brother Jerome. King of Westphalia But
IL came hard on the Princess MathiIde to
be obliged 10 retire TO a small house for
winch she ndQ 10 pay a neaNy rent 1t
stands almost opposite to the American
Wesleyan-Episcopal Church in the Rue De
Berry.
MARRIES PAINTER AT SIXTY.
There she continued TO hold weekly a lit
erary and artistic court, and there she mar
ried. secretly. Ciaudius Poquelin. an almost
famous painter in enamels. He had also
considerable fortune inherited from his ia
ther. Most fortunate she in securing
such husband at the age of sixty He act
ed as II he We're but a rare convenient friend
and devoted and respectful comrade, resided
In house OF his own at some distance from
hers, sat at end of the table at her dinner
parties, and when applications were made
for invitations TO her salon he inquired into
the antecedents of the applicants with deli
cate discretion. Paris alone could furnish
an elderly princess with a husband so tact
after his death she began again to see COM
pany. She could not bear being separated
from the interests OF higher life in a great
capital. and tried TO keep young by constant
~ mixing M young people OF promising tall
ents with her Old friends.
The Princess M2thilde had not n keen per
cepti0n OF those sober beauties of French
literature. art, oratOry and conversation
which give them peculiar distinction Her
taste was too Italian with a German adj
r1ixture). not 10 prevent a perfect apprecia-
ton OF subtle grace and charm. She liked
the strongly striking, the clearly apparent
the flush OF life, the flashing or biting with
cism and the gaudy colors of those boats