New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-28
E&7GHTH0OD FOR DE BRETEJ-1I.


King Edward has Just conferred The star and
Cross Of knight Commander Of the Victorian Or
der upon his most intimate Partisan friends and
oldume companions of the days when he was stu
Prince Of WaIes-nameIy, the Marquis du Lau and
the Marquis de Breteuu. Both uobemen are mem
be-s Of the French Jockey Club and Of the Union,
and while Du Lau has held aloof from politics ever
since the FranCo-Ger1an War. during which he
won the Cross of the Legion of Honor on the field
Of battle by his bravery, and has devoted himself
10 the TURF restricting himself to the life Of man
OF leisure with artistic tastes, the Marquis de
BreteuiI has figured alike in politics and II financial
enterprises his tastes for the latter being Igssby
Que to the fact that he IS the grandson OF that
Hebrew banker, Achille FoUld, who played i'm
porrant role throughout the reign Of NapJl con Ill
both the chief hnancier Of The empire and the
most powerful Of Napoleon's Cabinet Ministers The
Marquis de Breteuil married Miss Lita Garner
daughter Of Commodore Garner Of the New-Y9rk
Yacht Club, who persisted in d yachting accident N
New-York Bay. The marquis was bitterly opposed
TO the marriage OF his wife's sister to Sir William
Gordon Cumming. and holds no kind OF Intercourse
with his English brothar-in-aw, Treferrirg 10 the
latter the good will Of King Edward The Marquis
de BreteUu and his American wife invited
almost every year stay at Sdudrin- nam. and
were members of the house party there quite re
Gently on the occasion Of The Kings birthday. It
was. in fact during his visit that he was knighteG
ana decorated ~ the King.
The Marquis de BreteuiI unlike so many other
foreign uObleCeu who have married American
heiresses. has shown disposition whatsoever 10
squander the fortune of his wife. On the con-
trary. he has the reputation OF being able to make
dollar and even franc, go further than any
one elsa belonging TO the French great world His
ancestry is far from being as ancient as that Of
the Marquis du Lau. and his patrouymic is Tonne
Ler. which may be translated into English as
Cooper" TO which one of his immediate forebears
added the name 81 De BreteuM" He sat for a
time In the Chamber of Deputies for Arge,e- as a
Royailst member, but found it prudent 10 resign at
the time of the Boulanger episode, being unwilling
10 identify himself with the alterations of the late
Cornte de Paris in connection with the BRAY Cen
eral" Besides being a warm friend Of King Ed
ward he is on terms of considerable intimacy
with The King Of Greece and the Crown Prince Of
Denmark, enjoyed the good will and regard of the
late Gar. and stood close 10 the late Lord Ran
dolph Churchill and the latter's American wife
now Mrs George CORVALLIS West
Let add that what King Edward has always
liked so much about Du Lau and De BreteUil has
been that when he was at Paris they always
knew exactly how 10 treat hn-Jhat is 70 say. with
the easy freedom Of personal friendship, and yet
never at the same time entirely forgetting his
rank. Of course, it has been more easy for them
10 do this then it would have been for any English
uobleman, since they owed him no allegiance and
he was. after all, nothing more 10 them. as fas as
position was concerned than any other OF those
heirs apparent and crowned heads who seek re-
Taxation and pleasure on the banks Of the Seine.
BIT they always knew exactly how far to go in
the prerogatves Of close companIouship and old
tine Friendship. and never trespassed beyond the
border line causing King Edward TO regard them
as the best types OF French breeding and "gentIl-
homEerie.'