The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-22
However, Her Ancestry May
Not Be FIattering to Her
New Relations.
DESCENDANT OF PIERRE.
VI. VOGET, CHEMIST, CLAIMS TO
HAVE MADE AN IMPORTANT
DlSCOvERY-W ITTE STILL IN
SEARCH OF HEALTH.
By Raoul De Saint Renee


Paris, Sept. Princess Marie Bon
eparte, who will soon become a real
royalty by marrying Prince George OF
Greece, has an ancestry that many Of
the great European dynasties with
which her future husband is connect
ed may not consider it an honor to be
allied with She is descended on her
fathers side from Prince Pierre Napo-
leon Bonaparte, the disreputable
swash-buckling nephew of Napoleon l..
and on her mothers side from Francis
Blanc a waiter who amassed millions
by establishing a gambling saloon at
Monte Carlo
Prince Pierres record of adventures
is a long and lurid one. He began his
career as a soldier of fortune, fighting
In Colombia and Turkey. He was in
volved in the Carbonari plot in Rome
and shot two gendarmes who tried to
arrest him.
After several visits to America he re-
turned to Paris during the 1S48 revolu-
ton and was elected deputy. Be
cause he assaulted another deputy he
was sent away to Algeria by his cous-
In, Napoleon Ill, who soon afterward
cashiered him because he returned
without leave. The Emperor was in
duced to grant the wild Prince $4,000
a year out of the Civil List.
In 1858 the Prince married young
girl of the people. Justine Ruffin,
whom he subsequently married twice
again in order to make her entitled to
the rank of Princess and to legitima-
TIE the children.
Prince Pierre's last exhibit was to
shoot dead Victor Nolt. journalist
who brought him a challenge from the
republican politician Pascal Grousset.
The sensation caused by this cold
FLOODED murder precipitated the fall of
the Empire, which occurred the same
year, and the prince and princesses
were soon in reduced circumstances"
BY opening a milliner's shop in Lon
don, the Princess supported the family
until their son Roland married the
daughter of Francis Blan, the million
aire proprietor of a Monte Carlo
hell" The bride bought him a Paris
mansion, palace in Italy and $1,000
900.
1t is the daughter of this marriage a
pretty and charming young woman of
twenty eight who is now to marry
Prince George of Greece, the nephew
of Queen Alexandra, of the King of
Denmark and of the Dowager Empress
Of Russia.
NJ Voget. the famous chemist of the
Sevres porcelain mandatory. claims
to have discovered process which will
In a way revolutionize the making of
large vases and decorative objects.
AS all connoisseurs know. the cele
brated Sevres porcelain is of two
kinds, the pate dure and the pate ten
Dire. The latter was invented by the
Chinese. but owing to it's delicacy was
apt to break in the furnace. The plate
dure is much tougher, but considerably
Inferior in capacity for taking color.
Large vases became the fashion dur
Ing the reign of Louis XIV and XVI,
but they fell gradually out of favor. be-
cause 1t was impossible to use pate
tendre for anything over two feet high
and the manufacturing of the prepare
ton was discontinued in 1880.
Since then repeated experiments have
been made to find past less suscepti-
BILE to heat. while easy to take color.
NJ Voget claims to have discovered the
secret and has already fashioned vases
Of all sizes. with all the celebrated
opal. emerald blue and rose tints.
These samples are to be first shown
at the Anglo-French exhibition next
year in London. after which the Sevres
establishment will communicate the
secret to any manufacturer who applies
For ii.
Count White is still touring trc II
snees in search of health. Tic trcucr.