New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-22
A s15,OOO,OOO BRIDE.
Marie Bonapate Once in Hands of
Matrimonial Agency.

LES than : wear ago Henry Laboucheres reve-
Less ','", = ..r-,,,,,', on the subject of the
0 :, - 90 Commons as a matrimonial
-. - certain IF the well connected CLERKS OF
a.. national legislature, in conheeioh WIN inc
ord Tovr1shend case, .ncidehtAis 'iVue'' " si'@
- fact that the chief bargain WIZ" the agency
,''' - sor disnosa princess of the
-. of Ropaparte with fortune OF sio'o"'eo
House % Do'-af s -as then sought by the matri-
- 80 Cor tits princess, their terms being
,ssion Of 500, go payable TO them on the
= tho solennizatton Of the marriage The
.ass :, question was Marie daughter Of Roland
L. - his marriage with Marie Blanc.
= - daughters and heiresses Of that old Blanc
% [onsod The great gambling establishment at
-. carlo II IS from that source that the great
,,,,ne of Rolands daughter is derived
der the circumstances the report from Paris
81. Tho engagement of Marie Bonaparte 10 the
count de Tredern and of their impending
.,aee naturally suggests the reflection that ii is
= matrimonial alliance based upon finance rather
than anon pure affection. and that the terms Of
she contract have been negotiated by some matri-
,,onial agency which will receive a handsome COM
mission for its share In the matter
Count dc Tredern Is a of that Vicomtesse de
Tredern who played conspicuous a role in the
General Boulanger episode, and whose name is ia
-7,far IN this side of the Atlantic by the num-
her Of lawsuits which she instituted in a vain eff
fort to prevent her only brothers American widow
and sons from inheriting his property by disput-
ing the validity of his marriage. She IS the daugh-
fer Of the great reflner Say. and married in
The closing days of the Second Empire the son Of
the late Due de Brissae Owing TO her birth she
was cold shoudered by the old aristocracy of the
Faubourg St German. One day while serving
tea some OF her husbands friends a few drops
fell upon her dress AS she touched them with a
handkerchief the Due de Choiseui Praslin re-
marked, with certain touch of sarcasm BE care
fu. madam; sugar stainsr'
Less than blood monsieur" replied the Mar
ouise de Brissac. with greet GOODNESS. looking stead
lily az him, and the duke Colored and turned away.
for his father is officially declared have died In
prison while awaiting trial By III. French House
Of Peers for the shocking murder OF his duchess,
whom he had slashed TO pieces with a sabre
The Marquis de Brissao die3 during the OF
isl, from wounds and exposure sustained tho
battlefield. leaving son. who is now the present
and eleventh Duke Of Brissac married 10 the sister
OF the Due dCzes. and daughter. Diane de Bris-
sac married TO Prince Ernest de Iigue. After a
few years Of widowlood the Marquise de Brissac
contracted second marriage. with the Ecomte de
Tredern. of the most popular members Of the
Jockey Club but the union no: a happy one.
and in 1888 they were divorced. Marie Bonaparte's
hanee is son of this marriage
CRUSADER ORIGIN OF THE DE TREDERNs.
The Trederns are one Of the oldest houses Of the
Breton arstocracy and the family is stated to
with his squire. Neventer, vanquished and slew a
rnenstTous dragon. The descendants of this knight
teok their name De Tredern from lands which
main this day in the family and from the twelfth
century onward It is 10 be found frequently
toned in the pages of French history. Stephen de
Tredern took part in the seventh crusade of
the principal lieutensnts of St Louis and is his
torical record having been knighted by the King
81 the close of the great battle of Mansoorah.
With ali that. they bore title until that of
was conferred upon them in 17T2. In medieval
times. indeed. titles almost entirely unknown
among the old aristocrecy Of Brittany The Tire
deins are 10 be found among the victims Of the
royalist cause at the close of the eighteenth and
the beginning of the nineteenth century. and
OF them. William de Tredern shot a roy
ahst leader at Quiberon Count Louis de Tredern
was an influential member of the Constituent As
seIbly a Paris in 1913
The Nicomtesse de Tredern in her younger days
was endowed with the most superb contralto voice
in France, and social sponsor of General
Bouianger first gave the vogue 70 the once popular
Bouanger March En- revenant de Ia revue" by
singing il at a grand reception held in his honor
al her house in the Place Vendome. Among her
srangesf possessions is pocketbeok made OF the
skin Of the celebrated murderer Pranzini. and the
Project IF Police who placed at her feet while
Boulanger was in power this queer token of his
admiration and homage lost his position &C
count Of his disregard Of propriety.