The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-24
A WEDDING
 OF NOBILITY Marriage of Prince
 George of Greece; PRINCESS MARIE THE BRIDE She is a Ponaparte and a Home
 Loving Girl. Remarkable Discovery ii Connection With statue of Henry ". Weeks Gossip of the French Capital.
BY HENRI nrrpo,s

Paris. Nov. 23.-The marriage of Princess Marie Bonaparte to Prince George of Greece, which Is fixed to take place at Athens on December lStn. IS naturally exciting great in- terest in high French society
 Princess Marie. who was born at St. Cloyd in 1882, Is the daughter of Prince Roland Bonaparte, whose scien- tinc work would have earned for him world wide reputation if he had not been a prince.
 Her ,mother died few days after her birth. and the young Princess was brought up in the most devoted and render maner by her grandmother Princess Pierre Bonaparte. Princess Marie IS the great grandniece of Ma poleon I. and the Prince, her future husband. is the son of the King of Greece and the nephew of an Empress and of several Kings and Queens.
 The marriage has been arranged through the efforts of her father, Prince Roland. who wished his daugh- ter to marry the Prince of q reigning family Prince Roland has fortune or sO,O00,000 francs. which, as Is we'll known, were left by Camille Blanc of Monte Carlo fame. 15.000,000 of this money is to be his daughters dowry.
 Prince George of Greece is a hand some young man. known for his dash and his fine sailor-like qualities, but he has no private income, and has not yet played a great part in the world. The young bride is extremely beautiful. being tall and slender. with hne eyes and exquisite complexion and the most charming manners. Her tastes are very simple, and. like her husband, she Is very fond of sport
 She prefers home life to much social gaitey. and although she Is full of character. is the life and soul of any society in which she may De. She will take to the Athenian court not only the charm of beauty which are known to be the possession of French women, but distinction and a regal bearing which she inherits from her great ancestry.
 The Princess has many talents and is very well educated She takes great interest in her fathers scientific work. and speaks several languages. to which she Is now adding the &C., quifement of Greek. Also she is very fond of travelling. In winter, the Princess's residence is the mansion of her father in the Avenue Bonaparte. and in summer, St. Cloud.
 In spite of her taste for study and culture. the Princess is extremely wo- manly in all her ways Three previ-i
 
 past years for the Princess. but they all came to nothing. The first groom selected was Prince Henry of Orleans. son of the Due de Chartres, who was killed in Africa, and for the sake of whose memory she has not married before.
 The others were the Prince of Mon- tenegro. brother of the Queen of Italy. and the Due of the Abruzzi, cousin of the King of Italy.
 Story of Statue.
 A remarkable discovery has been made with regard to the famous statue of Henri ", or rather the horse of that Monarch, mich stands on the Pony Neuf in Paris. The society, known as the Commission Of Old Paris, is asking the authorities for permis- sion to perform little surgical oper- ation on the stomach of the distin- guished beast. and the motive for this Is the following:
 , A well-known art collector has just discovered @ remarkable document written by the man Mesnel. who. in 1918, cast the bronze for the statue of Henry W. the metal being melted statues of Napoleon from the column at Boulogne. and a second statue of Napoleon. which was taken from the, Vendome column.
 The document was found by M. Laurant behind glass at the back of an old clock which he recently bought. It runs as follows:
 "The statue of Napoleon which adorned the Place Vendome, was brought to my workshop in the Foire St. Laurent, where I hid 1t for ten years, hoping to save 1t from destruc- tion. although I several times received orders to break 1t up. These orders came from the Fine Arts Department, and the final command to that effect was to be carried out at the time when the equestrian statue of Henri W on the Pont Neuf was being made.
 'I made every effort to prevent the statue being broken up, and went so far as myself to offer 10000 francs for the bronze. which was, however. re- fused. .-gt5
 "AIIow me to add this remark. in the stomach of the horse will be found