New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-02
ST. CLOUD IN SILESIA.
Feminine Vengeance for an 4f'ront
By an Empress.

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FRINGE Donnersm1rcS has been entertaining the
KAISER may be ssd to possess some rather ne W.T.
imperial associations 1t belonged Originally IN Fr
feror fTncoiph II o. Germany, and was hsaviI.,
mortsaSed by him TO Lazarus Henckel who fore
closed and took possession OF the pronert,, who,
tbs monarch lay dying Lazarus Bencl.eI = r,,-i-
tIa7 OF Jewish parentage had started o,+ IN ufa
g menial capacity in the service Of Frronero- y9,
dopb and had managed to attract the latters atten
ton. TO become his most trusted body ser-an% ana
afterward his steward and factor fntr,,s+aS 1r,t,
the task Of making all the necessary purchases OF
supplies for the court This enablsd him 70 anass
81 enormous fortune and placed him sn q posi-
ton TO loan very large of money TO his I'm
Tec.ai master X was his or grandson. who
rlehaged 70 secure q barory, which WAS trans
fcraed thirty years later into a countship and six
EARS ago into a princeton Of the Kingdom of
Prussia
FRINGE DonaersuaTcs, e IL true endesvors to
ignore tbs Hebrew founder Of his house, Lazarus
Tsocke!, and claims to be descended from tho g.
31serieDs house of Bethep-Falva, which became
extinct az the seventeenth century" though he
does not attempt TO explain how it is possible for
az to be descended in the direct male line
IRON family that has become extinct hundreds
af years ago. The House OF Bethler-Falva exer-
clssd rights Of petty sovereignty up to tho sew
etsenth century and the strength of this Prince
Doanersmarck coolly styles himself the thirteenth
raediatized Count OF Bethlen or Beuthen. In 81
iesia, although his does not figure IN tho Of
fetal list OF the medauzed mobiles IS 1t included
IN Part II Of the AImanach de Gotha. which is de-
voted 10 them exclusively.
EUGENE CAUSED HER TO BE EJECTED.
But this former ownership OF Neudeck by Kaiser
Rudolph II is not the only imperial association OF
the place. There IS another. OF recent origin.
About thirty-four years ago the wife of Prince
Donnerslnarok tore down the greater part Of the
chateau and erected its site palace which
she exact reproduction OF St Cloud. the favorite
abode OF Empress Eugenie and the Napoleonio i'm
o he
made upon the mind OF Emperor William when he
STAYED there tbs other day will have been still fur
Their strengthened by the presence Of Coquelin the
eider and OF entire company Of stars of the
Partisan stage, who had been brought by Prince
Donnersnarck all the way from the banks Of the
Seine to this remote corner OF Siesia solely for
the purpose Of furnishing entertainment for the
Kaiser ,S5s=g his three days visit
IT not from any feeling Of admiration for the
French Empire Of affection for Empress Eugene
that the first wife OF Prince DonneTsmarck caused
her palace Of st. Cloud TO be reproduced at Neu-
deck On the contrary. the motives were hatred
and revenge The first wife Of Prince Donners-
marck had been elected from the Palace OF ST.
Cloud. under circumstances of much ignorniny. by
the servants OF Eugenie and at the latters or
GERS. The late Countess Eenckel Donners-
r1srcls-for her husband only became a prince sew
eral years after her death-was the daughter OF
little Jewish tailor OF the name Of Lachlnann. at
Moscow. came Paris in the train OF some noble
man, was abandoned by him there. became a wonl-
composer and musician Herr. induced him 10 pass
her of as his wife, and under that guise accompa-
MED him occasion to private concert
given by Empress Eugene at St Cloud There she
was recognized by Of the officials and expelled
from the palace. She subsequently developed into
one Of the queens of the Partisan half-world,
cuuulating an enormous fortune IN that way, and
then invegled a Portuguese noblernan, the Marquis
de Paiva, marry her. the man shortly afterward
blowing out his brains when he realized the shame
h. 7-5 hynt r1rlOr a
match This did not prevent. however, her salon
from being frequented by all the most eminent
statesmen most brilliant clubTnen, foreign aInbas-
sailors French government officials and palace dig
nitaries. Even NJ Theirs, afterward President OK
the republic and the very personilcation OF oour-
geois propriety, did not disdain to pay her court
and it was at her house. now occupied by the
Travellers. the most ultra-smart Franco-English-
American club In Paris, that heard everything
that going IN the French capital.
Among the habltues of her salon Count
Guido. Of nckel-Donnersmarck, a particular
favorite Of the imperial couple at the Tuileries
during the last few years of the reign Of Napoleon
III. frequent leader OF the cotillons at Empress
Eugenie's celebrated Mondays, and the most Paris
ian OF GernanS. While apparently devoting him
self entirely frivolty and to life OF pleasure.
he kept his eyes and open, and was thus
enabled to procure much information of great value
20 Primes Bismarck, whose confidence he enjoyed.
The 1iarouise dc Paiva was@in those days of
tie most magnificent beauties In Europe and
after the war Of 1870 Count Henckel Won Donners-
rnarck married her, and then, OF course, all her
former friends and admirers In Paris insisted that
she had been all along agent Of the count for
the German government, and that if he had welded
her II not infatuation his part but
likewise gratitude for the services which she had
rendered both to himself and TO Germany. Certain
81 is that the count with very little opposition
the part Of the court Of Berlin or of Prince
Bismarck when he announced his marriage and
while the ex-Marquise de Paiva never of course
received at Berlin or at Potsdem yet the fact OF
the count having married her affected his
OWL standing with the reisning house and govern
melt-
AN EMPRESS BELONGINGS CAST TO THE
HOGS.
After Ter marriage the countess lefs Paris FOR
ever. TO spend the remainder OF her days ct Neu-
deck Not content with converting the place into
a second St Cloud. she. by way Of still further
venting her spite upon Empress Eugene. purchased
own adornnent, and likewise all the exquisite
furniture OF Eugenies private boudoir In the Tuil-
efeE the furniture in question being distributed in
the togpens OF the principal farms at Neudecs.
Suddenly the countess was overtsken by some
fignttul r,aiady, which robbed her OK her lowell
braSe6 beauty OF the Napoleonc era, the Conltesse
de Castigiionne she withdrew into the utmost
secluson- allowing one. not even her husband,
10 her, and never appearing In the
grounds 0: her sesian palace save thickly yelled.
while sarYants who had the misfortune to
counter her within the chateau instantly dis
missed She fingered until 1884. and three years
after her death her husband married another fasci-
mating Russian. namely, the acknowledgement
divorced wife of that one Of the MONUMENTS VINO
formerly Minister OF Justice in Russia BY
her Prince Donnersmarck has couple Of sons. TO
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