New-York tribune., 1909-03-24
AGED COUNTESS DEAD
Has an american Woman and
natridrch of Great DucaL House

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Old Countess Olivier de la Rochefoucauld ro,tr4-
arch Of the ducaI house OF that name who has
,1st died IN Paris at the OF nearly ninety was
an American woman. Miss Euphrasine Mont
gonnery. OF New Orleans. member of a family
which IS as well known in Washington and in
New York in the Crescent City. Her husband
the lats Count Olivier. who died more than twenty
sears ago. was son OF Duke Francis de la Roche
foucauld- The latter enligrated. along with the
royal princes OF Bourbon. from France at the time
NJ the great Revolution at the close Of the efpb
teerth century, married at The Hague q I.evan-
tine lady. a native OF ConstantinopIe, and by her
had three sons
The eldest Olivier, married away back IN 1s5a
Miss Montgomery, OF New Orleans; the second led
70 the altar Anne Perron. daughter and hetress
~ z French soldier OF fortune who having taken
service under some OF the native rulers of India
led their troops there against the English under
Str Arthur wellesley. efterward first Duke Of Wei
lington. When his employers finally surrendered
10 the English. General Perron returned TO France
and having shaken the pagoda tree as the say-
ing goes. 10 some purpose. found himself In the
possession Of a colossal fortune, which was in
heTited by his daughter, born OF his union 10 the
daughter OF an Indian raJah- All this wealth Of
Indian origin is now in the possession of the grand
children Of old Countess Frederick de Ia Rochefou-
caud, nee Perron- They are the Austrian Countess
Revertera and the italian Duchess salviati tha
Princess LanceIletd and Princess Chigi. all three
OF Italy.
The other brother of Olivier, namely. Hippoyte
daughter q
lawyer named Roux. and his son. CASTOR de Ia
RochefouCauld, is the widoWer Of Sir Horace Rum
bolds sister Emily. whose first marriage TO George
Henry Cavendish, severed by divorce in 1875
and Eho the adopted daughter Of Baron Del
mar, Of Berlin. banker OF Frederick William III
and the first Jew 10 be ennobled by the Pr7,ssan
Crown.
Old Countess Olivier de Ia Rochefoucauld's eldest
son. Guy, was sentenced three years ago TO
term in tail for breaking his cane on the head
q 2 Paris policeman in a rr4o-
time when the French government was endeavor-
ing 10 take an inventory Of the possessions and
treasures OF the various churches about the coun-
rTy- Count Guy, who is z man Of about 6fry-ave
insisted that II he had rendered himself guilty OF
any violence, il was because he had caught sight
OF the policeman whom he had caned in the act
q maltreatlns his twenty -threeyesr-old son, Count
Henry. The authorities, however. took the ground
that it was Henry who I'll treating the police
man. and sent him 10 jail also for three months
namely. In the model penitentiary OF Fresnes
Count Guy and his eldest son. we'll as his broth
ers and nephews, have always been noted for their
oonbstiTe disposition and for their readiness TO
tight on each and every occasion which Is ascribed
in France 10 the American blood IN their veins
that comes TO them through their mother and from
those Louisiana planter ancestors of hers thar
is 10 say, class particularly impatient OF con-
tradiction.
All Of these de Ia Rochefoucaulds bear the ,,tIa
of CONT The head Of the entire family is their
second and third COUSIN FRANCOIS Due de Ia Roche
2olCa0lC, married 10 Miss Matte Mitchell O. Port
land, Ore, and whose only child, a bov Of four
who bore the title Of Due de Lancourt died the
other day Through the little fellows demise II Is
the dukes only brother Count Gabriel de la Roche
foucauld, like him officer of the reserve branch
a the French army who becomes heir to the fam
II honors, which include the three dukedoms- Of
"a Rochefoucauld, de Liancourt and d'Anvil1e as
well as the title Of Prince de Marcac. The mother
cf the duke and his brother a woman of ex-
t-eInely humble birth. according to some the can
tniere or ambulanciere attached 10 the brigade OF
troops in which the late duke serving in Africa
IN The Algerian campaigns. II is said that she
ssved his life by nursing him when wounded Al
any rate, his marriage was a colonial romance
which gave great offence to the other members OF
his family.
The De Il Rochefoucauid family was founded IN
The tenth century by younger of the Sire de
Lusgnsn- His Christian Foucauld, and.
having the Castle Of Ia Roche, in the Charente,
styled il "a Roche-Foucsuld. from which his de-
sceudsnts have taken their name His heir sixteen
generations later IN the male line direct
noble OF sufficient Importance TO oe invited
as godfather TO King Francis I. the occasion OF
his christening, and when Francis came the
throne he created bis sponsor count Louis XIII
promoted the Count de Ia Rochefoucauld Of his day
- Z dukedon. and to-day the family possesses
less than six French dukedoms antedating the
great French Revolution, namely, the three already
mentioned above besides those OF Estissac Dou-
desUvie. and Of Rochguyone. as well as the Italian
dukedom Of Bisaccia and the Spanish dukedom OF
dszza.