New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-15

eminent owning It's own embassy buildings in the
principal foreign capitals may be OF interest 10
state that the Italian government has just pur-
chased in Paris from Baroness Jules Wangenhein
the grand old Hotel de Gallifet with its beautiful
gardens, in the Rue de Grenele-that Is to say. IN
the heart OF the Faubourg Saint-Germsin. It has
rented the mansion in question for tie last eight
years or so, but has now purchased it 1t is very
stately mansion. which built in the early part
Of the eighteenth century by Simon Alexander de
Gallfet who had realized enormous fortune by
his fishery enterprises. The De Gallifets
nobied in 1923 by Louis XIII. when Alexander de
GalHfet president Of the Parliament OF AK
The name Of Gallifet IS stated be contraction Of
HaIlus factus'-that is TO say a made French
man''-which lends color to the stories according
to which the generals fourteenth and fifteenth
century ancestors Of foreign origin.
The De GaIlifets played important role in the
military history OF France in the eighteenth cent
ury. and Of them. Count Philippe de Gallifet,
was inspector general OF cavalry in The French
army during the reign OF Louis Nv, and as such
took part in the battles of Rosbach and OF Minden
Another, Louis de Gallifet colonel OF the
Royal Guard at the time of the great revolution.
and on the restoration was created a lieutenant
geenra while the father Of the present Marquis de
Gallifet colonel OF chasseuTs in the reign OF
Charles Y
The general. in spite Of his marriage to the
daughter of the banker LATTE. was so extrava-
CANT that the couple were unable TO live in their
ancestral home. which was turned over de Gal
lifet's sister, married 10 the Marquis dImecourt.
The Marquise d'Imecourt was as close-hsted her
soldier brother extravagant, and. having
married very rich man, her daughter was re-
garded great heiress. II this that IN
duced Paul Musurus Bey, then Councillor of the
Turkish Embassy in London. and of the Sui
tan's Ambassador there, to seek the hand and in
cidentaly the fortune. of Nile. Marie d'Imecourt
He induced her TO away with him They went
over to England, married in due form, and
after several weeks ventured to return to France,
for the purpose Of effecting a reconciliation with
the widowed Marquise d'Imecourt and the other
members OF the latter's family. AS soon however
q they landed at Boulogne they were arrested,
and Nile. d'Imecourt was restored by the police TO
her mother, while Paul Musurus was forcibly
shipped off England and threatened with criIni-
nal procee dirgs for abduction in the event of his
daring TO return: for his diplomatic immunities as
q member of the Turkish Embassy in London were
OF no avail IN France but only in the country In
which he officially stationed.
The marriage was declared null and void by the
French tribunals. having been contracted without
the of the brides mother and after spend
ing years in a convent the heiress was
married in 1885 Paris Mile. Marie d'Imecourt,
Prince Kraft Hohenlohe- Oehringen. member Of
that branch Of the Hohenlohe family Of which the
Duke Of Ujest is the chief The marriage TO Prince
Kraft HChenlohe. vino Is to all intents and pur-
poses an Austrian making his home in Austria
and holding commission in the Austrian cavalry.
did not prove very happy and was sundered by a
divorce in 1901. whereupOn the eX-Prlncess. after
becoming a convert to Professionalism, married
Baron Jules Wangenheim. chamberlain OF the
regent of the Duchy OF Brunswick and director of
the Court Theatre. She makes her home st
Brunswick with him. while the first Of her three
husbands, namely Paul Musurus, whose brother
died last year as the Sultans Ambassador in Eng
land, has long since made his peace with the
French government and resides in Paris where his
widowed sister, the Princess dc Brancovan, has
one Of the most popular salons playing very i'm
portant role in the Partisan great world, one or
her daughters, now famous a novelist and as 4
roetess being married to Count Matthew de
Noaies while the other, Helene. is the wife OF
Prince Alexander Caraman-C himay.
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.