The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-01
nY Ia MAn0uIsE DE FoNTENoY


IN has Just celebrated his eiShtieth
IL birthday. the occasion being
signaliZed by many tokens OF
regard and good will on the part of
the Kaiser. the Kaiserin, and all sorts
and conditions of men in Germany and
In France. is an extraordinary charac.
ter, who has played a very importan.
role in European history. lie mas peeh
the hero of many roInan len,s ai OF t the
unofficial diplomacy of the IRON Shan
cellor and of the present Ernperoi.
and who is one Of the richest ana mosl
powerful of the great German noples,
beine. descended fom that valet OF
Emperor Rudolf H., Lazarus Heneke s,
VINO became that monarch ioss
trusted coniidant, his purchaslis an any,
financial agent ana ui.iiih ~,
tan OF Jewish parentage. ana to"aiuS S
the closing years of his Ire ha ,u
amassed so much wealth as 70 cnapi.
him to loan very large sums OK IN il,on Ne,
10 his imperial master lie did nor
do this without insisting on good
securities, and when Emperor Ruaoti
lay dying, Lazarus, in rather unsrate,
lful fashion, foreclosed the haise e,'
| Of Neudeck.E near Tarnowitz, ana as
sumed possession thereof, Neudeck re-
naming the principal, country seat OF
the Henckel family to TINS DAY. ,, SONY IN
| ,b,.,.
| is6S Emperor Rudolf had ennobled his
| yyalet and banker, bestoWinG upon
him the additional nobliiary naihe W
| Donners ularck, and thirty Years Iaeer
/ his son was made baron OF the Hol!
/ Roman Empire, under the same nams.
! a grandson OF old Lazarus became
| siount Henckel of Donnersnarch IA
1861, and in 1901 Count Guido Mep 1ciSs!
Won ponnersmasrGSk was ssm uiu and a
serene highness by the present l>alser.
Prince Donnersmarck. as count .'uiu ~
| Ienckel Won Donnersmarck! was ,a =
r p"l at the Tuilerics during the last
| few years of the reign OF Nap0 ,.,l.
IIII., a frequent leader of the cotli 1io
Of Empress Eugene S lceieprated MOI MOI.
days. and the most ! "a aaan,,na Mn
| self entirely to fritolity, ana 10 q
life of pleasure, spending the enormous
| fortune derived from his great mines
/ in Silesia with both hanus, ne nv ttsps
! his eyes and ears OPEN. and was thus ;
able to procure much information OF
| great value to Bismarck, whose COLI
/ ildence he enjoyed. .,,a,o
1 The Marquise de PaiVa was IN tliose
4 davis one of the most masnificient
beauties of Europe. and the acknoWaa-
edged queen of the Partisan half-Wor r
The daughter of little jewish .tailor'
| Of the name of Lachmann, at MoscoM'
| She had come to Paris in the tram
OF some r,obleman. was abandoned. by
Thin there then managed 10 ,Ie. !; : :
1.-THE composer and musician fierz, m
Id1ced him to pass her off as MS Wiz
and under that guise accompanies eo,n m,rt
given by the Empress Eugene q. -.
1 CLOUD; there she was reco snlzea ~
one offthe officials as a demi- mondaine,
and expelled from the palace: J, w l.en
became acquainted with her, she haa,
however, succeeded in accumulatlng IN
enormous fortune. by, means which lli AZ
unnecessary to describe mere, an ana Msiell
4 enabled her to have built for hersell
\ that magnificent mansion on tlle
/ Champs Elysees. which is now the nome
of the Anglo-American Travellers Clup
in Paris !, !,
i marry her; the man shortly after
1 wards blowing out his brains When ne
'lrealized the shame that he had brought
4 from being irequented by ali the most
i eminent statesmen, most brilliant club
men foreign !, a1mbas IS F a,ln
P Iafass u the Republic and the per.
4 Identification of bourgeois propriety, did
1 not disdain to pay her court and
i Henckel Won Donnersmarck,
i Shortly after the War of 1870, the
i count, whom Bismarck had appointed
as Governor of Metz, after It's surrender
t|by Marshal Bazaine to Prince Freder,.
4 Hex Charles. secured through Bismarck
a the permission of old Emperor VIII
4 liam to marry her; and then. OF course
i ali nor former friends and admirers
lin Paris insisted that she had beer
q fail along an agent Of the count fol
the German governments, and that II he
|had welded her, 1t was not mere in.
4 fatuation on his part but likewise
4 gratitude for the services which she
A Germany, OF course she was never
lrecelyed as Countess lIencAel yoF