The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-16
La Marquise de Fontenoy
Y ~ MARouIsE DIE FoNTENoY.
:, = II Y II u II u IIdIIlt WHICH
nSurcs so conspicuously In the
history OF the Southeast of nm

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ou,r, r9Pe' ,h2t one is tempted to in
amIe why 4 y. Mavrocordaio, who hne
,.iTted IN this country, and who is
SAVING at the Hotel Gotham, in No"
ork CITY, should have considered !,
W2rth while TO assume the tItln Of
p taane' to which; he has no right what.
been ripd- or a. nohiliary titles have
80 ~, pu' also by the ConstItution Of
GIrecs, OF Rumaniu, OF Servia AMI ~
dnnE farih, and their use forbidden. In.
1911 'Hc eN-Premier of Rumnni,
tieorEo Cantacuzcne. chief of a housn
mat formerly exercised sovercirn -.
Ut t;,n thc byzantine Empire at Constan-
uh9pie, made point of styling hlnsnif
plain "AIr." Cantacuzene. and a, p,.,,s%I
no little attention by declining tn 40
H .!pr,s the late George Bibeseo as
he Issues s,S IA IA me Inc Official letter which
blihtlpai representative OF the King
aoin OF Rumnnia. at the last interim.
'o! The eS May,d al Paris.
OF ordinary nobility, that is to say Inc
mere right ~ prehxing the partIni-
nm nom 20 their name. from the En-
upon Alexander Mavrocordato Mo 90 lya -
me physician and ragomnn of tn. S,,i1
tan AZ inc beginning Of the eiph,aou,b
81 'utg, on the casion OF his success
IN Negotiations TO restore peace b.
l"een the ottoman Empire and Ger
many. and which eliminated In Tho
s X,"hy OF Carlowitz IN 1893 His sol,
Oh interpreter to the Sultan. was an
pointed by the Sublime Porte "a hc
ttthe n n,i or Christian Governor, or
ne ftos U.toinan pr3yimce OF Moldavla, ana
The title OF hcspodar ,vhtc,, =
tt39u'T rs 10 the Russian gospodar,
me FRENCH title OF "Seignellr," or to
the English word Lord" was merely
accorded y the sultan to the Christiay
governors OF his Christian peoyinces
because because he did not consider them, as
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turkish title OF pasha. OF hey. which
IN those days were restricted exclusive
~ to Mosiems. The title of hcspodar
Was purely ,l one of office, and ispsed
"hen the Governor resigned his post MS
| Such. or was dismissed thcrefrom. II
was never hereditary and the idea of
the descendants of these former hes
( podars VINO We're not even considered
| worthy OF being mere beys, stylllr
themselveg prince, is ridiculous. Nor
" their title OF prince, based on ills
snauo"y iounda ton, recognized by any
! or the monarchical courts o: :uropc
Perhaps the best PROOF OF what as
seft is the fact that none of the
Mavrocordatos, who have served
at 81. Petersburg, in Paris In London,
at Berlin, Or at Vienna, have ever been
r.eeeS,ived at any Of these courts as
AtaVrocordato. Probably the most fam
Gus OF all the Mavrocordatos was that
alexander Marrocordato. who, born in
toi, WIS one OF the leaders tnn
Creek War of Independence, and who
served several terms as prime minister
at Athens: notably in 1871.
some OF them have been less for
tunate. Thus. l recall one who blew
out his brains some time ago in Paris.
| on being brought face to face with the
consequences OF an unpleasant scrape.
ANOTHER one. who represented Greece
Tor time at STEAMBOAT. became in
| volved ia all sorts of Legal trouble.
along with his. wife. in connection with
charges brought before the Greek tri-
bnnals. Of having Kidnapped the faith
cricSs !ifteen-year- daughter of an
enormously wealthy Greek banker
Gcorgidcs. at Constantinople. from the
custody of her uncle and guardian in
that city. and of having married her at
the Legation to one OF its secretaries.
, Of the name OF Verniki. a relative of
! the anbassadress. Nine. Mavrocordato.
Then there was the late George
Mavrocordato, at one time Minister of
War at Rome, who had married one OF
railroad contractor. Sina, who used TO
make his home at Vienna and who
built so many Of the railways In the
dominions OF Emperor Francis Joseph.
/ One OF the daughters of old Sina, who
was Il salf-made man in every sense
of the word. became the wife of the
Austrian Count Wtmpffen, but divorced
him when She found that ne was maxi
| ing use of his position as postmaster
general in manner not contemplated
BY the government, or by his matri
Client to say that the determining
causes of the divorce were furnished
! by hcrdes of telegraph girls and post
! mistresses. whom the count considered
| it part and parcel OF his duty to re-
cruit Another daughter OF old Sina
J married one OF tho fpsilantis, FORMER
Greek minister at Vienna, and whose
I son visited the United States with his
! rich Viennoso bourgeoise wife, Il year
: ago. and spent the season In New York
/ The Ypsilanti. who married Slna's
daughter. ran through all mis- own
money, and his wife's, was forced 20
| resign his diplomatic mission on ac-
! count of,thc financial scandals in which