The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-25
ny Is M,nouIsE DE IsoNTENoY.

ia LN1oiA1tluiSE, DE FONTEN0H.
FRANCE'S new Minister OF Foreign
~ ;Niairs Jean Cruppi is a Gascon,
hailing from Toulouse and IL
married to Il farmer actress, who
LETT the Opera Comque 10 become his
wife, some twenty years or so ago This.
dcs2itc the fact that she IS very
charming and gifted woman is likely
70 provo disadvantage to the admins
traticn. For the Minister of Foreign
Affairs Is the ono member of the Cabi-
net who Is called npon 10 entertain
alacc OF the 2uai diOrsay, In which
the Department OF Foreign Affairs is
housed. being specially designed for
official inequalities. FOR state dinners
state lunchoons. state concerts and re-
ccptions At ali these AFFAIRS it Is the
wife OF the Foreign Minister who acts
rs hostess AMI as mistress of the cs-
tabiishment, and, as shown on the oc
casion OF The last state visit OF the
Emperor and i:mpress OF Russia TO
Compiegne, there are some royal ladies
known, IT Washington as Ca binet
ladies' who have formerly becii CON
nG,eted with thG stage IN fact, the dc
| cline or the Franco Russian alliance
| may be said TO date from the marked
GOODNESS with which the Aiuscovitc EN-
press treated the actress wives Of the
me, :'s OF The French Cabinet, who
the republic to meet her.
i, Is quite possible that in the case
OF some foreign rulers. they Will leave
their consorts at home rather than
living them 10 Paris when they pay
visits OF state to the French capital,
and hat the latter will. owing to tho
presence OF Nine Cruppi as official hos
tess nj the Department Of the Minister
Of Foreign Affairs. suffer much the
same boycott on he part Of E.mpresscs
Queens and princesses Of the Dlood
as i, suffered during the reign OF Sapo-
ieon Ill, In consequence OF their re-
| lnctance to meet his consor,. Empress
i:ueenic: NOT. however. because she had
youth had been so stormy that even
Queen Isabella OF Spain had felt her
self compelled TO deprive her of tho
position Of maid Of honor at the court
Of Madrid When Empress Eusenic
nonrished al the Tnlcries. royal and
! Imperial visitors from abroad left their
though Nine. Crnppi's character is al
together uncNcrptiona bic. yet it may be
assumed that owing to foolish and anti
gmatied prejudices that SIN survive
much in tie same way as they did the
consort OF Napoleon III.
~ course he anointcd OF the Lord
who arc of tho nalc persuasion. viii
entertain no objections whatsoever TO
meeting Nine. Cruppi and to partako
o. her hospitality al tho palace Of tho
they should and in the days when
Maurice Rouvicr Vas Minister OF the
Colonies. In 1885. and Premier in 1887
I2reiSn rulers and princes were ON
| Claude Nignon--- whose caraer had
| heen Of tho most extra ordinary descrip-
ton Daughter Of the sculptor Cadiot.
she contracted Il more Or less legal
marriage with the famous pulpit ora
tor, the Able Constant who abandon
/ ca the Roman Catholic Church for her
sake. Then she became the friend Of
! the sculptor Praciier, was spoken OF in
connection with the first Duo dc Morny
whom she portrayed in marble; while
| IN the secret papers of Napoleon III,
found IN the TNilcrics after the over
throw of the empire. in September. 1870.
her name figured among other ladies,
hene!iciaries of his privy purse, as PEN
stoned off favorites. II was rs a news
mentary letters for the independence
| Beige" that she met Rouvier. soon at
ter the war war; and when the ex-Abbe
vier's wife. She was a very brilliant
woman; in nowisc embarra sscd BY the
| remembrance Of her stormy career and
at state. banqucts often found herself
seated side by side with Cardinal Count
| Czaki, then l'apal Nuncio in Paris. ami
| dean of the diplomatic corps. They
were wont on such occasions to indulge
| ledge Of the subject being derived from
| her first husband, the eX-Ahhe Con-
slant.
before succeeding to his fathers bar
onetcy, in 1896. surrendered all the es-
| tates to his brother. Commander Ed
ward Hunter Blair, Of the Royal Navy.
including the ancestral home, blair
| uuhan Castle. in Ayrshire. II was not so
| much because his vows as a Bcncdlc-
line monk condemned This former army
officer and club man TO q life of power
tN as 1t was owing to tho axlstanco OF