The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-01
uYLA MARoUIsEn,;I oSTENoY.

~ OBEttI BhCCN. American Ambas-
~ popular. and his daughter
Martha is so general n favorltc
in New York and or Long Island. that
Paris dispatch, widely published in last
Sundays newspapers. according to
which q marriage Is on the taps be-
tween herself and one OF the young
"Princes dc La Tour d'Auvergnc." For
aside from any other consideration. the
young man bears Il historic name to
entitled. No mention OF him. nor yet
OF his father, VIII be found in the pages
OF the "Almnnach de Gotha.'lor OF any
other standard work OF reference OF the
kind. the illustrious house OF Latour
d'Auvcrgnc having become extinct In
the carly part Of the nineteenth CEN
The real house OF De La Tour d'Au-
Vcrgne. the chiefs OF which were SOW
crcign Counts and princes of Auvcrgnc
became divided in 1859, on the death OF
Agne III. La Tour d. Auvergnc and two
branches We're founded by his two sons.
the elder being represented in the NJ
tccnth. sixteenth, seventeenth and clGh-
,eenth centuries by the various Dukes
DE- {, Rouii lon The las, Of nils senior
was also Prince de La Tour d'Auvcrene.
Prince dc Sedan, etc. and who. mar
ricd to Princess lledwig Of Hessc, was
driven from his throne and from his
dominons. of which he WAS sovereign,
| In 1893. dying nine years later, in 1902,
without issue
Ills father Was Duke Godfrey de
Bouillon. Prince d,AuverGne. and hap
pehins to meet Lieutenant Philip
d'Auvergnes, Of the British Navy, whose
the Parish of st. Oucn, in the Island
OF Jersey, ever since tho thirteenth
century, he took great fancy to the
young officer who was at the time
prisoner OF war III France. The duke.
after employing the leading gcnealogi-
gnl exper1s OF ne day to tras. the
absolute proof that it was descended
from Count Thicbault d'Auvcrgnc. who
land OF. st. Oncn, the grant bearing the
date of 1882. Duke Godfrey, finding
that next to his childlcss son Leopold,
the father and uncle OF the young Eng
the only remaining heirs to his honors,
| issued IN 1856, under his own seal and
lon; Letters patent acknowledging the
fa Their and uncle of tho lieutenant to
be descended from the ancient sover-
| family, and then. after having obtain
ed the consent OF the British crown,
adopted Lieutenant Philip d'Auvergne
as his second heir.
Resisting all Duke Godfrcy's at
ts,npts to persuade him to exchange
Of France. Philip insisted on Remaining
in the English Navy. in which he uIti-
; mately attained the rank of a vice-ad-
was succceaed by his imbeciie son.
after tic death Of Duke s Godfrey.
me lieI[ennm, w " ma eanwhi,s at
ed off his native Island Of Jersey. OH
board tile frislte Noncsuch with
notl1a Ia Of Ennboa,S IN his goana
with orders to communicate with and
bcfriend the Royalist party On the
tnt-. 1tct - fn1l s,.i lar RI
THAT time. captain. Philip dAuvergne
made a point Of taking under his spc-
| fugccs who lad fled 10 the Channel Is
lands from the fury Of tho Revolution.
conspicuous, among am them being Eng the
! BRAND
| When pes"n was restored between
l5nG,and !. and Franco il 1909 CAPTAIN
claim his Inheritance. and the estates
| AMI dominions or Duke Godfrey and
nMisa LEOPOLD wnG ,, had d., been 81, con
| sular government had not forgotten or
| forgiven the services which Captain
dAuvcrgne had rendered to the Royal
lists while serving In the English Chan
incl. He was arrested OIL some frivnl-
Gus pretcxt or other not long after
wards. heing subjected to a considera-
! bic amcnnt OF ill-treatment, and was
!! expelled from France.
! On the overthrow of Napoleon he was
[, put for y short time IN nominal posses
i sion of his titles and Inheritance, and
| like other petty sovereigns who had
! been deprived Of their thrones and
| dominions by the French Emperor. he
was called upon to submit TO tho Con
gres5 Of Vienna his demands for their
| restoration to him. lie had clear
! case. lie was tho lawful heir of the
last two authentic Princes dc La Tour
! d'AuyerSnc and sovereign Dukes Of
Isouillon, a hona-fde member Of their
! family, acknowledged by them as such,
| and AS their Legitimate SUCCESSOR. The
| Congress Of Vienna should therefore
either have revived the sovereign Duchy
of Honillon In his favor. Of else have
granted him the status OF a mediatized
prince. Ills claims, however. wero OPP
posed AT Vienna by Prince ralIeyrand,
tho French plenlpotentiary, and by the
! great Prince Clement Wetternch. who