The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-28
ON TERMS OFINTIMACY
WITH SPANISH KING

he was not allowed to go and night
tho Americans. in 1898. and he Sc
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as personal popularity even among
the republicans. which has been in
creasinS with each characteristic act
Ion TO the present day.
Coun; Henri r'risch de FEELS. who has
jnst been hghtins a sword duel at
Eeuilly; Paris, with Count Tristan de
Ora medo. sustaining wound in the
arm. is in spite of tho care with which
ne manages 10 keep his name before
the public in the daily press. no mem-
Der of the French nobility.
In fact. his title of count" is quite
as illegal as that of his adversary;
neither the one nor the other having
sneceeted IN obtaining from the keep
registration and official sanction which
mas always been required hy French
law, whether monarchist or republic
can, before any foreign title could
be legally used
The story Of Fri/h dc Fels is an
extremely amusing one His father.
whose mothers name was Fels. is of
Aisatian origin. and was plain Frisch
by name. While serving as a reporter
on some of tho boulevard" papers in
Paris. frisch managed to attract the
notice and then to win the hand and
fortune of one of the heiresses of the
the late Max Lebaudy. (popularly
known lie petit Sucrler'O AMI of
that eccentric individual who now
makes his home in New York. jacques
l.ebdudy. the sclf-styled Emperor of
the Sahara"
Soon after marrying Mile. Lebau.iy.
Erisch obtained the title of Count
Frisch de FEELS from the Vatican 4
number OF years later the count, who.
though Alsatian, had always claimed
TO hail from Marseilles. purchased in
I-uHemourS. an estate and an old
ruined chateau called Fels, which ac-
corning to ancient tradition was once
owned by duke
He hal the chateau restored talked
about 1t as his ancestral home and
carried impudence so far as to tell
his guests when showing them over
the place. You cannot conceive my
emotion when I for the first time re-
entered this former home of my family.
which 1t had quilted 800 years ago"
He even dared to assume for a time
the title of Duke of Fsls, this time
quite without Papal authority, but was
1t when he sought to attach himself
to tho Royalist party by means of
lavish subscriptions to the so-called
campaign fund" He remains Count
his Papal patent. dated 1877.
One of his principal claims to fame
Is his encounter and bloodless duel
with tho late Premier Waldcck- Rous-
the French bar. was the counsel of the
late Max Labaudy, when his family
combined in an attempt to place lin
under legal restraint to prevent him
from spending his great fortune as
he saw III. During the course of tho
trial. Waldeck Rousseau. who had been
Minister OF the Interior in Cambcttn' S
cabinet. had occasion to refer con
temptu ously to the mushroom honors of
Count Frisch dc FEELS. Much aggricved
the latter. on meeting Waldeck- Rous :
seau in the Sale dos Pas Perdus OF
the Palais de Justice. tried TO nicls
him on the cheek with his glove;
whereupon the great lawyer. who was
splendid boxer. without the slight :
est show of excitement, shot out his
fist and catching Frisch under the chin
In truly Anglo-SaXon fashion, sent
him SPRAYING.
II was afterwards by way of pity.
rather than for any other reason, tina t
he, consented to meet Frisch on the
hcld of honor, and to exchange a couple
of bullets without bloodshed on either
side: but he drew the line at shaking
hands with him before they left the
field. as is invariably done. | need
hardly add that the son of WaldecS
Rousseau's adversary had dropped his
plcbeian patronymic of l'risch. and
STYLES himself Count Henri de FEELS
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