The Washington herald., 1912-09-30

Without renouncing their allegiance to
their country and government, Britons
have dating fondness for any crowned
head or any royal prince who may
happen to be on the spot at the summer
resort they frequent. They spoke rev.
erently in years gone by Of Louis
Philippe and his Queen. Nowadays. es-
pecially at Trouville or the neighboring
Dinard they fondly remember the sec
ond empire and speak with tenderness
of Napoleon III and Eugene and the
dear Prince Imperial. toward all or
whom their own late Queen Victoria
showed herself SO motherly.
1t was the time when the English went
in flocks to Dinard. despite Its sultry
climate, when in 1871 the Comte and
Comtesse de Paris came there to await
a possible call from the Versailles as
sembly. They waited in vain and so did
the royalist aristocrats of that assembly.
who built themselves villas and gave
Dinard its present aristocratic tone quite
unlike the literary or artistic brilliancy
of Trouviile
But why did the Comte de Paris choose
Dinard? In order to spy upon the
Comte de Chambord (another royalist
pretender) indirectly through the Baron
de Charette, son of the Comtesse de
Vierzon. and a great grandson of Charles
X. This baron resided in the vicinity
at La Motto Beuvron. One of his neigh
bors was the Prince de Faucigny-Lu-
cinge. member of the assembly and
grandson of the Comtesse d'Yssidon
Amy Browns second daughter).
The chateau he lived in with his five
haiOnpad 70 wifi
nection Of that Due de Montpen sier.
who is buried in Westminster Abbey.
The Comte de Chambord recognized
Charette as a nephew. despite the bar
sinister, while the Comte de Paris
claimed cousinship with Faucigny Lu-
cinge. Both Of these. seeing hope for
monarchy in France. advocated a recon-
citation between the rival pretenders Of
the Bourbon and Orleans families. Mem
bers OF the 'Ducal Party" that ulti-
mately drove Theirs out OF power, re-
paired to Dlnard under pretext Of sea
bathing. their conferences with the Comte
de Paris passing of unnoticed Ameri-
cans came, too. While Conservatives
were fighting in England against the
Americanlzing OF their institutions, those
Of the Versailles Assembly were awaken
ing TO the advantages Of American mar
rIages.
Dinard thus became a hunting ground
for titled Frenchmen anxious to pick up
oversee heiresses-an easy prey at the
time. their heads having been turned by
the romantic literature which was then
the fashion These young ladies believed
t.
Scott. The favorltes forty years ago
were Rowena. true heiress to the Saxon
kings: Alice Lee. Ellen Douglas in the
Lady of the Lake" Edith Of Lorn, Isa-
bel Bruce
lady (Mrs. H came to Dinard. settled
there. adapted herself to the royaist set.
and gradually became the society queen.
a position she holds TO this day. and In
all probability will hold until her dying
day. long experience in life had
taught her that society must be con-
quered. The lady pursued her course
with singleness Of purpose decision. and
a bluffy way Of talking that did not ex-
clude tactfulness. During her first years
at Dinard she kept open house.
Her drawing-room is now difficult OF
visiting list. and II you are not On It
YOU do not count at Dinard. Hers IS the
one house where water-place oilers will
learn who's who. Mrs II. has the Ameri-
can talent for preventing that stagnation
and dulness that 40 often accompany
diamonds at fashionable English func-
tions. Her trump card in the early
7os was the recognition she met
with from the adherents of the Comte
de Paris and the Comtc de Chambord.
One Of them is still her most intimate
friend-the Princess de Faucigny- Lucinge.
who generally spends the season on
visit at the villa with the fine ballroom
which Mrs. II. built in the upper end Of
the town.
This remarkably well preserved Ameri-
can lady, though born four years after
the late Queen Victoria, still has roses
in her cheeks. cherry red lips. black
hair. and a polished skin. She can still
dance with feXibility of movement and
apparent enjoyment. and she wins ap-
plause in her tahleauX vivants. Only
this season she impersOnated before Eng
lish and Scotch lords, aristOcrats. and
plutocrats from almost everywhere lone
OF the DTeXels among thCm) the Empress
Josephine
In the company were two young chaps
almost old enough TO pay their addresses
to Miss Strong. John ID. RoCkefellers
SrandChild, now almost sixteen. and then
the great object Of interest to aristo-
cratic mothers she Joined in the
games Of the CompieCnc Gymkhana
These sprigs OF nobility are Francois de
Breteuil and the Due de Chevreuse, son
of the Due de Luynes. The Prince OF
Wales had hardly returned home when