The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-04
La Marquise de Fontenoy
~ CUNT FRANCIS LUTON. who IS
sailing for the United states. AT
~ the end of next week. with the

sailing for the United states AT
~ the end Of next week. with the
countess. for the purpose o; de-
iiverlng a series OF lectures ON the MIS-
tory OF the Czechs. beginning at Bos-
ton, and including III his lecturIng
itineraLy HARVARD. Yale. Princeton,
In Which latter place he Is scheduled
10 deliver an address on Westinghouse
olrthday, is the recognized historian OF
| the Kingdom of Bohemia and an cX-
pert on everything connected there
with. He has received degrees. Hon
oris Cause. from the Universities of OK
ford, Cambridge, and from all sorts OF
kindred institutions on the Continent
while Prague. the capital OF Bohemia,
has inscribed his name Upon Its civic
rolls as "Ehrenburser'' Citizen OF
great houses of Bohemia. where his an
cestors have been settled since they
were created Counts OF the Holy Roman
Empire. early In the seventeenth CEN
fury, though the founder OF the fam
ily. to. whom he traces back his de-
scent In an unbroken male line was
the Seigneur or "Dominus" Johannes
of Lutzow. who Hourished in Meckien-
burg In 1887.
Count Francis Lutzow. who must not
pc confounded with his only brother.
Henry. SO long Austrian ambassador
in Rome, liz. like him. the son Of an
English mother, a sister OF Sir Francis
seymour, so long master OF the cere-
monies a. the court OF st. James. The
terms. and when 1t was proposed at one
time to send Count Henry Lutzow as
ambassador 10 London, whore Count
Francis, who lives there half the year
nounced the project as piece of dis
creditable intrigue. designed TO insult
and .njure him in the eyes OF English
society. and 10 punish him for the i'm
portant part which he had taken In the
Nationalist movement in Bohemia
In order 10 understand this. IL must
be explained that Count Francis has no
relations, official or otherwise. with the
Austrian embassy in London, and that
e: Henry L.utzOw had come to Lond on
as ambassador English society would
ave been treated TO the spectacle OF
the envoy of d great power closing his
doors against his only brother, but
more particularly against his sister
n-law
Francis Lutzow himself was formerly
In the diplomatic service OF Austria,
and was attached Tor a considerable
time TO the embassy in London. as ono
OF Its secretaries. AS such, he was a
her OF the family. of his chief. the am
bassador. But things changed when
no married Anna Won Bornsmann, the
siX aa,t; wealthy daughter OF a
find grace In the eyes OF Count Deym,
then Emperor Francis Joscphs envoy,
nor IN those of Countess Deym. and in
1890 English society was startled by
the news that Count Francis had chal-
lenged the aged ambassador to a duel,
Tor declining TO Invite Countess I.utZow
10 the entertainments. official and 9TH
erwise, given at the Austrian Embassy,
also Tor his refusal to include her name
among his lists furnished to the lord
chamberlain, Of distinguished Aus
trlans. and Hungarians. official and 9TH
erWise. whom he desired to be invited
10 court The duel. l may add, took
place in Austria. without much dam
age to either side; but created no end
Of Stir.
Count Deym gave as cause for his at
titude towards Countess Lutzow, the
act that she did not possess all those
n9billary quarterings, and the number
OF noble ancestors and ancestresses,
paternal and maternal. which arc
vigorously cxacted OF every Austrian
", woman. be she Austrian by birth, or
by marriage as sine qua non for
presentation at the court OF Vienna:
that since she had become an Austrian
by her marriage to Count Francis Lut-
COW, and was barred from the court Of
vienna, he could not, as Austrian am