The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-07-29
Colonel Patricc de MacMahon
at Head of Crack Thirty
Fifth Infantry.
~ la MARouIsE DE roNrENoY.

ny Ia MARauIsE DE FoNTENoY.
OOLO MEL pATRICE (PATRICK)
DE- IMAGINATION. who has just
been appointed TO the command
Of tho crack Thirty-nfth Infantry
L giment az Beifort, s the eldest son
of 0Iarshai de MacAahon. who after
being vioeroy Of Algeria. during the
last decade OF Napoieons reign. was
the second President OF the third
French republic.
Colonel de MacMahon has inherited
along with the family Chateau do Ia
Foret ir the Loiret and the family
mansion in tho Rue dc Beichasse. tn
Paris. his fathers title of Due dc
Magenta. which tho marshal Won in
lls5o on the battlefield of that name
lie does not, however. make use OF
it. and viii probably refrain from do
ing so, at any rate. until he a,tains
the rank OF general Hitherto he has
been Ia command OF the First Bat
TALON OF the one Hundred and Twen-
ty-ninth Regiment OF Infantry at
Havre, where he lived very quietly and
unpretentiously with his royal wife
Princess Marguerite Of Orleans. daugh-
ter of that Duo de Chartres. VINO with
his brother. tho Cointe de Paris. served
on the stan ~ General Mcclellan dur
ling the American Civil War.
The colonel In appearance takes af-
ter his mother. sister OF he last
Duce de Castries. rather than after
his father; for. like her. he Is extra
ordinarily good humored and disposed
10 emhonpoint. He and his wife have
three children. the youngest. 4 boy OF
seven. who will Inherit the dukedom
and estates. and also two brothers,
Eugene. who is the black sheep OF the
family. and who. after most stormy
carer in France and the colonies
cause OF much sorrow and expense
to his parents. the Duke and Duchess
Of Internationally vanished some
where in the orient, and Emmanuel
who soldier IKE Patrick. mas for
some months past commanded tho
One Hundred and Fifty-hfth Regiment
OF Infantry at Commercy. Both the
soldier brothers have seen active SER
vice, Patrick in the Madagascar cam
paign. whiio the younger won not on
y much distinction. but rapid promo
ton. IN fighting against tho Black
Flags IN Tonquin and in this wise
obtaining q colonelcy even before
Patrick did 1t is great mistake to
think that the family owe their no.
hilary title of marquis to Napoleon
III 1t dates from the miadle OF tho
eighteenth century. and the second
marquis received seat in the French
House OF Peers from Charles Y. on the
occasion OF his coronation.
Descended of the ancient Anglo
Norman house OF Fitzurae whose name
IN irish becomes MacMahon. both the
colonies are the great-grandsons of
ar Irish physician who settled down
TO the practice OF his profession in
1742 at Autun Marrying n very rich
widow, he became through her the
owner Of a large estate in Burgundy.
was created a marquis by Louis XVI.
and died in Spain In 1915.
1t was his eldest son, the second
Marquis de MacMahon. who. by his
marriage to Mile. dc Caraman. OF the
ducal house Of that name. became
the father of several sons, one OF T:ie
younger OF these being the already
mentioned marshal Of France. Due OF
Magaenta.
The FIRST marquis. the irish physi-
clan. had a younger brother. John.
who In 1916 entered the Irish College
at Paris, with the object OF becoming
q priest. Changing his mind. ho also
turned 10 medicine. and was appointed
a surgeon in the French army. Later
he was attached in a confidential ca
pacity TO the French embassy at Ber-
lin. where he became acquainted with
Frederick the Great and Voltaire
Returning to Paris In 1870. no was
appointed chief medical officer of the
Ecole Mnitairc. ana married nm Amcrl-
adelphia He also was medicnl adj
wiser to benjamin Franklin in Paris,
receiving from that father OF Ameri-
can diplomacy, In token OF gratitude.
gold snun box bearing his portrait
The MacMahons in France. like those
in Ireland, are generally understood
to be descended from sir Reginald
Fitzurse. the leader OF the four
knights Of King Henry H. who slew
St Thomas a. Beckett. the Arshbishop
OF Canterbury. on the altar steps Of
hfs cathedral Fitzurse means "son
of the bear Norman French equi-
valent Of the BJornson of the Viking
conquerors. The Celtic-Irish transla-
ton OF this is MacAiahon. 1t is said
that after the crime sir Reginald lied
to the north OF Ireland and spent the
ro.t of his days in voluntary exile. be-
coming the ancestor of the Irish Mae
NIahons
Another OF Beckets assanan,s was
Sir William de Tracy. whose deseen-
dants stll! flourish in the west OF
England. and from whom the Lords
Wemyss and Sudeley are both de-
seconded. De Tracy. so the story goes.
tried again ana again to escape from
the kingdom. but the winds of heav-
en- refused 80 watt him over the sea
Furious storms always grove his snip
HOT, TIRED WORKERS.