The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25
Aged Marquis Urbane Sacchetti,
Grand Quartermaster, Dies
in Rome.
by La MARaUISE DIE FoNrENOY.
RI ~ y. has just lost one OF the prin-
4 oipal lay dignitarles of his court

t.o"5" INC dcatti, at nearly
pane Sacchctti, who over since Inc
reisn OF Plus lN. has held the olico OF
I'm ~, oriere (Which may be trausiat-
=" as grand duarterinaSter) OF tho
Apostolic Palaces.
Thc Sacchetti family, which nourtsh
ca among the patriciatc of Florence in
IN, me 5"eltlh century. has been cstab-
fury. N''-
d,ren. a son and !, daughter. The son.
Don Luigi, who for years has been
n az. .t. as MS deputy in tho oIice OF
can, ana has already been nppuintcd IN
succeed him IN the Office bears the tItir
OF Prince Palestrina, which was be-
slowed upon him by Leo Kill when In
ieoi as an officer Of tho Noble Guard,
nc managed To secure the heart and thn
iihnd OF Donna Maria Barbcrini. the
o! Inc Bdrbcrini princes.
Donna Marin, who is sim a Lcau,i-
iui woman. brought her husband not
only an enormous fortune but IlIc.yyisc
INC famous bnrbcrini Palace. the pic
hotE oi world wide fame the former
continuing the celebrated porfrui, NJ
i5Gnlrice Gcnci,, Will the library com
priScs no less than 1000 munuscriI,is Of
extraordinary value.
lie" NIL, with whom Don Luigi WAS
Il particular fnvoritc. IN addition 10 re-
nrtGating IN his favor the narbcrini
lied him TO assume his wife's patrony.
mic OF Barb.rini
rhc Barberin! Palace may add. is
eG ON ,Tui; III part with stones from
i inS Goi. sv,nI Which Lea 70 the OLD
ians had spared. the Barbarinis huu
spoiled"
The sister OF Don Luigi. Prince OF
Ha!estrinu, created sensation some
years ago by bcstowing her hand ana
her fortune. after ii IoVelcss marriage
win the late Marchese Scrlupi, upon an
on private IN thu ranks OF the Car
tbinlcri. OF the name or Scu!furo,
whose acquaintance She made when he
assisted her In recovering some prop
seaside villa at Memmuno. She is
eight years his senior, and she has
son hy her ilrst marriage who Will In
herit on his patcrnal grandfathcr's
death his t!tlc OF Marquis Scrlupi and
ths ownership Of the gloomy Ssrlupi
lalace. in the vi" Scmiuario. ut Rome.
Perhaps IT may Ee as well to add that
the new grand qunrtermnstcr or the
Apostolic Palaces has had his papal
title OF Prince Of Palcstrina sanctioned
and approved by tbs royal ConsuI,G
which no title can be legally borne in
Italy.
The famous Grand Duchess OF
GerOlstcin," otherwise liortcnsc Schnci-
der, has renppcarcd upon the scene, at
the age OF seventy-nvc. TO asslst In the
organization of charitable festival
at Montmartre. at which "Barbc Blur."
ono or her own early creations. IL
about 10 be produced by number OF
young people whom she Is coaching for
the purpose.
Having made her debut on tho stage
at seventeen, between afty and sixty
years ago. and Spending the cvcntidc
Of her existence In the strictest re-
In. In 1.ny a
grounds in the .Auteuil suburb of Paris
for several decades past. most paoplc
imagined that the once famous prim0
donna was no longer in the land OF
II was fiortcnse who practically gave
the vogue 10 all the works OF Often
bach. esp .cially TO his popular opera
La Grandc Duchcssc dc ,ierols,cin."
and her fame during tho last decade
OF the Napoleonic Empire was so great
that inonarchs visiting Paris in those
days did not heSltatA 10 slight the
French ruler, and especially Empress
Eugcnic for her sake; as, FOR instence
when Car Alexander IL, on his way
to Paris IN 1861. autographed ahead TO
have a box reserved 10 him NJ iIor-
tense Schncidcrs theatre on the night
oil mis- arrival, coupled with an invita-
ton that she would sup with him all
the Gaze Anglais after the perform
anur. He reached Paris in ths evening
mt o, was received in great state by
Napoleon H. at the railroad station,
uIoNt Olt Win nun 10 ltlt ulIttl'iss
where after most pcrfunctOry greet
ing 10 Empress Eugene he pleaded the
fatigue CT his Journey for absence from
the banquet which they had or&uniz ID
in his honor 1T tho palace. and after a
hasty meal in his apartments. drove
off TO the theatre. where, from a box
decorated with flowers and with the
Russian colors. n. witnessed the per-
Torrance of La Grandc Duchcssc."
Nor was ne by any means the only
visiting sovereign who accorded n
greater degree of homage and of nd
miration TO the queen of the opera
bouffe than to the then Empress If
the French.
Hor;ensc Schneider in those days
used to go everywhere BY the name of
la Grandc Duchessc." that is To say.
OF the role which she had created on
the burlcsquo stage. One day in 1867
the guards at the main entrance of the
great international exhibition. then in
progress In the French capital. saw q
beautiful cquipaGc with four horses
and positions driving up to the gates
and anxious 70 enter. The commissary
of police on duty hastened to the car
pants, exclailnsd: "Nladame, 1t is only
royal personages who are permitted 10
drive in"
do you not know mc?" hRuGhtily in
qured Hortensc, who had by her side
the famous English demi- mondaine,
Cora Pearl. II am the Grande Duchesse
dc Gerols
The police commissary, convinced that
he was III the presence of one of the