Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-29

is today the Duke of Vallombrosa. a
most ancient title. Rita Bell niece of
James Gordon Bennett, is as happy as
a queen with her Count Paul d'Ara-
mon-half an American already, for
his mother was Miss Fisher
And Sc on, till YOU are tired of hear
ing.
Marrying French titles, like marry
ing plain Americans is simply ques-
ton of ada ptability.
Had Count Boni de Castellane mar
ried very beautiful and elegant we-
! man, who could rule him. he would
lave made as good husband as his
brother Jean.
Jean drew Il grand prize when he
married his lovely eousn-Jeane Dor
| othy--after she had become the young
widow of the rich and mighty Prince
! of Furstenberg. She is one of the
! great beauties of Paris, a grande
dame, and a social power who gives
away great sums in charities and is
revered, admired and beloved by all.
Strange how she brings us back to
! Anna GoulG and her Hele. Both she
and Duke Helie descend from roman-
tic Princess Dorothea of Courlande
and Saean.
The great Talleyrand, having be-
trayed France To the Car of Russia,
asked his price He wished to found a
| family and pass ON the great estates
| and titles he had picked up, and, as
| he had no son, he asked AleXander
to find a Russian heiress for his neph
ew, the Young Count Edmond de Per-
| igold. And Alexander, having just
| robbed Dorothea of her dukedom of
Courlande, was willing to hand her to
a foreigner. who would have no right
to ask accounts of him.
1t mattered nothing that poor Dor
othea loved passionately Prince Adam
Czartoryski-who so loved her that he
was at Warsaw lighting for her in the
lawsuit for her dukedcm. The car
came down on them with brilliant
retinue. presenting Talleyrand and his
niEcompoop nephew. Just at the right
moment an old Polish lady, the Coun-
tess Olinska, fresh from Warsaw told
in an offhand way the outrageous lie
that Prince Adam had been married,
and to whom. and all the details Then
another creature of the ear, Count
Poopaloftslli non@halantly adding 9TH
er details.
Weeping furiously all that night,
poor, betrayed Dorothea next morning
said that as Prince Adam had broken
all their dear engagements, she would
be glad to be married soon 10 any one.
And so, at once, they tied the knot
between hen and the nephew of old
Talleyrand. To heap hot Goals on his
wicked old head in his last years Dor
othea was old Talleyrands nurse, pro-
tector and patient companion, and he
told himself he had done her no harm,
because if he helped to take Cour-
lande from her he gave her his neph-
ew. Talleyrand Perigord, with the title
and estates of Duchess de Dino de
Valency and de Talleyrand. The Sc
gan estates and titles We're, of course,
her own.
Her son, Due de Valencay -Talley-
rand Perigord- Segan, with great cha
teaux and lands and revenue for all of
them, first married the last heiress of
the great and noble French house of
Montmorency-to continue which Ma
poleon made younger son of hers the
Due de Montmorency. but the heir of
this marriage was that great old Paris
sport the Due de Sagan, money spen-
der, arbiter of elegance the Ward
McAllister of Paris, who died recently
a SOLDERING dotard. his son, Duke
Helie, inheritiug.
When his Montmorency wife died
Dorothea.s son. Valencay Talleyrand-
Perigord- Segan. saw beautiful young
daughter of the Castellane house. who
loved passionately her cousin. Now,
there seems to he a strain in the Tai
leyrand- Perigord blood that makes for.
the taking of the loves of others. Pro-
posing cody for her to the Castel-
lanes, he was accepted, the poor cou-
sin stepped out of the scene, and Dor
othea's son, marrying this Castellane
girl for his second wife, had a daugh-
ter by her, who was this lovely pres
ent-day Jeanne Dorothy, cousin of
Jeane ae astelane-who married
Furstenberg.
Exactly, The granddaughter of the
betrayed Dorothea and daughter of
the love bereft Casteilane girl. first
married to the Prince of Furstenberg,
then to her cousin. Jean de Castel-
lane. is the half-sister of the dodder
ing old Prince de Sagan, who was
Helie's father,
When, therefore, she married Jean
de Castelane she became Anna
Gould's sister-in-law.
When Anna Gould divorced Count
Boni de Casteiiane this sister in law
relation was lost.
But when Anna Gould married Duke,
Hello the sister in-law lost by divurla