The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-26
Don Luis of Bourbon Is Called
to Task by King
Alfonso.

BY LA MANQUISE DE FONTENOY.
/ NASMUCH az there were a consid-
/ erable number OF Americans pres
ent at the entertainment Efven by
the Infanta Eulauc'n son, Don Luis
Of Bourbon. at tho Polo Club, at Paris,
the other day. 1t Is only right and
proper to call attention to the fact
that the selection OF some OF his
guests has excited the inten indignn-
ton OF the members of his family In
France and In Spain. To such an cx-
tent is this the case that he has been
peremptorily summoned to Madrid by
King Alfonso and by his comma nd
has cancelled all his further social en-
gaBements in Paris.
What excited on tho part OF tho
members of the royal house OF Bour-
bon more Reproduction than anything
else is the fact that he should have
presumed to ask TO his fete the NOR
ganatic widow OF Prince Pascal do
Bourbon. Comte de Bari. and that she
should have figured on his invitations
as Princess Pascal of Bourbon"
Pascal, half brother of ex-Kins
Francis OF Naples. was the black sheep
OF his family. was iuvoved in no end
OF unsavory scrapes. and in 1878 dis
graced himself by his marriage to a
woman of tho French half-world, who
styled herself Mile. Blanche de Mar
connay." He had at the time no
money. his mother, the Dowager Queen
OF Naples. by birth an Austrian arch :
duchess, having STOPPED his allowance.
in order to force him to behave him
self
blanche de Marcornay was very rich.
and only consented to marry Prince
Pascal. in Paris. on the condition that
he should acknowledge himself before
"a notary and before the Mayor to be
the father OF her illcgltimate son.
Henry, then some fifteen years Of age,
and who had figured up 10 that t!lne
on the registers of birth as OF un-
known father. OF course. Pascars
relatives protested against this at
tempt to erdow tho demi- mondaine' S
son with the historic name OF Bourbon,
and applied TO the French courts,
which annulled Prince Pasc;lrs recog
milton Of the boy AZ his offspring. on
the ground that when the boy was
born Prince Pascal was himself but
eleven years of ago, was living IN
Rome with his mother. had never set
foot in Paris, and had never seen or
heard OF Blanche Marconnay. One
French court after another prohibited
the now near iifty-year old son OF
Blanche de Marconnay from styling
himself Henri dc Bourbon, or Prince of
Bourbon or Count dc Bari, the decision
being confirmed en- final appeal to the
supreme Court of France, with the In
tination that the stepson of the late
Prince Pascal de Bourbon would he
liable to heavy fine and Imprisonment
If he persisted in disobcying the or
ders Of the French court.
The mans mother having been duly
married to the late Prince Pascal de
Bourbon. 1t was found impossible to
prevent aer. by means OF legal process.
from styling herself Princess Pascal
dc Bourbon In France. But she has
never been recognized as such by the
members of the Bourbon family, by
any court in Europe or by the French
Spanish or Italian aristocracy. and
that Infanta Eulalie's son should have
invited this once so notorious woman
to his fctc, as Princess Pascal de
Bourbon asking her to meet as such
all his other guests, who included
some representatives of the greatest
houses OF the French aristocracy, has
created sensation, not only in the
French metropolis. but likewise at
every court in Europe.
The young prince has already ex-