The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-02
DUCHESSE D'UZES rs
FRIEND OFPOI

| the Minister of War took cognizancc
thereof. and Issued order forbdding
officers OF the army to attend the
famous hunts Of the dowager duchess
at Bonnellcs. or TO use their cavalry
mounts for the purpose
! Nor is It possible 10 forget that dur
Ing the BoulanScr craze, the dowager
duchess subscribed no less than 2,OOO,-
600 OF francs to his cause. for the
aVowcd purpose Of bringing about the
overthrow OF the republic
The duchess is wonderful old wo-
man OF the masterful type, and TO
great extent dominates the Partisan
fashionable world. For her husband.
when he was alive. was the premier
duke OF France, and she is exceedingly
rich. as the heiress and descendant or
old widow Clicquot. and chief owner
Of the great champagne business
| founded by the latter.
The world famed widow was daug,h-
ter OF a Baron Pcnsardln. who had
acquired fortune AS a cloth manu-
facturer. In the midst of the revolu-
! tonary turmoil, she married Il banker
! OF the name of ClicQuot at Rheims. her
native city. who was an amateur
wine grower. She was left n widow
at twenty-eight and being an cx-
trcmcly clever and energetic woman,
developed the banking business. and
converted her husbands vineyards in
| to a regular wine-growinG concern.
| This prospcred to such an extent that
II eventually swallowed up and alb
sorbed the bank
The widow had an only daughter,
married to the Comic de Chevigne,
author OF the famous Comics Re
mois. Their only daughter became
the wife of tho Comte de Roche
chouart Mortemart, and the only child
of this union is the Dowager Duchessc
dues. She is very proud of her
| Mortcmart father. whose ancestry. like
that of the De Lewis Mirepoix, is as
serted to tntedatc the Deluge.
The D'Uzes although their dukcdom
| ranks as the first in France--the pres
cnt duke being the premier peer-is
| by no means the oldest In fact the
| precedence of the Dukes of Uzes dates
| only from the time of Louis Kill
That monarch. being tired OF the
eternal squabbles for precedence at
the court Of Versailles. which he was
always being called upon to decide,
ana entertaining. moreover, doubts as
TO the validity or some OF the titles
borne at his court decrced that all
persons possessing nobiliary dignities,
should register them at the office or
the keeper Of his great seal at Yer
| sailles. after proving their right
| thereto by documentary evidence.
| Louis XII. also commanded that the
dukes should enjoy their precedence
! in accordance with the order OF their
registration, and that the one who re-
corded his name first was to have the
pas ever afterwards, over the peers
who arrived later.
Knowing this, the Dukes OF Uzes
and of Luynes set forth almost stimuli
tancously TO drive from Paris to the
office of the keeper OF the great seal
in the palace OF Versailles. and each
IA.
The Due dies, finding that the Duo
de I.uyncs was on the point OF win
ming tho race. deliberately caused his
coachman to drive into the Luynes
equipaa,C, upsctting it and its occu-
pants into the ditch. Then whipping
UP his own horses. he reached the reg
istrars office in time to be enrolled as
the ;irst peer of the realm. The rcud
which long existed between these two
great ducal houses OF France, arising
from this contest, has been ended by
means OF several marriages. notably
by the fact that the prcsent Due
dues (son OF the dowager) is mar
ried to the sister OF the Due de
Luynes.
Only one Judge in Scotland wears
ermine. namely. Lord Dunedin. who
also bears the title of lord president.
and receives n salary OF s25, 900 year
A-'ii VINO is inc LORD
cnicf Justice Clerk, comes next with
$4,000 year. while the remaining
Judges of the High Court of Justiciary
ana session, have to get along with
$1,000 year. But they have one ad
vantage over their better paid hreth.
rcn OH the bench OF tho 9Th Court IN
: London For they receive on their
elevation to the bench the title OF
lord" prctixed either to thel. sur
name ~ to the name Of some town
or village with which they have been
connected, and which they are FREQ 70
bear. even after their retirement, for
the remainder OF their lives Their
wives receive the title of lady, by
virtue IF a decree of Edward VII in
1905. Previous to INA: the wives ala
not share their husbands honors.
which save rise to all sorts OF awk-
ward contretemps. since It was difficult
TO get foreign bonisaces or even Eng
lish innkeepers TO understand why.
for instance Lord Skerrington's wife
should be plain Mrs. William Camp
bell. Indeed, 1t took trouble TO make
them believe that the judge and hts
better half wore ron'.y married
In eden times the Office Of Lord Jus
tice General. or the Lord Justiciar
was held by the sovereign himself
and the King even went on circuit
just as IN the present day the King
VI HipHltntSTo SITS 3t tne gate or MS
palace in Cettinje and administers
Justice 10 his subjects Thus David
H. is on record as having gone on cir
chit throughout his kingdom, In order
TO dispense justice as the supreme
| Judge OF the land BY degrees tho
sovereign delegated his duty to an
other, who was styled the Lord Jus
ticc Clerk But il was finally held
that the responsibility OF representing
the sovereign in justice was too great
for mere lawyer, and accordingly,
the old time royal office OF Lord JUS
tice General was bestowed upon the
| greatest mobiles in the land
1t continued To be conferred by the
King upon different mobiles until 1890,
when 1t was united by ACT OF Parlia-
ment with the office OF president OF
the Court of Sessions and it's bestowal
restricted to members of the legal
profession The last nonlegal Lord