The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

the death Of his all powerful friend II
was a Quixotic expedition and all he
could do finally was To return tn his
friends in the South, where he lived and
travelled two years, using his fortune
freely, like the new Lafayette" he
called himself
He was in England when the Franco
Prussan war broke out. Volunteering
as Lieutenant Colonel of regiment
that distinguished itself in thirteen bat
ties, he rose to be General of brigade
and won the ribbon of the Legion of
Honor. Even Gambetta was edited by
the ardent democracy which he had alb
sorbed in America. But Prince Camille
on the other hand could discover little
of that democracy in the new French
republic.
II, retired to family life. the higher
Mathematics. learned congresses and
modern music. In his old age he re-
turned continually to "reminiscences of
the South. And the older he grew the
moro he talked about thirty years
after" visit-Lafayette had made one.
It was a trip he was never to make
His daughter will make II for him. His
last wishes expressed in touching words.
concerned themselves with the destina-
ton Of the sword he had received as q
young captain Of the Confederacy and
which he had not abandoned in his pro-
motions. Having always preserved 1t
as a relic of his happieet days. he de-
sired 1t to return whence II had come.
The city of Richmond is to receive 1t.
When his daughter Armande began
producing her ilusic a Paris paper said
that she had better be dancing.
| II meant that a society girl should
/ stick to society.
Since then the Government theatre
of the Odeon has produced her "Orches-
trial symphony OF the Arabian Nights"
danced as ballet under the Antoine
regime. between dance music of De-
busy and Moussorgsky in the same
programme.
/ She never cared much for anything
but music. AS a thirteen-ye ar-old girl
in England she studied counterpart.
At l6 in Paris she was working at coun-
/ terpolnt and fugue with the organist OF
, st. Augustin and attacked serious or
chrstral composition under Vincent
d'lndy at the Schola Cantorum. There
she learned to conduct. She played the
violin and viola. Even in those days
]
and crashing themes which haunted her.
original. sincere. fresh. the wonder Of
critics.
When a girl is a princess born to So
ciety and early marries the Comte de
Chabannes Ia l'alice her musical career
can he followed only in her works.
Her music is between Dcbussy and
| Strauss. but everything is sacrificed to
action. which must not be stopped one
moment. She has a natural bent for
complication. For, example. her pre-
| ferred perfumes are Pour Troubler"
and "Quand Went Rte" and she has no
patience with the scent Of single
| flower.
Her opera The Little Mermaid"
| from a tale of Hans Christian Andersen,
was produced at Nice where she con-
Quoted the orchestra, which her family
would not then have permitted in Paris.
La Rose" an Oriental opera, was first
done At the Palmarium Of Neui,iy, amid
monumental conserVa;or!cs and forest
of camelia flowers. Then they let her
produce II In Paris. Jacques RuuChc.
the artistic millionaire who is expected
to do astonishing things as new d.
rector OF the Paris Opera, put her
Source Lointaine." a musical panto-
mime. on the stage Of his bijou Theatre
des Arts-the last word OF high and ele-
giant achievement In the Paris OF the
hour.
She married in her own world. Her
husband Is Alfred Comte de Chabannes
Ia Palice, OF "A house older even than
her own. Although the PolienaCs had
among their ancestors that illustrious
poet OF Gaul under the Romans, Sido-
MUS Apollinaris. and the ruins of Polig-
nae. near ruy bear the antique Latin
name of Apolliniacum-of which Polig-
nae is but corruption-thcy had
rather pctcrcd out when young Count
Jules started them going again as hus-
band of Marie Antoinette's best friend.
The La Palice family. on the other
hand have been glorious from the days
LOT Francis I.
Young folks in this high world do not
always live for society. although II Is
the rule. Prince Camille went to study
democracy in America: and think that
he was glad to give his musical daugh-
ter. Armande. to Alfred de Chabannes
Ia Palice. who IL an authority on free
trade and liberalism who was already
writing in the Journal des Ec0nOmistes
under old MOlnari and continues to
contribute now that Yves Guyot Is edi-
! tor.
Count Alfred pridcs himself on being