The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-12
Eleventh Duke of Rohan Fought
With Calamity in War
With Germany.
ny IA MAnauIsE DE FoNTENoY.

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+ RANGES leading club. the Paris
Cercle de rUnon, the headquar-
ters of the old aristocracy, and
noted for it's exclusiveness, has just
lost it's president. through the death
, OF JAlain de Rohan-Chabot. eleventh
Duke of Rohan who fought with con-
spicuoua gallantry In the war with
Germany. subsequently, representing
his native Department. of Morbihen,
for over forty years In the Chamber
OF Deputies Oh the royalist ticket.
His son, Josselin. who now succeeds
him as twelfth duke, has hitherto been
known as Prince de Leon Is u captain
on the reserve list of the Second Regi-
ment OF Chasseurs Cheval. Is mar
ried TO a distant cousin Marguerite de
| Rohan-Chahot, daughter of the Comte
de Jarnac, and has two little girls.
He is u man about thirty-nve. and the
heir to the dukedom, failing his hay
ing male issue, is his younger brother,
Jehan. Ficomte de Rohan.
The new duke is a Rohan through
the distaff side, and owes his connec-
ton TO the Rohans to the fact that his
direct ancestor in the male line, Count
Henri dc Chabot, married in June, 1913,
the only daughter OF Duke Henri de
Rohan perhaps the most illustrious of
all the bearers of the name Of Rohan.
the favoritc and companion In arms Of
* ing Henri ". Of France, the god
father of King Charles l. of England,
the son-in-law of Frances great states
man and minister, Due de Sully, and
who received and declined an offer of
the sovereignty OF the Isle OF Cyprus.
made to him BY the Sublime Porte
The Cornte de- Chabot's own ancestry
was not &c be dlsdained. For one of
the Chabots was lord high admiral OK
France under King Francis H., and
another Chabot achieved fame by re-
fuSng to execute the commands Of
the half -dcmented Charles TX, on he
occasion OF the massacre or ST. Barth-
olomew.
elri dc Chabot, after the death of
his father-in- law, Duke Henri de
Rohan, received from the French
crown the right to assume the title OF
Duo dc Rohan by royal patent bearing
the date of 1913, and since then his de-
| scendants have all styled themselves
Rohun- Chabot, TO distinguish them
scendel from Duke Henri de Rohan' s
brother. and who can trace their an
ccstry in the male line irect. to the
oldtirno sovereisns of Brittany
In spite of tine misleading state
ments contained i'll the Almanach dc
Gotha, the title Of Cousin of the
King" conferred by French royal
extremely proud. constituting as it does
q recognition of their former SOW
ereignty Of Brittany. is confined to
the now Austrian line OF the Rohans
and does not extend to tho Rohan-
Chabcts.
1t is this male line of the Rohans,
too, which furnished two such famous
commanders to France as Benjamin de
liohan, Prince de Soubiee, and Charles
de Roman. Marechal dc Soubiee. TO
the male line of the Romans. too. be-
longs the Chevaller de Rohan, who
clopod with the Duchess OF Mazarin,
was the lover of Nine. dc Montcspan,
and who, having become involved IN
a plot against the life of Louis XIV,
was nut TO death on the scaTold.
Cardinal Prince Louis de Rohan,
Iandyrave OF Alsace. was also mem
Der of the male line of his house. AS
ambassador to the court of Empress
Maria Theresa, lie behaved SO badly
that he was recalled at her request.
and wears afterwards revenged him
self upon her daughter, Queen Marie
Antoinettc Of France, by involving her.
though SHE Was perfectly innocent Of
all wronSdcing, in his diSgraceful tlia-
mond necklace scandal At least SIX
teen Rohans and Roha -Chabots lost
their lives on the scaffoId in the great
Revolution, at the close of the eigh-
teentli century.
The Rohans take their name from
the Castle OF Rohan, In the Morblhan,
and owe their title OF prince, not to
any grant or royal favor, but To the
fact that they were recognized in an
cient times at the court OF France as
descendants frcm and representative
Of the original soyereigns of Brittany.
Some Of them, however. in those days.
disdained to make use of the title of
prince. considering their name of
Eohan sufficiently illustrious without
the prefix Of any title. and adopted as
their motto, "Roi ne puts. Prince ne
daigne. Rohan suis." 1t is to be re-
GREETED that all of the Rohans and
Rohan-C habots in these modern times
do not rctuir the same belief that their
namo Is Il moro proud possession than
that of any rltie Thus, Count Guy
lie RohanChabot, who married as his
second wife the widowed Mrs. Albert
Gnllatin, of New York---she WAS form
erly Miss Suzanne Hayward, OF that
citV-WOuld not resi- until be had nh-