Evening star., 1917-10-21

L American pOS, llp" ia hi1i'i i~e''
who holds the unique position
q of being a duke of France in his
own right. One day he learned that the
chateau of his French ancestors was oc-
cupied by German divisional staff.
Heis Emmanuel-Theod d'Albert de
Luynes daily, tenth Duke of Chaulnes
and of Picquigny. and head of his
branch, though SO young. 1t is the
great family whose rise in fortune be-
bert, Seigneur of Luynes and friend and
backer OF young King Louis XIII on the
day Of the Louvre bridge. when Con-
cini fell. There is no more romantic
story in history, and you can read about
1t Guynes is the hero) in La Maison
du Baigneur" by Auguste Maquet. in
the Alexander Dumas series. He rose
to be duke, peer, constable. first min
lister. and his brothers Brantes and Ca
denet rose with him. The family gave
marshals of France, governors of prov
inces, ambassadors. academicians ana
great art patrons and 1t Is sun hleh IN
the person of the Due de Luynes, pos
SCISSOR of lordly Dampierre, the old
chateau Of Luynes, and Chateaudun, the
chateau of Dunois, companion of Jeanne
dare.
This little Due de Chaulnes ct de Picq-
uigny (his cousin) is also grandson of
Theodore Shonts of New York, Chicago.
St. Louis, Toledo. Minneapolis, Pitts
burgh, Atlanta and SO many other cities
where he has built and owned railroads
that their names sound also like list
Of titles.
A charming American girl. Miss
Theodore Shonts, daughter of the man
whom President Roosevelt selected 10
be chairman OF the Isthman Canal Com
mission (and who directed its work un-
til he undertook the piercing or the
New York Rapid Transit subway mar
ried the young Duke Of Chaulnes, well
known in Paris society, few years
before the war.
Had Chaulnes lived he would have
distinguished himself at the fighting
front, like his cousins, the Due de
Luynes, who has won the ribbon or the
Legion of Honor; the Due d'Uzes, clted,
with the cross of war the Due de
Noailles (who, though scarce recovered
from an operation. is still fightingl
Comte Castor de Contades, who, In
spite OF his forty-nine years and father
OF a family. volunteered in the first
days and fell, pierced through and
through, at the Marne, and Vicomte An
tome de ContadeS. a cavalry oficer VINO
nearly two years running. never saw a
horse, but handed out muSketS to MS
dismounted cuirassiers in the muddy
trenches of the User.
AS 1t was Caulnes died young, before
he had a chance to show what was in
him. and the young American duchess.
his widow, simply undertook the double
task of bringing up her little boy at
once AZ an American and heir to his
French dukedom. He remained in
France until five years old. Once he
travelled, practically alone. by rail from
boarding school to Pau dt was a short
line). Most of the way he played Dam
pierre" on the hunting horn, to the adj
miration of the passengers. His mother
10 sustained and beloved by the entire
family 1T touched us and endeared
her to us very much" one said. "the
way the little lady took her widow
hood. 1t was real perfection Of dis
tinction. and everybody loved her for
IT," Then. at the age Of nearly six.
she took the boy to his grandfather in
America.
OFTEN she would talk to him about the
town of Albert in the Somme. Orig
inally its name was Ancre. but in the
year 1890 the King of France changed
il to Albert IN iioaor OF that Charles :