South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-15

ment there. and her castle Of Neau-
phle-le-Nieux. I'm the department Of
Seine e. Disc. working for the
wounded. and even tending them
in the hospital which she has i'm
the walls Of her ancestral home,
with an energy which many a
younger woman could envy.
Prominent i'm Society.
Madame d'Havrincourt is perhaps
now the most prominent woman in
the Partisan society of the Fau-
bourg 81. German. If only on ac-
count of her great age. and also
of her wonderful memory that car
ries her back 10 events which have
taken place go or 40 years ago.
which starts 70 relate. with mar
Vicious accuracy. Her wit fully
justides the old French saying con
corning the esprit des Mortemart
and lends unusual piquaucy to her
tales. In that every one knows her
likes 10 listen Co her stories which
so often treat Of history, as for in
stance when she relates her memo
ries of Gen. Lafayette. who was a
friend of her fathers and whom she
remembers SO well. But the old
marquise never could bring herself
TO understand where he gathered
sufficient courage TO cross the seas.
and To- offer his services TO the new
" born American republic. she was
I educated in. and kept that horror
for foreign travel. which was So gem
eral among French people some
! half century ago. or -thereabouts:
and she considered that the general
had rendered himself the hero of a
far greater deed i'm entrustinE his
person 10 the tender mercies of the
Atlantic ocean, than in lighting for
the cause of "a democracy in which,
if the truth need be told. she did
not believe even whilst admiring il.
his old lady had a happy life,
which deserved the great respect
with which she finds herself today
surrounded. she has had also the
JOY of seeing her children and
Grandchildren grow mp in feelings 81
deep affection for her. Her daugh-
ter. the Marquise de Chabannes. is
a delightful woman; aud her grand
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ed from the Duke de Mirepoix. help
ed TO make her existence a pleasant
one. But the latter caused her
grandmother considerable grief,
when last autumn, much To the Won
der of all her friends she entered
a convent, and was enrolled among
the Danes dU Calvaire. whose mis-
sion consists in tending people af-
hicted with cancerous diseases. Ma
dame d'Havrincourt never could
understand this sudden resolution.
and il is said that she expressed
herself rather bitterly in regard to
it,.
\ Great-great-grandmOther.
The Duchess de Mirepoix is the
mother of two children. a daughter
with whom neither she nor the
other members of her family. could
get on. in reason of certain cir
cumstances. over which II is use
less 10 dilate here; and a son. the
present duke, married 10 Made
moselle Nicola de Chaponay. whose
child has made OIL Madame d'Hav-
%rincOurt n Observation-Disclosures.
When she was young, SO long ago.
that not one living being can re-
member il, the Marquise d'HaVrin-
court was a beautiful woman, and
/ tradition says hat a certain rivalry
existed between her and the Princess
LeoniIe de Sayn-Wittgenstein. who
was also renowned for her lowell
ness. and considered as one of the
queens of Paris society. The prin-
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some so years ago. is about two
years younger than the Marquise
d. Havrincourt. and it was only on
the 9th of May. 1916. that she ac-
complished her Tooth year, an event
which became almost "a national
festival in Lausanne. and the whole
canton of NauX. She was a great
friend of Madame Craven, the au-
thor of the delightful book called
the "Recit dune Soeur." and she
is considered as a most important
parsonage indeed. i'm the whole OF
Europe. The Empress Augusta of
Germany, was on terms of the
closest intimacy with her. much 20
the annoyance of Bismarck. who
spoke of the Princess Wittgenstein
as of one OF his most formidable
foes. and who sometimes vented his
bad humor concerning her on her
step-daughter. the wife Of Prince
Clovis Of Hohenlohe S%chillinges-
furst. the author of the famous
Memoirs. who was to replace Bis
marck as chancellor OF the German
empire; and who being gifted with
a sharp tongue. more than once re
piled 10 the cutting sarcasms of the
PruSsian colossus.
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