Evening star., 1923-07-24
Prince Rene, Soon to Marry Polish
Countess, Is of Neapolitan Family

Interned. Although the pardon was
granted in October, vet so great was
the distance, that IL was not until
the end of December. on Christmas
eve, that the count was restored TO
his family at Warsaw
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In the list of prizes given by the
Jockey Club of France at the Grand
Prix races in Paris the other day
the Grand Prix is like the English
Derby. the chief racing event of the
year in France--there was one which
bore the name of Major Fridolin.
Its appearance there excited some
curiosity and was the object of much
inquiry and conjecture. For. whereas
the name of Major Fridolin is un.
known to the present generation OF
racegoers in Europe, it was thirty
and fifty and seventy years ago
among the best known on tho turf
Of continental Europe and in the
British Isles. The fact of the matter
is that Maj. Fridolin was the
perhaps the most celebrated stable of
its day In France, owned by Charles
Laffitte. nephew of the celebrated
banker. jacques Laffltte, and of his
nation which at one time included
Maj. Fraser of the British army. the
Prince Marc de Beauveau and Count
Lagrange, owner of the great horse
Gladiator.
The stable known as that of Major
Fridolin'' had any number of vic
tories TO its record. notably the Grand
Prix of Paris in the early seventies,
with a mare of the name of Sor-
nette. and the Derby of Chantilly.
which
name of Bigarreau. The Laffitte-Ni-
Were combination played a very
prominent role in the early years Of
the Jockey Club of France. which
with the Fridolin stable more than
with any other stud. jacques Laffltte,
Louis de Niviere. and the Prince OF
Beauyeau may indeed be said to have
the Jockey Club. which, in instituting
prize bearing the name of Major
Fridolin, thus pays tribute of hon
Fridolin, thus pays q tribute OF hon
died in 1876 or 1877, l forget which
Old Baron Niviere. however, survived
until quite recently, when he passed
away in his ninety-eighth year.
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That Prince Aymon of Italy, Duke
OF Spoleta. who spent some time i
America last year on his way to JOIN
the man-of-war in Chinese watcrs
to which he had been appointed as
lieutenant. almost succumbed to tH-
phoid fever at Shanghai within
few weeks after reaching his dcs-
tinaGon, is well known through the
ogx spa pers. at any rate to those uho
made the acquaintance of this good
looking lad while in America. But
what is not generally known is that
his only and elder brother Amedeus.
Duke Of Puglia, next heir TO his
father, the Duke of Aosta. has like
wise been very Ill, almost sue
cumbing to an attack of double
pneumonia. following influenza, at
Turin where VII he was serving mos as
ment his life was despaired of, but
he was nursed back to health by his
French mother, Duchess Helene O.
Aosta. who was the president OF
great war, and who received from the
French government the Cross of the'
Legion of Honor for her hereism un-
der heavy fire. This too, in spite
of the fact that her eldest brother.
the Duke of Orleans, like her father.
the late Count de Paris. a. veteran Of
the army of the Potomac. were ana
are, barred from the soil of France,
as heads OF a dynasty that formerly
exercised sovereign sway over the ma
tion,
AS a thank Offering for the almost
miraculous recovery of his first borp,
the Duke of Aosta, who commendsd
in chief one of the italian armies at
the front during the great. war (and
who in his boyhood, during his
fathers three years tenure OF the
throne of Spain, bore the tale OF
Prince of. the Asturia, restricted to
the eldest sons of the rulers of SPAIN
drove In full state with his French
duchess to the celebrated sanctuary
of Our Lady of the Consolation, IN
Turin and presented to the church
a magnificent chalice of chased gold
and of great artistic beauty. after
ward assisting at mas: 81, at the h,sn ms
lived up to the traditions OF his an
css.ors. whose relations ,s .si~I With !, The .s.
/ late King Victor Emmanuel, and Of
King Hqnbert. were very close. lag
the house Of Savoy who have receiy-
cd the highest hopors In the gift OF
the Roman Catholic Church, namely,
that of canonization as saints.
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