Evening star., 1923-03-04
Young Rockefeller's Million-Dollar
Tapestries Came From Noted Castle

OF the Due de ST. Simon. For he has
written quite as sarcastically, asi
trenchantly and as fcarlessly as he |
speaks. Indeed, there is no doubt |
that when the time comes to placs)
his memoirs on the market his son
and heir will be offered a hundred
fold more than he could expect to
receive from any publishing house
TO withhold them from publication,
| owing to the dread of those whose
pretensions and thefts of historic
names. titles and heraldic frauds
coriated. They would pay any
| amount of money rather than be
placed on lasting record in his pages.
AS ne is not very tall. he has some
times been described as "a pocket
st: Simon" and as "a miniature
alliances and is able to recall those
which have taken place among the
leading houses of the French nobility
Tor hundreds of years back. So keen
has he always been on this subject of
pure blue blood, unadulterated by any
bourgeois strain. that it has been said
of him that when he reaches the J.
gates Of Paradise he would ratheIt
than accept admission at the hands1
of st. Peter, a mere fisherman, insisd
on waiting any length of time In
order to be let in by a saint OF mord
illustrious birth, such as, for instance1
st. Louis of France.
r 4 x
Many of his views were shared b1
his very charming and gracious wifd.
who up to the time of her death II,
1913 was easily the leading membet p
of the de la Rochefoucauld family,
and the one to whom all of it's mem-
bers. and, indeed, all the great world
OF France, deferred. President of the
Children's Protection Society DR.
France, the salons of her great man
sion Of the Rue de LCniversite we're
renowned as the most exclusive of the
noble Faubourg.
II was the one house from which
the new rich and the foreign rasta~
quouere element was always vigor-
ously barred, and from which the
Bonapartist aristocracy. such as the
| now pretentious Murats, etc, were
excluded, and where the real old
patriciate of France. titled and un-
titled, loved to foregather with for
eigners of rank and birth equal to
their own. With all that, she was ex
tremely kind. generous, gracious. as
we'll as simple, and totally unaffected
in her manner, retaining to the last
traces of the famous blonde beauty
Of her younger days. She belonged
by birth to the great house OF de
Mlally-NeSle, tne nedf OF NnlCn. me
Marquis de Mially-Nesle. ranks as the
premier marquis of France.
y x x x
Among. her immediate ancestors
was the famous Marshal de Mially
Nesle who was -beheaded during the
terror. 1t was he who, as he mount
ed the scaffold in 1893 on what is
now the Place de la Concorde in
Paris. cried out proudly, "At fifteen
mounted the breach Of the city
! walls Of kehl in the service of my
| king At eighty-five, I mount the scaf-
| fold In the service OF my God" The
de Ia Rochefoucauld family was
founded in the tenth century by
younger son Of the famous Sire de
Lusignan. His Christian name be
! ing Foucauld. and owning the castle
| of le Roche in the Gironde. he styled
| il Ia che-Foucauld, from which
| his descendants have taken their
| name. His heir sixteen generations
later, in the male line direct, was
noble of sufficient Importance to be
! invited to act as godfather to King
Francis 7 on the occasion OF his
christening.