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| torian. and who claimed lineaI descent
from one of the three Biblical Magi
VINO visited the Savior at Bethlehem"
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The Marquise de Mcmahon may he
said to have inherited her prejudices
against the republic from her mother
in-law. daughter Of the late Duke
des Cars. Making her headquarters
at the Chateau de Sully, in the re-
gion of Autun. the elder marauise
was IN 1873 to such an extent the
leading figure of a royalist conspir-
acy for the overthrow of the present
republic, then in its infancy. that
warrant was issued by the minister
of the interior at Paris for her ar
rest on a charge of high treason.
Her papers were seized. and if the
arrest failed it was because the peas
antry of the district, who were deeply
attached to her by ties of gratitude
for her generosity and for her devo-
ton to their interests, rose in her
behalf to such an extent that in or
der to put the warrant into execu-
ton the dispatch of a large body of
There were too many prominent
names concerned in the conspiracy
as revealed by the seizure of her pa
pers and correspondence at the castle
OF Sully. In those days the royalist
element had some of its more or less
half-hearted sympathizers in the ad-
mtnistration Of the new republic, It
may be remembered that in 1875
Marshal McMahon, Duke of Magenta.
and whose wife, a daughter of the
ducal house of de Castries. was
convicted royalist, was actually elect
ed to the presidency of the republic
So it is not astonishing that in 1872
the ministers Of the republic included
such personages as the late Duke de
Broglie and the late Duke Decazes
who was minister of foreign affairs
Their influences prevailed. and
through the pressure which they
were able to exercise upon their colt
leagues, the ministers of justice and
or the interior were compelled IL
withdraw the warrant for the arrest
or tne Marquise de Mcmahon and to
consent to the abandonment of all
further proceedings and to the hush
ing up of the entire affair. But this
conspiracy of the elder Marquise de
McMahon-that is to say, the mother
in-law of the marchioness who has
just been laid to her sorely needed
rest-was in 1873 very serious
danger to the republic, a rock, indeed
on which the republican regime al
most went to pieces.
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1t is not generally known that the
late Marquis de Mcmahon and the
present Gen. de Mcmahon. second
Duke of Magenta, and married to the
royal Princess Marguerite of Orleans,
have American affiliations. The duke
is the great-grandson of an Irish
physician of the name Of Patrick.
who settled down to the practice Of
his profession. in 1742. at Autun. Mar
ryfng a very rich widow, he became,
through her, the owner of a veryt
large estate, including the Chateau
de Sully, was created first a count
and then a marquis by Louis XIV and
died in Spa in 1775. 1t was his eldest
son. the second Marquis of McMahon.
who by his marriage to Nine. de
Caraman of the ducal house of that
name became the father of several
sons, one of the younger of these
eventually becoming marshal of
France, Duke of Magenta and second
RTes,dent Rrench ran,,,i OF the third and present
of Mcmahon, the Irish physician. had
a younger brother named John, who.
In 1875. entered the Irish college at
Paris, with the object of becoming a
priest. Changing his mind. he turned
to medicine, and was appointed a
surgeon in the French army. Later
he was attached in a confidential ca
pacity to the French embassy at Ber-
lin, where he became intimately ac-
quafnted with Frederick the Great
and Voltaire. Returning to Paris in
1870, he was appointed chief medical
officer of the Ecole Militaire in Paris.
and married an American, Miss
Springham Clarke of Philadelphia.
He was also medical adviser to Ben
jamin Franklin in Paris, receiving
from that father of American diplo-
macy in token of gratitude. a gold
snuffbox bearing his portrait.