A SAD STORY.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1045, 11 June 1883, Page 2

A SAD STORY.

Gay unsympathetic Paris has been momentarily shocked by the sad destiny of the Duchess de Chalunes, who a few days ago died in a garret in one of the humblest districts of the French capital. Her father was the Prince Galitzin, whos& conversion to Catholicism so exasperated the Czar Nicholas. She became i the; wife of the Due de Chalunes who served as a volunteer in the Pranco-Prussian war and was mortally wounded at Patay. The young and aristocratic beauty was for .a time one of the queens of society butfher head was turned with adulation and she

entered upon a career of dissipation which rendered her notorious. Her husband on his death-bead made a request that his children should be removed from her keeping and placed under the care of his mother, the Dnchesse de Chevreuse, The Duchesse de Ghalunes failing to carry off her children from their grandmother’s chateau, sought to enforce her maternal rights in a court of justice, but the judgment of the Council de Famille was confirmed. The Duchess de Ghalunes became more reckless than ever, she quarrelled with her mother, and a fortnight since implored the hosipitality of a struggling family, who rather than drive her to throw herself into'the Seine, agreed to share their garret with her. Here she .diedin . abject misery,»;.Eor m soine, time past she had been in the habit of injecting morphia into her blood, an actress having once told her the emotions she would experience u would; bp -heayenly> j Her last wish was to tie buried in a white satin dress and with Kir “wedding ring on her finger. , , T r T , % I I