DUKE’S TRAGIC FATE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9173, 17 June 1908, Page 7

DUKE’S TRAGIC FATE.

ly• BRIDE'S TERRIBLE GRIEF. A romantic union of wealth and title has been brought to a sad end by the sudden death of the Due de Ohaulne's'; ' who married Miss Shoutes, of New York, only a N),»juonthago. He was found dead in '>'*} Ijbed alEtje Langham Hotel, Paris, ‘jirpi rijL It . who was only thirty, had Iris return from America ref 'aided 'at this hotel in the Champs >Blysees quarter. The young couple -W yithin the last two months had ’ very seriously into the social j-S gaiety of Paris. The duke was a ‘ Mfr persona grata in some of the most w] exclusive saloons in the city. He Kpl went into society a great deal. His 'health had, however, given some Nnncern recently, and in the past nV weeks he had several fainting P* \ \ On the Thursday night the ) l \ went out immediately after |r, presumably to call upon Hnii ?feends, leaving his wife in l\oS*eMJ^ ort ly affcer midnight s«;JliKen‘ suddenly ill, a cab - . and he was conveyed e Hotel Langham. sm Friday morning the young iicy V.woke to find her husband lying v. v r a nd cold in bed. She shook , and tried to awaken him, and BV ■ * m*-remained motionless all the qr of the reality dawned upon K -Distracted with pain and Ip ■ the hotel servants, Ml . could do nothing. A MK 6 was immediately snmMfc "fid only declare that death mm , bly due to the bursting Vessel.' Tlie grief of the was heartrending, and , hopeless for, any one, to try to h ffc ifer. The authorities were M *3ed,-wand the police paid a Jmi t visit to.the hotel. The body MKp. lemovedsj'Srom the hotel to the Hro idehce o£che Due d’Uzes, who is l )thd*-in t law of the deceased. KVk Yhon the news of the tragic event .Bt.pWd through Paris, many of the members of the American <ijJßcolony called, and inscribed their in the book. The duchess ■ >oou!d receive only a few of her most intimate friends, who, however, did , their best to console her. » Emmannle Theodore Bernard Marie d’Albert de Luynes d’Ailly, - ninth Due de Chaulnes et de Picqfuigny, was horn in Paris on April 10th, 1878. He was the son of the Due Paul de Obualnes et de Picquigny and the Duchess Sophei Augustinovna Princess© Galitzine. His father died in 1881, and his mother two years later. The Duchesse de Chaulnes, formerlyfMiss Shoutes, is not yet twenty years old. Two years ago she visited'Paris with her lather and mother. They were very well known and popnlar in the American colony* and while visiting the numerous art saloons, and attending receptions. Miss Shoutes for the first time met the young duke, who immediately took a great fancy to Nothing, however, was then said about a proposed marriage, but the duke afterwards followed the Shoutes to America, and it was not till last autumn that the engagement was announced, and they were mar- ' ried in New York on February loth last, at the; home of the bride’s parents. When he married the dead duke was practically penniless. With a portion of the wife’s dowry he had intended buying back tbe family chateau at Sable, in the department of the Sarthe. Negotiations for the renrpcbaee had been carried on for some time, and the young duke was hopeful that one day, thanks to the fortune of his American wife, he would be able to enter into the possession of the ancient domains of his forbears.