A NOBLE PHILANTHROPIST.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue XXXII, 9 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

A NOBLE PHILANTHROPIST.

The Duchess of Galliers, whose liberalities in France are estimated at 50.000,000f., besides 50,000,000. in Italy, died on December 10, at the age of 73. I\pt father, the Marquis of Brignole Sale, was a Sardinian statesman and a descendant of the Genoese Doges. She married the Duke of Galliers, a great railway contractor in Franco and Italy, who le'ft her 220,000,000f. The Duchess devoted the interest and a considerable part of the principal to public objects. She gave 25,000,000f. for harbour improvements at Genoa, erected two hospitals there, and gave her palace and its contents for a mn«eum. In Paris she gave 40,000f. or 50,000f. a year to the poor. She presented an art museum to the city at a cost of 5,000.000., 2,000,000., for free lodging-houses for working women, 24,000,000f. for an orphanage and and asylum at Meudon, and 11,000,000f. for another hospital at Clamart. She was a staunch Catholic, and once sent 1,000,000f. to Pius IX. She lent her mansion in the Rue de Varennes to the Orleans family, and the marriage reception, which was the ph-a for thrdr banishment, was held there. On the passing of the banishment law she withdrew the use of the house from the Orleans family, and a coolnes3 is said to have ensued which led her to revoke legacies to them. Her only son has refused to bear the ducal title or to profit by his inheritance, but styles himself' Monsieur Ferrari;' and is professor in a Paris college.—European Mail.