Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1901 — Aids Franco-Russo Alliance. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Aids Franco-Russo Alliance .

Princess Catherine Youriewskl, daughter of the murdered Emperor Alexander 11. of Austria by his second wife, Princess Dolgorouka, has become officially gaged to the Diike of Chaulnes, head , of one of the junior branches of that ancient ducal French house, of which the Duke of Luynesls the chief. The Duke of Chaulnes has Russian blood in his veins, for hi s mother was that famous beauty, Princess Sophie Galitzin, who, after being treated In the most abominable manner by the family of her husband, both prior to his death, but more especially afterward, died literally of starvation in one of the most poverty - s t rlcken parts of the French capital.

Innocent of anything beyond mere coquetry and Indiscretions, compromised by the attentions of a man who had no other claim to social distinction than that? he was one of her numerous train of adihirers, she was deprived by her husband’s win of the guardianship of her children, which were taken from her by a family council. She endeavored to recover them, and was in consequence thereof indicted for attempting to kidnap them. The court, however,, prejudiced against her as a foreigner, though it was, declined to convict her on the ground that she had really done nothing to Justify her children being taken from her. Lack of funds prevented her from taking any further steps to establish her rights. The social power of her stern fanatic old mother-in-law, the Duchess of Chevreuse, was too great to admit of any one risking her anger by befriending the unfortunate young Duchess. Every door waß closed against her and without a single bad act being proved against her she died of hunger Us an outcast in a Paris slum and without seeing her children. Her eldest boy, the present Duke of Chaulnes, was about five years old when she tried to abduct him from the gloomy castle of her mother-in-law In the south of France.

PRINCESS CATHERINE YOURIEWSKI.