The romance of Monaco and its rulers . , does she possess the disputed virtues,her life at Monaco must be uncongenial to her—must at any rate have been so in the time of whichhe writes (1900). Around her was then a Court which polite speech hesitates to characterise. Dumonthesitates not : I refer the curious reader to his vividpages. Of M. and Mme. Edmond Blanc, of PrinceConstantin Radziwill and his Princess {nee LouiseBlanc), of Prince Roland Bonaparte— M. Ruflin,as Dumont styles him by preference, with the in-evitable gibe at his legitimacy—married in 1880to pretty, wistful-fac
The romance of Monaco and its rulers . , does she possess the disputed virtues,her life at Monaco must be uncongenial to her—must at any rate have been so in the time of whichhe writes (1900). Around her was then a Court which polite speech hesitates to characterise. Dumonthesitates not : I refer the curious reader to his vividpages. Of M. and Mme. Edmond Blanc, of PrinceConstantin Radziwill and his Princess {nee LouiseBlanc), of Prince Roland Bonaparte— M. Ruflin,as Dumont styles him by preference, with the in-evitable gibe at his legitimacy—married in 1880to pretty, wistful-faced little Marie Blanc, who diedin suspicious circumstances two years later ... ofthis nobility and its hangers-on, he has nastinessupon nastiness to narrate. Roland Bonaparte is the son of Prince Pierre,the black sheep of that far from snowy family—Pierre, married to Justine Ruflin, a plumbersdaughter, after many years of unmarried life to-gether. Princess Pierre Bonaparte, come overwith her husband to pick up money in London,. Alices Influence 339 opened a milliners shop in Bond Street in did not prosper; she was more amused bytelling card-fortunes than by selling hats. Rolandwas to be Emperor of the French some day ; mean-while Princess Pierre signed agreements with forgednames, and had finally to leave England at mid-night in a cart driven by her son—for at all therailway stations policemen were eagerly looking outfor her. . This lady would not, one hopes andindeed believes, have made precisely a congenialcompanion for the Princess of Monaco. Alice Heine was credited, in the earlier days ofher marriage, with the desire of shutting the tablesat Monte-Carlo when the actual concession shouldexpire in 1913. On the contrary, in January 1898,the concession was by her influence (to quotede Jolans) extended for fifty years from the Augustof 1898, on the following conditions : 1. Ten millions to be paid immediately to the Prince. 2. Fifteen millions to be paid in 1
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