Society and Town: Salons: Dinner, the evening before last, at the home of Mme Maurice Dollfus, rue Alfred-de-Vigny. Among the guests: Duc and Duchesse d'Elchingen, Marquis and Marquise d'Albufera, Baron and Baronne Robert de Rothschild, Comte and Comtesse de Coulombiers, M. and Mme Grimprel, M. and Mme Auguste Chanu, Comte Louis-René de Gramont, etc.
Her Royal Highness Princesse Murat will be hosting, on Saturday 30
May, a grand dinner in honour of the Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyrille
and their sister-in-law and sister Princesse Béatrice de Saxe-Cobourg and
Gotha.
The dinner will be followed by a select reception and a turn of
waltzing. No further guests will be present other than those persons
already presented to the imperial hosts.
The presence is anticipated of the Grande-duchesse Vladimir and her
daughter Princesse Nicolas of Greece, who are expected today in Paris.
Le Figaro, 22 May 1908.
Letter to Louis d'Albufera, 21 or 22 May 1908: "Many thanks from the
bottom of my heart for the society accounts you had the goodness to send
me. Goodness that is all the greater because it is so tiresome for you.
I thank you once again and with all my heart. I don't know, not having
received your letter until the evening of the 21st, if the account will
be included but I think so." See Correspondance VIII, p.125
and n1 & 2.
Society and Town: Salons: A very elegant dinner, Monday the day before
yesterday, at the home of Mme Comtesse Pillet-Will, in her charming town
house on rue Pauquet. Among the guests:
Duc and Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld, Prince and Princesse Amédée de
Broglie, Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Breteuil, Marquis d'Avaray, Comte Boni
de Castellane, Vicomte Henri de Vogüé, Comte and Comtesse Frisch de Fels,
Comte de Rohan Chabot, Comte de Laborde.
Le Figaro, 27 May 1908.
Letter to Louis d'Albufera, 26 May 1908: "When I received your charming
communication I was just going to write to say that I was not duped by
your charming expression 'that you are not doing me any great service by
doing all this'. [...] As for the Murat things, if I have them the same
evening or even the next day if the next day's Gaulois and New-York
haven't put anything in, that would be just as useful for me. I'm in no
position to know whether the Murats have communicated anything from
their side. I excluded your name from the list of guests. I noticed the
name of the Marquis d'Avaray in it."
See Correspondance VIII, p.126 and n2 & 4.
Society and Town: Salons: Dinner, the day before yesterday, at the
home of Baron and Baronne André de Neuflize. Among the number of guests:
Prince and Princesse Pierre d'Arenberg, Marquis and Marquise
d'Albufera, Comte and Comtesse de Viel-Castel, Marquise de Loys-Chandieu,
Baron and baronne de Waldner,Comte and Comtesse Bertrand d'Aramon, Vicomte
François de Pâris, Comte de Palikao, M. Barclay etc.
Le Figaro, 28 May 1908.
Letter to Louis d'Albufera, 27 May 1908: "I have hardly thanked you for
one act of kindness and here's another. You have sent me a new list.
Thank you with all my heart."
Letter to Louis d'Albufera, 28 May 1908: "Don't be cross if you
haven't been put in the order you said (Neuflize) it wasn't my note that
appeared but another, sent by I don't know who (the masters of the house
perhaps). So there is a M. Barclay who wasn't in your note and M.
Palikao who was in your note but I seem to remember that I forgot it
when copying it out. I'm telling you this so that you don't think I'm
altering anything, I leave everything in the order you give me, if you
put yourself last I put you last."
See Correspondance VIII, p.128-129 and n2.
Society and Town: Salons: Grand dinner, the day before yesterday, at
the home of M. and Mme Pierre Lebaudy; among the guests:
Comte and Comtesse de Francqueville, Comte and Comtesse de Viel-Castel,
Marquis and Marquise de Ganay, Prince and Princesse Murat, Marquis and Marquise
d'Albufera, etc. etc.
Le Figaro, 29 May 1908.
Society and Town: Salons:Intimate dinner yesterday at the home of M.
and Mme Léon Fould, in their Cours-la-Reine mansion. Among the guests:
Comte, Comtesse and Mlle de Bryas; Marquis and Marquise d'Albufera,
Comte and Comtesse Bertrand d'Aramon, M. and Mme Eugène Fould, M. Maurice
Darlu, etc.
White and pink cotillon of a rare elegance, the day before yesterday,
at the home of Comtesse de La Riboisière, in her splendid mansion on
avenue Montaigne. Among the persons present:
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princesse Murat with their daughter
Princesse Marguerite, Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princesse
d'Isenburg-Burstein, Duchesse de Broglie, née d'Armaillé, and Mlle de
Broglie, Duc and Mlle Decazes, Prince and Princesse D. Radziwill with
their daughter Isabelle, the Ambassador of the United States and Mlle
White, Marquise and Mlle d'Harcourt, Duchesse and Mlle d'Albufera, Comte
and Mlle d'Alsace, Comtesse and Mle de La Rochefoucauld, Duc, Duchesse and
Mlle de Morny, Comte and Mlle H. de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Comtesse and
Mlle de Maillé, Marquise and Mlle de Saporta, Baronne and Mlle de Fleury,
Duc and Duchesse d'Audiffret-Pasquier, Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne,
Comtes and Comtesses Ch. de Caraman, de Noailles, Hélie de Durfort, de
Massa, du Bourg de Bozas, de Saint-Sauveur, Princesses Guy and Gérard de
Faucigny-Lucinge, Marquis and Marquise d'Abufera, Marquise de
Talleyrand-Périgord, Barons and Baronnes de Waldner and Ed. de Barante,
Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Kersaint etc.
Their Royal Highnesses Princes Louis and Antoine d'Orléans and
Bragance, Princes de Ligne, Alexandre de Wagram, Philippe de
Caraman-Chimay, Michel de Géorgie, Duc d'Elchingen, Comtes B. de Durfort,
Gérard de Ganay, Schoenborn, Louis and Pierre de La Rochefoucauld, F. de
Merode, Louis-René de Gramont, d'Oultremont, H. de Portes, Alexandre de
Talleyrand-Périgord, A. d'Andlau, Em. de Lambertye, Pierre de Béarn,
Marquis de Mailly-Nesle, de Pleumartin, d'Argenson, MM. Louis Decazes,
Adelin and Aymar de Liedekerke, Vicomte de Pâris, etc.
The ravishing cotillon was conducted in the American style by MM. Jean
de La Riboisière and André de Fouquières.
Le Figaro, 31 May 1908.
Letter to Louis d'Albufera, 29 May 1908: "I have just now received your
note and I thank you for that. But I have never had a M. de Durtal at my
apartment. Perhaps I shan't send in your last note, for a particular
reason that I'll tell you all about. Maybe I'll do it. I need to
consider what is best."
See Correspondance VIII, p.130-131 and n7.
Society and Town: Salons: Very fine dinner, the day before yesterday, in
the rue de Monceau at the home of Prince and Princesse Murat.
Among the guests:
The Ambassador of Spain and the Marquise del Muni, Comte and Comtesse
de Mun, Comte and Comtesse de Triquerville, Marquis and Marquise
d'Albufera, Prince and Princesse de La Tour-d'Auvergne, Baron and Baronne
Robert de Rothschild, Baron and Baronne de Waldner, Mme Edouard André,
Baron Lejeune, Baron Hubert Lejeune, M. Raiberti, etc.
The ball given the day before yesterday by Mme Pierre Lebaudy at her
town house on rue François-1er was one of the most elegant of
the season. Among the guests:
Princes Louis and Antoine d'Orléans and Bragance, Prince and Princesse
d'Isenburg-Birnstein, Princes and Princesses Murat, Guy and Rogatien de
Faucigny-Lusange, Marquis and Marquises d'Albufera, de Brantes, Comtesses
François de Franqueville, Chandon de Briailles, E. de Fitz-James, Vicomte
and Vicomtesse Léon de Janzé, Duc and Duchesse de Morny, Marquise de
Saint-Saveur, Comtes and Comtesses de Vallombrosa, Jean de Segonzac, de
Viel-Castel, de Castéjà, M. and Mme de Fouquières, Duc d'Elchingen,
Princes Louis Murat, Ph. de Caraman-Chimay, Marquis de Nédonchel and de
Massa, Comte de Hohenthal, etc.
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