Show LACE I E SHAWL WORN BrI BT BY QUEEN OF FRANCE IN SALT SAL T LAKE Historic Relic of Marie Antoinette Temporarily T Temp emp rari ily i in Possession n of Mrs Louis Simon of This City May Be B Sold to J Pierpont Morgan for On her return from New York last week Mrs 1115 Louis Simon wife wite of ot Louis Simon manager of the Red Cloud Min Mining Mm ln ing lug company brought with her a beau beautiful beautiful lace shawl once the property of the Marie Antoinette This shawl now belongs to the Viscount de Tardy de a descendant of ot the Baroness Bareness de tie la ha a to whom Marie Mari Antoinette gave the shawl short shortly sh rt ly 13 11 before she was guillotined The vis via viscount viscount count is a close friend of Mr and aaI Mrs JIrs Simon and he loaned d the relic to Sirs Mrs Ir Simon that she might show it to her h r friends In Salt lt Lake J Pierpont gan has tried to purchase the shawl from its present owner and it ia un understood understood Understood that it will soon be fuld id him for The shawl was made to for Louis XV of France more than ICO 10 years ago ao It is understood that It rep represents represents represents resents the life work of ten women so difficult is the stitching of the lace re requiring requiring quiring the greatest skill and patience Experts have pronounced it the finest t piece of lace in the world It is eight ht feet teet long and six feet wide Mrs Simon has with the shawl its h tory compiled and by the owner This history is on a It large lare piece of parchment containing the coat of arms and the signature of the Viscount de Tardy Tard de Its history as given on this parchment fol follows follows lows lovs History of the Marie Antoinette shawl Style Guipure Antique dAn Point de France Epoch Louis XIII The origin of this most remarkable and according to all experts able piece of lace dates bacK bacR tc to the Iho days of ot King Louis XV of France King Louis XV had it made to t I order for his beautiful queen Marie Less Lesa Lessczynski czynski All through the shawl design one can detect the letter L or 01 Interlaced meaning Louis and Lea Les czynski cz and surrounded J tb royal crests This most extraordinary shawl passed from Queen Maria LeszczynskI to Marie Marlo Antoinette When hen her royal husband Louis XVI and herself were taken to the prison of the temple which they were to leave only to ascend the scaffold the unfortunate queen taking the shawl from her royal shoulders handed it to her most faithful and be beloved beloved beloved loved lady Of f honor Baroness de do la ha whose husband was then grand chamberlain ot of the court Take this said the unfortunate queen as asa asa asa a token of ot my m affection and gy g away awa for God only knows where this revolution tion will end I feel I shall never en enter enter enter ter this palace again The Baroness de la Ia went into exile during the darkest days of the revolution thereby saving front from de destruction destruction destruction a great many valuable ob oh objects objects arts and jewels belonging to the Marie Therese of Austria Later on she gave the precious gar garment ment to her daughter who became by marriage the Marquise de The Marquise de do gave it to her daughter who became by marriage the Marquise de She left it to her daughter who by marriage became the Countess of Tar Tardy Tard Tardy dy d de She later hater gave It it to her nephew the Viscount de tie Tardy de tie deMontravel The sacred origin of the shawl ac accounts accounts accounts counts for the remarkable remark ble state of preservation It is in It is claimed it has cost the life hife work of ten girls to tomake tomake tomake make it Every piece of lace of ot that epoch and style has been destroyed and there is probably no private col collection collection collection lection nor public museum that pos possesses possesses possesses anything so rare and beautiful and of such an historic value Made in New York this fifteenth day of the month of May Ma A D one oneth th usand nine hundred and six Signed VISCOUNT DE TARDY DE MONT RAVEL |