Show LAST OF FRENCH aristocracy princess de valmond claimed distinction on heia deathbed the old french aristocracy dies with me pie princess de val mont on her deathbed she was a bitter old soul who born of a long itne of uncontaminated ancestors and married to a noble of equally super fine strain had through her hus bands death in financial difficulties to marry her file children to abom anable persons of high character but with the blight of trade or indus try in their blood her last years were made mournful to her by this pitiful descent and just before her gran dlos last utterance looking with a bitter smile at her children and grandchildren in tears round her deathbed she broke silence la the following terrible reflection we have here counting on her fingers representatives of carriage making wholesale grocery confectionery coal mining and the stock exchange and all grafted on the old tree of the de Val monts new york herald |