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Show ! A S'utuul Prince Alleri liriinaldi. duke of Val- I entinois. son and heir presumptive of the ! monarch of Monuco. and famous lor hid i studies of Atlantic currents, is about to tie united in the bonds of wedlock with the Uuchesse de Itichelieu, says a Paris correspondent, but the date of the mar riage will probably Ik? delayed owing to I lie precarious stale of the health of Prince Charles 111. father of the future bridegroom. The Imly in the daughter of the banker, Michel Heine, and whs married in S,'t to the Due de Richelieu. The duehesse is still a well preserved blonde, and if gifted with artistic talents tal-ents She was formerly one of the most assiduous of the literary ladies who Hocked Hock-ed lo ihe lectures of the late Professor Uaro. whose fair disciples were ineviiu- i blv doomed to the designation of "Caro- ' lines." Prince Albert (Jrimaldi, it will be re- 1 membeied. was lirst married in 1809 to a daughter of the house of Hamilton, but the marriage was annulled about nine years ago by the court of Rome. In connection with the approaching nup-j nup-j tials social genealogists point out with much unction that, by the marriage of ; the prince and tho duchess, tlie houses j of Richelieu and Mazarin will be united. Prince Albert is. in fact, the grandson of the last heiress of the duchy of Ma-i-I rin, and is also, on the maternal side, a j lineal descendant of Dunois, the young I and brave, who has been immortalized ! by Queen I lortense and Sir Walter Scott The betrothal or the happy pair Hikes i place at the chateau of Prince i'liarles of Monaco, in the department of the Aisne. where the ruler of the Mediterranean principality, who is now bereft of his Bight, has lived in retirement, for several years. Boston Herald. |