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 At the time when the Comte de Paris is about 
 to pay us a visit, it is not uninteresting, even 
 setting aside all considerations of a political 
 nature, to sum up the genealogy of this descen- 
 dant of the Bourbons, who would ascend the 
 throne of France (admitting that the country 
 called him) under the title of Philippe VII. 
 
 COMTE DE CHAMBORD'S DEATH MAKES COMTE 
 DE PARIS DIRECT HEIR. 
 
 By the death of Henri Dieudonne, Duke of 
 Bordeaux, Count of Chambord,* the male line of 
 the oldest branch of the royal family of France, 
 issue of Louis XIV., became extinct. The only 
 legitimate descendants of this monarch in a di- 
 rect line, are the Bourbons of Spain and Italy ; 
 but as these princes renounced, about two hun- 
 dred years ago, their French nationality, in order 
 to become sovereigns of foreign countries, they 
 are excluded from the royal lineage of France 
 by their own acts and by the effect of the laws, 
 as completely as by the solemn declarations of 
 their ancestors, which have been appended to 
 the treaty of Utrecht, The French law^ ex- 
 pressly excludes from the privileges of French 
 
 * Born the 29th of September, 1820. Died the 24th of 
 August, 1883, [See the Chronological Table.] 
 
10 
 
 nationality all persons who have acquired a 
 foreign nationality, and the first condition re- 
 quired of the civil status of a French prince is 
 that he be French. It is therefore evident 
 that if any pretensions to the rank and condi- 
 dition of French princes were put forward in 
 their favor by blind partisans of legitimacy, 
 they would be illusory and without founda- 
 tion. 
 
 The first in order as legal successors of the 
 royal family of France are the descendants of 
 Philippe of Orleans, son of Louis XIII., and 
 brother of Louis XIV., and the first place in 
 the Bourbon family passes by right, in France, 
 to the Comte de Paris, the head of the branch 
 of Orleans. This fact was perfectly recognized 
 by the Count of Chambord when he received 
 the Comte de Paris in 1873 as his successor. 
 
II. 
 
 COUNT de PARIS' GREAT-GRANDFATHER 
 PHILIPPE-EGALITE. 
 
 THE FIRST SKELETON IN THE CLOSET. 
 
 He Votes For Death ! — His Own Death on the Guillotine. 
 
 It will suffice to retrace Id broad lioes the 
 career of the great-grandson of the Eegent, 
 
 LOUIS-PHILIPPE-JOSEPH, DUKE D'ORLEANS, 
 
 born at St. Cloud, in April, 174T, better known 
 by the name of Philippe- Egalite. Ever since 
 the year 1T71, we see him acting in opposition 
 to the court and signing the " protestation of 
 the princes " against the dissolution of parlia- 
 ments. Then rebutted by Marie-Antoinette, 
 who had for him an instinctive antipathy, he 
 takes openly, in 1776, sides against the queen, 
 whom he accuses of secretly favoring the in- 
 trigues directed against Louis XVI. Then 
 comes, after a period of idleness and dissipa- 
 tion in England, the affair known as the 
 Collier de la Reine, when he takes an active 
 part in propagating scandalous suggestions 
 which compromise Marie- Antoinette. In 1787 
 
 2a 
 
12 COMIE DE PARIS 
 
 he appears in the assembly of the notables, 
 and makes himself remarkable by the violence 
 of his opposition. Made Grand Master of Free 
 Masonry, he acquires a degree of popularity 
 which procures his election to the Etats Gene- 
 raux, and is applauded by the crowd assembled 
 to see the procession pass through the streets 
 the day previous to its opening. He is one of 
 the first members of the nobility who join the 
 deputies of the districts, and contributes to 
 the transformation of the Etats Generaux into 
 a National Assembly ; finally we find him in 
 the front rank of every revolutionary mani- 
 festation, and he is henceforth considered by 
 the court as aspiring to the crown. Incapable 
 of acting such a part, having neither sufficient 
 tact to pursue it without compromising him- 
 self, nor sufficient force of character to throw 
 off the mask, and fearing the consequences of 
 his acts, he retires to England, there to await 
 the turn of events. He had a party, attached 
 to him by reason of his great fortune, and for 
 awhile his champions talked aloud of raising 
 him to the power ; but his weakness and in- 
 capacity paralyzed their designs, and he limited 
 himself to playing a secondary role in the 
 clubs, amongst the Jacobins and the Cordeliers, 
 in the district sections, which he frequented as 
 a courtesan of popular favor, of whom he ex- 
 pected everything without being able to impose 
 a single wish. At length he was elected to the 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 13 
 
 Convention, where he took his seat on the 
 Mountain (radicals' side) and voted for the 
 king's death, accompanying his vote with the 
 following commentary : "Entirely devoted to 
 " the accomplishment of my duty and convinced 
 " that all those who have assailed or who shall 
 "assail liberty are deserving of death, I vote 
 "for death!" 
 
 This vote, far from aiding the views of 
 Philippe-Egalite, was reproached him by all 
 parties, and aroused among none more indig- 
 nation than amongst the revolutionists them 
 selves. He expiated it on the scaffold. 
 
 Brought before the revolutionary tribunal, 
 as having aspired to ascend the throne and 
 conspired with General Dumouriez, he was con- 
 demned to death. Then he requests that he 
 may be immediately executed, and the same 
 day his wish was carried out (6th Nov., 1793). 
 When he was marching to his death the 
 Abbe Lambert approached him with a respect- 
 ful countenance and full of feeling. " Egalite," 
 said he, "I come here to offer you the sacra- 
 ' ments, or, at least, the consolations of a 
 * minister of heaven. Do you wish to receive 
 ' them from a man who renders you justice 
 ' and who bears for you a sincere commisera- 
 ' tion ? If you do not desire my ministry as a 
 ' priest, can I render you as a man any ser- 
 ' vices for your wife and your family ? " 
 ' No," replied the duke ; "I thank you, but I 
 
14 COMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 " do not wish any other eye than my own on 
 " my conscience, and I have no need of any 
 '' one to help me to die as a good citizen." A 
 member of the tribunal having come to ask 
 him whether he had no revelation to make in 
 the interests of the Eepublic, " If I had known 
 " anything against the safety of the country," 
 replied he, "I would not have waited until 
 "this hour to say it. Moreover, I do not bear 
 " any resentment against the tribunal, nor even 
 "against the patriots. It is not they who 
 " wish my death, it comes from a higher 
 "authority," and he remained silent. On the 
 6th of November, 1793, at three o'clock, they 
 came to take him to the scaffold. He marched 
 with head erect, a proud look, with a firm and 
 assured step, and never exhibited as much as 
 on this supreme day the nobility and the dig- 
 nity of his rank. He had become prince 
 again through the sentiment of having to die 
 as a citizen. While passing near the Palais 
 Eoyal he regarded for a long time the windows 
 of that dwelling where he had fomented all 
 the germs of the Eevolution, tasted all the 
 disorders of his youth and cultivated all the 
 attachments of the family. The inscription, 
 "National property," chiselled over the door 
 in lieu and place of his royal escutcheon, made 
 him understand that the Eepublic had divided 
 his fortune before his death, and that this 
 palace, with its gardens, would no longer offer 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 15 
 
 protection even to his children. That image 
 of the poverty and of the proscription of his 
 race hurt him more than the axe of the 
 executioner. He bowed his head. The aspect 
 of the crowd which covered the place of the 
 Ee volution, and the roaring of the drums at 
 his approach made him hft his head lest some 
 one should ascribe his sadness to weakness. 
 In approaching the guillotine, as the priest 
 continued to press him more firmly to accept 
 the resources of his ministry, "How can I 
 " in the midst of this crowd and of this noise ? 
 "Is this the place of repentance or of cour- 
 " age ? " replied the prince. Having descended 
 from the wagon and mounted the scaffold, the 
 executioner's aides wished to take off his nar- 
 row and tight fitting boots. " No, no, he said 
 " to them with indifference, you will take 
 " them off more easily afterwards. Be quick! 
 "be quick!" He regarded without blanching 
 the glittering steel. He died with a security 
 which resembled a revelation of the future. 
 As a republican, this prince has been calumni- 
 ated by all parties ; by the royalists, because 
 he was one of the greatest fomentors of the 
 revolution ; by the republicans, because his 
 death was one of the most odious instances of 
 ingratitude of the Republic ; by the people, be- 
 cause he was a prince ; by the aristocrats, be- 
 cause he had made himself one of the people ; 
 by the factions, because he had refused to lend 
 
16 COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 his name to the alternating conspiracies against 
 the country ; by everybody, because he desired 
 to imitate that suspicious glory that is denom- 
 inated the " Heroism of Brutus." Perhaps he 
 dreamed a moment of the royal crown, voted 
 by acclamation, but he was not slow to com- 
 prehend that the revolution would crown no 
 one and that there would be dragged down 
 with the throne all pretenders and all surviv- 
 ors of royalty. He repented then. The mis- 
 fortunes of Louis the XVI. touched bim. In 
 good faith he desired to become reconciled to 
 the king and to sustain the constitution. The 
 king received him, but the insults of the cour- 
 tesans and the antipathies of Marie- Antoinette 
 repulsed him. 
 
 In January, 1792, he presented himself at 
 court to pay his respects to the king. The 
 table was laid, and all the courtiers were pres- 
 ent in large numbers. He was scarcely per- 
 ceived when the most outrageous epithets were 
 heard. "Take care of the dishes!''* they 
 cried on all sides as if they feared that poison 
 
 *Iii allusion to his gi'eat-grand father, the Eegent, who was 
 accused by the court of Louis XIV. of having poisoned the 
 Dauphin, his son, his son's wife and grandson, the four 
 having died in the same year shortly after one another. 
 Although it might be supposed that the Regent had rea- 
 sons for getting rid of those who stood between him and 
 the throne, and as he had a laboratory where he could se- 
 cretly prepare his poisons, yet history did not adopt this 
 theory, which we must likewise consider calumnious. We 
 should like to be able to say the same respecting the inces- 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 17 
 
 might have been put into them. They knocked 
 against him, trod on his feet, and compehed 
 him to retire. When descending the stau-case, 
 they spat upon his head and clothes. He left, 
 justly indignant and more irritated than ever, 
 thinking that the king and the queen had pre- 
 pared for him this humiliating scene. The 
 king had had nothing to do with it, but on the 
 other hand he did nothing to palhate it. The 
 queen was secretly flattered by this outburst 
 of her favorites and by the humiliation of her 
 enemy. 
 
 He then espoused extreme opinions as a 
 safeguard. He threw himself into them in 
 desperation. He found only shadows and the 
 injuries of the popular leaders who would not 
 pardon his name. He died without addressing 
 a reproach to that cause and as if the ingrati- 
 tude of republics was the civic crown of their 
 founders. Unhappily for his memory, he be- 
 came a judge of Louis XVI., and in a trial, 
 where nature should have rejected him by rea- 
 son of the ties of blood, he voted for death. 
 
 tuous relations he was suspected of having with his own 
 daughters. Michelet, the great historian, takes up this 
 view which was adopted by all Europe. Such we think 
 could hardly have been the case with Mile, de Valois and 
 the Abbess de Cbelles. but it is only too probable as regards 
 the Duchess de Berry, whose profligacy scandalized even 
 the corrupt court of her father, the Regent. 
 
 (For further details, which are too repugnant to be 
 given here, see the memoirs of Mme. de Caylus, Duke de 
 St. Simon, etc.) 
 
18 COMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 The people in striking him, punished him less 
 than posterity. His life, a disordered one at 
 the beginning, tragical in its endings, com- 
 menced as a scandal, was continued as a plot 
 and finished as an act of resignation. He re- 
 habilitated himself to a certain degree in the 
 eyes of the mob and in the eyes of history by 
 the firmness of his attitude before his judges, 
 and by the dignity of his resignation in the 
 face of death. But the party of legitimate 
 monarchy has never pardoned him ; his mem- 
 ory is odious among his peers, and his de- 
 scendants have been the more branded with 
 the original stigma, seeing that the son was a 
 repetition of the father, and that the role of 
 Louis-Philippe viewed in connection with 
 what followed, has been justly compared — in 
 taking into account the difference of the re- 
 spective situations— to that which Philippe- 
 Egalite played in the first revolution. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 19 
 
 III. 
 
 THE COMTE DE PARIS' GRANDFATHER. 
 liOUIS-PHILIPPE I. 
 
 SOLDIER, PROFESSOR, PHILOSOPHER, TRAVELLER 
 AND KING. 
 
 His Visit to America. — His Accession to the Tlirone. 
 His Children. 
 
 OTHER SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET. 
 
 Louis -Philippe, son of the preceding, was 
 born in Paris, at the Palais-Royal, the 6th of 
 October, 1Y73. His mother, Louis-Marie- Ade- 
 laide de Bourbon, was herself descended, 
 through her father, the Duke de Penthievre, 
 from the Count of Toulouse, legitimated son 
 of Louis XIV., and of Mme. de Montespan. 
 
 In 1785, when his father Philippe-Egalite, 
 became Duke of Orleans, the young prince, 
 according to family custom, received in his 
 turn the title of Duke of Chartres, and was ap- 
 pointed Colonel of the Dragoons. He was 
 
20 COMTE DE PARIS ; 
 
 then twelve years old. These ridiculous pro- 
 motions were, it is well known, customary 
 under the old' regime. From the commence- 
 ment of the revolution, Louis-Philippe, still a 
 j^oung man, followed the example of his father, 
 giving in, with eclat, his adhesion to the new 
 ideas. This is the usual tactic adopted by the 
 collateral branches in order to obtain popular- 
 ity. 
 
 He entered the National Guard, took for his 
 only title that of Citizen of Paris, and had 
 himself enrolled a member of the Society of 
 the Jacobins. 
 
 At the age of eighteen, he took part in the 
 victories of Jemmapes and Valmy ; but in 
 1Y93 he was proscribed, quitted the French 
 army and retired to Mons, to the headquarters 
 of the Prince of Coburg. 
 
 But he did not wish at this time to fight in 
 the ranks of foreigners against France, and, 
 like many other French immigrants, he had 
 to live by his talents and acquirements. As a 
 humble professor in Switzerland, with a salary 
 of 1,400 francs, he knew how to be content 
 with these small resources, and found, in this 
 more than modest position, the happiness of 
 the philosopher. 
 
 HIS COMING TO AMERICA. 
 
 A little later he left this country and visited, 
 nearly always on foot, the regions of the north 
 of Europe. In 1796 he came to America in 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 21 
 
 order to secure the libedy of his mother and 
 brothers, to whom the directoire refused all 
 freedom except on condition of the eldest 
 son's going far away. He settled down in 
 Philadelphia, where his brothers, the Dukes 
 of Montpensier and Beaujolais, joined him. 
 During his stay here, as also at the time of his 
 departure from Europe, he was greatly in- 
 debted to Governor Morris, United States 
 Minister in France, who generously assisted 
 him with his purse and his influence, and ren- 
 dered him all the services in his power. After 
 several long travels in the States of the Union, 
 and when the government was overturned by 
 Bonaparte, the young Duke of Orleans re- 
 turned to England and took up his abode at 
 the Castle of Twickenham. 
 
 In 1814 the fall of Napoleon terminated the 
 exile of the family of Orleans. The Duke re- 
 turned to France and allied himself with the 
 Bourbons, whose first restoration had just 
 taken place. Although creating him prince of 
 the blood, and giving him a fortune of three 
 hundred millions, Louis XVII I., nevertheless, 
 treated him with a certain degree of distrust 
 and coldness, rendered perfectly legitimate in 
 view of the role played by the father and the 
 son at the commencement of the French Eevo- 
 lution. 
 
 When the Hundred Days arrived the Duke 
 of Orleans retired to England, and returned to 
 
COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 France in the year 1807. In the midst of the 
 bloody reactions of this epoch, he main- 
 tained a prudent reserve, but without being 
 a,ble to overcome the prejudices of the Bour- 
 bon Louis XVIII., who saw in him a pos- 
 sible heir to the throne, by means of a revo- 
 lution, and who would not consent to grant 
 him the title of Royal Highness, which he ob- 
 tained later under Charles X. It seems that 
 the old king well knew his relative's character, 
 as is shown by the following incident. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 23 
 
 IV. 
 
 BIRTH OF THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX. 
 
 SHAMEFUL INSINUATIONS. 
 
 The Duchess of Berry, daughter of Francois 
 I., King of the Two Sicilies, and of Marie- 
 Clementine, Archduchess of Austria, married 
 in 1816 her cousin the Duke of Berry, nephew 
 of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and of Louis 
 XVIIL, and second son of the Count of Artois 
 (since Charles X.). She charmed the French 
 court and attached to herself the somewhat 
 fickle heart of her husband. At the age of 
 twenty-two years, Louvel's dagger made her 
 a widow. It is said that in her romantic grief 
 she cut off all her hair, of a splendid blonde 
 which poets have celebrated, and of which the 
 duke was passionately fond. For two months 
 she bore in her bosom a last and tardy scion of 
 the ancient race of Hugues Capet, and the 
 29th of September, 1S20, the duchess gave 
 birth to a posthumous child^ who received the 
 name of Henri-Charles-Ferdinand Marie-Dieu- 
 donne,* Duke of Bordeaux. 
 
 * Literally : Given by God. 
 
24 COMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 This child was saluted as a blessing, and 
 never before had the country been thrown into 
 such a state of excitement. He was the latest 
 offspring and the only hope of the dynasty. 
 All France was in ecstacy — all France, except 
 the younger branch of the house of Bourbon, 
 which lost the throne of France at the very 
 moment when it was about to occupy it. It 
 was to this family a mortification and an an- 
 noyance which it was unable to conceal. From 
 this moment one would imagine that some 
 occult power was at work to give credence to 
 the impression that the pregnancy of the 
 Duchess of Berry had been simulated, and that 
 a borrowed baby had been presented to the 
 nation as the legitimate heir of the throne. 
 Caricatures, songs, pamphlets were dissemi- 
 nated in profusion in the towns, in the suburbs, 
 in the villages, and the d'Orleans were sup- 
 posed to be the authors of this injurious propa- 
 gand. The legitimist writers were unanimous 
 in denouncing and censuring this manoeuvre. 
 Mr. H. de Lourdoueir, in his book "La Revolu- 
 tion c'est 1' Orleanisme,'' recalls the following 
 saying, which is characteristic : 
 
 "One word from this prince (the Duke of 
 " Orleans) betrays the envious passions which 
 "proximity to the throne had kindled in him. 
 "When the birth of the Duke of Bordeaux 
 was announced to him, he cried : ' Are we 
 " then never to be anything in this country ?' 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 25 
 
 ' Nothing ! He called nothing the position of 
 ' a prince of royal blood and the three hundred 
 ' millions that Louis XVIII. had given him ! 
 ' * * * Therefore, to make of this noth- 
 ' ing, something, he secretly renewed all his 
 ' practices with his father's former complices, 
 ' and he commenced this new phase of con- 
 ' spiracy by protesting in the English papers 
 ' against the birth of the legitimate heir to the 
 ' throne, basing this protestation upon infam- 
 'ous calumnies; and when the king sought 
 ' to obtain from him a disavowal of this docu- 
 ' ment published in his name, he contented 
 ' himself with a verbal denial, shielding him- 
 ' self behin.d his dignity in order to refuse a 
 'public disavowal." 
 
 The chronicles of the times are full of 
 piquant details of these scandals, held up to 
 the public gaze, not only in France but abroad. 
 Sensational articles were published in the 
 Morning Chronicle under the initials S. A. S. ; 
 and about the same time the Duke of Orleans 
 adopted towards Marshal Suchet a course 
 which greatly incensed the whole royal family. 
 "Marshal," he said, "I know ^vell your 
 ' ' loyalty. You were a witness at the accouche- 
 " ment of Mme., the Duchess of Berry ; is she 
 " really the mother of a prince ? As really as 
 "Monseigneur is the father of the Duke of 
 "Chartres." 
 These facts have not only been disseminated 
 
36 COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 by the public voice, or in the gazettes and 
 pamphlets of the period. They are related by 
 the most serious historians and given in detail 
 in the Histoire de Dix ans by Louis Blanc. 
 
 But grave as are these grievances of the 
 legitimists against the Orleanists, they are 
 nothing compared with the incidents of the 
 residence of the Duchess of Berry at the 
 Castle of Blaye, as we shall see hereafter. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 37 
 
 LOUIS-PHILIPPE'S ACCESSION TO THE 
 THRONE. 
 
 The morning after the revolution of July, 
 1830, Louis-Philippe, whom King Charles X. 
 had nominated lieutenant-general of the king- 
 dom, entered Paris with the firing of cannon 
 and the pealing of bells, and declared by a 
 proclamation that he accepted the functions to 
 which the confidence of the people called him, 
 that he adopted the tricolored emblem — that 
 of the nation — and that "the chart would 
 henceforth be a reality." The Chambers were 
 opened August 3d ; no notice was taken of the 
 act of abdication which King Charles X. had 
 signed at Rambouillet in favor of his grand- 
 sou, the Duke of Bordeaux. The crown was 
 offered to the Duke of Orleans, August 7th, 
 by a majority of 210 votes. 
 
 The Chamber of Peers came in the evening 
 to acknowledge the new sovereign. While 
 Charles X. with his family embarked at Cherb- 
 ourg to go into exile. 
 
28 COMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 VI. 
 THE SECOND SKELETON IN THE CLOSET. 
 
 THE LAST OF THE CONDES. 
 
 His Tragical Death. — Was He Murdered for His Millions? 
 
 The commencement of the new reign was 
 saddened by a tragic event, the dramatic death 
 of the Prince of Conde, who had married at 
 the age of fifteen, the Princess of Bourbon, 
 paternal aunt of Louis -PhiHppe. Last scion 
 of an illustrious family, but equally a stranger 
 to the anxieties and perils of politics, the last 
 of the Condes seemed to wish to throw into 
 the background this name, which, by the death 
 of his only son, the Duke of Enghien,* was 
 on the point of becoming extinct, after having 
 shone with such brilliancy in the last cen- 
 turies of the monarchy. Confined to his little 
 court of St. Leu or Chantilly, he indulged in 
 hunting — his sole ambition. 
 
 Deeply troubled in 1830 by the misfortunes 
 
 * Shot by Bonaparte's order in the trenches of Vin- 
 cennes, in 1804. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 29 
 
 of his family, he did not deem it opportune to 
 follow them into exile, and recognized without 
 difficulty his nephew, Louis- Philippe as king 
 of France. 
 
 The feeble old man was then entirely under 
 the influence of a woman, whose name has 
 often resounded in the polemics of the papers 
 and in the praetorium of the tribunals. She 
 was an English woman, Sophia Dawes, nee 
 Clarke, whose previous life was said to have 
 been equivocal, and whom the prince had mar- 
 ried to a gentleman of his household, Captain 
 Baron de Feucheres, a loyal soldier, whose de- 
 ceived good faith served to cover for some 
 time the scandal of their illegitimate love. 
 Endowed with a great spirit of intrigue, in- 
 telligent and gracious, greedy, imperious, in- 
 sinuating, the Baroness of Feucheres had by 
 her ascendancy, obtained the testamentary 
 gift of the domains of St. Leu and Boissy in 
 1824, and later on sev^eral donations amounting 
 to more than a million. But haunted by a 
 secret uneasiness, fearing that the death of 
 the prince would expose her to the attacks of 
 heirs spoiled by her, and to the law suits to 
 which she would be liable by reason of her 
 use of undue influence, she had for a long time 
 sought to unite her interests with those of the 
 family of Louis Philippe, so as to procure for 
 herself powerful patronage when needed. 
 
 The truth respecting the relations of this 
 
30 COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 woman with the Orleans' family, will probably 
 never be known exactly. ^Vhat is certain is, 
 that in 1827,- the pious Duchess-Marie-Amelie 
 (since Queen of France), wrote her very gracious 
 letters, encouraged her in her endeavors to have 
 the Duke d'Aumale (son of Louis-Philippe), 
 adopted by the prince as his heir, and warmly 
 promised her her help in the name of a mother's 
 gratitude. It is painful, without doubt, to see 
 so virtuous a woman associate her maternal 
 tenderness with such solicitations which, to 
 say the least, were equivocal ; but this is an 
 admitted fact. On his side, the duke followed 
 this matter up with that passionate solicitude 
 which the d'Orleans have always brought to 
 bear upon their affairs of personal interest. 
 Solicited, harassed on all sides, after long hesi- 
 tation, being weary of the struggle, the Prince 
 of Conde, finished by yielding, but not 
 without cruel anxieties. The idea of leav- 
 ing the heritage of the Condes, valued at 
 three hundred millions, to the family of a regi- 
 cide, seemed to him a forfeiture and an impiety. 
 He however, contented hiaiself at the first with 
 promises. The then Duke of Orleans had a will 
 made out by one of his lawyers, Mi-. Dupin, 
 in favor of his son, the Duke d'Aumale, which 
 it v/as proposed to ipubmit to the prince for his 
 signature. He, notwithstanding the promises 
 which had been wrested from him, always 
 sought to evade this and even considered the 
 
His GENEALOGY. 31 
 
 i)e''essity of tearing himself away from the 
 obsessions and despotism of the baroness, by 
 flight. He was assailed by fears of all sorts 
 even to forgetting himself and saying before 
 others, "when once they have secured what 
 they want, my days will run plenty of risks." 
 
 At length after a fresh and exceedingly 
 violent scene, between himself and Mme. de 
 Feucheres, he decided upon making out and 
 signing a will by which he instituted the Duke 
 d'Anmale his universal legatee, and assured to 
 the baroness a legacy of about ten millions. 
 (30th August, 1829.) 
 
 This decided action did not bring him tran- 
 quility, and he gave way more and more to his 
 puerile fears of old age and to his melancholy. 
 The revolution of July happening here upon, 
 increased the torments and troubles of the un- 
 fortunate prince. He. had again reviewed his 
 projects of flight, and he definitely fixed his 
 departure for the 3 1st of August, 1830. The 
 preparations were made- in secret, but it seems 
 impossible that (he baroness was not made 
 acquainted with them. On the evening of the 
 26th of August the prince went tranquilly to 
 bed as usual. No unwonted noise or move- 
 ment was heard during the night. The next 
 morning when his valet^ Lecomte, went to 
 knock at his master's door, he received no 
 reply. The door was shut from the inside, it 
 had to be forced open. 
 
33 COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 A frightful spectacle offered itself to the 
 view of those present. The prince was hung, 
 or rather, fastened to the window handle by 
 means of two handkerchiefs rolled one in the 
 other. The knees bent, the feet dragging on 
 the carpet, so that in the last convulsions of 
 life he had but to get on his feet to escape 
 death. This circumstance set aside all hy- 
 pothesis of suicide, and struck all those who 
 witnessed it. Public opinion was deeply 
 aroused by this tragic and mysterious event, 
 and on bringing together a series of charac- 
 teristic circumstances many persons were led 
 to give it out as their firm belief that the prince 
 had not taken away his own life, that he could 
 not have done so under such conditions, and 
 that he had been the victim of an assassina- 
 tion. The Princes of Rohan, collateral heirs, 
 began a trial against Madame de Feucheres for 
 having made use of undue influence, which, 
 however, they lost. This woman, it is need- 
 less to say, was lying under the most terrible 
 suspicions, and yet she was none the less re- 
 ceived at the court, to the great stupefaction 
 of public opinion, which called for a public 
 inquest. An enquiry was commenced in the 
 month of September, but nothing was ne- 
 glected to stifle the affair. One judge, Mr. 
 de la Huproie, showing himself resolved to 
 find out the truth, was suddenly put on the 
 retired list. The redoubtable problem was 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 33 
 
 never cleared up. It is well to remark that 
 suspicions dared even to attach themselves to 
 Louis-Philippe : Is fecit cui prodest — unjust 
 accusation, doubtless, but which the new king 
 would have nobly repelled by repudiating a 
 succession, tainted with such suspicions, 
 which however, he did not do. But also, 
 if the Baroness of Feucheres was guilty 
 of a crime, which has never been proved, 
 it must not be inferred that the rleans' family 
 have in any manner whatever been mixed up 
 in such an abominable action. But the great 
 fault of the then government was that every- 
 thing that was necessary for a loyal and 
 severe enquiry to be made was not done, so as 
 to have brought the light of day to shine upon 
 this mysterious drama. 
 
34 COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 VII. 
 
 WHERE APPEARS THE THIRD SKELETON 
 
 THE ARREST OF THE DUCHESS DE BERRY. 
 
 Her Shameful Treatment and Her Public Dishonor. 
 
 After the insurrection of 1832 the duchess 
 directed her steps towards La. Vendee, where 
 a great royahst movement, they had told her, 
 would signal her arrival. But the peasants 
 did not arm for the descendant of Henry IV. 
 Madame wandered from one retreat to another, 
 taking everywhere her hopes and her obsti- 
 nate energy, but she was compelled at length 
 to take refuge at Nantes in the mysterious 
 hiding place which her friends had prepared 
 for her. She remained there five months, 
 engaged in the most active correspondence. 
 The police were almost despairing of finding 
 her, when the secret of her retreat was sold to 
 Mr. Thiers for 500,000 francs by a converted 
 Jew (Simon Deutz), mixed up with the legiti- 
 mist plots and who possessed the princess' 
 confidence. The miserable fellow left at once 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 35 
 
 for Nantes, being both watched and aided by 
 the pohce, and obtained two interviews with 
 his confiding victim. As he came out from 
 the last one, the authorities, informed by him, 
 invest the house, but, after the most minute 
 perquisitions, find no one. The duchess and 
 her confidants had had time to hide themselves 
 in an obscure chamber which had been made 
 behind the movable fireplace, and of whose 
 existence Deutz was ignorant. They remained 
 there sixteen hours, but at length gave them- 
 selves up, being half suffocated by a fire 
 which the gendarmes had lighted for want of 
 a better occupation. Up to the present time 
 all her adventures had a certain color of 
 heroism which compensated for what there 
 was of extravagance in them. The misfor- 
 tunes of the Duchess of Berry only really com • 
 menced, however, with her captivity in the 
 Castle of Blaye, where she was sent by the 
 government and placed under the surveillance 
 of General Bugeaud. The unfortunate prin- 
 cess was destined, as the denouement of her 
 adventurous odyssey, to drink to the bottom 
 the cup of shame and bitterness, and the 
 government of her relative, Louis- Philippe, 
 avenged itself upon her in such a manner that 
 its immorality has been most justly con- 
 demned. In the month of January they 
 learned that the captive was suffering, and 
 that the symptoms of her" indisposition led to 
 
 2b 
 
36 GOMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 the supposition that she was enceinte. Doc- 
 tors were sent, and soon there remained no 
 doubt on the subject. She herself, led to it 
 by her condition, at length yielded and de- 
 clared that she had been secretly married in 
 Italy to Count Lucchesi-Palli. The govern- 
 ment, uninfluenced by the painfulness of her 
 position, instead of keeping silent and sending 
 to Palermo this conquered and henceforth 
 powerless enemy, gave to her declaration the 
 publicity of the Moniteur, employed every 
 means to obtain a public confirmation of her 
 state, and went so far as to have witnesses at 
 her confinement, of which they drew up an 
 official report. Louis-Philippe had now no 
 political advantage to gain from his unfortu- 
 nate relative, whom he sent, humiliated and 
 broken down, to Palermo. 
 
 This shameful act created enormous excite- 
 ment in France, and even those who were 
 hostile to the fallen dynasty protested with 
 profound indignation against a revelation of 
 such a nature. The reputation of General 
 Bugeaud, who was a loyal soldier, and who 
 had accepted the ungrateful mission of being 
 this woman's jailer, to certify to her shame, 
 was tarnished by it for the remainder of his 
 life ; and this act, motived by reasons of state 
 policy, has never been condoned by history. 
 How much greater reason is there, then, for 
 the strong feelings of resentment of the legiti- 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 37 
 
 mists' partisans, who will, on this account, 
 bear an eternal rancour against the d'Orleans, 
 the descendants of King Louis-Philippe, to 
 their latest generation. 
 
3S COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 VIII. 
 LOUIS-PHILIPPE'S STAR PALING. 
 
 HIS EXILE — HIS DEATH. 
 
 In the beginning of the year 1848, Louis- 
 Philippe's star was paling on the political 
 horizon, sombre clouds gathered and presaged 
 a storm, electoral and parliamentary reform 
 were loudly called for, but the Chamber with- 
 stood them. The agitation increased, and at 
 length the revolution of February broke out, 
 the Republic was proclaimed, and the king was 
 exiled with the princes, his sons. 
 
 Louis-Philippe had been a modest, peaceful, 
 and even homely king. He was wanting in 
 that grandeur which in royalty is imposing ; 
 having brought even to the throne habits of 
 economy and foresight, he had asked the 
 Chambers for doweries for all his children. 
 Monetary preoccupations have always been 
 a salient feature of the character of the d'Or- 
 leans. In Louis-Philippe's case, cupidity had 
 become a state of senile mania, a fixed idea. 
 One of the chief preoccupations of his peaceful 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 89 
 
 reign was the establishment of his children in 
 life. He married one of his daughters to the 
 King of Belgium, another one to Prince Au- 
 gust, of Saxe-Coburg ; his son Joinville to the 
 sister of the Emperor of Brazil, and although 
 his son the Duke d'Aumale was afflicted with 
 a fortune of more than three hundred millions, 
 that did not prevent him from being uneasy 
 as to their future. He wrote despondingly to 
 his Minister Guizot, in 1846 : " We shall never 
 " establish anything in France, and a day will 
 "come when my children will not even have 
 " 6read toeat." ^ Auri sacra fames ! * * *' 
 Louis-Philippe died two years after the Rev- 
 olutior, in his retreat at Claremont (England), 
 where Marie- Amelie surrounded him with the 
 most devoted attention. She herself lived to 
 an advanced age, having lost in 1851 her 
 daughter, Louise Marie, Queen of the Belgians, 
 two of her daughters-in-law and several of 
 her grandsons. She passed away peacefully in 
 the midst of her own, the 21th of March, 1866. 
 
 HIS CHILDREN. 
 
 Of his marriage with Marie- Amelie, Louis- 
 Philippe had for issue eight children — the 
 Duke of Orleans ; Louise, Queen of Belgium ; 
 Mai ie, Princess of Wurtemburg ; the Duke of 
 Nemours*; Clementine, married to the Duke 
 
 * General the Duke de Nemours, born in 1814, was 
 supposed rightly or wrongly, to be a partisan of the ideas 
 
40 COMTE^DE PARIS 
 
 of SaxeCoburg; the Prince of Joinville,t the 
 Duke d'Auma]e,:j: and the Duke of Montpen- 
 sier.§ His five sons were brought up at the 
 
 of the foriner regime, a prince of a cold and haughty dis ■ 
 position, which had caused him to be called the " dude of 
 the family," and he was far from being popular. 
 
 The 3rd of February, 1831, the Belgium Congress chose 
 him for king, but Louis-Philippe, who saw that the 
 European powers were hostile to this election, would not 
 give his son the authorization to ascend the throne of Bel- 
 gium, and followed the same line of conduct in connection 
 with the throne of Greece. 
 
 The duke fought with his brothers in Algeria, and was in 
 command of several expeditions against the Emir, the 
 Kabyles and Oran. 
 
 The D.ike de Nemours had two sons: Le Count d'Eu, 
 born in 1842, who married Dom Pedro's daughter and the 
 Duke d'Alengon, born m 1844, who was authorized in 1871, 
 to enter the French army as captain of artillery. 
 
 f The Prince of Joinville was a commander in the 
 navy and attained the post of Vice-Admiral. He dis- 
 tinguished himself in Mexico, then in Morocco, where he 
 took part in the naval attack on their posts, and also in 
 the taking of Mogador. It was the Prince of Joinville who 
 was chosen by the king to go to Saint Helena to bring 
 home the mortal remains of Napoleon. 
 
 X The Duke d' Aumale. — His exploits as a general. Of all 
 the sons of Louis-Philippe, he is the most distinguished. 
 A remarkable episode of the war of Algeria, which 
 lasted several years, was the taking of the " Smala" by 
 the Duke. This young prince had been placed in com- 
 mand of a French column which was to penetrate to the 
 interior of the desert where Abd-el-Kader, the Arab Emir 
 had encamped his family and his servants. The " Smala" 
 of Abd-el-Kader contained a numerous population, rich 
 treasures and a quantity of beasts of value. The Duke 
 d'Aumale did not hesitate to attack it although he had only 
 500 men with him. Giving the command to charge, 
 he rushes forward with his cavalry, and the troops fall like 
 a deluge in the midst of the frightened women and de- 
 fenceless Arabs. The confusion is inexpressible, the tents 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 41 
 
 College Henry IV., and received, consequently, 
 a public education. 
 
 are overturned ; the provisions, jewels, rich hangings and 
 accessories of all kinds, are scattered on all sides ; the 
 horses eat the dust, the flocks of sheep take flight; in vain the 
 sons of the desert endeavor to struggle with their impetuous 
 enemies ; nothing is able to withstand the French cavalry. 
 Masters of the position, our soldiers take more than 400 
 prisoners and carry off immense quantities of spoils (1843). 
 This day was decisive in its results ; a defeat was inflicted 
 upon the Emu- which was the first step in the direction of 
 complete submission. The exploit of the Duke d'Aumale 
 has been reproduced by the painter, Horace Vernet, in a 
 gigantic and splendid picture, which has been placed in 
 the museum of Versailles. He presided at the Court which 
 sentenced to death the traitor Bazaine. The Duke is a dis- 
 tinguished man of letters ; his literary works have obtained 
 for him a seat in the French Academy, and his social charms 
 have made him an important personality in the Parisian 
 worxd. The government has allowed him to return and to 
 reside in France. 
 
 §The Duke de Montpensier, youngest son of Louis- 
 Phillipe, born in 1824, served as his brothers in Algeria, 
 then visited the countries of the East, and married in 
 1846, the sister of the Queen of Spain, Isabella II. The 
 duke, become Infant of Spain, settled down in that 
 country after 1848, and had to take a part in all the crises 
 which agitated his adopted country. In March, 1870, he 
 killed in a duel the Prince Henri de Bourbon, brother 
 of the ex-king of Spain, Frangois d' Assise. 
 
 He had six children, two sons and four daughters, one 
 of whom married her first cousin, the Count de Paris. 
 
43 COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 IX. 
 THE COMTE DE PARIS' FATHER. 
 
 A GALLANT SOLDIER. 
 
 A Favorite of the People — His Tragic and Premature Death. 
 
 Ferdinand - Philippe -Louis-Charles - Henri, 
 Duke of Chartres, eldest son of the King Louis- 
 Philippe, was born at Palermo, the 3rd Sept., 
 1810. On his father's accession to the throne, 
 his title of Duke of Chartres was exchanged 
 for that of Duke d'Orleans, and prince of the 
 royal blood. 
 
 Sent to Lyons in 1831, to re establish order, 
 we find him endeavoring, by his extreme mod- 
 eration, to calm the popular irritation and using 
 his influence to prevent those who had been led 
 into rebellion by hunger and want, from being 
 treated with rigour. The cholera, which 
 ravaged Paris in 1832, furnished him with a 
 fresh opportunity for distinguishing himself. 
 He visited the hospitals when the scourge was 
 at its worst and received on this occasion a 
 medal from the Municipal Council of Paris. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 43 
 
 At the end of this same year, ou the outbreak 
 of the war with Belgium, he commanded the 
 brigade of the Vanguard, assisted at the oper- 
 ations which led to the taking of Antwerp, and 
 fought bravely during the attack of St. Laurent. 
 In 1835, the Duke went to Africa, was wounded 
 at the battle of Habrah, fell seriously ill from 
 the effects of long sustained fatigues, and re- 
 turned to France. In 1836, when traveling in 
 Germany, he met the Princess of Mecklenburg, 
 whom he married, in Paris, the 30th May, 1837. 
 On the occasion of the fetes given in honor of 
 the event, many persons were crushed to death 
 on the Champ de Mars. On hearing of these 
 misfortunes. Princess Helena cried out, " It is 
 the same as at the fetes of Louis XYI. What 
 a frightful omen!" During one of the sittings 
 of the Chamber of Peers, the Marquis of Dreux- 
 Breze, having blamed the Duke for having 
 married a protestant, he replied in these re- 
 markable words: "I see inscribed in our fun- 
 damental code, in the first line, religious liberty 
 as the most precious of all the liberties granted 
 to the French; I do not understand why the 
 Koyal Family alone should be excluded from 
 this benefit, which is perfectly in harmony 
 with the reigning sentiments of French so- 
 ciety ." 
 
 In 1839 the Duke of Orleans returned to Al- 
 geria, assumed the command of a division, and 
 crossed the "portes de fer," hitherto deemed un- 
 
44 COMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 passable. Next year, accompanied by his 
 young brother, the Duke d'Aumale, he con- 
 ducted his las.t and most brilHant campaign. 
 The courage which he showed at the battles of 
 Affroum, 1' Oued Ger, the Bois des Oliviers, at 
 the taking of Medeah, and especially at that of 
 Tenia de Mauzaia, when he commanded in 
 person the attacking column, do him the great- 
 est honor. 
 
 Shortly afterwards he bade adieu to the army 
 of Africa and returned to Paris, where he or- 
 ganized the Chasseurs a Pied de Vincennes. 
 He was returning from the waters of Plom- 
 bieres, where he had taken his wife, and was 
 arranging to join the camp cf St Omer, when, 
 going to Neuilly to bid good-bye to his family, the 
 horses of his carriage darted off in front of the 
 Porte-Maillot. Was it that he wished to jump 
 out, or that he was thrown out by a shock, he 
 fell head foremost on the pavement, and rup- 
 tured the vertebral column. Borne to a neigh- 
 boring house, he expired a few moments after, 
 the 13th July, 1842. After having been ex- 
 posed five days in Notre-Dame, his body was 
 transported to the family vault at Dreux. 
 
 He possessed every quality necessary to se- 
 duce the masses and would probably have 
 made a popular king, and have saved the 
 d'Orleans monarchy in 1848, had not this 
 tragic event carried him off so unfort- 
 unately. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 45 
 
 Of his marriage with Princess Helena he 
 had two sons. 
 
 LOUIS-PHILIPPE, ALBERT D'ORLEANS, 
 COAJTE DE PARIS, 
 
 born in Paris the 24th of August, 1838, and 
 R obert-Philippe -Louis-Eugene Ferdinand, 
 
 Duke of Chartres,* 
 born in Paris, in 1840. 
 
 * The Duke of Chartres married — June 11th, 1863, at 
 Kingston, on Thames, — Frangoise, the daughter of his 
 uncle, the Prince of Joinville, following in this the exam- 
 ple set by his brother, the Comte de Paris. It is evident 
 that these inter-marriages were entered into with the ob- 
 ject of retaining in the family their immense fortunes. 
 
 Of their marriage they had issue : 
 
 Marie-Amelie FranQoise-Helene, born in 1865 and mar- 
 ried in 1885 to Waldemar, Prince of Denmark. 
 
 Henri, born in 1867. 
 
 Marguerite, bom in 1 869. 
 
 Jean-Pierre-Clemence- Marie, born in 1874. 
 
46 COMTE DE PARIS 
 
 X. 
 
 THE COMTE DE PARIS. 
 
 His Childhood. — His Escape From the Revolution. — His 
 Youth and Travels. — Soldier, Author, and Linguist. 
 
 HE ENTERS THE U. S. ARMY. 
 
 His Sudden Departure. — His Marriage. — His Conspiracies 
 Against the French Republic. — His Banishment. 
 
 At the time of the revolution, of February, 
 1848, the Comte de Paris was barely ten years 
 old. His childhood was spent abroad, in Ger- 
 many, England, Spain and America, but the 
 remembrance of the 24th of February has 
 never, he says, been effaced from his memory. 
 
 On the morning of the 23d, they came to in- 
 form theComte de Paris that the masters who 
 ought to have given him his lessons could not 
 come. Not being old enough to understand 
 exactly all that was taking place, he was never- 
 theless able to take note of the preoccupa- 
 tions of his mother and of the other persons 
 who were about. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 47 
 
 The 2-lth,vvhen the Duchess of Orleans came 
 to kiss her son, she said to him, "My dear 
 child, you must know that grave events are 
 taking' place ; you cannot understand them ; 
 but pray to God and he will, perhaps, turn 
 aside the great misfortunes with which France 
 is threatened." 
 
 In the morning Mr. Adolphe Eegnier, the 
 young prince's tutor, since a member of the 
 Institute, gave him, notwithstanding, his les- 
 sons as usual, but they had soon to leave the 
 room which looked out on the Rue de Eivoli ; 
 they expected any moment a fight ; the prince 
 went to the apartments looking on to the 
 garden. 
 
 As he was playing under the eyes of his 
 tutor the door opened suddenly and the Duch- 
 ess of Orleans entered, saying to Mr. Regnier, 
 " It is not a riot, it is a revolution! " The child 
 had too often heard the previous revolutions 
 talked about, not to understand already the 
 significance of the word. 
 
 The Duchess of Orleaos, seeing the turn that 
 events were taking, went in to the queen ; she 
 began to feel very uneasy for her sou, and 
 resolved not to be separated from him, wished 
 to keep him near her. Mr. Regnier had fol- 
 lowed her ; the child and his tutor were put in 
 the bedroom which separated Louis- Philippe's 
 cabinet from that of the queen, Marie- Amelie. 
 There, with a certain degree of sang-iroid, the 
 
48 COMTE DE PAEIS 
 
 tutor, not to allow his pupil to give way to 
 vague uneasiness, tried to continue the lesson 
 already commenced. 
 
 The prince was then translating the Epitome 
 Historice Sacrw, of Lhomond ; he has never 
 forgotten that they had reached that portion of 
 the history of the Maccabees where the young 
 heroes perished in a caldron of boiling oil. Ihe 
 image of this caldron was for a long time 
 mixed up in his imagination with the real 
 scenes in which he took a part. 
 
 Soon they came to inform the king that the 
 troops assembled on the Place du Carrousel 
 wished to see him. Louis-Philippe went out, 
 and the child went to the window to see his 
 grandfather pass them in review. Emotion 
 had also taken possession of him, and he was 
 visibly impressed by the cries of "Long live the 
 king!" which were still heard on all sides. He 
 was also much struck at hearing the name of 
 Marshal Bugeaud frequently pronounced. 
 
 Time passes on ; the king was still in the 
 courtyard ; then all at once the door of the 
 cabinet opens suddenly, and Louis Philippe, 
 standing erect in the doorway, says, with a 
 firm, serious voice, "lam going to abdicate." 
 
 This word pierced the Comte de Paris' mind 
 like a flash of lightning, and with an energy 
 beyond his years, he ran to his tutor, saying, 
 "No, it is impossible." He was naturally 
 unable to take into account the terrible 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 49 
 
 responsibilities which weigh upon modern 
 royalty ; but he understood at once that if his 
 grandfather abdicated they would put him in 
 his place on a gilded throne, he would have to 
 figure in all the official ceremonies, the eyes of 
 all would be turned upon him ; this idea was 
 insupportable to him. 
 
 Nevertheless the royal chamber became de- 
 serted. Here and there, on the Place du 
 Carousel, guns were fired. The young prince 
 is no longer allowed to look out of the window. 
 The Duchess of Orleans goes to her apart- 
 ments ; she finds in the Gallery de la Paix a 
 few members of the household who join her. 
 
 She descends to the pavilion de Marsan, 
 where a few political men are assembled, 
 amongst others Mr. Dupin and Admiral 
 Baudin, who urge her to go to the Chamber 
 of Deputies. She remains but a moment, and 
 leaves by the Court du Carousel. 
 
 The court is empty ; one hears every now 
 and then a gun fired, as if at random, at the 
 Tuilleries ; they pass on under the pavilion de 
 1' Horloge, and thus abandon the Palace of 
 the Tuilleries. 
 
 ^Vhile crossing its beautiful garden the 
 count hears it said that they will find car- 
 riages on the Place de la Concorde, and that 
 they will take them and go for a drive around 
 Paris, and thus save the situation. This ad- 
 vice had been given by some political men 
 
50 COMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 who had penetrated into the garden. At the 
 railings of' the drawbridge they stop ; the car- 
 riages are not there, and a compact and sway- 
 ing mob invades the space occupied by a 
 battery of artillery, whose movements it 
 paralyzes. 
 
 The commandant places himself at the dis- 
 posal of the duchess. Mr, Adolphe Regnier 
 recognizes in the officer one of his intimate 
 friends, and names him to his pupil. It was 
 Tiby, chief of squadron, who, in later years, 
 as a retired colonel, was killed in the Rue de 
 la Paix by the balls of the Commune, on the 
 day of the pacific manifestation. 
 
 At length the Duchess of Orleans is informed 
 that the Duke of Nemours will accompany her 
 and her sons to the Chamber of Deputies. He 
 arrives at the same time, and the group, which 
 he has joined at the garden gate, wends its 
 way through the crowd and reaches the Palais- 
 Bourbon. 
 
 The Comte de Paris had been present for the 
 first time, a few days previously, at the open- 
 ing of the Chambers. The aspect of the as- 
 sembly was therefore -not new to him. The 
 deputies were in session, and the hall in 
 which their deliberations had been held had 
 not yet been invaded. The Duchess of Or- 
 leans and her sons entered and took their 
 places in that part of the hall reserved for: 
 deputies. . 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 51 
 
 At the first the Comte de Paris was unable 
 to clearly understand what was going on. He 
 was seated near his mother, at the foot of the 
 bureau on the left. After having heard from 
 that position the first speakers who succeeded 
 each other at the tribune, the duchess had to 
 move up to one of the highest seats in the 
 centre. Soon the count heard some one say 
 to his mother : "It is Mr. Marie who is speak- 
 ing." This name, which seemed to him to be 
 a woman's, struck him, and he will never 
 forget it. 
 
 He looks about him and smiles at Mr. de 
 Rerausat, seated at his side, then, a few 
 moments after, he sees someone coming 
 towards them, whose shock of hair has ever 
 remained in his young memory as one of the 
 most remarkable things which he saw at this 
 sitting; it was Mr. Cremieux, a future member 
 of the National Defense in 18T0-Y1, who wrote 
 a few words on a sheet of paper and handed it 
 to the duchess, saying : ''Here are the words 
 which I advise you to address to the Chamber." 
 
 The Comte de Paris no longer paid any at- 
 tention to what was said at the tribune, he 
 was too much occupied with what was going 
 on around him. His mother, however, was 
 surrounded by many of the deputies, some ad- 
 vising her to speak, and others, on the con- 
 trary to wait. 
 
 It was then that the boy heard distinctly the 
 
52 COMTE DE PARIS : 
 
 violent blows which shook the. doors of the 
 hall. The rioters howl, the doors burst open, 
 the crowd rushes into the hall, the tumult is 
 terrible. The duchess and her sons are in 
 danger. Mr. de Remusat places himself in 
 front of the Comte de Paris to shield his body. 
 As the danger is imminent, they decide the 
 duchess to leave the Chamber ; she fears for 
 the life of her children and consents to go out 
 with them by one of the relief passages. But 
 in this confusion, the Comte de Paris and the 
 Duke de Chartres are pushed or rather dragged 
 by the crowd, some threatening, some en- 
 deavouring to protect them. They stop at last 
 at a distant room of the president's, situated 
 on the ground floor, where the invaders have 
 not penetrated. There they look to see that 
 none are missing ; the duchess of Orleans finds 
 only her eldest son. Mr. Regnier, in the con- 
 fused and hurried exit, had been for a moment 
 separated from him, but was enabled almost 
 immediately to join him again and brought 
 him to his mother. 
 
 The Duke de Chartres had also been borne 
 away in another direction ; and as the duchess, 
 anxious, wished to turn back, they assure her 
 that the young prince is safe. The duke had been, 
 in effect knocked down by the crowd ; but Mr. 
 Lipman, brother of one of the sergeants of the 
 Chamber, picked him up and carried him away 
 to the apartment which his brother occupied 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 53 
 
 in the dependencies of the palace and where 
 abeady a few moments previously, he had 
 offered shelter to Mr. Kegnier and his ycungest 
 son. 
 
 But they are still too near ; the tide ad- 
 vances, they are again obliged to move ; they 
 descend into the garden and go out by the 
 Eue de Lille. There they find a cab ; the 
 Duchess of Orleans gets in with her sons ; 
 two national guards, Messrs. L. Martinet and 
 David, follow them and offer to protect her ; 
 the vehicle takes the direction of the Hotel 
 des Invalides, where the fugitives take shelter 
 in a room, in which they find Marshal Molitor, 
 and then they part for their long exile. 
 
 Brought up in the little town of Eisenach — 
 where his mother had taken up her residence — 
 and after completing his literary studies, the 
 count set himself seriously to the study 
 of the applied sciences. 
 
 ^ Numerous excursions in Europe made him 
 familiar with the ideas and languages of 
 several foreign countries, specially of England, 
 where his paternal relatives now resided. 
 
 After making, with his brother, a long voy- 
 age in the East, the comte wrote a relation of 
 his adventures, which was published under 
 the title ^'Damascus and Lebanon " (London, 
 1861.) 
 
 The Comte de Paris had been residing some 
 time in England when the War of Secession 
 
54 COMTE DB PARIS : 
 
 broke out in the United States. He embarked 
 with his brother, the Duke de Chartres, for 
 the New World, and, as he wished to draw 
 attention to himself, he entered the Federal 
 army as a volunteer. Both were at once 
 nominated staff-captains (28fth September, 
 1861), and were attached as aides-de-camp to 
 McClellan, then at the head of the army of 
 the Potomac; made under his orders a fruit- 
 less campaign against Eichmond, assisted at 
 the siege of York-Town, at the battles of 
 Williamsburg, Fair- Oaks, Gaine's Mill, at the 
 retreat of the Federal army on the James 
 Eiver. Then, for reasons variously appre- 
 ciated, they both left the Federal army and 
 returned to Europe in 1863. 
 
 Married the 30th of May, 1864, to Princesse 
 Marie-Isabella, daughter of his uncle, the 
 Duke de Montpensier, the Comte de Paris has 
 two sons and four daughters.* The eldest, 
 son and heir, 
 
 PRINCE LOUIS-PHILIPPE-ROBERT d'ORLEANS, 
 
 Born at York House, near Twickenham, the 
 6th February, 1869, is the same who, on attain- 
 iug his majority, was recently condemned to 
 two years' imprisonment for infringing the 
 
 * Marie-Amelie-Helene, born in 1865, married in 1686 to 
 Charles, Crown Prince, and to-day King of Portugal, 
 Helene-Louise-Henriette, born in 1871, 
 Marie-Isabelle, born in 1878, 
 Louise-Frangoise, born in 1882, and 
 Ferdinand-Fransois, born in 1884, 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 55 
 
 laws of exile, his sentence being, however, re- 
 mitted by President Carnot two months after- 
 wards. 
 
 When war was declared against Prussia the 
 Comte de Paris, as well as the other princes 
 of his family, asked permission to enter the 
 French army in any grade whatsoever. Their 
 application was rejected, the 11th August, by 
 the legislative body. 
 
 Eeturning to France after the abrogation of 
 the laws of exile, the Comte de Paris held 
 himself at first aloof from all politics, but, un- 
 fortunately for himself, he did not continue in 
 this wise course. 
 
 His father, the Duke d'Orleans, had written 
 in his will : " Whether the Comte de Paris be 
 "king or remain an unknown and obscure 
 " defender of a cause to which we all belong, 
 " he must above all be a man of his times and 
 " of the nation, the impassioned and exclusive 
 " servitor of France and of the Revolution." 
 
 Forgetful of the paternal wishes, the Comte 
 de Paris, following up a series of preparatory 
 negociations which lasted some months, at a 
 time when the monarchical party, after having 
 overthrown Thiers, seemed completely master 
 of the situation, and had inaugurated against 
 the Republic and the Republicans the Govern- 
 ment of Combat, the Comte de Paris went to 
 Frohsdorf the 5th August, 18Y3, to make his 
 submission, saying to the Count of Chambord, 
 
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 who, as is well known, had no offspring : '' I 
 " come to pay you a visit which has been for 
 " a long time on my mind . I salute in you, in 
 "the name of' all the members of my family 
 " and in my own name, not only the chief of 
 " our house, but also the only representative 
 " of monarchical principles in France." 
 
 By this step the Comte de Paris, who had 
 become the presumptive heir of the monarchy 
 of divine right, aimed a blow at the Orleanist 
 party, which considered him its chief. The 
 Eepublic has made the mistake of showing 
 itself too generous to him and to his family. 
 Forty millions, received immediately after the 
 Franco-Prussian War, and high grades in the 
 army could not satisfy their inordinate ambi- 
 tion. They began to conspire. Then the 
 Eepublic finished where it should have 
 begun. In '83 it voted the laws of exile 
 against all the heirs of the families who 
 had reigned in France, and took from 
 them their grades in the army, to which they 
 had no right whatsoever. 
 
 Physically, the Comte de Paris is powerful 
 and quite tall, very blond and becoming now 
 gray ; he has the essentially German type. 
 
 Morally, he is an intelligent man. • Besides 
 his history of the War of Secession, he has 
 published a certain number of volumes which 
 have met with fair success. 
 
HIS GENEALOGY. 67 
 
 XI. 
 
 [Conclusion.] 
 
 FRENCH OPINION OF THE PRINCES. 
 
 In France the Princes of Orleans are neither 
 beloved nor hated. Apart from any personal 
 esteem which they may inspire, indifference is 
 the only sentiment which they call forth. 
 
 Politically speaking, love of money has killed 
 them. After the Franco-German War, when 
 France, still bleeding, mutilated and crushed, 
 was almost too weak to raise herself from 
 beneath the terribly heavy burden of the fifteen 
 billions imposed upon her by her disasters, the 
 princes, with a heartless indifference to her 
 sufferings, found means through the then 
 existing reactionary government to wrest from 
 the National Treasury forty millions, which 
 they unhesitatingly appropriated. To say the 
 least, the moment was ill chosen, and everyone 
 must feel that it would have been an act of 
 generous patriotism on their part had they 
 abandoned that sum for the benefit of their 
 unhappy country. But they thought other- 
 
58 COMTE DE PARIS : HIS GENEALOGY. 
 
 wise. France, therefore, paid them, but at the 
 same time repudiated them, and she is to day 
 no more royahst than Bonapartist. Nothing 
 remains of its' former monarchical constitution. 
 For the last twenty years that she governs 
 herself, tranquilly, without evil passions, with- 
 out injurious provocations, without any kind 
 of fanaticism, she shows to the world that she 
 is perfectly capable of directing her course, 
 without tutors, without protectors, without 
 the aid of any authority whatsoever. She has 
 resolved to remain irrevocably attached to 
 democratic principles and to tolerate no longer 
 any masters, should they declare themselves 
 sent by God or pretend to be the elect of the 
 people ; and, if peradventure the noble count 
 should ever manifest the pretension to com- 
 mand France under the title of Philippe VII., 
 she would undoubtedly answer him with those 
 so well deserved words which Elizabeth sent 
 to his Homonyme, Philippe II : " Ad grcecas, 
 bone rex, fiant mandata calendas. * *" 
 
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