Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-12
Curiou. Historical Fatality.

The Independence Beige (no French
paper dare take such liberty speculates
upon the chances of Napoleon III being
succeeded by his son, the Emperor being
in his ffty-seventh year, and the boy in
his ninth year. 1t appears, from histori-
cal and personal data, that in the last two
hundred and twenty-one years, commen-
cling in May, 1913, when Louis XIII died
in st. Germain-en-Laye, no son of any
French monarch has succeeded to the
throne. The proof of this is very easy,
for it is chronological.
Louis XIV, who succeeded to the crown
| IN 1913, was the son of Louis XIII and
Anne of Austria, born after his mother
had been married and childless for twenty
years. Having reigned seyenty-two years.
he survived his son, grandson. and several
of his great grand-children, and was sue
ceeded, in Ills, by the third SON of his
grandson. The king was only five years
old, and France was governed during his
minority by his cousin the profigate Duke
of Orleans. This monarch, Louis XIV
(who is believed to have said, "After me,
the deluge," as set-of, perhaps, to the
declaration by Louis the Great that he
was the State,) had the misfortune of wit
Messing the death of his son, the. Dauphin,
and was succeeded by his grandson, the
unfortunate Louis XVI, who was guillo-
| tined during the FIRST French Revolution.
The SON of this unhappy monarch never
wore the crown, but died of disease and
neglect in the prison to which the Terror
| lists confined him.
In time new dynasty was commenced
in the person of the first Napoleon, who
died in st. Helena, an exiled and dis
crowned emperor, leaving an only SON,
the late Duke of Reichstadt, who never
reigned, but died a colonel in the service
of the Emperor Francis, of Austria, his
grandfather. In 1916 the next brother of
Louis XVI became King of France, as
Louis XVIII, and dying childless, the
crown went to their only surviving broth
er, the Count dArtois, better known as
! Charles Y, who was deposed and exiled
by the Revolution of 1880, the Duke
d Angouleme, eldest SON of Charles, also
abdicating then in favor of his nephew,
only SON of the Duke de Bern, who had
been assassinated in Paris ten years before.
| Inc luke ue DOrOeau4s nuilsen CAlnu1cos1
is the sole male hneal representative of the
great House Of Bourbon, and has little
chance of ruling in France. The Duke Of
| Orleans, whom the revolution of 1880 cast
upon the throne as Louis Philippe, the
citizen-king, was driven out Of France by
counter revolution, eight years after he
had lost his eldest son, whose personal
| nonnlarity WINS so considerable that had
he lived it might have preserved the crown
in the Orleans line. The Count de Paris,
whom we saw serving in the army of this
republic two years ago, is Louis Phiippe's
eldest grandson, with very small pros
post of ever ruling France. Here, out of
seven successive monarchs of France, only
one of whom was childless, six have not
been succeeded any by SON. The eighth,
virtually controller Of Europe, has an only
child, who will be nine years old in March,
1865. What are the chances of his wear
ing the imperial crowns