Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-10-22
Ssasral Satfiiisthft.
THE BOURBONS.
ORIGIN az the ETopse OF Bourbons--lts
Career IN, Franqe, spain ana AtAiy
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Or,r,m az the House OF Bour rbOns--Its
Career IN Eranqe, spain and Italy,
The House Of Orleans'
II [From the New York tribune, Oct Nj
L AS itmay now be regarded as certain
that Oueen Isabella and her children VIII
be excluded from the throne Of Spain, we
have in her expulsion another example OF
that retributive Justice which has followed
the-raee- 10 which she belongs for the,iast
eighty years. The question OF who is to
be her Csuccessor being yet unsettled, Il
W uld be premature TO say at present that
she will be the last rsigning Bourbo9. Sow
ereign; but in the meantime we give a
brief sketch of that celebratedroyal house.
the history-of which the events taking
place IN Spain invest just now with pc
cnliar interest : s6
ORIGIN OF THE BoUBBoNs.
The House ofBourbon, which has given
SO many sovereighs 10 France, Spain and
Italy. is Of French origin, deriving It's
name from the old lords of Bourbon, a
noble family, which centuries ago held
very large landed possessions In the for-
mer province of Bourbonnias, situated IN
the center of France Through the mar
riape Ola member of the Capet ian1iiywlth
a Bourbon heiress, the noble house be-
came allied TO royalty in the thirteenth
century. and about the middle of the SIX
teenth we find the first of the race on a
throne, in the person of Antoine de Bonr-
hon. King Of Navarro. Antoine was the
father OF the gallant and renowned Henry
of Navarro, who afterward became King OF
France under the title of Henry ~. With
this celebrated Prince begins the history oi
THE. BOURBON DYNASTY IN FRANCE. =
And what a history? Extending from
1889, when Henry ~. assembled the French
throne, to 1880, when Charles X. was dlly--
en- out of his kingdom by the Revolution
of July. il embraces period hlled with
events ofthe deepest interest and OF the
highest possible importance 70 the human
family. From the accession of Henry Nv.
mn 10 the time of the first French Revolu-
tion, there was no break in the royal sue
.cession of the Bourbon line in,FFanee, =
j I,onis XIII, Louis XIV, XV., and Louis
XVI, were all Bourbonsi but, taking the
first and the last OF these five kmgsas re-
cards their qualities as rulers, nothing
could present a sharper contrast than' the
character OF the first French Bourbon SOY
ereipn Henry the great and the
good" as his people delighted 10 style
him. and that OF the unfortunate
son of st. Louis, who fell by the
puillotine." Whatever the original ylr,
tues of the House might have been, by the
time that the volcanic outburst OF the rev.
olutionarx spirit first shook France, and
tumbled a dishonofed throne into tbs dust,
thesrace have become woefully degenerate
The guillotine did not, however hnlsh 1t
,in France From the stormy days Of the
Revolution, and through those OF the Con.
sulate and the Empire, the two brothers OF
the unfortunate Louis lived in. exile but
when Napoleon fell, the elder OF them was
placed on the French throne by the Allies
under the title of Louis XVIII G.son. OF
Louis XVI.,. who diSd-vhile yet child IN
1886 had been the seventeenth of that
name. Louis XVIII had no children, and
on his death, wbich took. place in 1874, he
,was succeeded by his brother, Charles \.
But experience had utterly failed to teach,
wisdom to this tyrannical ruler, whosought1
TO restore the absOlutism OF the French
monarchy, the consequence was that a. rev.
olutionary outbreak occurred in Paris In
July. 1885,. compelling the King TO flee
from France, and finally to abdicate. The
latter he did in favor OF his grandson Hen
nv, Duke of Bordeaux, but the act came too
late to save his house. Louis Philippe had
already been chosen King OF the French,
and the Bourbons weFeTto all human ap-
forever excluded from the French
throne. The only surviving descendant OF
Charles, and representative OF the alleged
claims oil the Bourbons to the French
thfone, is that same grandson, now known
as the Count de Ghau1hprd, who IS forty-
eight years of age. He is, of course, an
exile, but is regarded as the. lawful King OF
France blythe illegitimists, whose hopes Of
a restoraiion,he feeds by occasionally hold
ing leyeea in kingly style. 80 e, -
sS3 THE BogRBoNs IN SPAIN. q -
fhe establishment of the Spanish Bour-
bon dynastyoriginate with Lonis xiv. Of
France, whom the year 100 succeeded IN
placing his grandson Philip, Duke OF An
Iou, on the throne of Spain as Philip 4 4
The descendants of Philip ruled without
Interruption, until in 1908 Napoleon com
PEELED King Charles ~ to resign and nom
mated q successor to him IN the person Of
Jerome Bonaparte, the'Emperors brother.
Charles died at Rome in 1911, and after the
overthrow of Napoleon the eldest son of
Charles ascended the-Spanish tmone as
VII Dying in 1880, Ferdinand
left the crown To- his daughter isabella,
in whose favor he had aset aside by
Royal decree the >salic law forbiddlng a
female to sit upon the throne. The claims
of Isabella. were contested by Ferdinand's
brother, Don Carlos, which gave rise to
the Carlist war; but Doh aCarlos having
failed to establish his pretpnsions event
ually resigned them, and died iih 1888; His
son, the Count de Montemolin, in1860 re-
nounced all.elain1 to the throne OF Spain.
The Bourbon princes of Spain have inys-
riably exhibited all the, worst character
istics of their race Liorem6st among them /
are passion for absolute power, and
to sensual self,indulgence-and
lnder their pernicious rule every interest,
The prosperity of which constitutes the
strength and glory of nation, has dwin-
lledAaway .-
THE BoURBoNs n, ITALY. 0-e
r The late Bourbon dynhsties Of the King
lom of Naples and the Duchies Of Parma
md Piacenza were founded by Philip ",
# Spain, in the early part Of theeighteenth |
century They were overthrown for the
the first Napoleon, but after his
downfall the Bourbons were restored to the
Kingdom of the two Sicilles, which they |
continued to govern till the revolution OF
500 drove Francis H. to Gaeta as a refuge.
phis prince still lives, an exile and o muir
leref. and it does not seem probtble that |
le will ever recover bis lost possessionso
The Bourbons of Parma and Piacenza lost !
hose duchies in 1859, which were annexed |
o Sardinia, and now form part Of the
Kingdom of Italy. .S3ri ~ :
rHE x6uNeER BRANCH OF rue BOURBON PAM |
3 NY. 71r7
That branch of the Royal Family ,ofl
France known as the House Of Orleans, Is |
D youngerbranch of the Bourbon family. |
and was founded by Philip, Duke, Of Or
laaha the VoiInpar hrothpr Of I,ntiia XIV |