The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-15
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origin of Inc House OF BourBons--Its
Career IN France, spain and lthly--
The House OF Orleans.

Career IN France, spain ana lthly--
The House OF Orleans.
From the New York tribune. OCT. IL
As il may now he regarded as certain
that Queen Isabella and her children will
be excluded from the throne of Spain, we
have IN her expnlsien another example Of
that retributive Justice which has followed
the ace 10 which she belongs for the last
eighty years. The question Of who IS TO
be her successor being yet unsettled, 1t
W yuld be premature TO say ut present that
she will be the last reigning Bourbon SOW
eroign; but in the meantime we give q
brief sketch of That celebrated royal house,
the history Of which the events taking
place in Spain invest Just now with q pc
culiar interest.
ORIGIN OF rHE BouRBoNs.
The House ofBourbon. which has given
so many sovereigns TO France, Spain and
Italy, is Of French origin, deriving ITS
name from the old lords of Bourbon, a
noble family, which centuries ago held
very large landed possessions in the for
mer province of B~outbonuias, situated in
the center of France. Through the mar
tisge of n member Of the Capet family with
n 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 Bour-
bon. King Of Navarro. Antoine was the
father Of the gallant aud renowned Henry
of Navarro, who aiterward became King OF
France under the title of Henry ". With
this celebrated Prince begins the history of
THE BOURBON DYNASTY IN A
And what a history Extending from
1889, when Henry ". asceuded the French
throne, to 1880, when Charles y. was div
en- out Of his kingdom by the Revolution
Of July, H. embraces a period filled with
events Of the deepest interest and OF the
higheA possible importance 10 tue human
family. From the accession of Henry ".
up to the time Of the first French RevOlu-
ton. there was no break in the royal sue
cession of tue Bourbon line IN France
Louis Kill, Louis NV, Nv, and Louis
XVI. were all BourbOns; but, taking the
first and the last Of these five kings as re-
CARDS their qualities as rulers, nothing
could present n sharper contrast than the
character of the first French Bourbon Sow
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 vir-
tues of the House might have been, by the
time that the volcanic ouiburst Of the rev
! OllllODNIN .hDlllN hAnN nhbbh ANhN'f WV
tumbled a dishonored throne into this dust,
the'mce have become w~oetully degenerate.
The puillotine did not, however, finish II
in France. From the stormy days of the
Revolution, and through those of the Con
sulate and the Empire, the two brothom Of
the unfortunate Louis lived Ia exile; but,
when Napoleon fell, the elder Of them WAS
placed on the French throne by the Allies
under the title Of Louis XVIII a son OF
Louis XVI, who did while yet q child ia
1895, bad been the seventeenth OF that
name. Louis XVIII had no children, aud
on his death, which took place IN 1874, he
was succeeded by his brother, Charles \.
But experience had utterly failed TO teach
wisdom TO this t%yrannical ruler, who sought
to restore the absolutism OF the French
monarchy the consequence was that n rev.
olutionary outbreal, occurred in Paris in
July, 1880. compelling the King TO dee
tom France, and finally 10 abdicnte. The
latter he did in favor of his grandson, Hen
~, Duke of Bordeaux, but tho act came too
late to save his house. Louis Philippe had
already been chosen King Of the French,
and the Bourbons were, TO all human APP
peamnce, forever excluded from the French
throne. The only surviving descendant of
Charles, aud representative Of the alleged
claims of the Bourbons TO the French
throne, is that same grandson now known
as the Count de Chambord, who is forty
eight years Of age. lie is, OF course, an
exile, but IN regarded as the lawful King Of
France by the ~illegihmists, whose hopes OF
IA restoration he feeds by occasionally hold
ing levees in kingly style.
THE BouRBoSs IN SPAIN.
The establishment Of tho Spanish Bour-
bon dynasty originated with Louis NV. Of
France, who in the year 1900 succeeded in
placing his grandson Philip, Duke of An
iou, on the Throne Of Spain as Philip l.
The descendants of Philip ruled without
interruption, until in 1908 Napoleon com
PEELED King Charles ", TO resign aud nom
mated a successor TO him IN the person of
Jerome Bouaparte, the Emperor's brother
Charles died AT Rome in 1871, and after the
overthrow of Napoleon the eldest son of
Charles assembled the Spanish throne as
Ferdinand VII Dying in 1880, Ferdinand
LETT the crown TO his daughter Isabella,
in whose favor he had set aside by
ROYAL decree the sale law %forbidding "A
female 10 sit upon the throne. The claims
OF Isabella We're contested by Ferdinand's
brother, Don Carlos, which gave rise TO
the Carlist war, but Don Carlos having
failed to establish his p]retensions event
ually resigned them, and died in 1885. His
son, the Count do AlOnteInOln, IN 1860 re-
bounced all claim TO the throne Of Spain.
The Bourbon princes of Spain have iuya-
riably exhibited all the worst character
lstics OF their race foremost among them
are n passion for absolute power, aud a
proneness 10 sensual seli-indulgence-and
under then pernicious rule every interest,
the prosperity Of which constitutes the
strength and glory Of u nation, has dwin-
died away.
THE BoURBoNs IN. ITALY.
The late Bourbon dynastes Of the King
dom OF Naples aud the Dnchies of Parma
aud PiacenZa were founded by Philip v,
OF Spain, IN the early part Of the eighteenth
century, They We're overthrow for the
by the FIRST Napoleon, but after his
downfall the Bourbons were restored 10 the
Kingdom of the two Sicihes. which they
continued 10 govern till the revolution Of
1860 drove Francis III. TO Gaeta as refuge.
This prince still lives, an exile and n muir
derer, and II does not seem probable that
he will ever recover his lost possessions.
The BonrbOns Of Parma and PiAcenzu lost
those duchies in 1859, which were annexed
70 Sardinia, aud now form a part Of the
Kingdom Of Italy,
rHf YOUNGER BRANCH OF THE BOURBON PAM
lily,
That branch Of the Royal Family OF
Franco known AK the House Of Orleans, is
a Younger branch of the Bourbon family
aud was founded by Philip, Duke of Or
leans, the younger brother of Louis XIV
From him descended that Duke If Orleans
who played 80 remarkable a part i'm tbe
FIRST French Revolution, M Citizen Epalite.
and met 80 tragical Il fate, perishing byt the
guilotins in 1898, Louis Philippe, chosen
King Of the French in the Revolution of
July, 1880, was the son of Egalite; and the
Count Of Paris, grandson Of Louis Philippe,