, 1869-05-23
LOUIS XVII


s.. NarEaIes, In the Fanbourg St Antoine. on
tnat "a efcn'nE II VAS eald y Paris that tne
Grours Of persons r.o5d "a sea this hur,oe funcFI
rash On ita way. 1nd!vtduals ioofc1 Or comment
s. opon AeeordinE 70 the.r political feelings.
FenteurttnHet. Other wcueu, who thonSn1 ot
the ehiid ana hls mother more th4n Of the 1Aulrs
o. hts fathers government, shook their heads a.
pnuphin :" The body wzl buried IN the common
trench o. The Cemetery, but The e1net Rot,
nnmaTksd udi1s rss roneqaeuay forgotten, IN. ana
eecond that II was secretly intalred al C1auAre.
TO 1nlnEs At, however certain The paaphtn
rrt.s Lou, the Eighteenth gathered few bones
from fnt Unrestricted trench OF the NaglAen
churchyatd, in which The botltes OF Louis yhe sI.
them IN noainiu, pomp 10 st. bepis, = the =
mains Of that rutortuuaie couple. st. MarEaress
would have yielded charne!-housc OF homes; bul
\ wooa naye neen tnp1s.tols to d,ttniEussa
Eighteenth let the matter drop. The dust Of the
LILLE 'tktng could Eot he conveyed 10 St- Denis
II Yes somewhere IN The de1uocEatie quarter Of St
Well notwithstanding The. thoroughly nttcs.ed
fAct that tlsc Dauph!n never left The Temple after
he entered It prisoner I'LL his DEATH AMI that the
chuEchsard Of St NaEcaze.s, va-tety Of asHirtn1
persopages have denied both facta- Elca os tnesc
claimed TO be the rue Prince, anA each looked Oh
s.Itsns 1; 10 nass amse,i On for ihe French Eord
Tot aIi worm eh1onic0ns. some oi them nave
Ie her, n. t1 ,n. fne1 ,h sa' Amsns a
Who edit this book They, perhaps MIN II y
to.nt Inheritance ot sne zo{altr WHICH taey dcnFe
rom their supposed ftnE1y sire. Some Ea5seru
lord had-wny should not frcace have TWO also.
II she resolve [and what may rnt he resolved In
Fsaneel Oh restoration Of the real Simon fures
eena rt md M 81 'os ofhe9 she fsI III nsno
Gulllsune might b. "noi de France" Aad
.Augusie "Rot de Savnre." IN tbs WAY they
might stnsl; II tss aaEae nosseay ,nd ne u peace
The successive Prinee-Irctenders Eay be said
to have cone before the public periodically. About
= year after '.nstie Capet" WAS carried 70 the
Az ~ fun home aud the shop.boaTd, anl success
fully ERgabondtzeA ss the son Of IN emG5rt nohle.
Prison and bis k.re af1lcs1on e-u1d not touch the
md md plased ts3umpssntiy any paTt he chose 10 ~
sume-male or female. He would have been 4
fHtraic actor, and tho s.age would have been
ihrnne. In ore Of his lmprtsonmen1s as a rogue
md saeahond he impaired TO his fellow roEucs Ia
prison that be was the SOD OF Louis the Sixteenth.
II heg you VIII not think oi telling this 70 any
the story went to the WAters, thence to The world
outside: md Hheu tho PEetender waa himself ~
leased he found IS much recognition as PelEtu
h.te.l The government dld him homage, and
loaded him with good thiDGsL lie was handsome,
clever rascal .ue Is d talor's son, and want
10 make tatfor Of hun. astd ~ paor, honest
man. and for the crcdulous dupes who believed
the Enaye was Prtnc.- After more prison dis
c,pllne, Herra9aIlt appeared In Ia Sendee- He
tooI with him portrait Of the Daupnln, and 3
marx In bis lee, made ey The Pope, as warrant Of
his qualty. hoyal!sts heapca Nndnessea upda
nIm, hut 'wouh HIS AAtestJ eondescend lo te1
cordtn1ly. 4 good nurse tn the Temple. seeing
htm 20 III hsd wrapped HIN " bandle Of Inca,
carried him out and CONVEYED another child IN !
PttDcesses haf sighed for him The 18th Fruc-
t1dor had been expressly Eot up for him Its fall
nse I'D brought hin 8 ne nas9ns
Aarcn!onets naked him sbout the little fellow who
hnl been put IN his place IN tho Temple. ~ An
told. said the great comedian, TINT he WA the
son Of yery honest man, tailor Of ST. L., The
G1oseer he made the stor}, the morn readily he
wes believed lie lived by Ii Tor cars, and riayetl
ha rart, In out Of prison. In right royal fashion.
nj sskt rane with his stoIy, and the climax ca.le
whtn the rI-Btshop OF fsylsts recognised him.
Trial Alse1 trial proved who the PIetendet NAs,
bnt re exposure on3y nersnse. s ~ eeyi @ ~ am.
into regal hppurtenhnces- Thts and
much mufr was put Al end 10 " h!s being
aga!n imrr.soncd - = con common cheat cheat. Foucae
plArsIhle suscal In = dungeon, tl he Waa forgot
len. Enfranehlsed. he kl1ed the old game AT
nrst, lie experienced many disappo!ntmentA. hut
lis wonderful acting Imposed on all Various
were his adventures, but 1hLy brought him into
peYmanens trouble- Finally, he HAs sh1t up for
itfe>Hls tass worsts In lsig we're disp'aed As,
father, "Nhy his mother was my wife. Nica!e
EiEot,. and 81 honest woman as ever llscL''
Now. in ISIS, when IlervaEault died, there Has
following various calllnxs and hin1ing al bis
being something vefy different from what he
RecInet!. Three years later. hearing nf the
downfall Of 6the Emtirr, be vensursd % ret1u
passport In the name Uf Charles de Navarro. A.
Ter IAuAing liz passed h1r self Cd on widow ~
her loun-los son, and lvcA with her I'LL sfe han
Ids way to Tezin where be wAs itlen,iae+l TO bis
gzeAa dlsgust lie found that people had NOT fos-
gotten I1uueAu, the son Of the saeot maker; a
would have helped him were Obliged " :nrn out
Of doors Like nezvsg.nlt, he lad Assumed :. nsst
Only nobility. Ilmes had oeen 10 confused, ho.-
romantic story might be true. ald was hard 10
Judge oi KruneGn.s was 50 srfu'lytold that ~ Old
RoJal!ss baroness resctsed ~ asn - ss long absent
the truth Was discovered, when the adtentufel
MAS expelled. Hh subsequent misery made htul
Ena Iar time " be meni11 In the Kitchen Of The
house where he bad naunted 1t ~ ono Of the faml-
y. lila fellows there, however. male the Life oi
he yoiuniary SImucl intolerable. lie disappeared
and took turn II every thinR, except honest wort
insurrcetionist: ou, ii length Bruneau v Is cauen
hy the military law, which sent him into tht
marine artillery. from which. being On
ne AmsFean eea nc aesessa haxs "a s' a,t, s
IN ls1a Its own district would not hold the saga
bood lie Withdrew, went 10 Po1t DC Ce, entesrc
been one Of The cooks Of Louis the slxtcen.h, ant
expressed his wonder thai u Lecletc did hot
recognize HIN. II an Louis the Seventeenth" ns
6su n Gg asss 'sH EIsa ~ sa a. u m
keeper, II Will, at all ercnIs kick you ont Of MY
own II and toselble election folloxeL Ultimate;
there proclaimed his hehsatp TO the throne
No two paIts Of bis story held together, 5e
tho dnpcs came IN cr9wds. the tnh!eS most abound
Ing. l1aleIs were put up IoI hln, nome me-, r. :!
him The enthusiasm Of the women, and sou
Of them came from Parsa- was the more astonlsh
ing, ~ Brnncau had none q the geoue. sedustix'
with ~ cx-rpvoluttouary priest and foEEe1 70
hts sscc1eta1ies-seerefnries who nddssaeA settst
from hin a sae q WS
request thnt she would "rcectEe the embraces
htt unfortunate brother the King OF France IN
Wine CHIEF and secretar4es were In prison the
vrute the Memoirs Of sne Life Of the nanphtr
hut the WORK came under the eye Of another prts
ones who tah the critical t1eu!!y Hss name VI
ard hot only fr-vrote them, but snuGot Brunei
mAeter which enabled ht,u the better 10 sustli
espsrt Women q nj Eani. senue3sn1 nc 1 o. Sol 1
ers wA1meAt aslherents and most auostantlA sur
pofse1A The Memoirs were totra1ded to II
Barox nor laay .l< Aant t'aTnr could get access
her On such an errand Affairs ocGsn to look u
favorable, but they were soon revived BY the
ss nsA ses ponc ssn ~
euru Ae eoycrnnrnk People wc!c to
thai II they would only rise tnel
was KluR Al band who Noold ~ the nh1nu' G31I
tempt VIVA IS lille profitable to Bruncha as that
the Is Frueudor Was to Netyasa0M
LED to tz'el q which b. - taoEocg@hY @ ,, idsnl
| himself A. the cvtttnee t~rled against hin
raRc and ni,hlness o. exp1ettse went ocyoad .
houndA In vc1y hurricane Of btuneaus q
hnn, and il the year is1st the FErtenteE PISS
tnto nelteasued esptivtsy. which lasted as to'
| u bis u1e.
\ Louis The Eighteenth congratulated h1nst
tended nrrhews ana the Duchess from pretend
| truthcrs. They were mtstastn NOT . mon
| had elAnsed attcr dspoAluE Of Drubeaa. when 4
fan.tic NaIs!n Of Galixsaon c'a1rl inat be- b
! fren the ftal HA0pat1 II Vision: fn1t 1nt IT'D
had declared that be WIS al!re, and that II Lot
the Eighteenth d.zc,i to 80 through the eessno
ot q coronation, the ruo1 OF The caIhaslssl
Rheina would fsll on his head. TIE fat aad
drn King never meant 10 tc cruwncd, hut ne go
great importance TO Martin By Atn ing .ac sssE +
deliver hts rpeseaSr a the foot ol The throne 7
prophecy undoabte LIZ produced toN ~ Bo'
bon, Doc dc Nor1rsndie," who scrta.cd his crc
ness with such an At Of tsuthluluess to Suvio r
ucc IN Their ccnmou Prison Il AEAn- " I
DAuphsp, however, notadng Eno7e va heasu q
Arcpott ot Its hxTtnE ecco founn murdered Ii G
OF the valleys Of Swlt1ctixnh
Martin OF Gal.atuon MAS sstN pfppatN1nk
ISIS when Mr.. Moves, cftvcf HintatcSe-palo
Of his ttAy, living IN shoretttcn. Ase of TOO Pa
tilul snppJ OF ctAw-ash, md died sooo Atef
Indigestion One ra!aS1apn Of his VII runs tn
Ilcave 70 unt natarol reputed son- AaE25ta1
totne Cornelius Me7e8. hon N the 5ear 37sS.
half. Of I'll my PROPERTY" A9Knssaa =
! nerer before heard ntsosen thus assaxnAt !, Y
| and be appealed TO his uother:
Meyea," who was living apa7 tson her erIaa
TIE lAtT. Of whose nass>asc tners u no feSS
! | resented the tmputation Of lieStt.uasy W.
dear AEgustua I" she ts4d, " sse the fr1tt of Isl
I | ~aL>ort Won ave not the son Of the i1sA