The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-30
FRENCH ROYALTY.
The Rough TIEe GeneraIIy TINT Frsnch Kings
HIVE Hnd.

Have Had
s'Uneasy lies the head that wears the
crown" is the sentiment put into the mouth
of Henry ", proud Bolingbroke, who in his
own career as usurper, and in the murder Of
his predecessor, helped to point the moral.
The recent deposition of Napoleon ILL., and
the vicissjudes of his career, call to mind
some historical recollectious which, if not
very instructive in this age of republicanisu,
are at least interesting French history is
specially rtplete with the misfortunes of
royalty.
Louis Philippe, the royal predecessor of
Louis Napoleon, began by fleeing for his life
from the republicans of 80, and ended by
fleeing before the republicans of 4S. His
early experience had taught him to put no
faith i'll the tender mercies of an excited
people, whose enthusiasm might easily run
into fanaticism.
Charles " a true Bourbon of the direct
line, who had learned no good nor forgotten
any evil i'll the exile and adversely of his race,
insisted on ruling as of Divins right. The
erdOHndncCs against the press aud the advice
of the Polignacs brought the revolution of
1850 and the three days of July upon Paris,
al d Charles was again an exile.
Napoleon, the man of destiny and favorite
CT fortune, could only be hurled from his
lride of place by the combined power of all
the kings. He abdicated once, broke faith,
was again deposed, and ended his career at
st. Helena Prometheus bound to the rock,
devoured 10y ceaseless regrets and memories.
Louis XVI perished by the guillotine. A
helpless, harmless man, upon whose unhappy
head the sins of his ancestors were visited.
Louis XVII, baby king, mere legitimist
phantom of royalty, died in the Temple from
privation and neglect
Louis XIV le Desire, a minister of profit
eacy, the friend of Pompadour and Dubarry,
the proprietor of LIE Pare aux Cerfs, died q
king and in his bed, but with none to close
his eyes, for every attendant was away from
the dying couch, either on pleasure or to pay
court to the rising sun.
Henry ", the great King, the Frenchmans
royal ideal, lived youth of courteous cap
tivity, and after a manhood of war attained
his crown by abjuring his religion, and died
by the knife of Ravaillac in 1910
Charles TX, the abettor of st. Bartholo-
news Day massacre, died of disease of body
and mind, brought on by remorse for the
horrid crime.
Henry III, proAigate and unprinoipled
ruler, was assassinated by jacques Clement,
a Dominican monk, in 1889, and masses were
offered in church for the assassin.
Henry II, brave and able prince, to whom
was owing the annexation of Metz, Verdun,
and Toul, with the adjoining country, as the
price of his alliance with Brandenburg (now
Prussia) against Charles and Austria, was
u
1859.
Francis I, the last of the kings of chivalry,
fell before the astute policy and vast power
of Charles V, against whose combinations of
Spanish infantry and German Lanzknecht
with French generalship, the brilliant victors
OF Mangnan were powerless. he was taken
prisoner at Pavia, and confined at Madrid
until conditions of peace were forced upon
bim so humiliating that he refused to be
Inv nanta tarr Ia
war of determination was waged. both coun-
tries wasting France with fire and sword until
they laid down their arms from sheer ex-
haustion.
Charles VII, during whose reign Joan of
Arc rescued France from the English closed
not inglorious reign by falling into melan-
oholy and starving himself to death.
Charles VI, during whose reign the despe-
rate civil war of the Armagnacs and Burgun-
dians ragged, became insane, and was virtu-
ally prisoner in the hands of either faction.
John, the prisoner of the Black Prince at
the battle OF Poitiers, 1856, and taken away
to England, was not liberated for many
years. These wars of dynasty led to fright
full suffering in the people, amid which
Charles the Dauphin, afterwards king, wan
dered up and down the country homeless
adventurer.
Louis X, or st. Louis, famous for his piety
and crusudes against the Moslem, was made
prisoner by the Egyptians. The same king,
persistipg III his conversion of the Moors,
was carried off by plague at Tunis
Charles the Fat, Louis ~, and other Louis,
the debonnare kings of that age, were alter
nate y oaptives and conquerors. In those
outrageous days of fraud and violence, when
every evil passion ragged with impunity, the
Imprisonment or murder even of kings was a
small matter, and it is scarcely worth while
to enumerate the inglorious vicissitudes of
such su su:cession of weak tyrants and brutal
marauders