Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-18
COUNT DE CHAMBORD.
The Romance of the Man Who he
Ifeves He Will Yet BE King.
From the New. York Times A eraa.

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On the 18th Of FEBRUARY 1920, the
Duke de Berry, second son of Count
d'Artois, afterwards Charles *, who
was brother of Louis XVI, had just
handed his charming wife into her car
riage at the royal entrance to the opera
house, in Paris and stood for moment
to see the carriage drive of, when he
suddenly felt himself wounded. The
Duchess, ON the point of starting, saw
the deed done. In an instant she stop
ped the carriage, and, without waiting
| for the steps to be lowered, took her hus-
band in her arms, while her dress be-
came stepped in his blood, His mur-
derer was man named Louvel, a de-
voted Napoleonist, who had imbibed a
furious hostility against the Bourbon
race, and ardently desired its extinc-
ton. 1t hss been alleged that there
were special personal reasons for his ami
mostly against the Duke de Berry.
Louvel was by trade saddler, and at
one time employed in that capacity in
the Imperial household, and story at
tanned wide circulation, after he had
killed the Duke, that on one occasion,
at Metz, the latter was trying saddle,
and observed: ',They make better ones
than this in England. Why didn't
you stay there then? said Louvel when
the Prince, greatly irritated, struck him
several times with a whip. But this
story is somewhat apocryphal, and the
main reason OF the murder would seem
to have been simply the desire to ex-
tinguish the race for which he had con
ceived so insane a hatred. lie said
himself that he commenced with the
Duke as the youngest, and would have
killed all if he could.
Louvels object was not to be accom-
plshed, though, for that matter, it might
have tended to remove one element of
discord in France At the time Of his
crime the Duchess de Berry was encie'ate,
and in the following September she gave
birth to boy This son, commonly
called enfdl,t da miracle, born under
such melancholy circumstances, was
fated in his youth to a chequered career.
At his birth he eceived the title of Duke
of Bordeau, as an ackD owledgment of
the city's devotiori TO the fortunes OF his
house, but before he had attained his
tenth year the troubles of his family re-
commenced he found himself an exile,
anu aroPpgu Nas iaore adoiSIous dn rtp I'D ord
taking his title from mansion, whose
history as chequered as that Of his own
race, had once belonged to his ances-
tors, and in 1921 had been bought, and
presented to him by his adherents.
n IRON FROM tna. Gan ',iue 'Insii Lns leesp.y N ~.
1ouhe 1 ue Una Onamporu ~ nas peoI an eA,io, .ho
n ne nas never lesisseu n,s Iiain II " .uH
slrone, gnu was suPPorseu Pi' ~ Sy sin
group ol el. men noSauS tnJ iS,s h;n .In.aeJ De-
ryer, 'ne iioss paoninen, p VI h;I;t LII .r'oteu
auneIeu'S ~ Vi oonsP,ouous aD,isyI nu'
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IVY tne sen sel'lLuen's i ~ iasor VI .ne Dour
pons Mhiqn pl;. na.e aiwsSS noIp W vi lesS "a
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E'iniS ,PSo parry las las STACY Sno5d maui oea a.S
,el.' ln ioIo MIs 'I'sle seemu uas,li,. e. "noe'
pu. iiouiS NapoIoon su0s u':si' POI
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