The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-10-04
The House of Orleans.

period of the same length so replete
with public and private agony? Yet
those who have sat in fair Frances
high places'do not appear disposed
to abandon for a moment their strug-
gle to regain them, The count de
Chambord, we are told, will never
abandon his claim. Louis Napoleon
we may be equally sure, is determin-
ed to pursue his machinaticns for
the same end, and the members of
the House OF Orleans have just been
agitating for seats in the Assembly,
and interviewing President Theirs
thereunent, which looks as if they
too had high hopes.
1t is not a little troublesome to
keep au courant with the family his
tory of foreign princes, and possibly
some of our readers may not be IA
miliar with that of the Orleans fam
lily. The house is a younger branch
of the Bourbons, springing from
Louis, Duke of Orleans, son ofLouis
XIII, by Annie of Austia, and only
brother of Louis XIV.
The son of the first Duke of Or.
leans was the notorious Regent OF
France during the minority of Louis
XIV. The Regent was great grand
father of the equally notorious Ega-
lite, father Of King Louis Philippe;
and it would be hard to say which OF
this precious pair of that monarch's
ancestors was the most utterly des-
picable. Undoubtedly these two
wretches did their best to pave the
way for the calamitles destined to
befall their ill-fated descendants, and
with the exception perhaps of the
Bonapartes, it would be difficult to
to find a family whose career has
since 1889, been more sadly check
cred. While the sovereigns of the
House of Brunswick, on a throne
only few hours distant from the
French capitol, have succeeded eacE
other in regular rotation, just as al
English squire steps into the ole
mansion-hOuse at his fathers demise
the members of the House of Or
leans have literally at times no
known where to lay their heads. Nc
romance writer, unless indulging il
the visionary flights ofDumas, coulC
invent a tale in which the here
wouldexperience more extraordinar,
reverses- than the history of Kin.
Louis Philippe presents. CradeleC
in the lap of the most luxurious so
ciety that modern history has re
corded; then an exile, the son Of 81
executed parent who had justly
merited his death on the scafold
then a wanderer far and wide, seek
ing livelihood in our own cities
earning a scanty subsistence in New
York and Philadelphia; one Of the
herd ofneedy adventurers who lanC
daily on these shores; making-sc
the story goes-overtures of mar
riage to an American, and being tolC
Dy her father in his then condiditioI
he was not a good enough match fol
his daughter, while, if he ever re
gained his position, she would no
be a good enough match for him
and then, a few years after, reigning
in splendor at the Tuileries, and en-
ioying the most splendid private in
come of any monarch in Europe
Eighteen years afterward, the com
mander Of the Express steam packe
plying between Havre and South
ampton, received application to con
vey a party to England. He consen
ted. The party to be conveyed al
rived at Havre in an open boat from
Honfeur. The Express at once pu
to sea, and on q chill morning il
February, 1S4S, there stepped one
more on the shores of the Sussex al
elderly gentleman, with curious
pear shaped head, dressed in arougl
pea Jacket borrowed from the captain
of the Express, wearing close blut
cloth cap, and having around hi
neck a common red and white com
forter. His appearance was not ren
dered more prepossessing by bear
of appearantly a weeks growth. H
was accompanied by a lady of dis
tinguished mien, whose feature
were carefully concealed by thicl
veil. The passports they bore CAV
their names as Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
They were, in truth, Ex-King Loui
Philippe, and his Queen, Marii
Amelia.
Their son-in-law, the late King o
the Belgians, placed at their disposa
that charming retreat which has beer
the scene of so much royal JOY anC
sorroW-Clairmont, in Surrey
where the Princess Charlotte o
Wales, the nations fondest hope
had breathed her last, after passing
| few months of unalloyed happiness
and where Lord and Lady Lornt
lately spent The first blissful days o
their honeymoon. This haven th'
King never abandoned, and here h
passed peacefully away. Since thei
exile his sons have been scattered
The Duke of Montpensier, whC
married the sister of the naples.
Isabella of Spain, has resided al
most entirely in that country, whilr
the Duke d'Aumale has made him
self quite an Englishman. Some
time ago he acquired large property
in Worcestershire, and being greatly
given to hunting took the hounds
there, and has been one of the mos
popular men in the district.
By the will Of the last Conde, tht
illfated (for he hung himself) fathel
of an ill-fated son-the first Napole
on's victim, the Duke d'Enghien-
the Duke d'Aumale inherited Chan
tilly and other large estates, and i:
extremely wealthy. When, after the
revolution of I848, the Orleans es
tates were subjected to aforced sale
the Duke, through Messrs. Coutts
the great London bankers, bought il
this estate in their name, and has
now re-entered on its occupation.
He has lately sent for his hounds
from England, and is following with
ardor that sport for which Chantilly
in the days of the Condos was world,
famous. He bears the reputation OF
being an accomplished, able man, and
is a thorough good fellow to boot;
but, unfortunately for himself, seems
to he s1nittan with the ambition