The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-10-23


The immortality of Royal Prenohmen
A writer in the Saturday Revie,0
says: SIN France a dissipated court
has been the rule which has been
proved by occasional rare excep-
tio1s, and Paris has long been ia
miliar with scandals that dazzled it.
We need not go back to Charlie
mango, with his daughters carrying
their lovers on their shoulders across
the fresh fallen snow, nor to those
mysterious atrocities of the Tours
de Nesle which recall the Infamous
horrors of the Lower Roman EN-
pire. The best and ablest Of the
French Kings have been the worst
men and the worst husbands. The
secret history of frances most bril-
liant days has been the history of
mistresses with their cotilI09l govern
ment. The chivalrous Francis was
more famous for his amours than
tor his success in the battlefield (;
his son inherited the favorite mis-
tress with the royal crown, and no
one was greatly shocked or surprised
Catherine de Medici availed herself
of the charms Of her maids of honor
to ruin or hoodWink the courtiers
she distrusted. AS for the great
Bearnais, the protege Of the austere
Huguenots, the convert of the Pope
and the Catholic clergy, he was as
openly disreputsble in his life and
morals as any of his subjects, which
is saying a great deal. The descend
ants of his branch of the Bourbons
showed themselves his worthy line
age in that way, if in no other, and
the greatest of them even succeeded
in improving on their ancestor. The
Great King par ercellence, who lived
as he died, under the eyes Of his
faithful subjects, who made it his
ambition to occupy the attention OF
all Europe, travelled to the camp at
tended by carriages filed with his
favorite sultauss, while the Queen
of France was left to pray for him
in her oratory at home. The Regent
Orleans made his household arrange
ments 3 by-Word, and his chosen
friends we're honorably distinguished
as Youes; while Louis the Bien-amie
busted himself through his long
reign in developing the Oriental
tastes of his grandfather,aud seizing
on daughters of the nobility or the
people whenever a face attracted his
fancy. Louis XVI, heavy IN hli
Hooks and uDgainly in his bearing
was the only moral man Of his line
and he came to the gullotine In re
tributive Justice for the sins ano
scandals of which his fathers hac
been guilty. Now all these latel
princes kept their most discreditable
establishments within easy reach o.
Paris, holding their orgies in the
full blaze oftheir kingly state ant
ceremony. Versailles, Marty, and
the Chateau of Choisy we're all close
Ito the town, while the fayorite haun
where the Regent held his entertain
ments. was in the heart of it's gayes
and busiest quarter. The royal ex
ample was Loyalty initiated by th'
mobiles. They had their petite
naaisons in the precincts of the Court
and abused their seignOrial right
lin their own domains as audaciousl,
as their majesties themselves. cOul'
have done. Had the Parisians beel
as steady and phlegmatic as thei
ITeutonic neighbOrs they could hard
,lly have resisted the influence of sue
examples in high places. Beini
what they are, they have natural!.
been formed By it,and if they shonl'
be forced in candor to admit this'"
readily confess that they may plea
, extenaating circumstances