The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-12-03

+
when tie court Ct France was most sp.en-
did and most reckless. The correspondent
OF the Times gives very pretty picture OF
the preparations that were made fof the
arrival Of the visitor. The castle was :"
| lie decorated with flowers and venetian
lanterns, and all the noble company set
about the task. The Due de Cha7tres,
who i. grand son Of King Louis rLihppe;
the Duche,se de Chartres, the Conte de
F;,z;ames a descendant Of tue Stuarts,
and therefore a far-off kinsman OF the
Prince. helped other mobiles to put up the
wreaths aud the lights, amid much laugh
ter. The scenc must have been very like
one of those exhibitions of gayety about
which the Due dc Saint Simon speaks In
his gossiping way, on which Mmc. de
sevisne casts the sparkle of her pen, and
which lives on the canvass of Natteau
The court-i.fe Of France has been largely
handed down 20 US In the form Of these
o cture.. The chroniclers do not tell II.
much about business; they say nothing
about the common people, except it be to
wonder at and curse their growing suilsn-
ness and naturalization; they speak often
and much about the sermons In which the
Pere Bourdaloue and Mgr. Bossuet did
themselves and the Gospel tie honor of
prechirg to the cosrt; but they say most
of all about gayety. Life night almost
seem to have never had \ serious business
for the people that ye meet withiL the
pages OF Nine. de Ssvigne. The gravest
event appears to bc the death Of y courtIer
or tue displeasure Of the King; and, IN
truth, her correspondents ard her friends
are ali so high in rank, and the plebian
throne 10 so far out of sight as to leave no
room for wonder that the seraphic throne
should have had nothing to do except to
dress, visit, gossip, make repaitees, hunt
study the carrces of Mime. de Maintenon,
and worship Louis. They we're the most
brilliant set Of trifers ever seer IN this
aff, cted world. Generations Of panpered
ease ard the fluctuations of the court had
made them unfit to do anything better with
their time than to form pretty subjects for
the pictures that have come down to US on
Sevres ware. Among them, OF courn,
were men of strong intellect and fierce
passions; men wLo, when tried by adver-
si,v, would deyelope into such heroic, cruel
fanatics MS Victor Hugo has drawn With
such exaggerated lines in the Marquis de
Lant-nac. But it is the splendid trhing
Of tie ,urt which has chiefly written itself
uron history, and no effort can bring tine
spirit of trihing back ngain. Tue group
Of Dukes and Duchesses ut RAmbouiliet
may have been very pretty reproduction
7 Of Watteau in color aud in form, but the
background did not harmonize with the
gayety. The background was STEPPED in
tue black shadow Of the Revolution. The
company could MT he very gay when they
! did act kh0w whut polite event might
,urn up next when they knew that sud
Gen change Of government might sentence
-Ume of item to exile, aud when buIi-tIne
we're coming TO them respecting the result
of the elections in he Pas-de Calais, the
A pes N.ri.ime-, and the Scine-et O.se.
J HE CORE o. dent # tie Times says that
they ere mach troubled after trnuer by
The news Of the Republican vic orie-. Al
,g,e s4y-ty Il. 4, and they seemed 10 hh'e
forgotten th-ir visitor for a moment 1t
the Prince ID q turn for philosophical
rrli ciiun as wei! as for lhra7ani shooting
80 may have thought that the gayeIy OF
Venetian l-utrrnz ~an.-d g-ycty uf hearr
20 maxi. il harmonious, aud that such u
spirit e mat c.ai'T lie athtn t,e reach Of
uob:e- " no are Fighting lard against lnte
VII ch they mus, know to be inevitable.
It the Prince j. fond of taking skeletons
out of cupboard, he will have found n
peculiarly grim specimen at Chantl'Iy'
That Chateau VAS once anon, he grardes'
IN France, and it VAS n typical abode OF
feud II glory. The Great Condo who was
its owner represented all that was most
brilliant in the noblesse, before they tel
victims to the enervating atmosphere OF
the court. But for such men as he, they
would never have filled so great A place II
history, and Richcli,u would not have
needed 10 break their power. The de
scendants of the Grea. Cou lie, the last o
the Dues de Bourbon, who WAS, however
not less striking type of tie meptA
fesAIen.s. into which the notles fell If
their later days The Revolution soemec
to have smitten him with n moral pa SIS
and his vast wealth helped to chain hin
/ down to state of 81 lendd misery
Through the reigus of Louis ANlll ant
Charles X he lived at Chautiily and othe
/ houses almost like hermit. and during h'
> later years he was SO despoticalIy ruled b.
e his mistress, low born English woman
that he had no will Of his own. He VA
S persuaded to leave his wealth TO the Du
= D'Aumsle, after a series Of Negotiations Il
| WEIGH the IllSlTts 81 II S''''
f that thev do not form an ed.fying chapte
P Of domestic diplomacy; and then the Du
e De Bourbon hanged himself one night wit
r the window co-l of his bed room. A
S FIRST his valet and even his mistress, wer
8 susr ected to have murdered him, but Their
l. was no sufficient evidence to prove tina
IS they were guilty, and the last of the Prince
i of Condo must be held to have perlshe
a by lis own hand because he was bored wit
lie existence. picture of the old nobles'
,. AS we see them in these days OF their sha
:, tered glory would be incomplete If 1t d
not find room for the loneip, idle, lIst!es
m miserable Due de Bourbon, as well as f
4 the Legitimists who have been giving tt
G Prince of Wales a sight OF such pomp
= they have rescued from the Ere OF the Re
olutlop.
ne Strategy WIFI a Boar.
. Tue Tifin (O) Tribune relates the II
va having: L. f. Bender, who live. 3 mil
III from this city, on the Portland road, "
q attacked by boar on Tuesday evening la'
n