The New York herald., 1879-10-08
CHAMBORD'S DREAMS.

The Paris Figaro reprints small pamphlet. OF
which only ten copies were struck of years ago for
distribution among the Bourbon family and = few
friends. 1t is an account of the fusion of 1873.
communicated by the Count de Chambords late
physician to NJ. d'Ideville a letter from the Comte
himself ackno wledging its substantial accuracy The
Doctor says
spoke to length OF his cousins Of Orleans and.
taking each separately, passed all just, saga
ciods and profound Judgment that was struck
by it. He spoke t. me especially of the Comte do
Paris and the Due de Charities. ana en-.
tered into the fullest details the interview OF
the 5th OF August. ''It was the greatest emotion
felt III my life, said the Prince, and when
went receive on the steps of my house the head
OF the Orleans family you would have been
alarmed, dear doctor, at counting the bests Of my
heart. When l hnd Interrupted the Comte %
Paris in the middle OF tho phrase arranged before
hand which with loyal persistency he would pro-
nounce to the end, my first feeling WIS to thank
God for having allowed me to see that day. drew
him to my and held him long clasped to my
breast that truly the tears We both shed ut thAe
solemn moment were very sweet and wiped out
many sorrows. You remember those days. MY
soul overfowed with JOY like that of father re-
covering his children. ceased looking at
both or them-the Due de Chartres and him. I
felt so strongly that they were of blood of the
family; was proud OF them as IL they had been my
sons. Our conversation had immediately that free
dom and volubility which is remarked in intimate
friends after long absence. whose hearts and
minds need to expatiate. All my vexations and
all my tortures forgotten. These young
men were for me at once the fatherland tho
family and the future. What intimacy full Of
ease, what cordial mirth! l still remember tho
jokes or Madame Countess Chambord) ana the
Prince de Jonvie Oh their common inhr7nity. What
plans we made that evening! We, too. like many
others, built castles in the air." The Due
dAumale is the only one. think of Louis Phil
lippe's who has visited the Comte de Cham
bord On some one venturing one day to remark
this to tho Prince replied, al attach no impor-
tance to it. When the Comte de Paris came to me
it after family council. He came as
the head of the house, in the name OF ALL without
exception, without any restriction entertain
great esteem for the Duo Aumale. have been told
differ more than one point; l respect his in
dependence just as he respects my IDEAS And thems
God alone disposes aud decides. Who knows whether
one day the Due dAumate will not be useful to the
whole familyy'
Then follows a dream which the Comte Do
Chanbord had in 1875 1t is too hong to be quoted.
especially dreams, those Of royal person.
ages. go by contraries. Suffice it to say. then that
the Count thought he had ascended the throne and
with him. and they became inseparable. their
ideas perfectly harmonizing. This last touch could
evidently happen only in dream. The present
relations between the two Bourbon branches give =
certain these retrospective revelations.
As to tho exclusion of the Orleans family from the
succession not a single legitimist paper hints ct
such q thing; but Bonapartist mischief-maker
undertakes show this evening that by the French
law, were the Comte do Chambord to die intestste.
leaving no nearer relative. the Comte de Paris
would not inherit. but the property would 60 to
tho State. This nobody would dispute. but he pro-
ceeds argue that Don Carlos is the political heir
He does establish this point and even II he did.
the only effect would be to convert ths Orleaniss 10
republicanisrn. In point Of fact, however. the
legtimists have always construed the renunciation
of the Spanish Bourbons as rendering the Orleans
family the heir to the throne.