River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-22
SHADOWS OF FRENCH ROYALTY.
The Count de ChambOrd's Opera Bouffe
Ministry Playing In Royalty.
Paris Letter in New York Sun.

The Count de ChambOrd's Opera Boutfe
MISUNDERSTANDING In Royalty.
Paris Letter in New lork Sun.
The heat and the agitation caused bv
the amnesty of the exilcs who took
part in the Paris commune has put the
heads of the French monarchists i'm
state of ebullition. They. are talking
and making Others talk about them
and so the name of the Count de Cham
bord is once more en- redette. 1t is one
of the signs of the firm establishment
of the republic that cries of 'Long live
the king!' may be heard now from time
to time in his majesty's good city of
Paris. The Count de Chambord him
self knows this as well as anybody |
seize the fact, however, as who should
seize Time by the forelock, to say some
thing about the French royalists and
their king.
The government s'you are aware, has
fixed July II, the anniversary of the
capture of the basti-e, rs the date of Il
grand national fete, which will be ceie-
brated with high festivities all over
France. The royahsts, however, do
not wish to be outdone, and so they
have determined to offer handsome
present to King Henry " ON his fete
day, the st. Henri, which falls on Suiy
10. With this object the leaders of the
party-M. Henry Houx, the Prince dc
Leon, NJ. Mayol de Lupe-are holding
meetings III the various districts of
Paris, and inviting the inhabitants to
rally round their king. Meanwhile
mysterious financial company operates
in the background and gathers in The
subscriptions, which are sent to Frohs-
dorf, where they will be stored up to
pay the expenses of the next electoral
campaign. In France we have not on
ly Peters pence, but Kings pence.
Al this is not very dangerous to the
republic. The royalists are only play
ing at politics. They never go beyond
platonic cOupS Il etat, and for the last
fifty years they have been preparing
the restoration of the king in the fusty
old salons of the Fauboug Saint Ger
main. But it is not, think, generally
known that the Caunt de Chambord has
Il complete ministry IN pdrtibHS infttel-
inn, each department of which
has its titular head who is very
proud of his blue morocco portfolio,
adorned with golden fleurs-de-lvs,
which he holds by the good grace of
his sovereign lord and master All
this is, of course, mere childs play, and
all the ministries are sinecures. The
president OF this nursery cabinet, the
Marquis de DreuX-Breze, alone has
work to do The marquis is a verita-
BILE type, ready, in fact to be put
lctp ifrla 70 OF ut Ia
too, in his way. At the time Of the
last elections the marquis had an inter
view with an Influential manufactul er
who was disposed to rally to the mon
archist party He was man OF
weight and could bring many votes
with him, SO that the conquest was OF
importance In the course 81 the con
versation the manufactured spied the
marquis snuff-box lying open on the
desk. He took a pinch saying: ''Vous
permettez, monsieur lie marquis - NJ.
de Dreux .Rreze nodded acquiescence,
and then rang the bell. The servant
appeared. "Jean, bring me the snuff
box that is III my bedroom" When
the snuf-hox was brought the marquis
| took a pinch of it, and the manufactur-
er took the hint and his hat at the
same time, and never came back to see
the marquis And this is the way the
mOnarchists understand electioneering
When you see and know the friends of
the Counte de Chambord, the collection
of grotesque utilities who form his
council you feel the inanity of the
party.
Personally, the Counte de Chambnrd
is Il cultivated and honest man, but he
has no tact and no perspicacity. lie
processes to wish to rally all classes
around him, and yet he extends his
favors to none but mobiles. There is
not one single person about his house
who has not Il title; and all his official
representative in France are titled, NJ
though the mobiles has always been the
rain Of the Bourbons. 1t is the noblessc
which keeps Henri v in the position
of an operetta king, whose only func-
tons are to write letters of congratula-
tions on this occasion of marriages and
coincidence on the occasion of deaths.
1t is noblesse who keep up in Henri V.
grotesque infatuation of himself and
of his rank, which he believes that he
holds from God There is funny story
about this. The last time the Counte
de Chambord went to Switzerland. he
sent an ambassador to the president of
the confederation, informing him of his
intention to stay at Luceme, adding
that he had taken all the measures
necessary to avoid any diplomatic com
plications arising from his presence in
the country. The Swiss replied that dur
ing the summer months they had so
many strangers in Switzerland that enc
more did not make any difference.