The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-09-09
The French Bourbons.
A Love Affair of Henry VS. Father.

France, is i'll with fever at his Frohs-
dorf chateau, and although he by no
means causes the French Republic as
much disquietude as he caused the
Second Empire, he is still very inn
portant public character. He is the
chief of the elder branch of the Bour-
bon family, the direct descendant of
Louis XVI, who lost his head by a
stroke of the guillotine during the
reign of terror. His father was
Charles Ferdinand, Due de Berri, the
younger son of Charles X, who had to
leave his throne in hurry one July
day, fifty-two year, ago. His mother
was the famous Duchess de Berri,
known before her marriage as the
Princess Caroline Ferdinande Louise
of Naples.
The Count de Chambord's father
was MORALLY wounded on the night of
Feb. ID, 1920, as he was leaving the
Paris Opera-House, by a man named
LouyeL Seven months after this
event the son was born. His mother
left France in 1880 with Charles x,
but in 1882 she returned for the pur-
pose of stirring up an insurrection and
claiming the crown for this son. She
landed at Marseilles, but finding no
| support there she mace her way to La
| Vendee, where she succeeded in rally.
| a n ia
quickly subdued, however, and she
tried to make her way secretly out of
the country. She was betrayed, how
ever, to Louis Phlllippe's Govern.
ment and imprisoned in the castle of
Braye, where she gave birth to
second son, the fruit of secret mar
rage between her and young italian
nobleman. The publication of this
fact made her harmless in the eyes of
| the Government, and she was released
in June, 1888. She retired to Sicily,
where she lived up to her demise in
1870, with her husband and his rela-
| tives.
The legality of the marriage of the
Due de Berri with the Princess Caro-
lire Ferdinande Louise, of Naples, has
J been questioned by English Protes-
| tant writers, as if their views were to
be accepted as the correct ones, the
two daughters born to the Duke by
Amy Brown are the only legitimate
representatives Of that gay and gallant
nobleman, while, had certain formali-
ties been complied with by the Duke
Immediately after his marriage to
Amy, in 1906, quiet gentleman who
lived until recently, bearing the com
| monplace name of George Granville
Brown, would have stood in the Count
de Chambord's shoes in the eyes of
these same writer's.
The Due de Berri, after the revolu-
ton, served in the French Legitimist
army, and subsequently in that of
Russia, but in 1901 he went to Eng.
land, and three years later he made
the acquaintance of Amy, the daughter
of Joseph Brown, vicar of the Church
of All Saints, Maidstone. She was a
great beauty and ne was a dashing,
handsome fellow. He was 26-she 21
They fell madly in love with each
other, and in April, 1905, she gave
birth to son, the George Granville
Brown here mentioned. A year after
the two were married in the Catholic
chapel in King street, Portland
Square, London, according to English
law, in the presence of witnesses, ard
without objections from the relatives
on either side. The son was not legiti-
mated, however, as the mother doubt
less expected he would be. Amy gave
birth to one of the two daughters in
1908 and to the other in 1909. They
were taken by her to France, and edu-
Gated and married there, the husband
of one being the Prince Faucigny
Lucinge, the other the Baron de Cha
rette. They are still living and have
large families.
When the Due de Berri married
Amy there seemed to be little chance of
the Bourbons ever coming to their own
again. AS their prospects frightened
his passion for Amy cooled, and when
Louis XVIII. came to the throne that
monarch formally petitioned the Pope
for annulment of the marriage on the
ground that 1t had been contracted
without the consent OF the head of the
family. This petition was granted
after some delay, and in 1916 the Due
de Rerri married the mother OF tn
Count de Chambord, the heroine u
the episodes that eliminated in Castle
Braye.
1t must be said in justice to the
Counts father that he took excellent
care of Amy and her daughters. The
three of them were invited to come 10
Paris after his second marriage, and
every afternoon up to the time of his
death, he came to see the daughters.
The son. George Granville was how