The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-10-28
French Pretenders.
SOME or THE CLAIMANTS TO THE THRONE o.
FRANCE.
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paris Correspondence
The Nlundortls OF Holland have lost nC
time i'm anewing their claim to be cOnsid.
cred the rghtIul heirs To the throne o.
France, ind this they do to the detrimem
Of the count de Paris. who. now that
Chambo'd is dead. has the best right
There il gerry little chance of the captain
in the II tlIaudish army ever ruling France,
but il wiz not be because Louis Charles
de BOURBON" rs he signs himself, has
not set ,orth his claims. His father, his
mother. SIS brothers, and he himself have
been doing this all their lives. and the
latest pro ,lamatiOn, That has Just been made
public. il 10 this effect. The father, who
was a clo,kmaker at Delft, died in 1915,
and his family sent letters announcing the
fact to all the courts OF Europe, and twice
since thaltime have the children attempted
to obtain from the French courts Il deci-
sion that he certificate OF the death OF the
dauphin ~ the temple was void; that their
father WI the son OF Louis XVI. and
Marie Al 'Oinette. and that they should be
admitted % the enjoyment OF all the civil
rights to which they were entitled as his
legitimate Representatives. When the courts
declined, lin 1874. to investigate their
claims uey applied directly TO the
Count de Chambord and the Count de
Paris. one.'ing to waive all their claims
to the throne OF France i'm exchange
for recognition Of their claim to
be- the he;ds OF the elder branch OF the
BourbOns md also a sum sufficiently large
to maintai4 the family dignity. 1t seems
that nett IL the Count de Chambord nor
the Count lie Paris made any reply to this
disinteresttd proposition. There have been
a great ma ~ false Louis XNIl.'S, and be-
fore them Ilere was even false Louis XVI.
This perso age did not, it is true, clam to
be Louis MI. in person, but to be his ell
der brothe. Louis Joseph Xavier, and con-
sequently De rightful king OF France. His
real name vas DAche, and he was "a ma
tive OF Bele um, where he died lunatic in
the early p.rt OF the present century.
Among tie many pseudo Louis XNII.'s
that have rade their appearance there are
a few who S'erc really extraordinary char
acters. Most Of them were evidently i'm
posters OF tle cOmmOpeSt sort. Among them
was one-armed, dirty old-yisaged fellow
who had lfied IN the Latin quarter for a
great many ears. In reality he was an eX
professor nfmcd Narney, but he succeeded
IN finding afcw persons who believed his
story OF how pichegru had rescued him from
the temple rhis old fellow, in spite OF his
claims TO 70 al descent. affected strong
Repubicanhm. and declared that in his
person wouli loyalty and Democracy find
union. \ JIppist monk named Fulgence,
who died in 500 at Bellefontaine, was be-
lieved by miny TO be the son OF Louis
XVI. but tie only ground for such be-
lief was that he bore a striking resemblance
TO the Bourb ms and was on intimate terms
with many 4 the most prominent MEM
bers OF the ioyallSt party. There have
also been 4 Use Louis XVII.'s in Eng
land, Russis and America. This last
was Eeaza.' Williams, clergyman in
the English Canadian Church, whose
claim was b,Sed upon the fact that his
features were. OF the well-known Bourbon
type. In ls4t he met the Prince de Join
vile. who wa making a tour in America,
and he shortly afterward published an ac-
count Of this interview, in which he as
serted that ths Prince had recognized the
Justice OF his claims and urged him TO alb
dictate i'm iayoi Of Louis PHILIPPE. Prince
de Jonville u ost positively contradicted
this story. None Of the false Louis XVII.'s
have. howeye', shown themselves rs bold
as the Dutch lockmaker, and none have
left any children TO inherit their claims.