New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-02
THREE BOURBON WOMEN.
AND HOW THEY MADE AND MARRIED THEIR
CAITSE

CAUSE.
IRON AN occA sIoSAL CORRESPONDENT TRIBUNE,
PARIS, August %.
The Bourbon cause has been made and marred by
its women. 1t IL rather dark saying but 1t may
bs proyed The Duchesse de Berri mother of the
Comts de Chambord. was the last who seemed BILE
to save IT, She WAS determined that her son should
be King. and she had contempt for obstacles
which. when 1t is justified by the event. is of the
essence of genius. In 1882 she landed at Mar
settles from an Italian steamer, With only Two
gentlemen in waiting for escort. and with these
two gentlemen outside Marseilles and few more
within she hoped to take the city aud take France.
1t was midsummer madness; but If there had been
little more of 1t In the elder Bourbons they
might still be on the throne. The Italian captain
thought il wild venture and just dropped her
ashore and sailed away. She slept outside Mar
settles the ground all that night while the TWO
gentlemen watched; and the next morning she wait
ed for the signal from the city. IL came; the tocsin
sounded, the ioval adhcrents duly went oit into
the streets and threw up their hats but the police
were the only persons who rallied 10 the appeal
Mar,eilles had failed, but there was France. The
brave little woman was playing for a high stake;
the Younger Branch had the throne. and they
might keep II forever if she did not bestr herseli
With the same limited escort, afterward reduced
By the dispatch Of of the gentlemen TO Italy Tor
reinfoycements she made her way rIght across the
country TO LIZ Vendee where she knew she would
find peasants with traditional devotion to tho
cause Ii was wonderful journey; she pat on
peasant clothing mingled with the groups in the
market towns who were reading the proclamations
for her arrest. and was nearly discovered by her
clumsy attempts to play the market woman. The
rough worsted stockings of the masquerade and tn.
heavy sabots chafed her tender skin and. when
lon in0 he
along barefoot At length she reached her faithful
couutry-f folk formed them into a tinv army, and
stood siege in "a chateau against the Government
troops The issue was not doubtful for moment;
but the peasants fought for her till half of them
were killed and their trumpeter blew n CHEEKY note
TIL bullet-hoes let all of wind out of his body.
The Duchess then found refuge with "a Legtimist
lady, who inhabited one of the oldest OF old man
sions IN one of the oldest of old towns Everything
WAS according to the rules-even secret hiding
places in the great house Here, though LOUIS
Phlippe's men knew she was near, they could not
for the life of them, find her At last tho bride
offered by the terrified King-a round million
tempted wretcn to betray her. It was one Deutz.
a converted Jew, to whom she had been great
hen-factress. He came to Paris TO conelude the
transaction; and THEIRS to his credit, was nearly
taken i'll at The sight of him; but the bargain was
struck all the same. Troops surrounded the house.
and they went IN to find the Ducnesse dc Bern, Dut
sue was not be she was IN the hidlng-place'
a small chamber behind the big chimney. The
men took mp their quarters in the very room; and
as 1t was bitterly cold, they made i-e to " arm
themselves. The warnith was at first agreeaole 10
the fugltves- the Duchess and two or three ladies'
and gentlemen, who had crowded with her INTO the
narrow space-but presently their clothes began 10
catch fire. 1t took five hours VI this torture 10
roast them out. 1t was the Last heroic act oil tho
Eld1r Branch.
The next woman who claims notice Is the Prin-
cess Maria Theresa OF Modena, the Comte de CHAIN
bord's wife. His marriage with her was the Legit-
mist Roland for Oliver to the Spanish marriage
of the OyleanIsts. The Younger Branch had made
their powerful Royal alliance; the Elder had 10
fortIfy itself in the same way. The Princess oil
Modena was splendid match-a granddaughter Oh
the great Maria Theresa. related to half the koyai
Uonses of the Continent. and with dover of
twenty millions. The news threw certain con-
sternat,on in the Oresnist camp, which Guizot
tried 10 check by a magnificent display OF deport-
nent But he was so terribly caln that every body
felt sure he was very i'll at ease.
The Comte " coed and welded strictly according
IN ROYAL rules--he courted by dispatch and married
by uro1y The negotiations were carried on WIN
profound secrecy. When the older people, the re-
latives. the chancellors and the chamberlains had
settled matters, Ito young lady was atked her
opinion. and she gave it In becoming form, In
document which was model OF the correspondence
of princeiy courtship: :" consent to unite my LOT
To that of tie Comte de Chambord, Tor 1eei sure
tIis union will make NE happy. Firmly resolved
En- devote nv whole life to the Comte de Cham
bord shall love France as he loves her; ana All
nv proyers and all my VOWS VIII be Tor our COM
mon country "very nearly the same thing was said
for the Empress Eugene when she came 10 france
there must be some form for such things III the
archives No. % in the book"
The heroic old Ducbesse do Berrl, at the altar, as
fall of yivacty as ever, in spite Oh her whlte na
must have had her hopes, but also ~ Judge OIL
men and women, her fears. Would the vile carry
an the mothers taski The answer was soon
trown /. she would not. Her notion OF devoting
hsrself to the Comte de Chambord and France was
tbs very wise one of keeping the two rs widely
anart as possible Though tho best blood" IN
F,rope flowed In her veins, she was kind OF DEM
ocrat bv sense OF fatality. She thought that Lo-
o;t,mism was dead and that IL was OF no use trying
70 revive it, She was the perfect opposite OF her
dignity Instead OK spirit ana
without y Apark of enterprise She had been
hronybt ND rather too WELL and was almost as IN
uoce.t of tho world at fifty 40 vt five. Her simple
creed of duty consisted fony two or three articles
and one of them was that she owed unhesitating
obsdiencs to her husbands circumstance That
ala mot nrevent her FRI m unconsciously having her