Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-03-29
The B0napartes.

upon the action to be taken with re,
gard to members of dynastic families
has been adjourned for three months,
but it is certain to be renewed with In
creased violence and acrimony, owing
to the popular disturbances which are
believed to be instigated in some
measure by the reactionists. Mean.
while the European reviews and news
papers are discussing the history and
dynastic affiliations of the several pre-
tenders from every possible point Of
view. The Bonanarte family III particu-
lar, whose titular head is the Prince
Napoleon Joseph, son of Jerome, has
been made the subject of careful
genealogical study in The Westminster
Review, reproduced, with important
corrections and additions, by the
Revue Britannique. Some of the facts
examined will be found of interest
just now, in view of the unsettled po-
htical condition of France.
OF the four brothers OF the great
Napoleon, only two are represented by
living male descendants. If the law
of primogeniture had been recognized
in this family, the head of it would be
Cardinal Bonaparte, the grandson of
Lucien, who was by far the ablest of
the first emperor'5 brothers, and to
whose parable energy on the 10Th
Brumaire the establishment of the Ma
poleonic dynasty was unquestionably
due. But of Lucien it may be said
with perfect truth that he preferred to
a throne the companionship of q wo-
man he loved, although a choice be-
tween these alternatives was repeatedly
pressed upon him. BY his clandesline
marriage in 1903 with Alexandrine
Jouberthou, who was said to have been
his mistress, but who was one of the
most talented and estimable women
who ever entered the Napoleonic fami-
ly, Lucien gave irreparable offense to
his brother, and his descendants were
formally excluded from the throne. 1t
is known that the emperor, touched
by his brothers noble conduct during
the hundred days, intended to rescind
the sentence of disinheritance; bat he
had no time to carry out his purpose,
and the exclusion of the line of Lucien
was naturally re-enacted by Napoleon
III, in order to make good mis- own
title, which would otherwise have
been worthless. Inasmuch, however,
as the line of Jerome, in which the
dynastic rights are vested, has but
three male representatives, it is well to
bear in mind that the elder branch al
so has but four descendants living, on
ly one of whom is likely to have a
son.
After Cardinal Bonaparte would
come according 10 the rules of primo.
geniture his brother, Prince Napoleon
who thus far has had only
then their uncle, the we'll
known philologist Prince Louis Lucien
/ childless man Of 20; and lastly the
nephew of the last-named, Roland, who
married not long ago the daughter of NJ.
Blanc, the founder of the gaming es-
ADJUSTMENTS at Homburg and Monte
Carlo.
The legal head of the Napoleonic
dynasty, Prince Napoleon Joseph, who,
by way of indicating his parentsge,
signed his recent manifesto Napoleon
.Jerome)," is one of the best-borl men
IN Europe, unless his father, the king
Of Westphalia and youngest brother of
the first emperor, is held to have faint
ed the current of royal blood, derived
from his ancestors. By his mother,
the Princess Catherine of Wurtem-
burg, the man who now has right to
call himself Prince Napoleon par ex-
cellence is related to the imperial aud
royal families of Russia, Great Britain,
Prussia, Holland, Bavaria, Saxony. and
Sweden, together with the ducal
houses of Hesse, Saxe-W eimar,
Mecklenburg, Oldenburg. He is in
particular near kinsman Of the R1-
and Hohenzollerns, and were
ne a Protestant he would stand in the
line Of succession to the English crown.
In brief, he has all the dynastic afflia-
.ions the want of which compelled Ma
poleOn III, to surround himself with
adventures, and prevented him from
strengthening his throne by suitable
The advantages of birth possessed by
the present head of the Napoleouic
family are of course doubled in the
case of his sons Victor and Louis.
Through their mother, Princess, Clotil-
de, the sister of the present king of
Italy, these young men are related to
the great Aouses,of Hapsburg, and Sa,
yoy, of Lorraine-Austria, of Hesse, of
Saxony, and of Rohan. What is more
they can trace descent by
three lines of ancestors to the house of
Bourbon itself. The Princes Victor
and Louis and their sister, Princess
Letitis Marie, are descendants in the
seventh degree of Louis XIV, and in
the ninth degree of Louis XIII. They
are, therefore, remos kinsmen to those
Orleans princes who seem likely to
prove formidable rivals, and to whose
aquelly interesting history and rels-
onships we may at some other time
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Causes of Family Troubles.