Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-19
CHOKED BY A FISH BONE.
Whatever Really Became of the Son of Louis
XVI.
TLOndon Truth. |


XVI.
London Truth.
Lovers of what is strange and romantic
in real life are pressing round the master
builder who has contracted to clear away
the ruins of the Tuileries. They want him
to take measures to prevent mysterious
casket, deposited in hiding place in the
walls, from being carted away in the rub
bish. The depositor was, according 10
mile. Amelie de Bourbon, eldest daughter
of Louis XVIII Louis XVI. and this lady,
who is now very old maid, residing in the
department of La Vienne, asserts that she
heard of the deposit being made from her
father. He had seen. as a boy,
the Inflated king hiding away
the casket, which was filed with
money, precious jewels and papers.
''Amelie de Bonrbon," otherwise Mile
Naundorff, has written to newspaper to
ask whether the discovery of this treasure
would not justify the claim made by her
family to assume the foremost places in
the royal houses of France? 1t would
strengthen it, no doubt. But the thing is
| first to get hold of the casket. A number
| of creGulOus persons who believe in what
is Unindable go daily to the Juileries to
watch the removal of the demolished walls
into carts. They seem to have cOmmuni-
Gated their illusions to the navvies engaged
| in the work of demolition. These men
carefully break up the large blocks of ma
| sonry. Whenever stone or lump OF
| wood resembling a casket appears
they pounce upon it. Mile. AmeIlie de
Bourbon, in vouching for the existence of
a hidden treasure, reminds the world that
NJ. Jules Favre and William II. of Holland
believed implicitly in her father, and that
by order of the Dutch potentate his claim
wss asserted on the tomb erected over him
She asked whether the credence they at
| tached to his story is not proof that it il
true. 1t certainly is not. The late king
of the Netherlands detested Louis Philippe
because he helped the Belgisns to throw of
the Dutch oke; and his wife, Anna Paul
owna, detested the elder branch because
after ripe consideration, Louis XVIII. and
Talleyrand agreed that she would not be
the wife of the Due de Berri, to whom
she had been offered. 1t is, in.
deed, probable that she started Naundorf
| to annoy the royal house which declined t.
admit her to membership with it. Amelit
de Bourbon speaks of the jewels locked NJ
in the casket as having belonged to Marie
Antoinette. She proves too much here
There was minute inventory furnished O.
the paraphernalia of that queen to the
revolutionary government. When Nine
Royale was liberated and sent to Austri;
these personal effects were given to tn,
Austrian envoy, who negotiated the condi
tions. of her release. They included a largt
number of diamonds and other valuable
jewels, which the princess eventually ief
to the Count de Chambord. He brough
them to the hammer. The price thel
fetched rendered him quite Independent
of his wife in point of fortune. Neverthe
less mystery hangs over the fate of Loui!
XVII. There is no legal or other proof o.
any value that he was the boy who
died in the temple in 1896 IN a state of i'd
iocy, while there is good deal of ciroum
stantial evidence to establish that a sup
positions dauphiu was shown to the doc
tors VINO were called in to make the autop-y
and draw up a neurological certificate
One of these medi cal men was A. Ia. Du
mangip, father of Gambetta" old and de-
voted secretary. He refused to certifJ
that the scrofulous body he examined wa!
that of the dauphin. He had ''found
corpse which municipal officers nou, on
dit eSS, eetui du Jfls du def1nt Louis Caps
TX *'* auquel enfdnt fills donnaient de
soins depuis 0ueEvuss jours." IF the Holy
House is not at Loretto, where is ftp
a French missionary once victoriousl'
asked. Amslis Do Bourbon puts similf7
question. 'If Louis XVII. was not M
father, under what name did that king hid,
himself!" MpStere! The true incognitC
of the rightful heir will probably be to thu
end of time i,atrouvabIe, like the ceskst.