The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-29
DUB FRENCH LETTER.
Special correspondence of the HERALD,
PARIS, July 4, 1888.


Ia September, 1924, when Louis
XVIII, brother to Louis XVI, was
dying, be said to his brother, the
Comte d. Artois. and who succeeded
him as Charles x, "The Charter is
the best inheritance I can leave you. "
Then he placed his hand on the head
of his granddaughter, the Duo de
Bordeaux, better known as the Comte
de Chsmbord. or Henri ". and
added, MAY Charles x. be careful
of the throne OF this child"
Louis knew we'll, that his brother
was the embodiment of the aphorism,
''The Bourbons learn nothing and
forget nothing" AS Comte d. ArtoiF,
Charles was in his salad days, disso-
lutte if not a very licentious man; his
esca, aies with his sister-in-Iaw,
Marie Antoinette, contributed not a
little to her unpopularity according
to the Memoirs Of the de Mercy.
Charles x ignored the new order Of
things that had arisen with the Revo-
luton and the Empire: he decided to
reign as ultrs-roYalist, with Polignac.
The July, 1880, revolution cent him
to Hollywood castle and Poliguac to
prison.
Charles X had two sons: the Dao
de Augeuleme, the Dauphin, and the
last bearing that title, which France
cav, or will ever see, may be added.
The Duo married his cousin in 1899,
thu only daughter and surviving
child .of Louis XVI. and his
unfortunate queen. She was
torn from her parents who
were executed, and separated from
her little brother who died in the
Temple prison from neglect. at the
hands of Simon the cobbler, goaler.
On her birth she was honored with
the title OF "Mddame R0yale," and
was exchanged in 1899. against re-
publican prisoners captured by Aus
triR. I may here remark, that Marie
Antoinstte had the option 10 simil.
arly escape, but declined. Napoleon
1. said, the Duohesse d. Augouleme
was "the only man in her family"
In consequence of her efforts to crack
the royalists up at Bordeaux to resist
Napoleon after his escape from Elba.
She was an unsimsble, harsh and
strong.minded lady; she died in 1851,
at Frasdorf, where she is buried. She
possessed intellectual ability, and
wrote q history OF her parents and herr
self and brother during their captivity
in the Temple. Her husband died at
Goritz, in LA. He was an educated.
harmless man, much resembling his
uncle Louis XVIII. He lives in his
tory as having commanded the
French expedition to Spain in 1928,
to put down the liberal Cortes. and
which the easy victory OF the Troca'
dero achieved. They left no children.
The second son OF Charles x. was
the Duo de Berri, father Of Oomte de
Ohambord. He was assassinated in
February, 1820,- as he was leaving
the opera leading his wife to her car.
rage, by the republican fanatic Lau-
vel. he was carried, dying, back to
his box, from which he had to be re-
moved to q neutral ground, the
Church declining to administer the
last sacrament OF the church to him
in theatre. The duchess was left q
widow and two months encejnte.
Seven months later she was delivered
at the Tuileries of thu Comte de
Obambord, holding herself the baby
up TO the crowd from the balcony
some hours alter her confinement.
Il WAS on this occasion that Victor
Hugo, then aged Is and an ard en'
royalist, wyote bis ode, "The Child OIL
q Miracle" dedicated to the young
Oomse. He received the Gross of the
Legion OF Honor for his soft sawder,
and which has ever since shaded his
political and religious nottingham.
Having to fly France by the repeal
OF the ordinances in 1880, Charles
| x. and the Dauphin the Du3 d. Au-
! gouleme, resigned their right to the
crown 10 favor of the Comte de
Chsmbord. who since then till now,
some 30 years. has been expecting
Providence to work miracle to Sc
cure his restoration. The dukes
mother, Dncbesse de Berri. al
tempted in 1882. a bold stroke for
the crown. by organizing an Insured
ton in La Vendee. It failed. She was
traced to Nantes, chiefly by her re-
markably pretty foot prints il the
mud of the high read, She sought
refuge in the house of faithfnl fol-
lower for months, and during Sc hours
Icy concealed with two maids OF
honor, in a kind of vephlstor at the
back OF 3 kitchen fue, where the SOL
diers told of to arrest her had lit a
fire. Here the ladies remained till
their jupes were scorched, and su,-
prised the soldiers by knocking At the
wall to be liberated. she was inn
prisoned in the castle OF Bisye bg
Theirs, till she asEounded everyone by
giving birth to daughter, the FIST
OF her secret marriage With the Italian
Connie de Palli. This event reflected
on the royal cause, and was never
forgiven by her sen and his followers.
Formerly, when q Frereh mon
srch died at Versailles, tae Chamber
lain approached a window overlooking
the chief courtyard, and breaking his