Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-21

The debate in the French Parliament upon
the aston to be taken with regard 10 mem
bers of dynss;ic families has been adjourned
for three months, but it is certain to be re-
newed with increased violence and scrImony,
| owing to the popular disturbances, which
| are believed to be instigaled in some M as
ure by the reaclionists. Meanwhile the
European reviews and newspapers are dis
| cusslng he history and dynastic afhlIa
of the several pretenders from every possible
point of view. The Bon tparte family in
particular, whose titulsr head is the Prince
| Napoleon Joseph, con OF Jerome, has been
| N ade the subj ct of a careful genealogical
study in the Westminster RevieU, reproduced,
with important corrections and additions, by
the Revue Britannique Some OF the facts
examined will De found of interest just now,
in view of the unsettled political condition
of France.
Or the four brothers of the great Napoleon
only two are represented by living male
descendant Ii the law of primogeniture
had been recognize I'd in this family, the head
of il would he Cardinal Bonaparie, the
grandson of Lucien, wlo was by far the
ablesl OF the feet .mperor's brothers, and TO
whose Incompatible entrgv en- the lo'h Bru-
ruaire the establishment of he NapoleonIc
dynasty was PROFESSIONALLY due. But OF
Lucien it N y b. said with perfect trut b that
of a woman whom he loved, although
choice between these alternatives was reA
peatedly pressed upon him. By his clandes-
tine marrisge in 1903 with Alexandriue
JoubeTIhou, who was said TO have been his
mistress, but who was one OF the most tall
ented and estimsble women WHO have ever
entered the Napoleonic family, Lucien gave
| irreparable offsnae 10 his brother, and his
descendants were formally excluded from
of o g
known that the emperor, touched by his
brothers noble conduct during the Hun
dred Days, intended to rescind the sem
! tence of disinheritance; but he had no time
10 carry out his purpose, and the exclusion
| OF the line OF Lucien was naturally re-
enacted by Napoleon III, in order to make
good his own title, which would otherwise
have been worthless. 1nasmucb, however,
as the line Of jerome, in which the dynastic
rights are vested, has but three male repre-
sentatives, it il we'll to bear in mind that the
elder branch also has but four male descend
ants living, only one OF whom is likely to
| have a son.
| After Cardinal Bonaparte would come &C.
cording TO the rules of primogeniture his
brother, Prince Napoleon Charles, who thus
far has had only daughters; then their I'M
Gle, the well-known philologist, Prince Louis
LuCieu, chlldless man of seventy; and last
ly the Hephew of the last named, Roland, who
married not long ago the daughter of NJ
Blanc, the founder of the gaming establish
ments at Homburg and Monte Carlo.
The legal head OF the Napo!eonic dynasty,
Prince Napoleon Joseph, who, by indicating
his percentage, signed hIh recent manifesto
Napoleon (Jerome)," is one of the best born
| men in Europe, unless his father, the King
of Westphalia and youngest brother of the
first emperor, is held to have tainted the
current Of royal blood derived from his
maternal ancestors. BY his mother, the
Prin ,ess Ca,heri e, of Wurtemberg, the
man Who now has right 10 call himself
Prince Napoleon par ercettance is related to
the Imperial and royal families OF Russia,
Austris, Great Britain, Prussia, Holland,
Bavaris, Ssxony and Sweden, together With
the ducal houses of Hesse, S,xe Weimar,
Mecklenburg and Oldenburg He ia in par
ticulsr near kiusman of the Romanoffs and
the HnheISollern, and were he a Protes, ant
he would stand 10 the line oil succession to
the Elglish crown. 10 brief, he has all the
| dynssnc afiliatioDs the want OF which CON-
PEELED Napoleon III, to surround hims f
| with adventrteTa, and prevented him from
strengthening his throne by suitable mar
risge,
The advantages OF birth possessed by the
present head of the Napoleonic family are,
OF course, ubled in the case OF his SONS
Victor and Louis. Through their mother,
Princes Clolilde, the sister of ths present
King of Italy, these yoArg mea are related
TO the gteai houses Of H apsourg, of Savoy,
/ OF Lorraine Austria, Of Hesse; Of saxony and
Of Rohan., Whist il mere noteworthy, they
| can trace descent by three lines of ancestors
to the house OF Bourbon Itself. The Princes
Victor and Louis and their sister, Prin-
cess Letitia Marie, are descsudanls in The
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ninth degree of Louis XIII. They are, there
| fore, remote klnsuien OF those Orleans princes
who seem likely to prove formidable rivals,
and to whose equally interesting history and
relationships we may at some other time ad.
| vert.