New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-16
ruE DEAD PRETENDER.
=, FEATURES OF BOURBON FAMILY HIS
SoAh TORY.

pFCrIAR COhhhcfOcDhNt vi Inn '&'AD~-'i
prov ' PARIS, Aug. 81.
1, rrrone have been for some DAYS
Inc :" a.. stvrian manor-house in which the
tzeu W Cbambord drew his last breath. The
CONF =. bartender excited general interest. not
Lesn .arss bs was the last member of an old royal
onD 80 because he was man OF character.
nns aims be had not. But he had verv high
;asal and he stood by 1T through lie ana
knfy Passive greatness in this age of fever
pno ,..,,srt and turmoil is singulary impressive
=, So. Gro now so few persons who see the possible
snejua noble unless in some form OF self asser
wv ,ss that Henri VS. virtues were outoI tne
n' -, run. 1t was refreshing to contemplate
~ .onarch IN pdrtibus, who couid aHofo 10 oo
',hout th. trappings of ROYALTY, and' IKE MazIini
W. c.ubaid. was illustrious because he was True
s .;,,sslf and to what he regarded as lus'
70 H. IT, The Italian liberators sons of the
rr.so,h Revolution and were faithiul 10 "ha' was
f'e 80 They were in movement OF renovation,
pes' ,hs close of their lives could look back with
anu TO the results they had accomplished
sA' rho,bord was only survival" He was
~, ,boot that springs ont OF an old blghted
and after affording promise OF vigorous
.vovth, withers up and dies
:. no. been truly sand that his flag, to which no
-. has been his winding sheet. ltv over
- .ortuary couch and has for its pendant the
- .ud.,a of The Pontifcal Zouaves, behind which
-. ,orion recraited by his half-nephew, General
Wv advanced against the Garibaldians at
s..a,ana. This relic has pious signhcatioD. EN-
1904 nm IL are the sacred heart and tho motto
$500 Inv the French pilgrims in 1873 to the
- ~ Marguerite Marie Alocoque at Paray-ie-
uon,sl The religious faith OF the Comte de Cnain-
- vas associated with elevated morality. ne
ss,s.ea stiffness in politics or the private reia-
49,. of life His word was as good as his BOND.
~. ,srrer was warm but his heart wac most kind,
and his disposition placsble. he had handsome
:, Granting favors and rendering services. The
ponau maxim. whatever is done quickly IS done
..icsD was practised by him. Although deeply
...obsa to his sister. the late Duchess OF Parma.
-, 80 ber four children, whom he brought up
-. vas room and to spare for q large following
:, ,ersonal friends, who were also political al
hsrents c.,.. 4. Cham
"a wos a nosthumous child and that no was BORN
.evep and a half months after the ASSASSINATION VI
,h noc de Berri as he seeing his VIE INTO ner
'Ne =, ths door of the old Paris Opera House.
.nIeoI Hs expired some hours after be had been
s.hhsa Iuuuytrep the great French surgeon
~ ho WAS ca led in TO attend him. lett "ri''en "o
count of the Dues words and the desIes eApioo'oU
IN that short period. and of the sayings anu ooins'
AZ his wife, who refused to be separated from MN
until he breathed his last. She repea'eoy nipio'ou
Duuuytren not to treat her as royal parsonage ou'
=. ~, her do something. and he, observing
that action would her terribly excited
,srvss allowed her to. serve IN the capacity
&c humble sick-purse Her magnanimlty
~.s almost sublime. Before he was married
20 her the Due de Bern had espoused according 10
,hs forms of the Catholic Church, in London an
r,cl;sh reetor's daughter, of the name OF Amy
Rrown. BY this wife he had three children, Two oil
ubom were girls. They were taken to farls anu
h,onybt ND there. and the boy was sent
~ England, When the Due de Bern ieit
m.t his last moment was nigh he asked his wife II
M would allow him to see Amy Browns daughters
Shs Of once consented and when they were brought
,she TO ease the mind of the dying Prince. EN-
hrssed them and said that she would be to them
most tender mother. She kept hei
word. and when they grew up look
s,s,s 70 find for them matches in honora-
~. t.uiI,ss They were both ennobled at her re-
ouest Inv Iouis XVIII, her unce-in-law, provided
with aowries. and married in the presence OF the
ro,rt IN the Prince de Luclnge and the Marquis dc
Charette Vendean chief
Il Is reasonable to suppose that what under
these trying circumstances the Duchesse dc bern
tet and did had an effect the moral nature oI
her son She was very impulslve woman rouan-
tic in her IDEAS loving what was heroic, gay OF
sunny temperament. and giddv because sue was
surronn6ed by temptations. and had never Learned
10 think. .,...,.s.
The Conntesse de Chambord was more relentless
than her husband She was never able to forgive
from her heart the Orleans family. The reason sue
cave was that they never repented OF "n"t was
done in 1890 and only demanded leave 10 huuio'e
themselves before the grandson OF Charles A. "ne"
they found his assistance was needed 10 OBTAIN 'ne
abrooation of the Law which excied them
and of the decree which conhscated LOUIS
phiiiupe,s estates This true. so little uid
thew repent that if the ducal party had triumphed
m 1877 the Comte de Chambord would have been
treated as AN imprachcable fanatic and tho Due
d,Aumale Amounted Regent in his life time. Ihe
Countesse de ChamboTd also supported the ciai" Va
his sisters son. Don Carlos, TO be regarded rs ,ne
head of the. House of Bourbon. de Is the eIoes'
descendant of LOUIS Quatorze, while the Com'e oe
Paris ia only descended from the brother OF lha'
monarch. ,,..-.
Carlos through the fault of Louis Philippe,
the Couutesse de Chanibord used 70 aIguc,
not KING of Spain. The Citizen King intrigued u
keep Isabella on the throne upon winch |nliS.'u"
placed her so as to provide crown matlinon''i i0'
one of his younger sons. was IL equi'a'i'' wv"
that the Comte de Paris was to profit by the re-
nunca,ion of philp V. fDuc de Angou and son OF
Louis QuatOrze to the throne OF France besioes,
that prince only engaged not to try to unite the
French and Spanish nations under one sceptre. h'
reserved for himself and his descendants the ght
elect for French OF Spanish monarchy IN the event
hsedest brothers progeny failing. This brother wa
the Duke OF Bergundy of whom ST. seimon lolln nc
30 high an opinion. His last descendant Was VIC ",
Comic de Chambord Carlos. not being klng o.
SPAIN Is therefore his successor. II there Is any
force in the Legitimist principle ne aVolue.
meeting the Orleanist Princes the day they went !,
Frohsdorf TO pray beside the mortuary couci
there. and we now hear. insists on appearing
chief uourner at the funeral.