St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-04
COMTE DE PARIS.

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main for future qualification, for the re-
production of such fruit as mouarchieS or
empires have ripened.
THE territory of the Republic is and re-
mains interdcted to the heads of families
who have reigned in France and their heirs
i'll the direct line of promogeniture."
The Comte de Paris with his still lovely
wife and children now leaves the soil Of his
own land and seeks the hospitality of Switz-
erland or England, according as he feels
inclined to go to Geneva for the mountain
air or to London for the charms the season
must have for his beautiful girls.
How many years ago-nearly forty years.
all but two-the little count chung to his
mothers skirts as she took him into the
French Chamber where the storm of revo-
luton against the ruling monarch culmina-
ted in 1S4S. Even then, with the roars of rep
resentatiye shouting against the tyranny
Of monarchs and the miserable effeteness Of
a bourgeois king. the boy stood close to the
Duchess of Orleans more as a champion
than child, with tears of rage, not of fear
in his little eyes.
While Mr.. Smith, as Louis Philippe
called himself ih disguise, with his pear
shaped head (which all Paris had carica-
tured) and his inseparable umbrella, was
| finding his way across the channel in a
small boat, his daughter, the duchess, and
his little grandson, Louis Philippe d Or
leans, Count Of Paris, then ten years old,
were hurrying away from the bloody
streets of Paris to Eisenach, in SaXe-Wei-
mar, where with his brother, the Due de
Charities. their education was cultivated
under their highly talented tutor, Adolph
Regnier. of the Institute.
| Mathematics, the art of war and langu-
| ages were the young princes chief delight,
and it was his greatest enjeymen when
meeting foreigners, as he continually did in
his wanderings through the lovely valleys
and mountains around the castle, to pass
himself off for compatriot in English,
German or Italian, as the case might be.
In spite of the vaporings of his uncle the
Prince de Joinville, who was never sc
happy as when he was inventing plans for
invading the shores of 'ePertdious Albion"
and to whom the name of John Bull was as
bad as the exhibition of red flag to an in
| furiated turkey-eock, the Comte de Paris
| loved England and passed many of his va
cations sketching the old ruins of medieval
| abbeys or studying the heraldic eScutcheons
| in her famous castles. Intent even then on
| plans of social reforms, he attended meet
! ingS and trades unions, of which later on
he wrote in the Revue DIES DeuX Mondes,
under the name Of Eugene FORBADE, x.
Raymond or Langel, all assumed names of
the royal author.
His father, Ferdinand, Duke of Orleans.
who met such fearful death by being
thrown out of his carriage, wrote in his
will:
whether the Count of Paris becomes
| sovereign OF only the unknown and obscure
defender of a cause we all espouse, my son
| must above all be man of his time and, as
a true patriot, the devoted servitor of
France and its revolution"
10 keep with the times the young prince
was taken, with his brother Charities, by
their uncle, Prince Jolnville to America,
where they were received with great hos
! pitality in 1861 by the Federal government.
Filled with a desire to witness actual
warfare and to study the novel phases of a
civil war, the Comte de Paris was only too
pleased to be offered service in the armies
of the United States. On conditions that
| they should receive no pay and be at liberty
to resign their appointments whenever they
| might feel disposed. the count and his
brother were were made captains of volun-
teers and ,aideS-de-camp on the staff Of Gen.
Mcclellan.
By the camp fires of the Potomac the
| royal grandson of a king, who might some
time be king himself, ate his ratiOns and
drank. his rib-tickler with the rest, and
there is a story eXtant how the young aide
de-camp knocked down waif from some
communistic corner of Paris. who was
| masquerading in American uniform, for
| using disgraceful language about the Prince
Imperial, who had never done harm to any
one, French or American.
The princes We're through the disastrous
campaign of the Potomac. He assisted in
person at the battle of Williamsburg, the
siege of. Yorktown and the affairs of Fair
| Wales and Gaines Mill, and it was only
when the interference of France in Mexican
affairs commenced to rifle America that they
took advantage of the clause in their agree
ment and give up their posts on McClellan's
| staff.
AS everyone knows. the prince after
wards wrote with great clearness and lucid
| lty the history of the war, and as proof of
| his style these specimens of character writ
| ing and descriptive powers are worth quot
ing here. At the battle of Williamsburg
Kearny comes to Hookers assistance.
Writes the prince:
Pushing his division along the highway,
encountered with wagons, he fastened to
| the left and after making his men. fatigued
| by long marches, throw down their KNAPP
sacks. he deployed them with as much pre-
cision aseaif they had been on parade.
Though this admirable soldier had a char
acter difficult to manage and temper that
was hasty at times. with caustic and sat
/ irical tHrn of mind, he became different
man as soon as he found himself in the
presence of the enemy. His calmness, his
/ piercing glance, his clear voice, his or
/ ders. precise and thrilling, inspired the
confidence of all those who served under
1 him."
i In the last years of the Second Empire
/ the prince occupied himself with literary
enterprises after his marriage in '64 with
/ his cousin Marie Isabelle de Montpenser,
who was as Accomplished as she was lovely,
| tbYswhom he hasssix children-Marie Amelia
! Louise, aged %; Louis Philippe Robert.
/ duke of Orleans, aged II; Helene aged
Is; young son of 10. Prince Charles;
Princess Isabelle, s, and baby of q
The princes ESSAYS on the trades unions
and workingmen's clubs of England made
quite stir in the literary world and were
translated into most European languages.
| He published also his younger travels. enti-
! tied Damascus and Lebanon being
memories of his early trip to Syria with his
| brother.
When the war broke out with Prussia he
did all he could to persuade the government
to accept his services in the army, but was
! refused by the legislative assainhlr WhAn