The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-08
EXILED PRINCES
Remarkable Action Taken by the
French Government.
Driving the Heads Of Royalist Fami'
Lies From the Country.

The French Legislature having passed a
bill e1pelling from the country all the heads
Of the families that had once ruled in France,
the Government has issued decree to that
effect. The Comte de Paris, who is
chief among these exiled Royalist Princes,
received many visits Of coincidence on the
23d, the day that the decree was issued. One
thousand persons called at his chateau during
the day and inscribed their names in special
book. The Comte de Paris shook hands with
each one and briefly expressed his thanks.
After issuing manifesto protesting against
his expulsion, he took his family to England.
Prince Victor and fifteen of his most prom
inent adherents including the Marquis Ct
Vaiette and Baron Hausmann, went to Brrls-
sells. The train bearing the party left the
station at Paris amid cries Of "Vive PEm-
pereurl" eau revoir!" and shouts of "Vive
Several persons were arrested.
Prince Victor, at a reception before his
departure, said: "Do not expect a vain pro
test from me. A people sometimes takes it
upon itself to open its doors to an exile. l
remain a representative of the empire as the
Napoleons constituted it. I favor firm
authority, equality of all citizens and respect
for all creeds. Be assured that whatever
call duty may make I shall not be found
the democracy and to my name. Au re-
voir."
The Royalist press pronounces the passage
of the Ex pulsion bill the forerunuer Of the
downfall of the Republic. The Moderate
Republican papers of Frame generally crit
icise the measure as unjust. The Opportunist
journals urge the Government to discard the
demands of the 1Teconcilables and Radicals,
and they demand q firmer Republican policy.
The police have been ordered to arrest all
persons who make noisy loyalist demonstra-
tions in Paris and elsewhere on the occasion
Of tie departure of the expelled princes.
Count Foucher de Careil, French Ambassa-
dor to the Austrian Court, has resigned in
protest against the action of his Government
ir e1pelling the French Princes.
It was believed that NJ. Waddington,
French Ambassador to the Court Of st.
James, would also resign in consequence OF
tae xIulsion of the Princes.
An invitation to visit America was sent by
a group of well-known American officers who
served in the civil war to the Comte de
Paris, but it met with no further response
than his warm thanks, and an intimatlon
that America is too far away. The Comte
de Paris was one of the foreign officers who
t)ok part in the war between the States
The reasons that influenced NJ. de Freyci-
ueV, Iuo rTcuCQ ITesulcT, III DIluSluS LILO Ia
pulsion bill may be stated in the Premier's
own words. In recent speech in tie Cham
ber of Deputies he contendei that the
Princes, whether they intended it or not, by
the very fact that they represented an ex-
ceptional position, imrersonated princi-
pie Of Government. They held out the
living Tr1m.se of a Government different
from that existing, and tended to weaken
and discreditit. No Government, he said,
could ever tolerate such state of things. He
considered that the danger to the Republic
had been increased after tie death of the
Prince Imperial and of the Count de Cham
bord, because the issue had thereafter become
concentrated in the Princes of Orleans
These, he said, had not, like the Count de
Chambord, had the nobleness to keep out OF
France. Since 1883, he said, the Gov
ernment and the Republican party had
felt all the gravity of the danger brought
about by their presence He thus con-
cluded: 'As for the Pretender Princes,
there must be action against
them be- ause they keep up the idea that
there exists Court alongside the Republic
a second government waiting to take its
place. The idea is especially diffused abroad:
am not afraid of the material but only Of
the moral effect of this occult government"