The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-05
A PARTISAN ROMANCE.
A Woman in humble Circumstances
Claims Royal Descent.
Paris Letter to the London Globe.

A Woman in humble Circumstances
Claims Royal Descent
Paris Letter TO the London Globe.
Everybody knows that the duchess de
Berry, mother of the Comte de Cham
bJrd, after his arrest at Nantes in 1882 by
Louis Philippe, gave birth to a daughter
in the citadel of Blaye, wnere she was i'm
prisOned. The accoachement took place in
the presence Cf several officials, civil and
military. The infant was chrIstened Anne
Marie Louise and registered as the legltl-
mote issue of secret marriage lie ween
! Comte Hector Lucchesi-Pall, o a of the
princes OF Campo Franco, gentleman OF
the chamber to the king of the Two Slcllies.
residing at Palermo, aid her royal highness
Marie Caroline, widow OF the due de
Berry.
Two or three years afterward it was
given out that the little girl had died. But
was such really the cases If we are to be-
! lieve the letter received by the mayor of
Blaye the other day, the mysterious Oft
i spring is still alive, aud may bs found IN 9
lodging house at st. Denis. She has been
! twlce married-hfsU to one Froment, who
was drum major in the National guard
and secondly to a NJ. Hcnon, OF whom al
a. present we know nothing beyond the
fact that he is dead. But, IN sQite OF these
| plebeian all anca5 she has always sty ell her
self Prince La cchesi-Palli, anu has never
ceased to lay claim to her royal descent, and
the millions attached to II.
Since she wrote TO the mayor of Blaye to
obtain her biptismal certificate, for the
purpose Of taking legal proc liagS, she ha:
become quite famous, and her huu5ls resi-
donca is being hes.ege1 by visitors of al
! kinds. $40 Itars some resemblance TO the
unfortunate duchess, bat 1t IS not So strik'
| ing. Perhaps her long assocllloa WIN
common people may have changed her.
| Her FrencI, too, Is not academic ana she
| plays ducks and brakes wit gram mar; out
other great persouages have done 50 before
her. she says ie mas mad her mlSfortuneS,
like most French persons of high birth III
these revolutionary days.
While still child OF tenderest years she
remembers being taken to Palermo, and
subsequently to Brazil. She taen rec DiI4ctS
being wrecked during long SCI voyage,
and falling into the hands of pirates, WAC
conveyed ner to Algeria and sold her as d
slave. But her guardians found her again
though how cannot call to mind. She
was bought back to France, and p.acel in
a chateau in the S3ine-et- Marine. Next she
was sent to convent in the Faub jurg du
Roule, in Paris, where she rem lined two
years. After this she was betrOthed to a
prince, whose name she forgets, but she
thinks he was called Louis.
Her dowry, 600 francs, was de-
posted in the C4lssa des Consignations,
where, she contends, 1t is still. Or course,
she claims it as her property. The prince,
however, died before the nuptials. Then
comes blank IN her existence which she
cannot clearly explain. She believes it to
be due to fever, which impaired her men,
DRY. Eventually she married the drum
major. After his dslth SIZE again fell i'll,
and was laid up for eight years. Ga her re-
covery she was welded to her second hus-
band. bus he, too, did not survive long. She
says she bears the same marks on her body
as those mentioned in the register at Blaye,
and shows O doctors certificate to that eff
feet.
She has appealed at various periods to
the Emperor Napoleon, the empress, I'd.
Theirs, NJ. Grevy and the senate, but in
vain. She is now going to try President
Carnot Meanwhile sne is writing her
memoirs Such is her story. 1t appears to
be credited by her neighbors, one of whom
allows FER pension of 3 francs a week.
Even her landlord is credulous, and-won-
der of wonders.-h let her live rent free
for six years. In the district, too, every
body calls her the princess, ana looks for
ward to seeing her rich one of these days.
| She herself, however is not very sangulne
of success. II is said that Margu srite Bonn
bal, the nurse engaged by the duchess for
her child, is still alive at B,rdea1x. Her
evidence ought to be very material.