Telegram-herald., 1890-03-30

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Three reeent in. i6ents have called
speel-l attention 60 tbs seendsnt u
klag Logls Fei.ippes ~ France, who
see generally knosn A. "the Orleans
family
I'll e revolution In Iirazil resulted tn
the sEpllsion from that country q tAe
Cognt Eu. husband of the Brazilian
Princess Isabel. sEd grandson oi Louls
Philippe.
On FebsGary 4. the Duke de AoBtpsn-
sier, hfth 4nd youngest son Of Louis
PhilipPe, died ia spain.
In The same week. ca February tho
young Duo d'Orlesns, grest-gFaHdson
and neir Ia the direct line Vi Louis
Philippe. made his rash entry into
Paris. though by law he was forbidden
70 set foot on French soil
Thus the Orleans family have come
into considerable notice OF late, says
the Youth Companion. There is no
doubt that they still hope, as they have
long hoped. that the French republic
may some day De oyerthrown, and that
their own house msy DO restored 70
royal power.
OF tas I've sons o. Louis Philippe,
three are still living. The eldest son,
the former Due j Orleans, was killed near
~ hfty years ago BY fall from his car
riage, during his fathers reign. The
eldest son OF this Duke is the Count Of
Paris, now ffty-two years Of age; and
the young Due Orleans Just twenty
one. is the Count Of Paris eldest son
The Count DO Paris, moreover, has one
brother, the Due dc Chartres.
The second, third and fourth sons OF
Louis Philippe, still living, arc tle Due
de Nemours father OF Comte d'Eu), the
Prince de Joinyille and the Due d'Au-
male. The two latter have long been
recognized rs men Of marked ability.
De JOinville mas served with distinc-
ton in the French navy, as his brother
D'Aumale has in the army; and both are
able and forcible writer's.
The Due d'ALmale is the only one Of
the Orleans Princes in whose favor the
law Of exile, enforced against the fam
lily four years ago, has been revoked.
lie made a gift of his magnificent estate
OF Chantilly TO the French Institute,
while still in exile; and the splendor Of
this gift coupled with tho belief that he
is too patriotic to conspire against the
republic, caused his reaSmission 10 his
native land.
While the Due de Montpensier, the
youngest son of Louis Philippe, who re-
Gently died in Spain, was far from being
an able man, he has played somewhat
notable part in the history of the past
fifty years. AS young man he did
some military service in Africa; and at
the age OF twenty-five, he married
Maria, the sister of the then reigning
Queen Isabella ii. of Spain. This mar
riage was vigorously resisted by En-
gland and other powers, and came near
causing great war; for it was feared
that il might result in tho control OF
Spain by France.
But no such result followed. The
Due de Montpensier was made Captain
General Of the Spanish army, and
plotted, more than once, 10 get the
royal power in Spain; but being neither
able nor popular, his plots always came
TO nothing.
The Comte de Paris, who IS the chief
of the Orleans family, being the heir
now of both the houses Of Bourbon and
Orleans, is perhaps chiefly interesting
to Americans on account of his service
on General Mcclellan s staff in the early
part Of our civil war and because he is
now writing long and minute history
OF that war.
With his brother, the Due dc Chartres,
he served upon the staff of the Union
army for about year, with the rank of
Captain. He is known as an amiable
and scholarly man, ambitious to wear
the crown but lacking in those quail
ties of tact, Judgment and boldness
which might, on occasion, win success.
He married a daughter of his uncle,
Montpensier, in 1864, and has two chill
dren.
The Orleans Princes are widely con-
nected Dy marriage and blood with the
reigning European families. There are
family ties between them and the houses
Of Spain, Austria. Russia, the Sicilies,
Denmark and several Of the minor Ger
man houses. They have played stirring
part in politics. war and literature. and
one and all are men OF large wealth. Yet
i seems doub .ful If France viii ever ex-
change the republic for another Orleans
dynasty.