Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-02-15

Comte de l'aris took high rank as
scholar and writer.
in 1867 he married his beautiful and
talented cousin, Isabella, daughter Of the
Due de Montpensier, and this boy was
born to them Feb. O., 1869. All these are
"of the younger branch" for the Comte
de Chambord, as the direct descendant
of Charles X, is by strict law of descent
nearer the throne. When, however, in
1882, the people overthrow Charles X,
they ruled out that line as a finality and
gave the crown to Louis Philippe, who
was son of Philippe Egalite, who was
descendant on his mothers side from
Louis XIV, and on his fathers from
that kings brother, and therefore had
concentrated in him little more of the
blood of the original and beloved Bour-
bon, Henry w. than any other claim
ant.
In the early days of the republic little
attention was paid to these kinglets-the
more claimants there were of that sort
the less likelihood there was of any of
them menacing the government-the
boy the Republicans really dreaded was
the prince imperial, son of Louis Napo-
leon. Very opportunely he went to
South Africa with the British troops and
got killed 10y the Iulus, and SO his cousin,
young Victor Napoleon, became his heir,
and that practically ended the imperial
lists chances. Meanwhile the kinglets
had been gaining popular favor, and one
of them, the Due d d'Aumale, had attained
to the high office of division general in
the French army. The Comte de Paris
family gradually set up a sort of court
in their magnificent mansion in the Fau-
bourg St. German, and the attempt Of
the so called "Henry "" or Comte de
Chambord, of the older branch, to assert
| his claims to the throne of Spain brought
on crisis
The expulsion law, which was the net
result of the agitation, forbade the re-
| turn to France of any claimant and
when, therefore, the duke presented
| himself at the Bureau de Requirement
early in the morning and gravely an
nounced his name, that he was a citizen
of France and had come as a patriotic
Frenchmcn, in compliance with the law,
to begin his three years service, the Off
cials were completely shaken from their
propriety. One can but regret that
there wasn't Yankee or an Irishman in
control there to have promptly ordered
him into barracks with the toughest"
lot of recruits that could be selected;
one night of such practical joke would
have made him hail the government ar
rest as a relief The project of Paris
police arrested him that evening, and he
spent the night i'm the Concergerie in
stead. 1t appeared in the preliminary
examination that he entered France by
night and in disguise.
His intimate friend, the young Due
de Luynes, had been spending some days
with him at Lausanne, where he was a
student in the Swiss Military academy.
When he announced his intention the
Due de Luynes assured him the punish
ment would be severe. Philippe. ETC.,
declared that imprisonment had no ter
rors for him; France had called her
able bodied young patriots to the ranks;
he was one of them and must go.
The two friends proceeded to Geneva
Philippe, who is a blonde, concealed his
hair with a brown wig and changed his
clothes: they took the night express and
by daylight were in Paris. After break
fast with the De Luynes, at their elegant
mansion he proceeded TO "erlist"-not
for three years, but for as many months
rs the government may think it policy
to contine him. So strongly do old ideas
hold sway in Europe, and SO strongly
(from the American standpointJ do peo-
Pile there reason, that journalists and
ministers from other nations have dis,
patched to their journals and anxious
monarchs that the government of France
docs not appear seriously shaken" Peo,
pie on this side of the water hardly know
whether % sneer at a government which
can imagine danger in a headstrong boy
or laugh at one which boasts of not be,
ing seriously shaken All Europe agi
tated by a boys freak is such ludicrous
comment on recent assurances of "sta
bility" that the American can only fall
back ON the Californian's comment:
Is their civilization a failure
And is the Caucasian played outf