The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-25
EXCHANGED BABIES
The Chiappini Story as to the
Origin Of Louis Philippe.
Serious Doubts Entertained by the Royal
lists OF Franco Regarding tho
Origin of tho Count
OF Paris.

Count Maurice d'Antigne, the favorite
and confidential secretary of the late
compt de Chambord, to stigmatize the
compt dc Paris at the banquet held the
other day in the French capital by that
section of the royalist party which do
mics the pretensions of the compt de
Paris, and which regards Don Carlos as
the rightful heir to the claims of the
compt dc Chambord.
Inasmuch as but few people outside
of France are aware of the very serious
doubts which exist as to the royal char
acter of the comte de Paris descent, it
may be of interest, says the marquis dc
Fontenoy in the New York Recorder, to
gs1e a brief outline of. the so-callcd
Osappini story.
Twill begin by stating that the latter
is strongly Endorsed by Sir Bernard
Burke, Ulster king-at-arms, and the
greatest of psychologists, who, after
careful researches extending over
number of years, publicly proclaims
that neither the comtc dc Paris nor any
of his children and uncles have u drop
of Orleans or bourbon blood in their
veins.
According to documentary evidence
of the most complete nature King Louis
Philippe, who taught school in this
country at the beginning of the present
century, and who subsequently rcigncd
from 1910 to 1S4S as sovereign of Franco,
was n changeling. He was not the son
of the rcgicide Duke Philippe d'Orlcans,
surnamed 'Egalite," but was the off
spring of the Florentine jailer, Chap
PM.
The documentary evidence which l
have referred to above, and of which
the originals are preserved among the
archives OF Lord Newborough's family,
go to show that in 1883 the duke and
duchess of Orleans, travelling under the
very transparent incognito of Comte
and Comtessc dc Joinvillc, arrived at a
small town. forget at this moment
the name thereof, but it is somewhere
near Florcnce-and took up their resi-
dcnce ut the leading inn of the place.
Twenty-four hours later the duchess
gave birth to daughter, who was en-
tered upon the local parish register as
the female child of the "Comtc and
Comtessc de Joinville."
Both the duke and the duchess dis
played signs of disappointment at the
oS-N VI IitC Clilltt anu learning IlluG INC
wife of the local jailcr, Chiappini by
name, had fine healthy boy, they in
duced the parents of the latter by means
of large bride to consent to an ex-
change of children.
The iailer's son, Chiappini, therefore
grew up to consider the duke and
duchess of Orleans as his parents, and
eventually assembled the throne of
France as King Louis Philippe, while
the authentic child of the duke and
duchess was taught to believe that she
was the daughter of the Chiappinis.
She grew up to be beautiful girl,
figured for time under the name of
Maria Stella Chiappini as leading dams
cuse of the opera of Florence, and final
~ became the wife of an Irish peer, the
first Lord Marlborough, to whom she
bore two sons, the younger of whom,
born in 1903, is the present bearer of
the title.
On Jailer Chiappini's dcathbed he
made a last confession in writing, duly
attested by witnesses, of the change of
children that had taken place at the
time of Lady Ncwborough's birth, and
other evidences in support of the state
ments contained in this dying confess
sion were duly legalized copies of the
entries in the (sincc mutilated) parish
register of the town where she was
born, and a sworn statement of the old
chief steward of the duke and duchess
of Orleans, who had accompanied thcm
during their momentous journey to
Italy.
Lady Marlborough sacrificed both her
peace of mind and the major part of the
immense fortune bequeathed to her by
her husband in her vain efforts to get
the French courts to recognize her
claims to royal rank, an obviously hope
less task, since Chiappini's son, Louis
Philippe, was on the throne of France
at the time.
When she died her son, the present
Lord Newb borough, determined to waste
no further trouble Or money in prose-
cutting claims that could lead to but
barren honors. and made up his mind
that the position of an English peer and
landowner was after all superior to that
of French prctender.
1t is fact that Car Nicholas was SO
firmly convinced of the truth of Lady
Newboroughs claims and of the falsity
of Louis Philippc's pretensions to royal
parentage that in order to publicly man
ifest his sentiments on the subject he
declined during the entire eight years
of Louis Philippe's reign to accredit
Russian ambassador to the French
court.
Jews In Poland.
In the town of Warsaw the Jews now
number 40 per cent of the population,
and the average in all the other towns