Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-09-10
EXCHANGED BABIES

Count Maurice d'Antigne, the favorite
and confidential secretary of the late
compt de Chambord, to stigmatize the
compt de Paris at the banquet held the
other day IN the French capital by that
section of the royalist party which de-
nieS the pretcnsions OF the compt de
Paris, and which regards Don Carlos as
the righttul heir to the claims Of the
cohpt de Chnmbord.
Inasmuch as but few people outside
of France arc aware of the very serious
doubts which exist as to the royal chuf-
acter Of the comte dc Paris descent, it
may be of interest, says the marquis dc
Fontenoy in the New York Recorder, to
give q brief outline of the so-called
Chiabpini story.
will begin by stating that the latter
is strongly Endorsed by Sir Bernard
Burke, Ulster king-at-arms, and the
greatest of genealogists, who, after
careful researches extending over a
number. of yeurs, publicly proclaims
that neither the comte dc Paris nor any
of his children and unclcs have 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 rcigned
from 1910 to 1913 as sovereign of France,
was q changeling. He was not the Son
of the regicide Duke Philippe d'Orleans,
surnnmed "Egalite," but was the off
spring of the Florentine iailer, Chimp
PM.
The documentary evidence which
have referred to above, and of which
the originals IRE preserved among the
archives of Lord Newborough's family,
60 to show that in 1883 the duke and
duchess of Orleans, travelling under the
very transparent incognito of Comte
and Comtcsse de Joinvillc, arrived Mt n
small town. forget at this moment
tho name thereof, but it is somewhere
near Florence. and took up their resi-
dcnce ut the leading inn of the place.
Twenty-four hours later the duchess
gave birth to n daughter. who was en-
tered upon the local parish register as
the female child of the "Comte and
Comtcsse dc Joinville."
Both the duke and the duchess dis
played signs of disappointment at the
sex of the child, and learning that the
wife of the local jailcr, Chiappini by
name. had q fine healthy boy, they in
duced the parents of the latter by means
of q large bride to consent to I'm ex-
change of children.
The jailers son, Chiappini, therefore
grew up to consider the duke and
duchess of Orleans rs 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 n time under the name d.
Maria Stella Chiappini as leading dan
cusc of the opera of Florence, ind fina
ly became the wife of IN Irish peer, tn
first Lord Ncwborough, to whom sh
bore two sons, the younger of whom,
born in 1903, is the present bearer of
the title.
On Jailer Chiappini's deathbed he
made last confession in writing, duly
attestcd by witnesses, of the change of
children that had taken place at tn
time of Lady Newborough's birth, an
other evidences in support of the state
mcnts contained in this dying confes
sion were duly lcgalized copies of the
entries in the (since mutilateO parish
register of the town where she was
born, and sworn statement of the old
chief steward of the duke and duchess
of Orleans, who had accompanied their
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
ut the time.
1t is a fact that Gear Nicholas was Sc
firmly convinced of the truth of Lady
Newborough's claims and Of the falsity
of Louis Philippe's pretensions to roya