New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-21
A ROYAL SUFFERER.
THE ORPHAN OF THE TEMPLE.

THE Youth Of TIE Duchess OF ANGuu LE :N.r.
BY Imbert dc saint AmSR;d Irans'eu, ~ 40. pp
3l6. Charles ecribner's fons'
The life Of Marie Thercse Charlotte, daughter
Of Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antolnctte, ehds
itself naturally to graphic and picturesque his'of
zeal delineation, for she was surely "onoh Vi
SORROWS and acquainted with grei. Inc Udsc"N
Of her career, moreover, opened carly. one was "o'
fourteen when, August ~, 1872, she eh.'lcH
that rrim Templc tower which she was not 10 c'Nc
until December Is, 1875; and during those uic'"-
ful wears she passed through tormen's wlch ihieho
well have wrecked "a mature intellect. she went
there with her father her mother her Dro'her' anu
her aunt, Madame Elisabeth. She passed ont aoh''
her parents and heT sanity aunt having al I"ihh
urder the knife of the guilotine while her brother
the unfortunate Louis Seventeenth, had peh
slowly tortured 10 death. The history OF mat
,yretcbed BOYS treatment in the Temple by the
cohbler Simon and his wife and other ec0thdrei
aoents of the Terror has long been common prop
ertv but the account Of the whole life OF the royal
family. or what was left of it, given by NJ. dc
Saint-Amand, presents n most moving picture VI
an episode which Frcnchman should DE abe
Ia recall without wincng.
At first Marie Antoinctte Madame Elisabeth.
and little Marie Therese, were allowed to i've TO-
petber Oh the floor assigned them, but from day 70
day their imprisonment was made more rigorous
They were not allowed TO see the King. who was
lodged above them nor the Dauphin, whose prison
was IN the ground floor. Soon Louis WINS removed
! for his sham trial, and his family never saw nm
ac,in. Then persecution became sharper. The
| brutal cobbler who had charge Of the Dauphin
was allowed 10 do all he could to corrupt and de
| Grad. tbe cbild,s mind lie was forced to drink
wine to intoAication. He was taught to sing rev.
| hall
them he was made TO stand where his mother and
| amt and sister would hear him. No change of
| clothing or bed linen and no fire in cold weather
was allowed him, nor could he take any exercise.
| His jailors insultcd him constantly. IL was
customary to call him in the middle Of the night
| for this purpose only, and when he had rlssn
trembling and answered to the name Capet' he
| was disnssed with $50 to bed, wbcp' The
turn of Marie AntOinette came to go TO the Con-
ciergerie and she too vanished. Madame Ellsaheth
| and Marie Theresc remained, always more ana more
| barsbly treated At least three times a day they
were visited by municipals," who searched the
| auartment with deliberate brutality, meantime
obusipg and insulting their helpless prisoners
Several months passed thus. They were deprived
of everything not permitted to the lowest criminals
All their little personal belongings were tlkcn away
| Candles were refused them and necessary clothing
| and books and the means of writing. At last
| Madame Elisabeth was reused in the middle OF one
fatal night and hurried away, and the poor little
Princess was alone in that grim tower. And all
this cruelty was perpetrated under the name oil
Liberty, Progress and Love OF Humanity.
No information was vOuchsafed concerning the
fate of her family. Marie Antoinette had been
dead eighteen months before her daughter knew it,
Once she was visited by Robespierre, who scowlcd
at her but said nothing, and after looking round
the prison went away. She was not allowed 10 see
her brother, who was all this time undergoing the
slow torture that killed him. Sometimes there
was temporary relaxation of the severity OF hei
treatment, and notably after the ninth Thcrmidor
Then reaction would occur, and the old harshnes'
be resumed But at length the Revolution grew
sick of its inhumanity, and public opinion began Il
express itself the long imprisonment of this or
phaned child with an energy which few month
previously would have furnished fresh victims fo
the guillotine Meantime Austria had begun ne
gotations for the exchange Of Marie Therese agans
| a number of French officials and emissaries wh'