The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-12-22
WITHOUT A THRONE.
A King Who Was Without Honor
In His Own Country.
History in Brief of the Late Count Of
PAris--His Services ~ . voIun-
teer In the United
States Army.

States Army.
Louis Philippe Albert, Comte de Paris,
whose death occurred recently, writes
Pierre Cominges in Golden Days,
claimed to be the king of France. He
was, however, never on the throne and
never acknowledged king in France.
The monarchical governments of Eu-
rope, as rule, professed to believe
that he really was king, but, Of course,
to preserve their friendly relations
with the republic, they were forced to
recognize the president as the chief ex-
scutive of that country.
Nevertheless, Louis Philippe was re-
garded as king by quite strong par
ty, who will now turn to his son, Louis
Philippe Robert, a young man Of twen-
ty-five, who is very much in earnest in
his pretensions to the throne of France.
Comte de Paris was born in Paris on
August "a. 1888, and became, by the
death of his father in 1912, the imme-
diate heir to the crown his grandfather,
Louis Philippe, had picked up when
Charles X. dropped it in his flight from
Paris, after the Three Glorious Days"
| OF July, 1880.
When he was ten years of age Comte
de Paris was, with his grandfather,
King Louis Philippe, driven from
| France by the revolution of lsis.
Though too young TO remember his
fathers death, Comte de Paris doubt-
less always remembered the scene
| wh"n his brave mother took him and
his brother to the chamber of deputies,
only to escape therefrom at the peril of
their lives After many dangers, the
| fugitives succeeded in crossing the
frontier, and went to live at country
house belonging to the grand duke Of
Saxe-Weimar.
The exiled king and queen reached
England, and there the ex-king died in
1850. Ever afterwards Comte de Paris
has occupied the position Of pretender
to the French throne.
CHe has lived very quiet life, en-
liycned by very slight conspiracies,
none of which involved any very dam
gerous schemes, and as result he has
been very little before the public eye.
The only time, indeed, when he came
very prominently before the world
was in 1861, when, accompanied by his
brother, Due de Chartres, and his
uncle, Prince de Joinvillc, he came to
America and offered his serrices as a
volunteer to aid in the preservation of
the union. Gen. Mcclellan, then com
mander of the army of the Potomac,
made him and his brother officers on
his staff, with the rank of captain.
John Jacob Astor, whose name will
always be a synonym for millionaire in
the United States, was also on the staff
of the general. Both the distinguished
foreigners were obedient, well-be-
haved and thoroughly acquainted with
the duty of their positions Comte
de Paris was repeatedly intrusted by
Gen Mcclellan with important and
dangerous commissions, which he fuI.
filled with credit and ability. For
more than year the comte partiei-
pated in the varying fortunes of the
army of the Potomac, accepting no pay
for his services
France began shortly after this to in.
terfere in Mexican affairs, and thers
arose a GOODNESS between this country
and the comte's, which led to the
comte's resignation, lest he might bt
called upon to fight his own people. BE
therefore resigned his commission, IL
spite of Gen. McClellan's efforts to re
tain his services.
The overthrow of Napoleon Ill. ant
the downfall of the second empire a
last enabled the comte to return Z
France. The third republic, very soor
after it was established, fell into tn,
hands of coalition of royalists, VIII,
permitted the Orleans princes to return
to their native land and restored then
their estates, which had been eonfis
Gated by Napoleon Ill, with forty mil
lion francs as an indemnity for tn,
deprivation of their revenues. Tn,
comte received his share, and also hi
ancestral estate.
For awhile it seemed very probabl,
that the monarchy would be restored
but, as,e.tha- partisans of the othe
claimants refused to help them, tn,
French people at last got tired and be
came for the most part good republic
ans In 1873, when it was too late I,
do any good, all the claimants to tn,
French throne, except the Bonapartists
recognized the comte as de jure king o
France.
: A royalist demonstration in 1886 lie,
: to the exile of the comte and all mem
bers of his family.
= He tool, up his residence in England
n and from that country issued mani
5 festoes declaring that the men VIII
: were ruling France had lost the conf
> denee of the people, and the only sal
o vation of the nation was to restore tn
i monarchical form of government.
The new head of the French roya
= house = Louis Philippe Robert-i
, quick, intelligent, active, energetic
b passionately fond of movement, an
u uncompromising in the expression Q
! his thoughts and feelings. In dispo
sition and temperament he is singu
larly unlike his father. who was one G
the best informed men living, a dee
thinker and scholar.
What influence the new pretende
will exert on the destinies of Franc
:, cannot be guessed, but the prohabi
l. tiles are that, like his father, he vii
e live and die mere pretender-a kin
without a throne or a crown.