Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-10


CoMTE DE PARIS
The touching scenes which were wit
messed at Stowe House on Thursday
| night, when the dying man was not sup
posed to live until Friday morning, were
repeated. The family and the old servants
of the family were all in attendance, and
| to each one the head of the royal house of
France said few additional kind words
of farewell. after which the family knelt
! at his bedside and offered up heartfelt
prayers for the dying.
| He rarely, however, referred to his ap-
preaching death, always trying to soothe
| the sorrow of those around him. Now
and then deep sigh wodld escape from
the sufferer and he would mutter the
phrase often repeated during the past
week, &c Est Bien Long" equivalent to
saying that he was wea4y of waiting for
death and that his dread Majesty was
| very
| Slow In Coming to His Relief.
This phrase was characteristic of the last
| illness of the Comte de Paris. Death had
marked him beyond hope for many days
past, but the sick man fingered on, hour
| after hour, day after day, the light of life
|
| gently went out, so gently indeed that
| some time elapsed before the fatal verdict
was rendered by the attending physicians
| After the death of the comte the follow
| ing notice was posted upon the gates of
Stowe House: 1.-THE Comte dc Paris grad
ually sank during last evening and night
| He suffered no pain, but quietly passed
away in the presence of his family and the
princes and princesscs at 7:4O this morn
ing. The remains of the Comte de Paris
will be buried at Weybridge, Surrey, the
date of the interment is not definitely de-
cided upon"
| The last sacraments Of the Roman
| Catholic church was administered to the
| Comte de Paris by Mgr. Ahulst, rector of
the Catholic Institution at Paris, whose
mother was one of the ladies in waiting
upon the wife of Louis Philippe. A very
| large number of the messages were dis
patched from Stowe House after the death
| of the Comte de Paris
To Distant Relatives and Friends.
| Friday a Geographic message was re-
| ceiycd from a number of French royalists
who met and prayed for the dying man in
the old cathedral of Laval, capital of the
| department of Mayenne, saying: Present
to Mons lie Due DOrleans and NJ. Mad
anne La Comtesse de Paris, our respectful
| homage" The wording of this message,
put in the name of the Due D'Orleans,
eldest son Of the Compile de Paris first,
shows, it is claimed that the royalists of
Franco already regard the DUO D'Orleans
as King of France.
There are, however, two other pretend
ers to the throne of France, Don Carlos,
Duke of Madrid, and General de Bourbon,
who styles himself Due d. Anjou, and who
claims the throne. Their pretentions, it
may be added, are ridiculed by the press
and public of even royalist France.
1t was at first reported that the remains
of the late head of the house of Orleans
would be inferred in the Mausoleum of
the Orleans family built by King Louis
| Philippe in the chapel attached to the
ancient castle at Dreux, 20 miles from
Charities, in the department of Euret,
France. But permission had first to be
obtained from the French government,
and 1t is understood that the matter was
discussed at a meeting of the French cabi-
net Saturday. In any case, as already
stated, the remains will be buried at Wey-
bridge, Surrey, and from this it is inferred
|
to grant the necessary permission for the
interment to take place at Dreux.
Louis Albert Philippe d Orleans, Count
of Paris, would have been known as King
Philippe VII if he had succeeded to the
throne of France.
He was the son of Ferdinand dOrleans,
Due d'Orleans, and Helene the Duchess
of Mecklenberg- Sshwerin, and his birth
occurred at Paris on Aug. "a, 1885 On
May 30, 1864, he married Isabelle, Princess
dOrleans, daughter of the Due de Mont
| pensier. The counts father died in 1912
The Count of Paris was 10 years old
when the revolution of 1913 broke out. re
sulting in the Punishment of the royal
family, He was educated in England by
his mother, who died on May 1858. In
the fell of 1861 the young Count of Paris,
accompanied by his brother, the Due de
! Charities, and his uncle, the Prince de
Joinville, came to this country, and went
direct to washington. The count and his
brother esposed the cause of the northern
states, and they enlisted, serving on the
staff Of General George b. Mcclellan with
the rank of captains of volunteers. The
royal Frenchmen enlisted with the stipu-
lation that they We're to receive no pay and
=
oou,u nc free to resign their appoInv..
whenever they might wish to do so. The
count and the Due de Charities served on
General McClellan's staff until the close
OF the Virginia campaign and
Then Returned to England.
At the close of the year 1871 the Count
OF Paris was admitted member of the
national assembly at Versailles under NJ
Thiers, president of the French republic
In 1877 the assembly voted the restitu-
ton of the property of the Orleans family.
The Count of Paris and his son, the Due
dorleans, frequently gave expression to
their royalistic ideals In 1889 the due