Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-09-13
THE COUNT OF PARIS AT LAST
PASSES AWAY.
END COMES TO THE ...E IN
ENGLAND.
The Revolution OF 1890 Swept Him, as
Well as King Louis Philippe, Out
OF France-only a Single Life at
One Time Between the Cou..t and
the Throne

bert, prince of Orleans, count OF Paris,
and grandson of Louis Philippe, king
OF France, is dead at the Stowe house,
his London residence. With us death
the mantel OF the French royalisis will
again fall TO the ground, only to be
smoothed out and placed upon the
shoulders of his son, the young duke
or Orleans The end came at . a. m.
Saturday.
Born in 1888, the Cointe de Paris,
became by the death Of his father,
who was killed in carriage accident
in 1912, the immediate heir to the
crown his grandfather, Louis Philippe,
had picked up when Charles \. drop
ped it in his flight from Paris alter the
Three Glorious Days of July, 1880.
When he was ten years of age the
Comte de Paris was, with kim Louis
Philippe and the rest of the royal
family, swept out of France by the
revolution of 1S4S. Too young to re
member his fathers death, the Comte
de Paris doubtless recalled to the day
of his death the scene when his brave
the chamber of deputies, only to escape
therefrom at the peril of their lives.
his younger brother being separated
from them in the confusion, and only
restored to his mothers arms two days
afterward at Blingly, near Orsay. AT
ter many perils tie fugitives succeed
ed in crossing the frontier at Vervi-
ers, thence going TO reside at Eisenach
in a country house belonging to the
grand duke of SaXe-Weimar In 1S49
the duchess came to England to be near
the cxiled king and queen and their
family.
Louis Philippe died in 1850. and ever
afterward throughout his youth, his
early manhood and his maturer years.
the Comte de Paris occupied the posi-
tlon Of pretender to the French
throne.
During the Napoleonic epoch OF the
second empire very little was heard
of the Comte dc Paris who lived quiet
ly in England where he had been
educated under the eye of his mother.
the duchess OF Orleans, who BY birth
was d princess Of Mecklenhurg-S chwer-
u.
When in his twentieth year he lost
his mother, and the DUO de Nemours
was appointed his guardian. 1t was
at that time he went to Spain. and for
the first time saw his future wife. The
Italian war brought him back to Eng
land, but the following year he tray
elled with his brother in Egypt Pal
estine. Turkey and Greece.
The only time during this period of
his life that the Comte de Paris came
prominently into public view was in
1861, when, accompanied by his
brother. the Duke de Charities, and
his unci9 the Prince de Joinyille, he
came to America to offer lis services
to the United States government as
volunteer in the war for the union.
After his return 10 Europe from
America the Comte de Paris ceased for
a while TO be a prominent public per
sonase> He continued 10 reside in
England and to devote himself to writ
ing on historical ana other subjects In
the English periodicals
The overthrow Of Napoleon Ill and
the downfall of the second empire at
last gave the Comte de Paris an OPP
portunity to return to France, The
third republic. very soon after ii was
established, fell into the hands of
coalition Of royallsts tBourbons and
Orleanists) and imperialists, which,
while powerless because Of their in
ability 10 agree on the main point, to
bring about a monarchical restoration,
were at least able to agree upon al
lowing each other an open field and no
favor
Before this. when the war with Ger
many was Mt its height, the Comte de
Paris asked and was refused permits
sion 70 fight for his country. His
brother. the Due de Chartres, however.
succeeded in eludlny the vigilance of
the French authorities, and enlisting
as volunteer under the name of Rob
ert lie Fort greatly distinguished him
self and was decorated with the legion
of honor by Gambetta before his iden.
tity was discovered.
One OF the first acts OF the men who
then controlled the destinies of France
was to permit the Orleans princes to
return to their native country and to
restore to them the estates which had
been confscated by Napoleon III.
Some forty odd millions OF francs was
also voted to them as an indemnity
for the revenues they had been kept
out OF during their long exile. OF
this sum the Comte de Paris got his
full share, aud he also came into pos
session Of his ancestral estate of En-,
near the seaport OF lie Treport, in
Normandy
Fer while II seemed very probable
that the monarchy would be restored
either II the person Of the Comte de
Chamhord or in that OF the Comte de
Paris hnt as the two wings of the
royalist party were unable 70 agree,
and az the imperialiSts refused to help
either T. the throne, the Freaeh peo-
PIE 1T last cot tired, and by degrees
became for the most part good repnb-
leans. When the Comte de Cham