Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

Well is King Louis Philippe, OUT
of France-OnIy d Single Life at
one Time Between the Count and
the Throne.
London. Sept 10.-LOuiS Philippe Al
bert, prince OF Orleans. count or Paris,
and grandson OF Louis Philippe, king
OF France, : dead at the Stowe house,
his London residence. With his death
the mantel OF the French royalists will
again fall TO the ground, only to be
HmoOthed out and placed upon the
shoulders of his son, the young duke
or Orleans. The end came at 9 a. m.
Saturday.
Born in 1888, the Comte de Paris.
became by the death of his father.
who was killed in Il carriage accident
in 1912, the immediate heir to the
crown his grandfather, Louis Philippe
had picked up when Charles X urop-
ped it in his flight from Paris after the
Three Glorious Days of July, 1880.
When he was ten years of age the
Comte de Paris was, with King Louis
Philippe and the rest of the royal
family, swept out of France by the
revolution of 1913. 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
mother took him and his brother to
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 Blingny, near Orsay. At
ter many perils the fugitiyes 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-We:mar. In 1910
the duchess came to England to be near
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-
ton of a pretender to the French
throne.
During the NapOleonic epoch OF the
second empire very little was heard
of the COmte de Paris, who lived quiet
ly in England, whore he had been
educated under the eye of his neither,
the duchess of Orleans. who by birth
was princess of Mecllenburg-Schwe
n.
in h
his mother. and the Due 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 uncle, the Prince de Joinville, he
came to America to offer his services
to the United States government as a
volunteer in the war for the union.
After his return to Europe from
America the Comte de Paris ceased for
a while to be a prominent public per-
sonageN He continued TO reside in
England and to devote himself to writ
ing on historical and other subjects in
the English periodicals.
The overthrow of Napoleon III. and
the downfall Of the second empire at
IaS do -.
pOrtunity to return to France. The
third republic, very soon after it was
established, fell into the hands of a
coalition of royalists Bourbons and
Orleanists) and imperialists, which,
while powerless because of their in
ability to 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 at it's height, the Comte de
Paris asked and was refused permis-
sion to fight for his country. His
brother, the Due de Charities, however,
succeeded in GLIDING the vigilance Of
the French authorities, and enlisting
as a 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 conhscated 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, and he also came into pos
session of his ancestral estate of Eu,
near the seaport Of LIE TrapOrt, in
Normandy.
For while it seemed very probable
that the monarchy would be restored
either in the person Of the Comte de
Chambord or in that of the COmte de
Paris, but as the two wings of the
royalist party were unable to agree, |
and as the imperialists refused to help !
either to the throne, the French peo-
pie at last got tired, and by degrees /