The Lamar register., 1895-05-18
A King Who Was Without Honor
in His Own Country.
History IN Brief of the Late Count of
Paris-His Service. a yoiun-
in the Cnited
States Army

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-
ecutive of that country.
Nevertheless, Louis Philippe was re-
garded as a king by quite strong par
ty, who will now turn TO his son, Louis
Philippe Robert, young man of TWEEN
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 -, 1888, and became, by the
death of his father in 1s42, the imme-
diate heir to the crown his grandfather,
Louis Philippe, had picked up when
Charles y. 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 ISIS.
Though too young to remember his
fathers death, Comte de Paris oubt-
less always remembered 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 After many dangers, the
fugitives succeeded in crossing the
frontier, and went to live at a country
house belonging To the grand duke of
Saxe-Weimar.
The exiled king and queen reached
England, and there the eS-king died in
1850. Ever afterwards Comte de Paris
has occupied the position of pretender
to the French throne.
Gle has lived very quiet life, en-
livened by very slight conspiracies,
none of which involved any very dam
gerous schemes, and as a 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 Joinville, 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
John Jacob Astor, whose name will
always be 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 full
filed with credit and ability. For
more than year the comte partici-
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 there
arose a GOODNESS between this country
and the comte's, which led to the
comte's resignation, lest he might be
called upon to fight his own people. He
therefore resigned his commission, in
spite of Gen. McClellan's efforts to re-
tain his services.
The overthrow of Napoleon III. and
the downfall of the second empire at
last enabled the comte to return to
France. The third republic, very soon
after 1t was established, fell into the
hands of coalition of royalists, who
permitted the Orleans princes to return
to their native land and restored them
their estates, which had been confis-
Gated by Napoleon I'LL, with forty mil
lion francs as an indemnity for the
deprivation of their revenues. The