The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-18
MANIFESTO.
Due D~'Orleans, the Pretender, Issues
IN Ante-EIection Address.

Due D'Orleans, the Pretender, Issues
an Ante-Election Address.
VERSAILLES, Jan. 1.-THE Duke of Or
leans, pretender to the throne of France,
issued a manifesto to-day. 1t was addressed
to Senator Buffet, and dwells on the dan
gers of the present crisis, claiming that
the Presidents letter of resignation is an
Indictment of the present Constitution. A
republic in France, the Duke claims, can
never be other than a provisional regime
He adds: THE hour is near at hand when
the country will wish to return to the form
of government which was the glory of its
past and is the guarantee OF It's future.
dence in making me represent the mon
archy imposes on me a heavy heritage; but
the day that my country calls me l shall
find all confidence, and in my devotion
the force to fulfill my whole task. My
life and blood will belong to France-to
great and respected. That will be the
work of Tomorrow. The task of to-day
The manifesto concludes with an appeal
to the friends of the monarchy to vote
for the candidate Who Is pest aole 70 main
Frances order abroad.
The Royalists are especially active at
Bordeaux. They have posted up portraits
of the Duke of Orleans on the walls and
have distributed from house to house. pic
lures of the late Count of Paris and his
son and biographical notices of the latter.
The words "Vive lie Due D'Orleansr' "vive
lie Roi De Francet' were also chalked up
in many places. Prince Victor Napoleon is
keenIy watching events from his residence
in Brussels.
The Young P~retender.
In almost every emeute in Paris there ap-
pears romptl a pretender with a procla-
nation. He is usually from one of the twin
branches of the Bonapartist dynasty or of
the cemented Bourbon and Orleans train of.
claimants. There is a brief show of the
golden eagles or bees of Napoleon or the
lily flag of the Bourbons, a few cheers of
"Vive lie Roi'' or "Vive rEmpereur," a few
arrests, and the so-called demonstration is
over. This is not the first appearance of
Louis Philippe Robert, Due d'Orleans, be-
fore the French populace. 1t is only a brief
season since he crossed secretly into
France, taking asylum in the hotel of his
favorite chum, the Due de Luynes. His
purpose then, he asserted, was to take his
place in the ranks Of conscripts, claiming,
with high-f1own eloquence, that he loved
his country and yearned to share in her de-
tense. On the other hand, it was asserted
that his mission was to bear to the gov
erning group of Monarchists in Paris a
manifesto from his father, the Count of
Paris, in which the elder Orleanist abdi-
Gated in favor of his son.
Duke Robert was kept a month in Jail and
then deported to England. Having nothing
else to do, Paris pretended to be excited
youth the pretender was not regarded as
overly bright. He was the fiat boy of his
class at Stanislaus College, in Paris, and,
quently got himself into trouble. Since 1886
he has not resided in his native country. a
decree banishing the heads of families that
have reigned and their direct descendants
going into effect in that year.
Paris, who died last year at Stowe House.
The Comte de Paris was the grandson of
King Louis Philippe, his father being Duke
Ferdinand, the eldest SON of that monarch.
Duke Robert was born in 1869, his mother
being the Spanish I%nfanta. Isabel Louise of
Montpensier. His eldest sister, Amelie, is
the wife of the King of Portugal. The
Comte de Paris is a familiar name to Amer
leans. With his brother. the DUO de Char
served on the staff of General George B.
Mcclellan, n,l His M aa5 Of that service
liable addition to the history of the war.
Owing to complications involving Mexico,
1862 and returned to his native land. He
paid a visit to this country several years
Until the death of the Comte de Cham
bord the ROyalistS of France were divided
in their support of alleged kings. The
Comte de Chambord represented the Legiti-
mist or Bourbon branch, while Comte de
Paris was supported by the Orleanists. In
/; 1873, at Frohsdorf, the rivals met and eff
agreed to withdraw his pretensions during
the life of the Comte de Chambord. pro-
man the claims of the Comte de Paris and
his heirs should be supreme. When, ten
! years later, the COmte de CnamDOr1 passed
away. this agreement was carried out faith
fully, and the monarchists are now prac-
tically a united body.
OF the royal family Orleans is the senior
branch, being some 200 years older than the
Bourbons. The first Duke of Orleans, Louis
de Valois, younger son of King Charles ",
received the title in 1891. The Bourbon dy-
nasty was founded by Henry w, King of
Navarro, who united Capet and Valois, and
the dukedom of Orleans passed from the
first Louis de Francis, Count of Angou-
leme, who in 1915 became King of France.
The title became extinct in the brother of
by Henry w., who conferred it upon his
second son, CASTOR. Then it passed TO Phil
lippe, younger brother of Louis XIV. This
Philippe's great grandson, Philippe Ega-
lite, voted for the death of his relative,
| Louis XVI, and himself died upon the gull
lotine. He left behind him a young son in
exile, an eager republican and a whilom
in Switzerland, teaching mathematics to
the mountaineers and appearing sfterward
in the streets of Paris surrounded by a
cortege and attended by II. Theirs on his
way to take the oath as King Louis Phil
lippe.
| In appearance the royalist %pretender has
but little of the Frenchman about him. He
was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, a year
before the Empire of Napoleon III. fell, and
and fresh looking and slightly inclined to
be stout. but robust, light and active, he
looks like an Englishman. His courageous
| action and noble demeanor at the time of
his last dash into France won for him many
friends at the French capital.
Henry James's Play.