Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-11-03
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This "a a companion volume to the
.utbor,s eeries of Famous Women or the
French Court. and deals with one Oh
the most interesting episodes IN 'he
checquered history of France during 'he
mas, centurv. The fan OF Louis Philippe
WAS the outcome OF three-days feNo-
lu,ion as unexpected in its results upon
tho dawn Of the first day 10 the enemies
NJ the reignng dynasty as II was 10
tho monarch and his advisers. Lamartine
was one OF the chief actors in the drama
and more than any other one man can
be REGARDED as the founder of the second
rerubIic. which supplanted the orleans
regime. Many years afterwards, speaking
As a student and writer or history from
his own personal knowledge at the time
and subsequent thorough investigation
Of all available sources OF Information
he saws: Il have emerged from inns MS
toric inquiry, without finding either con-
spiracy. plan, or leader OF TINS iheApilca-
be event.
"Tbere are events which come out .of
the ground like the craters OF volcano.
without having been kindIed by any
hand or which come from the sky Ike
meteors without any one being able 10
say whence they came. what they are
going TO strike or where they VIII eN-
tend The most notorious republicans
have said TO me. We came down INTO me
street because We saw our trlends theFe'
hat We DO not know by whom the blaze
Was kindled.' There is more chance than
people think for i'm revolutions-they have
more mysteries than secrets.
For more than century no fiehch
monarch or Emperor with the one eN-
ceptiOn Of Louis NNlll., mas cleu III
.he iucumbency OF his office Louis WI.
died upon the scaffold: Louis NNlL died
I'm cautiyity. the victim Of the brutality
of the jailers OF the revolution To help
less child. The great Napoleon fretted
out his life a prisoner Of Great Britain
upon the Rock of st. Helena. Charles y.
was expelled from the throne by the
revolution of 1880. and his cousin ana
successor Louis Philippe. by singular
parody Of his fate, was thrust out a
throneless wanderer by the revolution OF
ISIS Since then the second. Ndpolron
ended his hafiied career an exile in Great
Britain. OF the Presidents OF the third
republic. which succeeded his ial,
THEIRS. NeNah0n, and GreVy, succe ssiNely'
were compelled 10 resign their Office.
Carnot Tell scarcely .tweivemonth ago
the victim of an assassin. and his sue
ccssOr. Cashier Perier after brlei anu
troubious administration. was compelled
10 resign What the future may hold III
reserve for his successor. the present IN
cumbent, julius Faure, no student ~
the mast or observer Of the present. would
venture 10 predict. II is true mat
blessed are that people whose annals are
tiresome-it is beatitu1e which has
not been realized during the closing
years Of the past or during any Of the
wears Of the present century by tht
French people.
The curse Of Reubin: Unstable as
water. thou shall not excel seems l.
have rested upon every dynasty dhl
upon every chief. We cannot undertake
i'm the limits of this brief sketch 10 adNer
to any one or more of the events %
the three-days' revolution OF 1878 IN thei
Kaleidoscope changes. The author OF TINS
book sets them Out graphically III de
tails of absorbing interest. There Is
strange pardlleiism between TINS st"r!
and that of the fall of Charles y, a
this game author natrates 1t IN m
volume on "The Duchess of Berry an
the Revolution Of July. 1890" Charlie
Y and his advisers We're as little pre-
uared for the revolution which brok
mon them i'm 1890 as was Louis Philipp
and his court FOR that Of 1915. LOU
Philippe only followed the preceden
With a like i'll success which Charles y
had set for him in abdicating the thron
| in favor Of an infant grandson. BOth O
( these grandsons were children OF wldowe
mothers. and the Duchess OF orleans, j
behalf OF her son, the Count OF Paris
| trod not unequally I'm the foot prints o
! the Duchess Of Berry in her inefectud
maintenance Of the rights Of her sol
| the Duke Of Bourbon. The author
| abundantly justified in asserting una
| al both epJchs the women showed NOR
energy than the men. and that had the
been listened TO they might perhap
| have saved the throne.
wa cordially commend this book {
our readers-not less to the novel reader
than 10 the student. 1t is veritable his
tory. but history Astounding IN all I'll
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