The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-12-25
WITHOUT A THRONE. :
A King Who Was Without Honor
in His Own Country.
History in Brief of the Late Count O
Paris-HIs Services as a Volun-
teer in the United
States ARMY.

Louis Philippe Albert, Comte de Paris,
whose death occurred recently, writes
Pierre Cominges in Golden Days,
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 a 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, n young man OF twen-
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 "a, 1888, and became, by the
death of his father in 1912, the lmme-
aiate heir to the crown his grandfather,
Louis Philippe, had picked up when
Charles X. 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 1s4s:
Though too young to remember his
fathers death, Comte de Paris doubt
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
fupitives 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 ex-king died in
1850. Ever afterwards Comte de Paris
has occupied the position of pretender
to the French throne.
OHe has lived very quiet life, en-
livened by very slight conspiracies,
none of which involved any very dan
perous 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 q
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
his staff, with the rank of captain.
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 ful-
filed with credit and ability. For
more than a year the comte particl-
pated ia 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 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 Ill. and
the downfall of the second empire at
last enabled the comte to return to
France. The third republic, very soon
after it 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 Eail-
lion francs as an indemnity for the
deprivation of their revenues. The
comte received his share, and also his
ancestral estate.
For awhile, it seemed very probable
that the monarchy would be restored;
but, as the partisans of the other
claimants refused to help them, the
French people at last got tired and be-
came for the most pert good republic
ans. In 1879, when it was too late to
do any good, all the claimants to the
French throne, except the Bonapartists,
recognized the comte as de jure king OF
France.
A royalist demonstration in 1856 led
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bers of his family.
He took up his residence in England,
and from that country issued mani
festoes declaring that the men who
were ruling France had lost the conf
dence of the people, and the only salr
vation of the nation was to restore the
monarchical form of government.
The new head of the French royal
house - Louis Philippe Roberts
quick, intelligent, active, energetic,
passionately fond of movement, and
uncompromising in the expression of
his thoughts and feelings. In dispo.
sition and temperament he is singu-
iaFly unlike his father, who was one of
the best informed men living, a deep
thinker and a scholar.
What influence the new pretender
will exert on the destinies of France
cannot be guessed, but the probable
ities are that, like his father, he will
live and die mere pretender-a king
without throne or q crown.