The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-06

or lmpunfty. Inc power that Shapes the
ends of nations as of individual men and
women catches up such potentates in their
posterity and often the seemingly innocent
case of Louis Xvi and Marie Antoinette.
This lesson should at the present time,
when. with the tacit completely of France
and Russia, Armenians are being massa-
cred and exiled in tens of thousands. come
home with awesome force to the minds of
Nichola and Alexandra and make them
trembie for themselves and for their infant
daughter, the darling of their hearts. The
only daughter of Louis and Marie An
toinette was apparently born TO the most
brilliant lot of any princess of her time.
Yet she was fated TO see before she was
thirteen years old her father. mother and
aunt led out to execution, to be a solitary
prisoner during four years. to witness in
the course of her life three revolutions in
France, and to die in exile with cheeks
~furrowed with the tears that had flowed
of Sorrows, like the infant Grand Duchess.
was also on the maternal side descended
from one who gloriously reigned in her
own right and was good as she was great.
Maria Theresa, but whose goodness did not
counterbalance the maiedictions that
weighs on the House of Bourbon. e
ROYAL ETIQUETTE.
NJ. Faure has been able to secure the
presence of the Car, in company with
himself, at a review of 10000 soldiers at
the Camp of Chalons. He tries, on the
one side, to revive the glories of Versailles
(of which more presently. and on the 9TH
err. to revive the military glories of the
empire at Chalons, where the Emperor
Napoleon III annually held" as the
French used to say, Prussia and the Ger
manic confederation in respect" NJ.
Faure's departure at the Grand West-of-
France m~aneuvers last week prepared
France to see him on horseback along with
the car. The example set by Carnot and
Casiniir Perier was thought to have bound
him to appear in d carriage drawn by six
artillery horses, held with artillery traces
and ridden by artillerymen acting as pos
to ride in a carriage with the Presi-
dent. The difficulty would have been what
to do with the Czarina, who is completely
identified with the life of her husband. If
she rode in the same carriage with him
and the President. one of the gentlemen
would have to sit with his back to the
horses, which is considered undignifed. If
there were two carriages, which should go
the first? Gallantry would have given the
pas to the one containing the Czarina. She
was forbidden by her doctor to go on
horseback. 1t is now settled that Nj. Faure
are to ride before her carriage at Chalons;
that is, should she feel well enough to go to
the review after a very fatiguing three
days bout of sight seeing and festivity in
Paris and a run down to Chalons between
midnight and 9 in the morning, which
would only leave an hours time for dress
ing and going to the camp.
The Imperial train proved un-
manageable and dangerous. In going round
sy Green, where the imperial party are to
alight, it hattened out the rails and ran off
them. Had 1t not been going at q Sna1lS
pace there would have been a grave, not
to say fatal, accident. Russian railways
run in a straight line from one great city
to another without regard for intermediate
burgs or villages. AS the whole country
is fiat for thousands of miles, there are
no more steep gradients than abrupt bends.
430 tons, on a downward grade might have
caused a catastrophe. A train, therefore.
peror, which will afford greater accom-
mediation and be only half the weight,
his Imperial Majesty particularly desires
that place may be made for the icon, or
picture of the patron saint, with a lamp
burning before it. There is a chapel in the
regular imperial train. with icons of the
Nirgi9 and Child of St. Alexander New
patron saint. and also the patron of little
children. In Russia he is regarded as a
sort of Father Christmas. The nursery
compartments will be missed in the French
specially arranged train.
NJ. ACTS AS HOST.
On the other hand M. Faure will have the
intense joy of acting as host to the i'm
perial visitors all the way from Cherbourg
to Paris. and of giving them more than the
eight hours of his company and CONVERSE
ton than they had agreed to put up with at
Cherbourg. The original arrangement was
that they should travel in their own train,
and he in his, a short distance before them.
He is to meet them at Cherbourg without
Madame Faure, and is also to meet them
u~Iaccompanied by the ladies of his family
at the Palace of Versailles the day they
go there. Madame Faure has no national
or international rank and the Presidents
many journalistic enemies, whose envy he is
constantly arousing, have made it impos-
sible for the Empress to ignore a black
page of the good lady's family history.
About a fortnight ago they returned to the
charge and published the sentence by de-
fault passed on M: Bellnot; her father e.
lawyer by profession). with the contract
of marriage of his daughter and a journey
man tanner. who is now President of the
Republic. The first document recorded
twenty years of penal service on Bellnot,
who had fled to Spain, then out of the
reach of extradition, for robbing a client
by a forged paper: the second ,a6 owC that
out of the assets Bellnot left in dying.
This exposure was mean and spiteful- But
the Court of Russia had to take it into ac-
count. The Empress> accordingly. is not to
associate with Madame Faure in public.
She is only to see her when she calls at
are being made here to get this fat altered
and to bring out the Faure ladies at the
Imperial Majesties go there. NJ. Faure will
await them at the Francois and opera
selves to the former and to Versailles. The
road thither has a central pavement of
cobble stones, thirteen miles long. 1t is to
be thickly sanded the whole way to make
it smooth for the imperial carriage. The
| whole garrison of Paris will be under arms
and posted along the road. An imperial
| levee will be held in the Gallery of Mirrors.
which has been furnished as in the time of
Louis XIV. But physiognoTnies and the
costumes will be so different, and. alas!
the manners. too. Ambassadors in the
eighteenth century were never professional
diplomats, affectedly reserved, but men
born to great stations and chosen for their
social gifts as well as for their clear heads.
bright wits and insight and readiness
They dressed magnificently and had a
grand air. The Corps Diplomatique which
will present their homages to the Car
and CZarina at Versailles will contain no
| such diplomats as Lord Stair, the Duke of
| Portland, the Earl of Albemarle. the Condo
de Haro. the Duke of Osuna. The grand
bodies of the State will also be received.
They are formed of men who have pushed
their way on and up and are ready to show
themselves in all but restraint of manner
utter courtiers.
PREPARATIONS AT VERSAILLES.
Original portraits and busts of Peter the
| Great. the GATHERINGS and Paul and Alex
| ander I have been brought down from the
attic gallery and placed on easels in the
south wing, where their Imperial Majestie5
can see them without climbing lofty stairs.
The different portraits of Marie Antoinette
will be submitted in the same way to
their inspection, as also the miniature
taken of Catherine the Great just after she
became Empress. A wonderful work of art
it is. Scaffoldings have been removed at
| enormous cost from the terraces, fountains
and basins repaired; a feet Of eighteenth
| century royal barges furnished up to take