The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08
LOUIS XVII.
The Boy-King Rudely Torn From the
Arms of His Mother.

AIDQS Oh Ills I4OInOl.
Miss Anna L. Bicknen writes an ar
ticIe on The Last Days of Louis XVI
and Marie-Antoinette for the Novem-
her Century Miss Bicknell says:
The respect shown to the boy KING
irritated those who governed at tnal
time. and they were further eXasper-
ated by the instruction Wnlch pr II4T
ont in La Vendee, where Louis AEn
was STYLED king. ThenceforWard the
Moor chid's fate was sealed. On the
night of July of that memorable year
at 10 o'clock the guards appeared,
bearing a decree by which 1t was or
dered that the son of Louis Capel
should be separated from MS mother
and given into the hands OF tutor,
who would be appointed by the COM
mune.
The scene that followed is one of the
most narrowing recorded in history.
The terrified child uttered loud cries
and entreatfes, clinging desperately to
his mother, who knew only TOO Wen
into what hands he was about TO tall,
and what would be his fate she re-
fused to give him up and defended him
with the strength of despair, telling
them to kill her before taking her son
from her. a whole hour passed thus
in desperate resistance on the part of
Marie-Antoinette in threats and Nlo-
lence on the part of the guards, IN
tears and supplicatiOns from Madame
Elisabeth and Madame Royale Al
last the guards declared SO positively
that they would kill both of her chill
dren. that the queen, exhausted,
ceased her resistance. Madame Elisa
beth and Madame ROyale then took UP
the child from his little bed and
dressed him, fer the queen was power
less. When ready she gave him ner-
self into the hands of the guards, with
floods of tears, ''foreseeing, says
Madame Royale that she would never
see him again. The poor little fellow
kissed us all very affectionately and
followed the guards, crying bitterly
After the poor little Dauphin was
taken away they were left to mourn IN
peace, which was some comfort, says
Madame Royale. The municipal guards
locked them up in their rooms, but did
not remain With them. No one now
did the housewOrd. Madame Elisabeth
and Madame ROyale made the beds,
swept the rooms and waited on the
queen. The guards came three times
a day to bring food and to examine
The bolts and bars of the windows,
lest anything should be disturbed
The prisoners were able TO 60 I'D by
an inner staircase to the top of the
tower. where the queen spent hours
looking through a crack in wooden
partition in the hope of seeing her son
20 by. Madame Elisabeth was IN
formed by the guards of the ill-usage
to which the poor child was subjected,
and which was beyond Imagination"
says Madame Royale, more especially
because he cried at being separated
from US" But Madame Elisabeth en-
treated the guards to keep all these
particulars from the queen, who was
1nly too much enlightened when she
saw the child pass by, and watched
MS pale, sorr0wful face.
The last time that such miserable
comfort was granted to her was On
July 80. She had watched long, and
1t last she saw him, cowed and terri
ed, bereft of his golden curls, wear
ng the red revolutionary cap, and,
as. singing q, song of coarse insult
gainst herself She knew then how
ne child must have suffered before he
otild have been brought to this