Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-05
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Some of the Pretenders to the Grow.
of Spain and France.

Va oposh ahu rance.
The profession of the royal prators.
Is very much oyerdone in Eurone inc,
now. A Madrid editor has found six
men who think they have claims TO tba
crown Of France, besides any numhor
who think that they have paramount,
rights to the throne of Spain and tho
purple Of small Italian principaljt,as
The most interesting Of the Spanish
pretenders Is not Don Carlos. but
man whose name Is seldom mentioned
outside the Iberian peninsula. He ia
the duke Of Medina Cell, chief defender
of the faith, fourteen fold grandee and
direct descendant of Ferdinand and IA.
abella. For him and his family IN.
race Of BOurbOn-Anjou. who now ruIa
Spain. are nothing more than usurpers
AS often as a new king of Spain 1,
crowned the dukes herald appears in
the palace, and. In the presence OF nil
the grandees of Spain. protests In tho
name Of his lord against this usurpa-
ton. sets forth the claim Of the Medina.
Cells to the throne and challenges every
knight who may venture to DISPUTE tho
legitimacy of the dukes rights to do
fend his opinion In duel to the death
ION the mountain or on the plain. by
day or by night
AS no grandee Of Spain has ever seen
fit to take the duke and his herald Sc
riously the head of the house of Me-
dina Cell has been left free to spend
the income from his enormous fortune
on his fads and to make perennial tours
of his numerous estates. 1t Is said thar
he can travel from one end of Spain to
the other and sleep every night In one
of his own houses. Under these cir
cumstances he has proved less trou-
blesome pretender than Don Carlos
This chief of Spanish pretenders was
once so impoverished that. with the
help Of his secretary, he tried to turn
into coin the gold chain Of his Order
Of the Golden Fleece. BY the death OF
Count Chambord and some luck In mat
rimony. however, he was eventually en-.
abled to lay up fortune against a
rainy day and keep his decorations
away from the goldsmiths and the
pawnbrokers.
A group of pretenders who are chron.
ically bankrupt afflict the Italian prov.
inces. At almost any time one may
find In the continental newspapers brief
paragraphs concerning the difficulties
which count Of Aquila. or TRAM, or
Syracuse, Is having with the sheritfs
A census of pretenders has not been
taken. A partial list of those who
think that they have valid claims to the
throne Of France was published recent
ly. however. They are Don Carlos. Al.
fonso KILL. king of Spain: Francis.
, sometime king Of both Siclies Francis,
Sebastian's son by his second wife, an
aunt Of the dead king; Robert, once
duke of Parma; Louis Philippe Of Or
leans. All these gentlemen are descend.
ants of Louis NH. Of France. The last
7 one to announce his pretensions to the
: world Is Gen. Francis of Bourbon. who
, suddenly began calling himself duke Of
) Anjou after the count of Paris death,
? and sent out a manifesto concerning
! his claims. This course has been rath-
7 err disastrous to him, for he has been
deprived not only of his command In
, the Spanish army. but also of the sal.
airy that went with it.-London It'd.
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