The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-09
THE DAUPHIN'S SONS
CLAIM THAT A GRANDSON OF
LOUIS is IN PARIS.
n New French Observation-Disclosures
That the Little DauphIn Did Not Die
in Prison Come to the Fore Again
An Old Story Revived. v

ONASANNi&DlO CuIlOSlIY mas USSu
aroused in France and elsewhere in
europe by the fact that the uncle of the
WI so-called NaundorfT Bourbons has
taken up his permanent residence at
Paris, where during the last week he
has solemnly abjured the Protestant
faith and has been admitted to the
Roman Catholic church by no less a
parsonage than the cardinal-archbish-
op of the metropolis, who performed
the ceremonies at Notre Dame, where
SO many of the kings and emperors Of
France have been crowned, says the
Philadelphia Press. The convert is
the head of his ~family-that is to say.
of the Naundorff Bourbons-bears on
his visiting cards the name Prince de
Bourbon" and figures on the registers
of the cathedral of Notre Dame as
Louis Charles Adelbert Philippe de
Bourbon" He has the true Bourbon
PRONE. 1t may be remembered that
considerable doubt has always exist
ed with regard to the fate of the I'M
ortuna son of that king and queen
OF France who were guillotined at the
close of the last century. 1t is alleged
that he had succumbed to the brutality
OF the cobbler Simon, who had been
appointed as his jailer. But there is
much evidence to show that it was the
body of another boy hat was Inferred
In his stead n that he himself escap-
ca. VI course, neither of his fathers
younger brothers-the count of Pro-
vence, who afterward reigned as Louis
XVIII, and the Count Artois, who
ruled as Charles X.-would have any,
thing to do with him, since he stood
In the way Of their accession to the
throne In the event of it's restoration.
Moreover, they had been among the
bitterest enemies of their Austrian sis
ter-in-law, Queen Marie Antoinette. So
tney indirectly provided for the lads
maintenance on the understanding that
he should be kept in the background,
and when he grew up they denied his
identity and denounced him as a fraud.
Yet his uncle, Louis XVIII, never dar-
ed to be crowned, and when the bene-
dlction of the pope was asked at the
time OF the conservation of the mem
or1al chapel erected at Paris over what
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Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette
and her son, the dauphin, only con-
sented to permit the blessing to the
chapel on the condition that the name
OF the dauphin be removed, taking the
ground set forth in an official dispatch.
which Is on record, that he could not
lend himself to the comedy of conse-
Grating a memorial chapel to a living
person. Moreover, the Dutch authori-
ties, who are the most strict in the
world in all matters relating to the as
sumption of unauthorized names and
titles, not only permitted the alleged
dauphin to figure on the marriage and
death registers of the Delft as "Iotis
OF Bourbon, duke of Normandy, son of
King Louis XVI. and of Queen Marie
Antoinette," but likewise permitted his
W sons to serve under the name of
Bourbon in tho Dutch army. 1t may
be pointed out, finally, that although
the opponents of the pretensions of this
branch of the house of Bourbons have
always denounced It's claims as fraudu-
lent and the alleged dauphin as an i'm
postor, yet, in spite of all their efforts
and OF the money spent, they have
never succeeded in finding out who the
alleged dauphin could possibly be if not
the son of Queen Marie Antoinette. It
is Charles, the elder of the two sons of
this alleged dauphin, who has now
transferred his abode from Holland to
France, become a convert to the Ro-
man Catholic church and established
h1mSn1f at Paris Hn IL, oh;1lJozz -.l
very respectable. His younge brother
died some time ago, leaving two sons.
These young fellows, having run
through whatever money they possess
ed, got into a considerable amount of
trouble in Holland as we'll as in France.
one of them being charged with OBJ
tanning money by fraud, while the 9TH
er has q warrant out for his arrest as a
deserter from the foreign legion of the
French army. Both managed. how
ever, to clear themselves of the charges
against them and are now established
IN the wine business at Bercy, a sub
urb of Paris, where one of them has
just married the daughter of a wealthy
liquor dealer. The peculiar thing about
this solemn conversion of the uncle of
these two wine merchants and of the
transfer of his abode to Paris is that il
should have taken place precisely at
the moment when the republic is shak-
en- to its foundations and when there is
no other royalist pretender ready to
tax advantage of the circumstance.
The duke Of Orleans only the other day
issued a manifesto asking his followers
to support the republic and manifestlv
prefers to spend his wealth in luxury
and comfort in England, Austria and
Spain, where he is treated as a royal
parsonage, rather than to squander it
In monarchical conspiracies which
would lead him to he ostracised by for
eign courts. The same may be said of
Don Carlos, and while Prince Louis
Bonaparte seems resolved to make his
home in Russia his elder brother is so
weighted down by Incidence at Brus-
sells that he does not desire to remove
thence. So the door is open to the
Dutch Bourbons.