The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-09-08
THE DAUPHIN's son?
CLAIM THAT A GRANDSON OF
LOUIS is IN PARIS.
4 New French Observation-Disclosures
That tho Little Dauphin Did Not Die
In Prison Come to tho Fore Again
An Old Story Revived. v

An Old Story Revived. v
considerable curiosity has been
aroused in France and elsewhere in
Europe by the fact that the uncle of the
two s~o-called Naundorff Bourbons has
taken UP his permanent residence at
Paris, where during the last week he
has solemnly Rbjured the Protestant
faith and has been admitted to the
Roman Catholic church by no less a
parsonage than the cardinal archbish-
ep Of the metropolis. who performed
the ceremonies at Notfe Dame, where
so many Of the kings and emperors bf
France have been crowned, says the
Philadelphia Press. The onver is
the head Of his f~amily-that is to say,
Of the Naiindorff 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
profile. 1t may be remembered that
considerable doubt has always exists
ed with regard to the fate of the un-
fortunate son of that king and queen
OF France who were Euillotined at the
close Of the last century. 1t IL 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 that was Inferred
in his stead and that he himself escap-
ed. OF 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 its restoration.
Moreover, they had been among the
bttterest enemies OF their Austrian sis
ter-in-law, Queen Marie Artoinette. So
they 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-
diction OF the pope was asked at the
time of the conservation OF the men,
orial chapel erected at Paris over what
were understood to- be the remains Of
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, o only permitted the alleged
dauphin to figure on the marriage and
death registers of the Delft as "I1ouis
OF Bourbon, duke of Normandy, son OF
King Louis XVI. and of Queen Marie
Antoinette," but likewise permitted his
two sons to serve under the name OF
Bourbon in the 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 its claims as fraudu-
lent and the alleged dauphin as an i'm.
poster, 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 il not
the Of Queen Marie Antoinette. II
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
himself at Paris. He Is childless and
very respectable. His younger 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 well as in France
one Of them being charged with oh.
tanning money by fraud, while the 9th.
or has a 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 wealth,
liquor dealer. The peculiar thing abou,
this solemn conversion of the uncle O,
these two wine merchants and of thu
transfer Of his abode to Paris is that Il
should have taken place precisely a.
the moment when the republic is shak.
en- to It's foundations and when there II
no other royalist pretender ready t.
take advantage Of the circumstance
The duke Of Orleans only the other day
issued a manifesto asking his follower:
to support the republic and manifest,
prefers 10 spend his wealth in luxury
and comfort in England, Austria ant
Spain, where he is treated as a roya,
parsonage, rather than to squander II
in monarchical conspiracies which
would lead him to be ostracised by for
eign courts. The same may be said OF
Don Carlos, and while Prince Loui.
Bonaparte seems resolved to make his
home in Russia his elder brother is sc
weighted down by Incidence at Brus.
sells that he does not desire to remove