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undoubtedly wish to cut a brilliant
figure in a third empire

figure In a third empire.
CLAIMS OF THE ORLEANISTS.
The chief rivals of the Bonapartists
are the Orleanists Like the Bonaparte
family. the Orleans family has always
been conspicuous for thrift They have
amassed great fortunes since the reign
Of Louis Philippe, and have invariably
been good business managers.
The claim Of the Orleans dynasty to
rule over France Is twofold. Up to the
date of Henry VS. untimely end the
late Comte de Paris only claimed an
elective monarchy in succession to his
grandfather, Louis Philippe, the son of
that most execrable Of princes, Philippe
Egalite, who voted for the murder of
Louis XVI, and was himself appro-
propriately guillotined by his brother
patriots shortly afterward. 1t was
as popular monarch that Louis Phil
ippe swayed the destinies of France
SO disastrously, until the forces Of the
revolution that had placed him upon
the throne in 1880 swept him off it with
similar precipitance in 1848
While Henry V, Comte de Cham
bord. lived and manifested from
FTohsdorf, the Comte de Paris could
only oppose the white banner of the
Bourbons, the adopted tri-color of his
grandfather, and was compelled to
place the brisure d'Orleans across the
three feur-de-lys of the shield Of
France. When Henry V was dead.
however, the house Of Orleans put forth
second overwhelmingly, that the
elder line being extinct, and the sur
viving branch of the Bourbon family
the Bourbons d'Anjou, including the
Bourbons dEspagne, the Bourbons des
DeuX SicileS and the Bourbons de
Parme-being Foreigners" it was the
prerogative of the house of Bourbon
Orleans to reign in right of Salic law.
HOPE AS AN OPPORTUNIsT.
The claim is. Of course. quite worth
less. as recourse to the utterly disprov-
ed statement that Henry V. on his
deathbed had recognized the Connie de
Paris as his heir only serves to show.
AS matter Of fact, nearly thirty
Bourbon princes come before the Due
dOrleanS by the operation of the Safio
law. 1t is therefore only as ain oppor-
tunist sovereign that he can hope to
secure the attention of the French peo-
pie. and, unfortunately. 1T is necessary
for the man who would reign as
popular monarch to possess Qualifica-
tons for the position which hitherto
Che Due d'Orleans has not shown
The party of the Due d'Orleans has,
since the Death of Henri W. been self
styled the Royalist party, in lieu of
the Orleanist party. 1t must not be
confounded with the Legitimists, who
are otherwise known as the "Blancs
d Espagne." from the fact that they
uplift the Bourbon banner in the name
Of Don Carlos. whereas the Orleanists
still appropriately retain the tricolor as
their rallying flag.
Don Carlos. best known as a claimant
for the Spanish throne, claims the
French throne through his father, Don
John. who. on the extinction of the di-
rect line of the house Of Bourbon at
the death of Henri ". Comte de Cham
bord. s. "a. in 1888. was the head of the
house Of BourbonAn1ou, and the
nearest male agnate to the deceased
prince. and visions of the Salic law
1t has been contended that the treaty
Of Utrecht barred his way to the SOW
ereignty of France and Navarro; but
since every other provision of that
treaty has become dead letter, and
power necessary when Spain was the
second greatest European power no
longer obtains, this contention cannot
be held to be worth much.
Curlously enough, it is upon the de-
funct treaty Of Utrecht that a second
'legMimist" pretender POUNDS his claim.
Don Francesca de Rorbon Y de Cas-
tellvi only came to the front on the
death of his brother Don Enrique,
duke of Seville. S. D. M. in 1894. He
then assumed the title of Due d'Anjou,
and proclaimed himself rightful king of
France. on the ground that the treaty
was dead letter. even supposing the
remuneration Of Philippe ", Of Spain
the original Due d Anjou, and a grand
son of Louis XVI, to be valid (Which
it was not): and that as it cannot bel
expected that France and Spain can
ever be united under the same SOW
ereign, and Don Carlos has opted for
the latter throne (Which he has not
he therefore Quitting aside the issue of
Francesca d'Assissi as probably legiti-
mate) claims the French throne on the
assumption that Don Carlos will ono
day mount that of Spain
Needless to say, his claim will noa
hold water, for he is not directly of
royal descent. his grandfather. the son
of Francesca de Paulo, having been
morganatically married. as was his
father. and he himself is His cause"
has acquired a fictitious Importance
owing to the attachment to 1t of the
Prince de Valori, after he was dis
missed from his post of representative
Of Don Carlos in France some years
ago.