New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-07


emburg. who was born in his former duchy OF
Nassau. and who cares so little about Luxem-
burg that he has turned over the reins Of its
government to his son. and does not visit from
one end of tine year to the other the country Of
which he is the nominal sovereign.
All the hopes of French ROyalists are CEN
tired in the young Duke Of MOntpensier who
possesses the immense advantage over his elder
brother. the Duke Of Orleans. OF having been
born I'm France, at the Chateau dEu. in Nor
mandy The pretender. the other hand.
came into the world at Twickenham, one Of the
suburbs of London. and Frenchmen decline to
see any pathOs in the fact Of his having been
born in exile. but merely consider it in the light
of a ground for prejudice against him as
foreigner The Duke OF Orleans is thoroughly
aware of this. and it IS largely owing thereto
that during the Boer war he went out Of his
way to assaiI Great Britain. in the hope Of prov
ing to the people Of France that. although he
had had the misfortune to be born in England.
vet he entertained no sympathies in favor
of her people Both Prince Louis Napoleon and
his elder brother. at Brussels. are native born
Frenchmen. and should there ever be any mo-
rarchiaI restoration in France. their prospects
would be proportiOnateIy greater than those OF
the Duke Of Orleans.
France I'm fact has never had. at any rate
for hundreds of years past. a ruler who was not
a native born citizen. with the exception OF
King Louis Philippe. The latter is Officially
stated to have come into the world at Florence.
where his parents. then known IS the Duke and
Duchess de Charities. were travelling at the
time But there has always been mystery in
connection with his birth. and. according to the
popular story. widely believed in France.
vouched for by the late Sir Bernard Burke and
other eminent European genealogists. LOUIS
Philippe was a changelins. and not the offspring
OF the Duke and Duchess De Chartres. but or
Chiappini. jailer Of the prison at Florence.
whose wife had given birth to a child on the
same day as the duchess. 1t IS said that. the
baby Of the duchess being girl and that OF
the jailer's wife a boy an exchange was made.
Of which documentary proofs are asserted to
exist TO this day al the Vatican and in the
imperial archives at st. Petersburg. and that
the jailer's son was brought up as a royal
rrince whereas the daughter Of that duke who
died on the scaffOId at Paris as "Egaite,' Duke
Of orleans. vas trained for the stage. on whca
she made her debut as n "ballerind.' sunse-
ouentIv becoming the wife Of the first Lord
Marlborough great grandfather Of the present
peer OF that name. who is married TO Miss Grace
carr. OF Louisville. ~. Throughout the elSh-
teen years reign Of King Louis Philippe ne was
rorstautIv c1rfcatured and ridiCuled. alike by
the French AMI the foreign press. as the son or
the FIcreutine juer Chiappini, and it IS sig
nifcart fact in this connection that Emperor
Nirboras I declined TO accredit 4 minister to the
Court Of the Tuileries. or to be personally rep
resented there. so long Louis Philippe re-
manned on the throne
II is only since King oscar III has been on lhe
tbron. Of sweden that the people. and IN par
tic,,r,r th, nobility. are becoming accustomed
20 r.,l- ,,r.- tbs. reiguinE house "a n native IN
s,s,9 OF 8, foreign dynasty. For although hing
Oscars father was a mere nine-year-old lad
~, h.. first .ame TO Sweden yet he had been
horn in France. and was in consequence thereOl
invariably regarded until his dying day as an
alien and was as such TO a great extent boy
cotted by the aristocracy.
In 1SSt I happened to be in Paris. at the
time Of the birth OF Prince Anthony. youngest
co, Of the Crown Princess OF Brazil whose
father old Dom Pedro. still on his throne
Prince Anthony came into the world two months
bafor. the date expected. on the very day De-
fore that which had been set for the crown
princess's return TO Rio. where her conhneInent
was 10 have taken place. AS soon as ever the
,bvsici,rs in attendance realized what was i'm
nendIr- the Crown Princess was at once con-
viewed 10 the Brazilian Legation at Paris. when
was theoretically Brazilian territory. ms was
done NJ much inconvenience. and even risk
Rut il was considered by the Prince and Crown
Princess. as well as by Emperor Dom Fedr''
who had been communicated with by caole' is