The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-01-15
BY CESAR E / = MBRO

II TT RARELYa happens that we study the phenom-
& ena which take@place close to JUS tciently
we'll to account for them By the eternal Laws
81 This lis part icuarly oticeab IN the
numerous cases Of degeneration which We see in
ruling families and which ao suppose til be- acct
prestige created BY monarchical superst itions,
which prevent our seeing clearly, alone the
fact that in many instances historical facts
4 become known and remain obscure. ss Fl ss
Tor although at the death Of n the ancient
Egyptian kings and Chinese cnlperors the law de-
handed an artial histo1 ical examine
modern rchicals countries the dges vii not
allow kings to be exposed freely to the light Of his
tory, even nf ter their death; So that were we to-
speak lin Italy about tlle amorous adventures @of
Victor Emmanuel il the titude Of Carlo AZ
sberto we should risk being sent to convic ship
speak of certain infamous deeds ct Napoleon
was held a crime under N apoleon I.88 Tor
reason wo deprived Of clear vision, rather
synthcss Of facts belonging to the pre- sent the
near past, while we have far facilities to
pass in review the freq uent gedes which mark
the history Of ruling lilies and to inter
pref the laws Of nature whereby they were caused
We can't blow step by step the degenerate Of
the CapetV alois which begins WI til Louis who
was subject to hallucinat tons and was cruel tho
same traits coming out son, Philip.
over his daughter and made also coin. His line
became extinct with Louis x, who strangled his
wife and Charles Nv and Philip Nv frenzed and
deficient who died in their youth without heirs.
Then followed the Valois branch, oh IN its
turn became extinct after rapid SUGGEST ion .of
fools and criminals Charles y J. who died maniac
when ~ years Of age and left twelve CHI dren,
whom ono was a fratricde, several were morally
anomalous and many died in their youth Charles
VII, who starved himself to death, gaying that his
son had poisoned him He in turn left sons who
were madmen and siokly inyalids Of them being
Louis XII, gull Of unhsard-of cruelty washed
himself in the blood Of infants and appointed his
barber ambassador. He left two children, ono
Charles mentally deficient to such an extent
that hes had to remain forever from thu
court" and the other Joan ugly and defor1ned in
whom the lineage became extinct. 4S 58 III
Nobetterl was the end Of the Orleans line WHICH
succeeded beginning with Henry II, followed by
Francis IT.. sickly youth who died at the age of
IN from excess. also the fate of Charles TX, the
accomplice Of the ST. Barthol onleW Might mad
man. both consump i've and suffering from hallucif
nations, who died at lineage of %, The line then
became extinct with Henry TT, a freak who liked
to spend lis time in childrels games and who,
cordng to the statement Of his physicians, appears
to have died quite a mailman. HI S8fs e
NJ The Plantagenet family appears to have been
through several centuries free from
perhaps because they we're stimulated by the cont
stant tratrcidal struggles in which they We're on
gagged at the beginning unless indeed, the ferocity
and cruelty which shed these struggles ere