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Many Secrets Hidden Away
Inn The Archives OF Vatican


| openly avowed but Invariably clever
and able emissaries. And IN this fash
ion nothing of any Importance can be
said TO have taken place among the
sovereign houses OF Europe within
the last thousand years without n
complete record thereof being receiv-
I, ed aud filed In the archives OF the
Vatican.
The Fate OF the Dauphin.
Among the many problems Of his
tory for which Il solution might be
found In these archives Is. for in.
stance, that relating to the fate OF the
Dauphin. son and heir OF King Louis
WI and Queen Marie Antoinette. al
legged TO have been done to death in
prison at Paris lty his brutal jaller 81
mon, but who is generally believed to
have effected his escape. 1t may he
remembered that when the Vatican
was asked in 1926 for permit of
conservation Of the memorial chapel
ut Paris. erected over what was I'M
derstood to be the body of King Louis
the Pontiff only granted II ON the con-
dition that the name OF the Dauphn
he removed. taking the ground set
forth In an official dispatch, which il
on record. that the Pope could not
lend himself to the comedy of con-
secrating memorial chapel to a liv.
Ing person
To what extent the pretensions OF
Naundorff TO be the missing Dauphin
were justified ii is impossible to say.
or course they were denounced by
the brothers of Louis XVI, since by
their succession to the throne of
France as Louis XVII and Charles X
respectively, ON the restoration of the
Bourbon dynasty. For similar reas.
ons they were condemned by the
Duke of Orleans, who succeeded
Charles X as ruler of France under
the name of King Louis Philippe.
But it is worthy of note that. where
ms the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris,
In accordance with instruction re.
ceived from the Vatican, onlciated at
the marriage at Paris OF the present
representative of the Naundorff claims
namely. the soi-disant Prince AN
gliste de Bourbon. n wine dealer mt
Berry-to pretty woman of the
name of Rosalie Cutler, and impart-
ed to them the Pontiilcal blessing.
the Vatican abstained from paying
any such compliment to the Duke of
Orleans on his marriage to Arch.
duchess Marie Dorothy of Austria. or
on the wedding the other day at Wood
Norton of Princess Louise of Orleans.
sister of the Duke of Orleans, to
Prince Charles of Spain. Moreover.
while other pretenders, such IA Don
Carlos of Spain and Don Miguel of
Portugal, are received with royal
honors ut the Vatican. the Duke OF
Orleans has never been permitted,
either by the late or the present
Pope. to cross It's threshold.
Adopts Name of Naundorff.
There Is abundant evidence to show
That the Dauphin escaped. and that
several members of the royalist par.
W were concerned in his flight. After
all sorts of adventures eventually,
when the star of Napoleon was on
me wane. he came to Berlin, with
the view OF putting forward his
claims for recognition as a member
OF the House of Bourbon. His I'm.
cles. the Count de Provence. after
ward Louis XVIII, and the Comte d.
Artois, subsequently Charles x. we're
| In receipt of handsome allowances
from the Prussian, Russian and Eng.
iish governments. and the Danphin
hoped that he might be provided for
III similar way. The Prnssian GOV.
eminent was however, committed To-
the Comte de Provence. and the chief
or the Berlin police forced the Dan.
phihe to surren6~r TO him all the M.
pers establishing his identity. and
then furnished him with n passnort
describing him as NaundorF. citizen
and native of Weimar. where. blythe.
| rye, no sucn person had ever been
born or known
| In spite of all his efforts to recover
MS papers. they remain at Berlin IN
the archives of the royal House OF
Prussia until today Eventually the
Dauphin made his way to Holland.
The Dutch authorities. who are the
most strict in the world in all mat
'ers relating TO the assumption of
names and titles. net only permitted
MN to figure on the marriage and
death registry of Relft as Ionic of
| BOURBON, son of Louis XVI and of
Queen Marie Antoinette. but likewise
allowed his sons and grandsons to
serve under the royal name of Bour.