The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-09

Bardstown Ky, a priest was kind to them when one was i'll, and later when he was King of the French, Louis Philippe sent a large clock to the Cath ollie church there. At Canandalgua, N. r., when almost exhausted from their long journey, they were found and entertained by Thomas Morris, a former schoolmate in Paris. The final stage of their journey took them through Frenchtown, a colony in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where agents of Louis XVI had purchased 1N0 acres of land three years before to be used as a home for French refugees. Sometimes the princes were In sore straits for money, and Louis Philippe taught again. It was while so occupied that he proposed for the hand of Miss Willis of Philadelphia, only to be told by her father that If he were a schoolmas ter he was not good enough for the fair lady, and if he were a king she was not good enough for him.
 The younger princes had contracted consumption in the dungeons at Mar seiles and were growing i'll, so the party went down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans where they had many friends, and from which port they meant to take ship to join their mother In Spain. They went to Cuba and the Ba- hamas, encountering many difficulties the while. They were driven to Halifax,
 
 finally in 1900 found refuge in England, where Montpensier died. The next year Beaujolais died In Malta
 Over half century later, after Louis Philippe had served eighteen years as "'Citizen King" of the French people, and had incorporated Into the govern ment of his chaotic nation many of the ideas he had gained In his American journey, two of his grandsons came over to learn military tactics in the Union army. The Comete de Paris and the Due de Chartres served on the staff of Gen. George B. Mcclellan each with the rank of captain. Their unce the Prince de Joinvile son of Louis Philippe, accompanied them as mentor and with a few attendants they shared the camp fortunes of the soldiers. They were in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and Gaines Mill After the Seven Days bat ties around Richmond they left the coun- try because of the Napoleonic attempt to place Maximillian on the throne of Mexico threatened to strain the relations between France and the United States.
 The Bonapartes alternated the exile life with the Bourbon Orleans princes, so merrily does fate make playthings of kingdoms and of kings. In 1902 Jerome Bonaparte, later King of Westphalia, came to, the United States from Martin iaue, rebellious at the dictatorial man ner of his imperial brother who would maze q soldier of him whether he would or mo- In Baltimore he fell victim to the beauty of Betsy Patterson. His marriage to her, his recall by the indignant em- peror, the imprisonment of Pope Plus VII at Fontainbleau because he would not grant a divorc, the separation de- creed by the accommodating council of state, and the granting of an annuity of Sl2,000 to Miss Patterson by Napo- leon are all old paragraphs in history. True, years later, Napoleon III deter mined to recognize the American line as heirs to the throne of France through the King of Westphalia, should his own line fail, but the willy Jerome over persuaded him in favor of his other children, and the Baltimore Bonapartes remained on this side to contribute to the executive staff of the United States government.
 In August 1915, "Commercen brought Joseph Bonaparte to America willing exile. He cared little Cor courts and crowns, being a man of letters and art and the settled life he might find in the New World appealed to him. He visited the sick and defeated Napoleon just be- fore he left, and generously offered to change places with him, allowing the Elm peror to come to America in his stead. very different chapter might have been written in world-history If he had He bought summer camp in the Adiron- dacl1s, and a two or three hundred acre farm al Bordeutown, N. J. His daughter lived with him and they made their home as near like those of France as they could. It was while there that he was offered the crown of Mexico. He remind ed the delegation that he had been King of Naples and King of Spain without much glory to himself, and having worn two crowns would not take the least trouble to wear third" He came as fugitive but departed a much honored citizen.
 In Florida Prince Achille Nurat lived for many years. He was the son of the King of Naples and of Caroline, sis ter of Napoleon I, This nephew of Ma poleou married Mrs. Catherine Wills Gray great-niece of Washington's thus uniting two of the greatest families in history. They were married in 1926 and lived on a plantation in Jefferson county, Florida, where the prince experimented with queer dyes and queere dishes, grave ly chronicling that alligator-tail soup will do but turkey buzlerd Is not good" La ter he praoticed law in New Orleans. had sugar plantation near Baton Rouge, fought in the Florida Indian war, and visited his royal lSinsfolk In Europe. He