The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-17
MARau,sE DE roNTENoY


MA ton, which resulted in the grant
lYl by the reignius prince OF
constitution to his few thou
sand subjects. recalls the last thing
of the kind that took place there about
40 years ago. In fact, at the end of
the eighteenth century the people OF
Monaco considered 1t necessary to take
ion. but also in politics. from the PART
slams. Honore III OF Monaco was the
very counterpart OF King Louis NJ
of France. the one being as eaSySoihs
obtained the concession OF Eational
Assembly from Louis XVI, Monaco
Immediately insisted on having one
conceded by Prince Honore III. when
rights. the Monaco Assembly straight
way followed suit. When Louis XVI.
made his vain attempt 10 escape from
France. Prince Honore fed from
whereupon his subjects. like those OF
Louis XVI, organized national con-
vention. When the Tuileries were
sacked, Prince Honore's castle AT MoDte
the hands OF the Monaco mob.
Indeed, every revolutionary move In
Paris had Its counterpart in miniature
at Monaco, with this difference. that
Prince Honore did not lose his head
However. he was solemnly deprived Of y
from thenceforth, in communications
from his former subjects and by the
authorities of Paris, where he resided.
as "Citizen Monaco" Just in the same
way as Louis XVI. became Citizen
Capet." All his property was confls-
Gated, and eventually he was thrown
into prison and incarcerated in jail
in the Rue de Sevres at Paris. Alter
spending more than year in captivity.
he was released in a dying condition
to expire at his home In the Rue de
Varennes In Paris.
His wife. Marie de BrIgnole-Sale.
daughter OF the last Doge of Genoa,
survived him, marrying after his death
Louis Joseph de Bourbon. Prince de
Condo. on whose mysterious death by
strangulation the late Due dAumale
Inherited Chantilly, now the property
OF the Institute of France.
Honore III had three s sons; the cid
w. great grandfather. of the present
Prince Joseph Grimaldi, married The
reese FRANCHISE de Stainyille. daughter
Stainyille. Arrested at Paris during
| the Terror, she became one of the he
rolnes Of that epoch. When brought
before the, revolutionary tribunal. the
tor, demanded the head of ''the woman
Monaco" as he designated her. and she
was condemned to be .guiltottned on the
sth Thermidor. On the ADVICE OF q
| friend, who was convinced that the
Terror was drawing to an end and who
| hoped to save her life by delaying her
| execution, she announced that she was
! about to become a mother. But two
| DAYS afterwards her conscience pc
came troubled with having thus told a
| lie and she wrote to Fouquier himself
n letter which has been. preserved, IN
witch she informs him that she Is not
| enceinte, and that she does not wish
r. save her life, or even to obtain q
proIongation thereof, by a lie. F'ou-
| Guier. instead of being moved by the
latter. saw to it that the order for he1
| ayecntion was carried out She was
p,,ii1otined on the 9th rhermidor, be.
| ms actually the last victim of the Re-
nns71utionary Tribunal, which was over
| thrown at the very moment when hef
| head fell. r..,,
ate nnly through the female line. The
dWnasty itself became EXTINCT IN the
m,,ia line by the death In 1871 OF An
thony I, who was succeeded py MS
onIvs daughter, Louise, married &c
Ian,es do Goyon- Matignon, DUO
! d,Estouteville, one Of the MOBILES ct the
| Court Of Versailles, and who with the
authorization of Louis Ky was per.
mitted to assume his father-ln-laWI
/ French Dukedom or lYnlenllhoas,
was the Son of this union VINO WAS !. t'o .,
more III, the Monaco cosn I,.a ',n -
4 the ill-fated Louis ANfhit OF NJ frandg oyvn
Honore ". twho alter., ~ Nv 10y ~ =,
r 1It1 e. NC Of Vienna In the place Of ~.
dead father with possession o. ''i'