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to tread the road TO swift extinction.
Prince Antoine Albert Radziwill, OF
! Poland, had his way and Dorothy Dea.
con is his bride. On both sides Of the
match there is insanity, the princes
father having been an ordinary IN.
matte for The past seven years, and his
brides father dying insane after he
killed in a duel at Cannes a guest Of
bis wife in Paris,
The most famous Of all lines IN his.
tory was that OF the Caesars, with the
heroic figure Of Jalius looming as its
first conspicuous member.
The Caesar line proper ended right
there with ct tn, Brute" for its cpl.
taph, But things being ripe for the
bossing of Rome, his grandnephew,
Octavius, took charge, ant, after him,
Tiberius, who was simply a stepson
Of Octavius.
A dozen Roman emperors called
themselves Caesar and the magic Of
the name rules down even to this day
as synonym for emperor in the title
Of Kaiser Wilhelm, But there never
was a genuine dynasty Of that name,
because 1t began in the person Of Ju-
Illus b. c, "A, in the same person, when
Brutus, Cassius and nearly fourscore
assistant surgeons perfe-med their ia.
nous Caesarian operation on him. The
line of the Caesars is, in reality, Dem.
ocracy's farce Of the right divine.
The Capets, who managed to keep
their grip on France for several cen
turtles, began their rulership in the
regular way, with one especially husky
ancestor--in their case, Robert the
Strong. a Saxon to whom Charles TIE
Bald gave the duchy of the lie de
France il SCI, They went into the
king business in 9S7, when the mobiles
reached the conclusion that the Caro-
lingian blood in France was about
played out, the only male survivor be.
ing Charles, duke OF Lorraine, whom
those red-handed two-fsted fighters
regarded as a milksop. Hugh Capet,
having bossed Paris and its last Caro-
lingian king, Louis ", appealed 10
then GO being about the size of the
man they all needed, to boss them,
for he had all the nerve and Drawn
Of Robert the Strong, his Saxon an
cestor.
1t was evidently a hearty, healthy
breed; but three and half centuries
sufIlced to bring Il down to Charles
the Fair-Charles IV-the last Of sew.
eral Capet kings all cursed with in
capacity and weakness. After half a
dozen years of reigning, the fair
Charles fiickered out, in 1924, and that
ended the Capets.
The funny part of this king making
was that, whenever the divine'right
principle went TO smash, Democracy
In the mobiles and notables, hastened
to get together and give 1t another try
with a fresh breed OF royalty-always
agreeing on some especially bloody.
minded slaughterer as their one best
bet Philip of Valois, who had the
temper Of a chronic earthquake, was
the choice of the French barons, and
he started the Valois line, in 1928, un.
der the title Of Philip VI. 1t took him
only nine years to plunge France into
the hundred years war with England;
and It took destiny--or nature--only a
couple of centuries to bring the Valois
family down to Henry II. in whom It
fickered out in 1889.
The fate Of these dynastics in
France was paralleled by lnnumerable
! ~ 4.
Occasionally, the case of Charlemargno
and Godefroy de Bouillon has been
matched, as where the famous family
De la Tour Auyergne came TO Its com