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there with EFT tu, Brute" for it's cpl
taph. But things being ripe for the
bossing of Rome, his grandnephew,
Octavius. took charge, and, after him,
Tiberius, who was simply 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. G. 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
turies, began their rulership in the
regular way, with one especially husky
ancestor-in their case, Robert the
Strong, n Saxon to whom Charles the
Bald gave the duchy of the lie de
France in SCI. They went into the
king business in 987, 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-fisted fighters
regarded as a milksop. Hugh Capet,
having bossed Paris and it's last Caro-
linsian king, Louis ", appealed to
then % being about the size of the
man they all needed, to boss them.
for he had all the nerve and brawn
of Robert the Strong. his Saxon an
cestor.
Ii was evidently hearty, healthy
breed but three and a half centuries
sufiiced to bring 1t 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 diyine-right
principle went to smash. Democracy.
80 N4A1 AAobAto &id AloN1hAt0t haSNIA1a
To get together and give IL another try
with a fresh breed OF royalty-always
agreeing on some especially bloody.
minded slaughterer as their one best
bet. Philip of Valols, who had the
temper of chronic earthquake, was
the choice OF the French barons, and
he started the Valols line. in 1928. un-
der the dtle OF Philip VI 1t took him
only nine years TO plunge France into
the hundred years war with England.
and 1t took destiny--or nature-only a
| couple OF centuries to bring the Valois
family down To Henry IL. In whom Il
| fliekered out In 1889.
The fate OF these dynasties In
/ France was paralieled by innumerahle
minor houses. there and elsewhere.
/ Occasionally. the ease OF Charlemargne
and Godefroy de Bouillon hus been
matched. as where the famous family
I De Ia Tour Auyergue came TO It's com.
+ plete end with the death OF an illegiti.
/ mate scion who. although mere prl.
/ vate in the ranks OF Frances revolu.
/ tionary forces. earned the title OF the
3 FA Aah NftthAAFNA VI @AANf
I Again. when the Rohan family.
/ whose dukes had been kings OF IRE.
tagne. had only Marguerite dc Rohan
left as Us heir. her husband. Henri
I Chabot. was cuolly created duke do
Rohan. 10 keep the name alive.
Geonroy dc t.uslgnan was one OF
I the great names ia French history
aud the family to which he contrib.
uted distinction faded OUT SO uueer
taiuiy that tor years les name vas the
sport uf impudeut adYenturera who
protesHed 10 be- cadets of house
which only the well Informed ol the
nobility were positive was totally ex,
tlnet So. too. Wigh the dukes des
Eudes. who lu their day we're equals
ot the earlier rapets. aud che Uuisea.
dating back % l99s whuu Haae III.
eauaueruF of Charles thu uuld aud "a
ther af Claude, hfat EEeHeb duke u
Uulae presented that lapasd duehy "a
bis see 4ua suu aAl oHHius la l6fa
8ilu tae duath II FFaneia VII. tie