New-York tribune., 1910-02-04
"k[NGS' AT SERVICES
Philip FII' and lean III
.4ttend Memorial Masses.

death of Louis XVI, attended the service
at one of the two churches in which a
mass is said annually for the repose Oh
that sovereigns soul. The larger and
more important. as being the official
function, is. of course. held at the splen-
did Church of S. Ge-main-F -FAuxerrofs.
formerly the parish church of the King
and his consort, Marie Antoinette. The
different committees of the Orleans fam
lily yearly fill it with invited guests, the
list of whose names reads like an AL
manach de Gotha published in pre-
Revolution days
On Friday the head of the family,
Phillip VII as his friends and adher-
ents call the present Due dOrleans, was
present by proxy. The seat of honor be
meath the rich canopy of polished wood.
whose gorgeous lines and perfect pa
tine" have all the sumptuous softness of
the velvet it represents was thus occu-
pied by the Vicomte de BOurgueney, sup
ported by the Comte de Castillon de
Saint-Victor, who is the president OF the
Royalist committees of Paris and the
Department of the Seine.
Ones eye wandered past the little
group of men in mourning dress to the
dark loge above the south door. which
was once the pew of Queen Marie An
toiuette, When her majesty attended
service at the parish church she en-
tered not by the west front. with its
arcades and quaint sculptured figures of
saints and martyrs. exactly opposite the
palace doors, but by the side door in
Ie- lfc-e
by small private staircase. Nothing
has been changed in the loge since her
day: its stained windows render any oc-
cupant invisible from the interior of the
church.
The congregation on this occasion
was naturally clad in mourning, but 1t
was a very elegant assembly, neverthe-
less A group of uniforms lent little
color to the soubre nave, and a brilliant
sun behind the stained windows did the
rest AS the abbe reminded his hearers,
it was the 117th anniversary of the event
they were commemorating. and the party
was still waiting-waiting for that Glow
moving thing, public opinion, to veer
round once more toward it's ancient royal
house.
At St Denis Ia Chapelle much hum
bier service was held before the assem-
bled strength of the Naundorffsts- The
| King himself was present here, Jean Ill
| King of France and of Navarro grand
son of that Naundorff who was probably
the real Louis XVII. supposed to have
perished in the temple prison As every
one knows, the historian. Lenotre, is 2
l..
and does not hesitate to say SO He
dearly loves a discussion on the sub
ject, and can bring forward a host of
| arguments to prove the successful sub
stitution of some other child for the
| Prince Royal
The present claimant to the title has to
work hard for a living, and obtains 1t by
| A very humble means. He has been sue
| cessfvely a canvasser for a wine mer-
! chant and for a petroleum firm, and is
! at the moment interested in artesian
| wells. His wife. seated beside him. was
very modestly dressed. The wisp of
! cheap feathers round her shoulders that
did duty for more regal furs was neither
/ better nor worse than the garb of the
/ bulk Of the party's adherents behind and
| around her. One wondered as one
watched the profile of the King" with
| its high arChed nose. so strikingly re
/ sembling that of Louis XVI, whether
| Jean III were himself convinced OF his
| rovaI rights His warmest defenders
| and most ardent propagandists were
strongly in evidence in the church; they
are the young "CameIots de Roy" who
! have been so busy during the last year
/ defacing statues in the parks and gar
! dens and getting themselves arrested
! by the police in order to arouse the in
I terest of the public. Behind these
| "cameots" the benches were occupied
| by some TWO hundred elderly women,
! aged priests and a few men wearing the
! Order of St. Gregoire le Grand
| There was more heartiness in the atti-
! tude of the Naundorffists than in that of
/ the Orleanists, and at the close of the
! service, after the lite, nlissa est the
| central figure in the little congregation
I left his seat and took up a position at
/ the entrance of the chancel. Then there
began a SLOW procession, such as is
/ formed at a Partisan funeral each per-
son in the building taking his or her
/ turn to come forward and shake the
! King by the hand, murmuring some
short compliment or coincidence, or per-
haps a wish that his kingdom might
shortly be restored 10 him. Many of
| these we'll wishers were of the humblest
| ranks. belonging probably TO the same
| modest quarter of the capital as the
| King. who lives as a worker among
I workers.
Some ignorant spectator approaching
| the cure, inquired apparently which of
| the persons present was the successor of
Louis XVI, whereupOn the priest, turn
| ing, with swift gesture pointed TO the
! rnustached Jean III, standing beside his
two brothers, Charles and Louis de
Bourbon, and his young son, the
Dauphin. replying aloud with the as
! sured tones of prophet: But there he
stands the King. That is he"
c. l. 3.