The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-09-16

The Caesar line proper ended right
there with EFT tu, Brute" for its epi
taph. But things being ripe for the
bossing Of Rome his grandnephew
Octavius, took charge, anu, 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 it began in the person of Ju-
lius B, c. A, in the same person, when
Brutus, Cassius and nearly foufscore
assistant surgeons perfe-med their ia
nous Caesarian operation on him. The
lire 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, a Saxon to whom Charles the
Bald gave the duchy of the lie de
France in 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-fisted fighters
regarded as a milksop. Hugh Capet,
having bossed Paris and its last Caro-
lingian king, Louis ", appealed to
then sa 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 a half centuries
sufficed to bring it down to Charles
the Fair-Charles IV-the last of sew
eral Capet kings all cursed with in
capacity and weakness. After half
dozen years Of reigning, the fair
Charles hickered 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, fastened |
to get together and give it another try !
with a fresh breed of royalty-always |
agreeing on some especially bloody |
minded slaughterer as their one best |
,IN ,g Lot A,I I1
temper of a chronic earthquake, was
the choice of the French barons, and
ne started the Valois line, in 1928, un-
Ter the title of Philip VI 1t took him
only nine years to plunge France into
he hundred years war with England |
md it took destiny-or nature-only a
couple of centuries to bring the Valois
amily down to Henry H. in whom it
out in 1889.
The fate Of these dynastics in
france was paralleled by innumerabla
minor houses, there and elsewhere.
the case of Charlemargne
md Godefroy de Bouillon has been
matched, as where the famous family
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,lete end with the death of an illegiti-
nate scion who, although a mere pri-
ate in the ranks of Frances reVolu-
ionary forces earned the title Of the
First Grenadier of France"
Again, when the Rohan family,
those dukes had been kings of Bre-
lgne, had only Marguerite de Rohan
eft as its heir, her husband, Henri
habot, was coolly created duke de
,ohan, to keep the name alive.
Geoffroy de Lusignan was one of
he great names in French history,
nd the family to which he contrib
ted distinction faded out so uncer-
linly that for years it's name was the ,
port of impudent adventurers who s
rofessed to be cadets of a house
.hich only the well informed Of the s
Obility were positive was totally ex- I
net So, too, with the dukes des a
udes, who in their day were equals t
the earlier Capets; and the Guises, L
lting back to 150S when Rene Ill, /
)nqueror Of Charles the Bold and ia r
Ter of Claude, first French duke of v
uise. presented that lapsed duchy to t
IS second son, and ending in 1875 v
ith the death of Francis VII, the C