The Hartford republican., 1913-10-31
Louis Phillip
In KENTUCKY
After He Became King Sent
Painting to Church.
King Of the French Lived 10 Ex-
lie at Bardstown for Sew
eral Years.

Il 80
eral Years.
Frankfort, KY, Oct. 27.-How Louis
Philippe. Due D'Orleans and later
King of the French. Mved for sew
erai years at Bardstown, ky., ami
even paid court to a pretty maid of
Frankfort, the State capital, lis re-
lated by the Countess Spottiswood-
slackin. The Bourbon exile found
America an asylum during o most
sroublous period OF his eventful ga
reer. when Marat had proposed the
setting of a price upon his head.
Priceless objects OF art were present.
ed by him to st. Joseph's Cathedral
1t Bardstown after he became SOW
erelgu of France and sf"" later, fol-
lowing the downfall of his dynasty.
Among ths.,art works are several
vestments of beauty and Intrinsic
value embroidered by Louis Philip
pes Queen, Marie Amelie, and his
sister,, Adelaide. after the flight of
the court to England, which stiBl re-
pose in the Bardstown Cathedral.
Returning from the recent woIxd
peace conference at st. Louis. the
Countess Spottiswood-Mackin made a
pilgrimage to her alma mater, the
convent-academy at Nazareth, and
while there she obtained material
evidence of the sojourn OF Louis Pht.-
ippe. which has been shrouded in
mystery and doubt by historical writ
ers Of the past.
while visiting Frankfort the du-
cal party was entertained at the
Love House, which has ever been as
sociated with Burrs conspiracy.
where gala ball was rendered in
their honor" writes the countess.
"The stately minuet was danced and
Louis Philippe invited a young lady
to dance with him, but she declined,
fearing to wound the feelings of
plain young man with whom she haC
but a short while before declined to
enter the minuet. That the loyal
maiden made a more than superficial
impression upon his highness is ap-
parent from the fact that when, bhree
decades or more later, he found HIM
self King Of the French. gentleman
from Frankfort who had known him
during the period of his exile called
upon him at Paris. The King inquir-
ed for his Frankfort queen and chat
ted pleasantly of the ball at the
Love House and the incident OF the
minuet.
"In a centennial ode to the city,
of Frankfort in 1856 Major T. H.
Stanton, of that place. penned the
following verses:
The Love House stands no longer
here
Where from the crowd secluded
The cold, ambitious Aaron Burr
His scheme of empire brooded.
But some are mindful of the dance
In stately grace perfected.
When once the proffered hand OF
France
A Frankfort queen rejected
upon his return to France and his
to the throne of the Bour-
bons. Louis Philippe was not un-
mindful OF the kindness that had
been bestowed upon him while he
tarried in the Kentucky hills. The
material evidence OF his gratitude
are many about Bardstown, and hap
PLY these are extant today. 1t may
indeed be said that a potent art in
fluence was exerted in the academic
circle of st. Joseph's College at
Bardstown and OF the neighboring
Nazareth Academy, which is in
corporated in the same religious COM
munity by the donation of priceless
treasures of painting. statuary and
objects dart by Louis Philippe aft
er he became the sovereign of
France. Among Ahe pictures which
yet hang in the Cathedral church at
Bardstown are st. Peter In Chains
and "A Winged 81. Mark by Van
dyck; st. John the Baptist and "The
Playing of st. Bartholomew by Reu-
bens; The Coronation OF the Blessed
Virgin by Murillo. and an unknown
painting. The Annunciation.' Such
group OF masterpieces ss these MIGHT
grace tn transept of an Old World
and might be coveted OF
continental city. They are large pic
lures and are hung high In the silent
nave, where the light from upper