The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-06
.xrM-cAlg- HEAD OF FRENCH
ROYAL HOUSE Is "A TODAY

s.,T-sr-csars In now a dlgnif1ed nick
----,-z for che, head of q royal house,
7,1It Il II Shs App Eihztiou bestowed by
Sha FRENCH people upon Duke Louis
T51-F1Ir,no Robert dOrleans, chief of
4he Bourbon-Or1eans clan, who ts to-
arw Celebrating his forty-fourth birth
49,. Louis PhfIdppe's rival pretender,
Victor Napoleon Is popularity known
as Canembert the First. owing 80 the
fart that a dealer in cheese named
brand after the imperial descendant
Of me house of Bonaparte- the DUKE
.f-r,rsenns was dubbed Toto Ia Ca
rnelre when he applied Tor ADMISSION
to the French army as q private ga
-nefle'' being the name of the tins IA
V-frfef the rations of soldiers are pack
ed Nothing so thoroughly proves the
sri.runuk of repubHcanism in France as
the almost universal application OF
such facetious nicknanaes to woulo-De
nonarchs-
IA realizes the utter hopelessness or
his cause. and in this he shows greater
fnteIiigence than Prince -CannemDert,
whose frequent procIaLnauons 20 MS
people would be pitiful II they We're
not 40 Iudicrous- The Duke OF Or.
leans was born at York House, Twick-
ezahazn, England. on Feb 5. 1853, and
waz the eldest son or the late Comte
dseParfs He was educated at the
Municipal College in England and the
rsoned In the famous English regi-
rnem4. the Sixteenth Rifles, he spent
Two years in India Upon returning
to Europe he entered the Swiss ar
NV school of musketry. On the day
chat ne became of age he set out for
Tzrszs,r.rsd., to- D zzsgF1E5tings office,
urfiare he asked to be permitted to en-
lf@t in the army. At that time the
republicans still feared the bugaboo of
royaIty, and the Duke was arrested
under a law prohibiting the heads OF
former ruling dynast1es from entering
fre country He was sentenced to
ak months in prison All France
Iar1wned at his ip1iEht, and the Duke,
realizing that man thus ridtcuIed
could never become king, shook the
dust of France from his feet. In 1896
ne married the Archduchess Marie
Dorothea of Austria He offered his
rword TO Spain in it's war on Morocco,
20 Russia against Japan, and TO Italy
AGAINST Turkey. but was always refus-
ed He now resides at Lucerne,
Switzerland where he spends much OF
his time playing golf.
Louis Philippe has been the head
of the French royal family since 1894,
when his father, the Count of Paris,
passed away The latter had become
head of the house in 1888, when, by
the death OF the Count of Chambord,
the elder line OF the Bourbons of
France became extinct and the right
Of succession merged in the young
az or Orleans line. The Dukes moth
n was the Spanish Infanta Louise. He
has one brother and four sisters.
George Jay Gould, head of the rail-
road dynasty founded by Jay Gould.
will celebrate his forty-ninth birthday
to-day. Mr.. Gould is now the proud
grandfather of four youngsters, three
Of whom were born during the last
year As he has two sons and two
daughters sttII unmarried, it is evident
that there will be no lack of heirs to
Rhe Gould fortune.
jesse R. Grant. son of the President
Rnd civil war general, was born in ST.
Louis hfty-fve years ago to-day. He
deserted the Republican party some
years ago, and last FAN supported
Wilson for the presidency