The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-07-31
INTERESTING STORY OF THE
LONG AGO

LONG AGO
Washington, D. c., (SpeeiaD-
How Louis Philippe. due d'Orleans
and later King OF the French, lived
for several years at Bardstown, Ky.
and even paid court to pretty maid
of Frankfort, the State capital, is
related in an article in the National
Waterways Magazine, by the
Countess Spottiswood- Mackin. The
article IS profuse in illustration of
scenes identified with the asylum
found by the Bourbon exile during
a most tronbulous period of his
eventful career, when Marat had
proposed the setting of price upon
his head, and of priceless objects Of
art presented by him to St. Joseph's
Cathedral at Bardstown after he be-
came Sovereign of France and, still
later, following the downfall of his
dynasty. Among the art works
pictured are several vestments of
exceeding beauty and great intrinsic
value, embroidered by Louis Philip.
pes queen, Marie Amelie, and and
his sister, Adelaide, after the flight
of the court to England, which still
repose IN the Bardstown cathedral
Returning from the recent world
peace conference at St.Louis, With
er she had been sent as a delegate
by Governor Herman Sulzer, of
New York. and by the President
General of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. the Countess
Spottiswood-Mackin made pilgrim
age to her alma mater, the convent
academy at Nazareth. and while
there she obtained material evidence
of the sojoun of Louis Philippe,
which has been shrouded in mystery
and doubt by historical writers of
the past. Photographs of the rec
tory of Bishop B. J. Fldget, at Bards-
town, where Louis Philippe was
frequently entertained by his con-
fessor and spiritual advisor, and of
the sacred objects presented to the
ligious community at Bardstown,
Including a bell which still hangs in
the tower Of the Cathedral, are pub
lished for the first time.
The stay of the Bourbon duke in
Kentucky was not without a sug-
gestion of romance, the Countess
relates, continuing! :
"While visiting Frankfort, the
dueal party was entertained at the
Love House, which has ever been
associated with Buu's conspiracy,
where gala ball was rendered IN
their honor. The stately mlnuet
was danced and Louis Philippe in
vited young lady to dance with
him, but she declined, tearing to
wound the feelings of plain young
man. with whom she had but a
short while before declined to enter
the minuet. That the loyal maiden
made a more than superficial i'm
preston upon His Highness is ap-
parent from the fact that, when,
three decades or more later, he found
himself King CT the French, a gentle"
man from Frankfort who had known
him during the period of his exile
called upon him at Paris. The King
inquired for his Frankfort queen
and chatted pleasantly Of the ball at
the Love House and the incident OF
the minuet.
"ln a centennial ode to the City
of Frankfort, in 1886, Major h. l.
Stanton, of that place. penned the
following verse:
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,
Where once the proffered hand O
France
A Frankfort queen rejected.
Upon, his return to France anf
his elevation to the throne OF tn