Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-02
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workmen, a diminutive church and tin
rooted garage for tourists.
The castle has 365 rooms with fireplaces
and monumental doubly spiraled CEN
trail staircase which is wonder of the
world. 1t would permit two armies to
march up and down it'at the same time.
without passing or even seeing each
other. The whole castle is a similar
wonder-it is castle built inside
castle. Tourists get lost in it's endless
and complicated passages.
Chambord is grandiose, but sad It
gave Louis XIV the fantods 1t is SO
lonely, isolated and far from Paris ehat.
instead of guillotining Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette the French revolution
almost gave them Chambord as a kind
of giided prison. Only at the last mo-
ment it was feared that they might stir
up counter-revolution from it.
!.
Napoleon gave Chambord to his Mar
shall Berthier. whose widow was author
ized to sell it. in 1921, after she had
ruthlessly cut and sold the beautiful old
forest. 1t was then that a national sub
scription purchased Chambord for two
millions. to present it to a newborn
baby, who. in time, left it by will to
Zita's father
That baby was called 1.-The child of the
miracle" All France hoped In him. He
was the Comte de Chambord. He could
have been King of France when he grew
up-they called him Henri V-but he
would not accept the tricolor flag. for one
thing, and my friend Naundorff, whose
legal right to call himself de Bourbon
comes from Holland, claims that 1.-The
Comte de Chambord knew that he was
not the rightful heir, because Naundorff
was the lost dauphin.
of
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette died
in the Temple prison; and Louis XVI had
a younger brother, the Comte d'Artois,
who, in time, resigned as the straight.
legitimate Charles X. His only son. the
Due de Berri. would have been legitimate
king after him, but the Due de Berri
was assassinated, leaving only a little
girl. Louise-and there were no more
males to carry on the line. Here came
in 1.-The child of the miracle" Seven
months after his fathers death the
Comte de Chambord was born.
And now mystery intervenes
One would think the Comte de Cham
bord was born to reign. Yet, for some un-
known reason, he stubbornly refused the
crown, died childless. and left Chambord
with ''the guilty millions to the son Of
his sister Louise. Now, his sister Louise
had married Charles. reigning Duke of
Parma, and that son of hers was the
Duke Robert. Zitas father, who lost his
throne of Parma as baby.
Guilty Millions says the present
Naundorff, who declares that he will
make Parma disgorge.'' The Naun-
dorffs have. their partisans in France who
believe them to be descended from the
little dauphin: and an interminable law
suit drags against the Parmas for those
millions. which are. indeed. the most
romantic. in the world. They are none
other than the Accommodations, during
more than leo years. of the private
estates of Marie Antoinette and Louis
XVI.
The martyred King and Queen of
France left a great treasure for the
epoch. invested in England and Austria
1t should have gone to the little dauphin
had he lived. Instead, 1t went to the
martyred kings two brothers. who
reigned successfully and increased the
fund. Even the share Of the little
dauphin's sister Joined it, she dying
childless All went, finally. to the Comte