The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-02
FRENCH ROYALISTS
 CELEBRATE CENTENARY.

tTduch TOya1StS, TeuOeEeo SoAlo- what hopeful by recent events in the republic, will celebrate with much en- fhusiasm the centenary of the resto- ration of the Bourbon dynasty on May 8. 1914. While French monarchists are few in numbers. they are capable of much noise, and the lovely lady who represents la republique, nberte, fraternite ct egalite. has learned not tQ resent, and even to enjoy, the clarnor centenary will begin to-day and con tinue through tomorrow, the actual anniversary, and Monday, the centen- ary of Napoleon's arrival at Ella
 when Napoleon was sent into exile. an Emperor without a crown. the. question of a successor was furiously discussed by the diplomats represent. ing the allies So far as the people of france were concerned, they little cared who was to sit upon their throne. worn out, and impoverished by the wars brought on by Bonaparte's boundless ambition, they asked only for peace and bread, and let him rule who might. AS they viewed it, one monarch was as good or as bad as an other
 There was much wire-pulIing and many influences at work in those uns easy days Bernadotte felt the inn periai bee buzzing about his head. The Emperor of Austria favored a regen- cy. under Marie Louise. Alexander of Russia was indifferent. but not averses to the re-establishme ent of the repub-. lie There was no popular demand for the restoration, of the Bourbons. and English. Austrian and Russian. commanders had refused to recogn.ze representatives. of the family It was. Weuingtonss opinion that "In propos- ing a sovereign in place of Napoleon it matters little to Frenchmen whether he be a prince of Bourbon or of any other royal family Very little. in : deed,
 Into such situations some forceful man always injects his personality and casts the deciding vote The man of the hour was TalIeyrand. 'sThe re- public.s he asserted, sas impossible; the Regency or Bernadotte means per petuaI intrigue. The Bourbons alone fepresent principle
 They represented, rather. a princi- pal. and that principal Charles. Man rice de Taileyrand- -Perigord. He who had been president of the National Assembly in 17so and had betrayed the republic. who had fawned so slav- 1ssaIy upon Napoleon when the latter was at the height of his power, now drafted a new constitution which .sre-. stored to France her rightful king Prince Louis stanfslaus Xavier de Bourbon On the third of May the monarch made his triumphal entry into Paris. to the music of few per
 
 Louis XVIII, King of France and Ma varre, and pompously claimed the throne .sby divine right'
 The House of Bourbon. the dynasty thus restored, derived it's origin from the Archanbauds. lords of Bourbon. in Berry These petty princeHngs came in. the course of time to rule France. Spain and Naples. The first Of the line mentioned in history was Adhenar, who. in the tenth century. was lord of the Bourbonnais, now the republican department of Allfer- The power and possessions of the family gradually increased, until, in 1272. Beatrix, daughter of Agnes of -.,,r- bon and John of Burgundy, married Robert, sixth son of Louis K, and connected the Bourbons with the Ca. pet royal line. Their son, Louis. be- came the first Due de Bourbon, and from the two sons of the first duke tx o branches of the family took their orig < i'm The elder line became extinct, but the younger line produced An thony of Bourbon, Duke of vendome. who. by marriage, acquired the throne of Navarro. and whose son, Henry of Navarre. became Henry " of France in 1889. The Bourbons continued to rule France until the execution of Louis XVI in 179s Louis XVII never reisned, and died in prison. and it vas brother of Louis xvI-who came to the throne on the restoration of the sraDarchy in 1s14-