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all the surviving members of the club, as
well as to its guests and visitors.
In innumerable eases the names thus
inscribed in letters of gold have been those
OF men over so, and even GO, who by
reason of their age were not required
to respond 10 the call TO arms. In many
instances retired Colonies, and even Gen.
erals, who could not on account Of years
secure a command, enlisted as privates to
; obtain the privilege of getting to the bat
tie lire. have before me the name of a
Bro Gier-General Of artillery, shelved be-
fore the war on account of the age limit,
who ius; sted on enlisting in battery at
Verdun commanded by one of his soldier
sons.
Left House Of Der-t,.s 50 Enlist.
.Josselin, twelfth Due de Rohan and
fourteenth Prince de Leon, was member
of the Chamber of Deputies when the war
broke out, and as such exempt from mill
tary service. He was of the opinion, how
ever, that he would represent his eonstitu-
ency in Brittany far better at the front, SO
he rejoined his old regiment, the Second
Cbasseurs-a Cheval He was wounded
and received the Croix de Guerre at the
battle of the Marine in 1914. On his re-
eovery he returned the front as an Off
Ger of the Alpine Pied-the
Blue Devils. Wounded again, he re-
ceived the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The moment he was eonvalcscent he re-
turned'for the third time to the front, and
had only been in the trenches before YER
dun for few days when he received fatal
oCnds.
Ia February last the young Due de
ChevreuSe gave his life for his country as
an officer of aviation. He was the eldest
son and heir of the tenth Due de Luynes,
who had received a few weeks previously
the Cross of the Legion of Honor for his
own services. Considerably over so years
old when the war broke out and the
recognized chief of the ROyalist party
De Luynes rejoiHed his old regiment,
the Seventeenth Chasseurs-a -Cheval, and
fought in the 1914 battle of the Marine,
where he won the Croix de Guerre.
New York Boy May Get Title.
The late Due de Luynes, his father, fell
in the battle of Patay in the Franeo-Ger-
man war Of 1870; Pie Due de Luynes
has an only surviving son, lad of II,
who bears the illustrieus title of the Comte
"a Dunois, familiar to the lovers Of
Shakespeare as that of one of the great
est commanders in French history, the
chief companion in arms Of the Maid Of
Orleans Should anything untoward hap
pen to this boy it is young Emmanuel,
Due de Chaulnes, 10 years old, now liv-
ing in New York with his mother, daugh-
Ter of Theodore p. Shonts, who will be-
CONC next heir to the estates of the ducal
louise of De Luynes.
Among other French Dukes who have
laid down their lives in the present war,
have been the Duke and Prince Ernest Of
Arenberg and Duke Guy de Lorges, the
latter of whom was succeeded in his hon.
ors and estates by his younger brother,
Robert, who enlisted as private and who
has won the stripes of non-commissioned
officer and the Military Cross. Still other
Dukes have lost their sons, such as the
Duke of Lesparre and the Duke of
Poiignae. t.
1t would require columns to record the
hundreds, nay thousands, Of such names
names which should be cited to show that
the mobiles of France are worthy de-
seendants of the blue blooded soldiers
who fought for the independence Of
tbe United States under the Marquis
de Lafayette, whose birthday we celebrate
this week. What / have written above
VIII. however, go to show that the mobiles
of France have, as regards both patriot
ism and heroism, lived up in the present
war to the glorious traditions of their IL
lustrious forebears, ranging to the time of
me Crusades