Evening star., 1923-08-05
FRANCE SEEN NEAR
M0NARCH|ST ROW
Trouble Feared Should e.
fort to Danish Heir to
Throne Be Made.
By Cable to The Star and New York Tribune.
Couyright lgo3.


Copyright. 1923.
PARIS, August 4.-The serious ill
moss of the Due d'Orleans at Inverness
Lodge, near London, has stirred high
society circles in France, as well as
the royalist factions, as no other news
in years has stirred them. OF course,
France is republic. but the Due
dOrleans actually is, even If only on
paper, Philippe the Eighth. King of
France"
If the duke dies in exile he would
be succeeded in the title by his
younger brother. the Due de Mont
pensier, who would thereupon be
banished from this land, under the
republican law of 1883, by which the
kings of France and their succeeding
heirs are forever exiled from French
soil.
The Due de Montpensier might be
called today the leader of all French
society and the hope and prayer of
the, French royalists, a figure ex-
tremely popular in the upper circles
of the republic. political and other
wise. He is popular because of his
democratic and simple tastes. and is
an ardent patriot. particularly inter
oStcd in colonial expansion, never at
tempting to mix into politics and evil
IDENTIFY sincere in not desiring to push
his own or his brothers claiming i'll
short, a country gentleman living in
quiet taste in the beautiful chateau
of Random, near Ffchy.
Prince by Birth.
Nevertheless. he is a prince by right
of birth and a future King Ferdi-
nand l of France, and consequently
enemy of the republican law the mo-
ment his brother Philippe expires. In
this quiet royal retreat near Vichy
there reigns also the young Spanish
marQuise wife of Ferdinand. who
will technically be Queen of France.
About three years ago the hand
some middle-aged Due De Montepen-
sier met the beautiful young Marquise
De Val-Deterrazo in Madrid at the
court of Alphonso XIV. courtship
ensued which was watched with
keenest interest by all Europe, and a
royal wedding followed a year later.
although the bride is not of royal
blood
Made Duke Popular.
This democratic gesture popular
ized the duke as nothing else could
have done, d popularity possibly equal
to that which the English royal fam
lily drew from the union of Princess
Mary with VisCount Lascelles, COM
moner with no claim on the royal
purple.
The Montpensier-Val Deterrazo
union was a signal for the highest
European society To flock eagerly to
the brilliant garden parties and re-
and render homage to the bride such
as only queen could expect
News from England today is that
phillippe's malady is permanent and
his days are numbered There Will
be a storm in republican France II
the Poincaire government seeks 20
cast government seeks to cast the
new king" and his beautiful popu-
lar Spanish bride from the frontiers
of the nation. even though the law
of 1888 prescribes II.
See Political Row.
No government of France woulC be
able TO demand of the chambe- an
abrogation of this law and maintain
its political equilibrium. L would
be regarded as a blow against the
republic. The move from the royal
lists in the chamber in this direction
would be doomed from the beginnIlg.
France, therefore. is facing roy
alist dilemma" at the approach OF the
1924 elections, and Leon Daudet, soh
of the famous writer. Alphonse Dau-
det. and royaliSt leader of the coun-
try, is already reviving his threat
that there are enough men in
France trained and well equipped to
fight for the cause of royalty TO win"
The Duo De Montpensier does not
aspire to kingship. Sober republicans
are arguing today that 1t would be
foolish to Danish him and his beauti-
full wife, leaders of Frances top-notch
society. respected everywhere. This
only would feed the flames of discon-
tent among the ranks of Daudets,
rabid royalists and possibly mean
trouble.
Recent Acts Recalled.
Only recently the Camelots Du Roi,
henchmen of the king. an organiza-
ton of young bloods, canned and cas-
tor-oiled socialist deputies on the
streets Of Paris and smashed up the
plant of a socialist newspaper. To-
day the contention is heard freely
that keeping these royalist pretend
ers like Philippe and Ferdinand out
side the country is contrary to the
republican principles of liberty,
equality and fraternity at the same
time crowning the victims with the
aureole of martyrdom.