The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-10-25

throne, the Count of Paris likes to think of himself as man of ideas; and as democratic.
 He wants monarchy ito pre- serve French liberties" asserting through close friends that he nei- ther created the war nor signed the Armistice and would not have signed the peace treaty.
 Poor France, she has suffered crrible defeat" Royalists further uote him.
 inc Duke Of Guise, the late fa- her of the count, issued several nauifestoes calling for monarch ical rule.
 Recently some observers have ipeculated the Petain government night te only a temporary one .lmed at restoring the monarchy.
 Countess Returns
 Adding to this belief YVES the recent return from Brazil of the Countess Of Paris, the former Princess Isabelle, whose trip was nked in France to a report her iusband would receive an offer Of 1 puppet kingdom from Chancel- or Hitler.
 me would-he monarch's ideas cn government have not been ex- pounded recently flor the record 2 cut book published under his name in 1886 recommended de- centralized France, effected by di- vision into the provinces he be- iieves are it's natural regions"
 Over everything would be the king, "arbitrating and pacifying- an umpire between capital and la bor and other factions" A
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 Working toward such an ideal have been Royalist groups in every French province, many insistent upon being called by centuries-old titles rather than monsieur" or madame . ''4''''' '"
 The counts fortune, handed down the long line of forbears who ruled France 1000 years, has financed the campaign.
 Owning estates in Belgium and Italy as we'll as at Larache, the count has travelled much. His sporty monoplane and shiny red Bugatti tTtaliarD automobile are familiar in most European capi- tals that know him as one of the continents best-dressed men de- spite a preference for aviation re- galia.
 Barred From France
 As head of the Bourbon Or leans line he is barred from France under an old law but sought, prior to the war, to enter his country's armed forces.
 Turned down by President All bert Lebrun, he applied to the foreign legion under an assumed name and was assigned to it's air corps. When his father died last August, he was given leave.
 ROyaliSt activity was directed many years from a wooded estate, Manoir dAnjou, just outside Brussels, where the Duke of Guise took up residence in 1926 on the death of his cousin, Duke Philippe of Orleans, pretender before him.
 Here the count joined in direct ing the campaign seated at a great topped desk on which rested a crystal bowl containing a handful of French soil
 When the Duke died the estate, with the pretender's role, passed to his son
 Elaborate Wedding
 Most active step taken by the count came in 1888 when he flew to country estate near Paris and. serving champagne to re- porters assembled in secret, read a manifesto urging restoration of the king
 The incident, marking the first time he had set foot on the land his ancestors ruled, drew much public attention as had his we'd ding, eight years earlier, to slim. sophisticated Prin cess Isabelle, granddaughter of the last em- peror of Brazil
 Like her husband, the princess is of French royal descent but, through a quirk of the law, is per mitted to enter France while 'he is not. @' sf
 Parents of six children, they were married at Palmero, Sicily, in an elaborate ceremony attended by thousand guests representing all royal houses of Europe.