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--JUS MAHBOBH 7NXBBmSIK The Royalist Tradition in Republican France Royal House of Frai the dsfttkj oi DCftd oi the only follow the renunciation ol that Nov. (By Mail). TYNER ever Paris. France. By PAUL Philip N oi Spain on the extinction of the el r Republican. Catholic and nitv bv and oJ the House of Bourbon on August 24, fought side by side m the trenches family ROVLIST earlv all the many titles of the are tho the Great War. laying aside tormer and appanage of the duke- - eve the same thing, between Royahsm the domains composma the in union for the defense of France. On the l Louss feud was I have talked w.th many men Orleans conferred by Louis and XV. legislative elect ft, a determined effort find hat not only I of the during the past few months, and Tin- present duke was born at Twickenham. this patriotic comradeship m rally- even fee made to perpetuate members of the old aristocracy, but JMtftf on February 0. 1869, SO he m his 5Wt ing voters of various shades of opinion to support they are by the Phillippe. a bourgeoisie, despised as He is the son of Prince Louis that Couni is called the Republican-Democrati- c Alliance, wdl prove what declare that a monarchy in the last who served on General llcClcuan s stall d coali:ion of forces meant to solidify the conservative This ttltuae Paris ex- the or.lv s:ab . eminent tor American Crrfl War. of which he wrote a hist moderate sentiment against the Radicals ot the a Koyaiun vj and revo- openly avowed by VAccum hrancaisc. is regarded as the classic from a military left in plain English, the Socialist h It is the more which treme dailv of "large circulation and influence. He ue.tr the Grand Cross of the Order f lutionary . less veikd attitude of several other journals like of the Spanish Order ol the last two years 01 the war. the com- or Malta and is Ch valier Throughout Fuwo, the uaulois and even ot LA Libcrtc. in of Orders of Saints Cyrille parties, including the Radi- the do- Golden Fleece and the pulsion of all the French these dailies, liberal space H given to the Vienna on Novei Socialists, national coherence for national each of Methode Hi iras married at cals and to of the titled nobility ot France m the M in what was called the aced ing of members 5. 18 to Her Imperial and Royal Highness. defense was expressed ol births, marriages and deaths, dinners and Duckets (Union sacred It corresponded to what was natter Dorothea, Princess Imperial and Grand Union dances and goings and comings between the capital and be one good reason a tacit agree- hand-some- ria which might tor ca!d in Great Britain the "party truce": the fashionable resorts. In a b their chateaux and I gtvi him a post in the Fn ment for the complete suspenssofl oi partisan activity in in vellum and gold and Republics refusal better consolidate gotten up animal bound renting Gertnany and Austria. He lives. w and out of Parliament in order to many elaborately executed photogravure-portrait- s army the one purpose of winning the containing home, in the Chateau of Putdael near Brusselv His all patriotic er rt on and pictures of chateaux. I find over 1.000 at war. In France, as in England, that purpose tumished noble- -c mother, the CoontCM de Pans, born Princess Isab i pages of record! of members of this French u. England a verv powerful principle of cohesion. war and it of Orleans, Infanta of Spain, was also born in- The last issue, of course, just antedated the This "union" or "truce." in both countries, at Kingston-on-Thame- s. She lives in the Chatea it included the portraits , is a bit interesting to note that Pur-de-Dom- wh-France- formation of coalition governments. For in the Department of e volved the and genealogies of the German and Austrian rulers. Randan a correspondence ol what happened m Great Britain and in the Palace of Villa Manique m becaUK f genealogical connection with ancient French in France, an American would have to imagine of Seville when in Spain. and noble families ! Province Wilson as choosing a cabinet made up in royal and claimant to the throne of France has a President is a which has some indicative impor- The present fairly equal proportions of leaders of his own party Here straw Pruue : The Due d'Orleans. head of the House of ion, and "of Republicans. Socialists and Prohibitionists: tance lippe, in France on July 5. I(i8, and three da Mr, Bourbon-Orlea- :. regards himself and is regarded by brn making Senator Lodge, say. Secretary ol State, of hi- - s, the Count d'Ku, married n Navy. his followers as the rightful King of France, awaiting ters. One Taft or Senator Poindexter. Secretary Ot the 1864, of Braganza and Princess Im- the propitious moment to ascend the throne. Isabella, Princess Senator Johnson. Secretary of Munitions and Charles Don el rt Only the other day. the Paris papers published a perial of Brazil, daughter of Pedro. Their Edward Russel. Secretary of Labor. d Alcantara, we are told, cd letter which the Duke addressed to the Royalit Com- son. Prince Pedro renoiu The coalition government in France was further his pretensions to the imperial crown of Brazil in favor in mittee of the Seine. (There is a Royalist committee for complicated by the necessity of giving representation of his brother Luis .n November 14, 1908, when he corresponding to the Amer- racfa of the 87 departments of France.) In this letter the Council of Ministers al- married an Hungarian countess. This Prince Luis of cabinet) not he expresses his great regret in not having been ican rillilfciU'l or the British Premiers Bourbon-Orlean- s Braganza, is a lowed to come to the defense of France during the the House of and who to three parties, but to a dozen or more. veritable claimant to the throne of Brazil in a way that was over, the effective principle of war. even in the most modest post of a private soldier, Once the war his may call up the Monroe Doctrine, married the Prn cohesion weakened and in the months that have elapsed which he had solicited. Going on to point out to Marie-Pi- e. of the House of Bourbon and of the it has practically friends their duties in the face of the weighty prob- also since the signing of the armistice Two Sicilies. They are living here in Paris on the disappeared In a eotttttn where political parties in lems of national reconstruction, "aggravated by the : Bois du Boulogne. We have a colony of kings in the large are divided on broad and definite lines, as menace of the revolutionary spirit." he conclude Democrats and Republicans at home, or the "Serve your country as Royalists: but serve France exile here. are the It is interesting the Due has Conservatives and Liberals in Britain, the reversion to begin with. The future belongs to those who will to note that d'Orleans a neighbor in his hoUM Brussels, rival simply into these constituent parts of any have rendered the greatest services to their country." a near the would be two Na- wholesome political life. Let us recall that this Due d'Orleans is of the Bour- Bonapartist claimant to the French throne. Prince The names litkal parties in France, however, bons of whom Talleyrand said. "They never learn and poleon Victor Jerome Freeleric. who married the Belgium 241 Ve- are legior. "Right ai d "Left" are broad general :.iV(.r : rget.' He claims headship of the Royal Princess Clementine of and lives at divisions indicating the upporters and the opponents f France by right of descent through Phillippe nue Louise in Brussels. The Royal House of Belgium, of the government in power, but each of these is in Due d'Anjou (afterward Due d'Orleans) who was it may be remarked, is closely allied, therefore, to I tfl rum divided into numerous petty factions. Personal in Bfl I 40 and died in 101. from King Clovis who the pretenders to the throne of France and it ambitions and the rivalries tnd jealousies of the lead- reigned more than a thousand years ago. His house impofsshlc that Bourbons and Bonapar s ers of these little parties play a large part in this fac- :::;'.uded Louis XIV. 'le grand monarque." whose might join forces, in case the movement for a r tionalism. Hero worship seems to be inborn in the glories are perpetuated in France in the Palace of Ver- ti n of the monarchy really should become a que ' French nature. Emotionalism is rite in all party con- sailles and in hundreds of splendid statues all over the of practical politics. ferences and it is cleverly played upon in public meet- country. The dukes of Orleans bore the title ot "First Let it not be supposed that Royalist sentiment is ings by scheming politicians. Naturally enough, this Prince of the Blood Royal of France." It is the boast fined to Paris. Agricultural France, which is still r divs re m to DC is most evident in the more advanced of this house that it has furnished kings to all the divided into the two great complementary da Radical and Liberal groups. On the Conservative side, Catholic thrones of Europe for a thousand years past, Aristocracy and Peasantry, is largely dominated by the the tendency, generally speaking, is to stand pat and to as today it furnishes the reiening dynasties of Belgium traditions of the old feudalism of the chateaux, : r- st:;k ?'.:: in :h:s sec:: arise : .