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LOUIS PHILIPPE by JOHN S. C. ABBOTT With Engravings New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1904 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Copyright, 1899, by Susan Abbott Mead.
[Illustration: LOUIS PHILIPPE AT THE HÔTEL DE VILLE.]
PREFACE. It would be difficult to find, in all the range of the past, a man
whose career has been so full of wonderful and exciting vicissitude
as that of Louis Philippe. His life covers the most eventful period
in French history. The storms of 1789 consigned his father to the
guillotine, his mother and brothers to imprisonment, and himself and
sister to poverty and exile. There are few romances more replete with
pensive interest than the wanderings of Louis Philippe to escape the
bloodhounds of the Revolution far away amidst the ices of Northern
Europe, to the huts of the Laplanders, and again through the almost
unbroken wilds of North America, taking refuge in the wigwams of the
Indians, and floating with his two brothers in a boat a distance of
nearly two thousand miles through the solemn solitudes of the Ohio
and the Mississippi from Pittsburg to the Gulf. Again we see the duke, on the recovery of a large portion of his
estates, enjoying the elegant retreat at Twickenham, fêted by the
nobility of England, and caressed by the aristocracy of Europe. Again the kaleidoscope of changeful life is turned. The Empire falls.
The Bourbons are restored. Louis Philippe returns to the palaces of
his fathers. In rank, he takes his stand next to the throne. In
wealth, he is the richest subject in Europe. At one moment he is
caressed by Royalty, hoping to win his support, and again he is
persecuted by Royalty, fearing his influence. There is another change. The throne of the Bourbons is overthrown.
Louis Philippe finds himself, as by magic, King of the French. He
exchanges his ducal coronet for a royal crown. He enters the regal
mansions of the Tuileries, Versailles, Saint Cloud, and Fontainebleau
the acknowledged sovereign of thirty millions of people. All the
proud dynasties of Europe recognize him as belonging to the family of
kings. Eighteen years pass away, crowded with the splendor, cares,
toils, and perils which seem ever to environ royalty. During this
period the adventures of the Duchess de Berri to regain the throne
for her son, the Count de Chambord, presents an episode of
extraordinary interest. There is another change. The tocsin of insurrection tolls its dismal
knell in the towers of Paris. Through scenes surpassing fable, the
king and his family escape to the hospitable shores of England. Here,
in obscurity and exile, he reaches the end of life's journey, and
passes away to the unknown of the spirit land. Such is the wonderful
story which we have endeavored to compress within the limits of these
brief pages. Every event here narrated is sustained by documentary
evidence beyond the possibility of a doubt. JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. Fair Haven, Conn.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE I. ORIGIN OF THE HOUSE OF ORLEANS 13 II. THE EXILE 45 III. WANDERINGS IN THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW 76 IV. THE TOMB AND THE BRIDAL 109 V. THE RESTORATION 136 VI. THE DEATH OF LOUIS XVIII. AND THE REIGN OF
CHARLES X 168 VII. CHARLES X. DETHRONED 204 VIII. THE STRUGGLES OF DIPLOMACY 241 IX. LOUIS PHILIPPE'S THRONE 279 X. THE ADVENTURES OF THE DUCHESS DE BERRI 306 XI. THE FINAL STRUGGLE 349 XII. THE THRONE DEMOLISHED 379
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