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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 29, 1939 Net TO-DAY'S STRANGE STORY OF REAL PEOPLE

WAS LOUIS PHILIPPE REALLY CHIAPPINI?

By AUGUSTUS ST. MARS

To save, his neck during the Re- ign of Terror, Louis, Duke of Orleans -great-grandson of King Louis XIII. carried water or both shoulders..

Affecting sympathy with the peo- ple's cause, he renounced his titles, as- sumer the name of "Philippe Egalite" (Equality) and voted for the death of the unhappy Louis XVI., his cousin.

But all of this while he was pav- ing his way to escape the guillotine and, after the revolution should blow over, secure succession to the throne to his own blood. He had taken as wife a royal princess, a kinswoman of his cousin the King, and his ambitions to have a son caused him great an- xiety, for, according to the French law, no woman could succeed to the throne. So "Philip Equality" became the ob- ject of warm congratulation when it was announced that his first born was a boy, especially inasmuch as Louis XVI was at that time childless.

CA

The Citizen King.

to a

posed to have been the father of Ma- realm, was allowed to follow the career dame Cappelle, whose daughter, Marie of a ballet dancer, although later part- Lafarge, played the stellar role in the ly compensated by marriage most sensational of French murder wealthy nobleman. mysteries;

also of that mysterious creature of loveliness,

the be- King Louis Philippe, according to loved "Pamela" who married the Irish this story, was in reality an Italian martyr, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. In- peasant child, one Chiappini, the son deed, "Philippe Egalite" knew no of a jailer who was paid well for hav- This lad in whom the cidevant Duc scruple that would thwart expediency. |ing his baby boy placed in line for ac- 'd'Orleans centered all his hopes was

Therefore, Dame Gossip found ready cession of the throne of France. The named Louis Philippe. But Philippe listeners when she whispered about Citizen King's democratic ways and Egalite's schemes did not save his own the chancelleries of Europe that old sincere espousal of the people's cause villainous head. After the accession of Philippe's ambitions had been thwart-were supposed to have resulted from the Jacobeans to power in the Con-ed by the stork and that a girl, born this plebeian blood.. vention and within less than a year to him and his wife at the time when after the execution of his cousin, Louis a son was devoutly desired, had been XVI., he was carried to the dreadful smuggled away and a boy substuted guillotine. A year a and half later the in her place. According to the story, little Dauphin of France disappear- this infant daughter, cheated out of ed. Then the young Louis Philippe be- her rightful place as a princess of the came involved in a conspiracy against the republic and was banished from France. His estate having been con- fiscated, he now found himself penni- less and alone.

After teaching school for a season in Switzerland, he travelled incognito through northern Europe and, declar- ing himself a Danish subject, took

passage on board a ship bound for America. Landing in Philadelphia, he was met by his two exiled brothers, and the three princes travelled through New England, explored the

MARKET

ATTITUDE CALM

London, To-day.

Whether the story was true or not, old Czar Nicholas placed his stamp of approval upon it, for once, and in a moment of wrath, he exclaimed sneer- ingly of King Louis Philippe:

"He is a common jailers son!"

WRONG PAPERS WERE SENT

London, To-day.

There are some angry men in one

At the company's Headquarters they have two sets of "calling up" papers. One is for use in the case of hostilities, and the other for calling the men up for camp.

Great A calm attitude character- | searchlight company. Lakes, toured the valley of the Mis-ised most markets yesterday, with business restricted by the imposition of various emergency embargoes.

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sissippi, saw the future site of the na- tional capital and visited General Washington at Mount Vernon. Not un- til after he had been an exile from his beloved France for more than '20

were

A number of the men were sent the

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His

Louis Philippe was now allowed to return home, but his Land of the Free had intensifled those travels in the liberal and democratic ideals which- unlike "l'hilippe Egalite"--he cherish- ed with honesty and sincerity. espousal of these principles soon of- fended Louis XVIII. But that mon- arch's rule was shortly to end and next came the succession of Charles X., whose policies, dictated by the Church, precipitated the three-days 'revolution of 1830 and lost him the throne. "Philippe Egalite's" most cherished wish was now to be grant- ed: The crown was given to Louis Philippe as the result of an election by the deputies and peers swayed by the strong influence of Lafayette,

Because his espousal of the plain people the new monarch was hailed as "The Citizen King," and he added to his popularity by calling himself "King of the French" rather than "King of France. But like all popular idols, his days of influence were num- bered. The populace grew weary of him. After he had reigned for 18 years another revolution broke forth

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A naval control There were no official dealings in been instituted.--Reuter. international issues owing to the Treasury's ban on dealings in cer- tain overseas securities.-Reuter.

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It is further notified that with a Chun, and his throne was overturned. Dis-view to accelerating the training lec-gang. Es Wong Can Bon, Esq.. Kan Vlog Pr guising himself as a scullion, he crept three times a week on Tuesdays, Wed-

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Although official history states that King Louis Philippe was the son of "Philippe Egalite," there

were per- sistent traditions that he was of very humble birth.

So far as "Philippe Egalite" "himself was concerned, his private life had been quite as treacher- ous as was his public career. His whole married life was a succession of in- trigues, and several noted personages whose es tcheons bore the bar sinister traced their ancestry to him.

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