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Why, when that old wine was bottled, Her Majesty's grandfather lacked some twenty years of being born, and the American Colonies were as loyal as London; then the trunk of the royal old Bourbon tree, whose last branch death lopped away but yesterday at Frohsdorf, seemed solid enough, though rotten at the core; and, the great French Revolution was undreamed of, except in the seething brain of some wild political theorist, or in some poor peasant's nightmare of starvation.
The Restoration, the Hundred Days, the second Restoration, Louis XVIII, and his flight to England; Charles X and his abdication; her own husband, the Duc d'Angouleme the Dauphin for many years, the King for half an hour these are some of her experiences. She has lived for forty years in exile in Mittau, Memel, Warsaw, Koenigsberg, Prague, England; and now she is at Frohsdorf, awaiting the end.
To find the legitimate King you must go a little farther than Chiselhurst or Twickenham; you must go to Austria, to the Frohsdorf Palace. The King of France he is the descendant of Henry IV. is the Count of Chambord." If I count aright, that makes three legitimate sovereigns, and all three deposed. Never in China have we had anything of that sort.
Mon cher Monsieur Reeve, J'ai recu votre lettre du 4 septembre a mon retour de Frohsdorf, mais j'ai eu tant a faire depuis lors que je n'ai pas, jusqu'a ce jour, trouve un instant pour vous remercier de la preuve d'amitie et de sympathie que vous m'avez donnee dans ces circonstances si graves pour moi.
The reconciliation which in 1873 took place between the Comte de Chambord and his distant cousins of the house of Orleans never resulted in cordial relations, though the Comte de Paris, as his cousin's heir, visited the Comte de Chambord at Fröhsdorf.
When the Duchesse d'Angouleme had seen her husband laid by his father's side in the vault of the Franciscan convent, she, accompanied by her nephew and niece, removed to Frohsdorf, where they spent seven tranquil years. Here she was addressed as "Queen" by her household for the first time in her life, but she herself always recognised Henri, Comte de Chambord, as her sovereign.
They spoke together in lowered voices without daring, or desiring perhaps, to turn and look at him again. "It only remains," some one said, "for the Duchesse d'Angouleme to recognise his claim. A messenger has departed for Frohsdorf."
The Orleanist princes hastened to Fröhsdorf to attend his funeral, but they were so disdainfully treated by his widow that they deemed it due to their self-respect to retire before the obsequies. This is how "Figaro," a leading Legitimist journal in Paris, speaks of the Comte de Chambord: "He had noble qualities and great virtues.
They spoke together in lowered voices without daring, or desiring perhaps, to turn and look at him again. "It only remains," some one said, "for the Duchesse d'Angouleme to recognise his claim. A messenger has departed for Frohsdorf."
"And the Duchess?" said the Englishman at length, after a pause, "at Frohsdorf what does she say or think?" "She says nothing," replied the Marquis de Gemosac, sharply. "She is silent, because the world is listening for every word she may utter. What she thinks ... Ah! who knows? She is an old woman, my friend, for she is seventy-one. Her memories are a millstone about her neck.
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