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Updated: May 11, 2025
They had met in the strangest of homes, that of Chantelouve, the Catholic historian, who boasted of receiving all classes of people. And every week in the social season that drawing-room in the rue de Bagneux was the scene of a heterogeneous gathering of under sacristans, café poets, journalists, actresses, partisans of the cause of Naundorff, and dabblers in equivocal sciences.
He also took a journey to Berlin to claim from the authorities the seal which Naündorff said had been taken from him by the Brandenburg police the same seal which Louis XVI., as he was passing to execution, had handed to Clery with his dying injunction to deliver it to his son.
They demanded his name, and he said it was Naündorff, but whence he had come he refused to tell; and his sole worldly possession was a seal, which, he said, had belonged to Louis XVI. of France.
All these pretenders, Naundorff and the others, have proved that quite clearly, but none has succeeded in proving that he was the man." "And do you think that I shall be able to prove that I am the man when I am not?" By way of reply Dormer Colville turned again to the fireplace and took down the print of Louis XVI. engraved from a portrait painted when he was still Dauphin.
He concealed himself from public view, and shortly afterwards sickened and died. Naündorff declared he had been poisoned. The discomfited impostor, finding that he was not likely to be able to move the world from his retirement at Crossen, quietly disappeared from that humble town, and was lost to the public gaze for a considerable period.
The dauphin was removed in the convenient basket of a laundress perhaps the same basket which had held Naündorff, and the unfortunate bastard of Mr. Meves was left in his stead. On reaching the hotel at which Mr.
Naündorff withdrew to a quiet abode in the Rue Guillaume, and granted his interviews in a more secret manner. Indeed, from open clamour he turned to underhand plotting, and so mysterious was his conduct that his landlord requested him to betake himself elsewhere.
But Louis XVIII. was obdurate, and would not listen even to the seductive voice of Hymen. The young couple were allowed to wed, but they had to look for their means of livelihood elsewhere. For a time Naündorff was equal to the occasion, and supported the corporal's daughter and his rising brood by cleaning the watches and clocks of the Brandenburgers. But trouble came upon him.
By the exertions of one of the few friends who remained to him Naündorff was appointed foreman in a watchmaking factory at Crossen, and thither he removed, carrying with him his wife and the half-dozen children who had blessed his union. But the distance was long, the roads were bad, and the man was poor.
All these pretenders, Naundorff and the others, have proved that quite clearly, but none has succeeded in proving that he was the man." "And do you think that I shall be able to prove that I am the man when I am not?" By way of reply Dormer Colville turned again to the fireplace and took down the print of Louis XVI engraved from a portrait painted when he was still Dauphin.
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