Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1911 — RIVALRY OF ROYAL BROTHERS [ARTICLE]

RIVALRY OF ROYAL BROTHERS

A Game of Cards Decided Which Ong Should Be Prlvlllged to Win Peasant. • It is said that the two Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte and Prince Pierre, in their early youth, when shooting mouflons in the moun* tains of Corsica, came across a beautfe ful peasant girl with whom they both fell violently in love. Who she was, and whether she far vored both brothers, or neither, I can| not tell. Be that as It may, they quart reled. Les preux chevaliers of old would, no doubt. In similar occurt ronces have had recourse to lance and sword. The Corsican princes to play for their belle a game of cards,. They went to the nearest Inn andl wrote and signed a paper agreeing that whichever won the game should marry the lady fair. Prince Luciem won, and, faithful to his word, a short time after married her. She never left the Island, as far as I know. Prince Lucien lived tn Eng* land, securing to her a comfortable income, which she received till has death, a few yean ago, somewhere about the spring of 1901.—From the Princess Murat’s Memoirs.