Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1901 — People and Events [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

People and Events

Pretender to “Be Editor. iTo provide the French Royalists with an organ, the Duke of Orleans, who ia the pretender to the throne of France, has purchased the Parisian newspaper Soleil, and will conduct the in the interests of the cause of which he is the

head. It is understood that the Duke will assume personal charge of the editorial department of the paper. The novel spectacle of royalty, in the person of a claimant to a throne, who by blood and marriage is related to many

iof the crowned heads of the continent, (turning editor will be interesting to (contemplate. Orleans can well afford to essay the task of financing a newspaper. His private fortune is ample. Recently it was reinforced by a decision of the French court which condemned I the French govenment to turn over to (the Duke and his family property and Ifunds worth many millions of dollars. iThe property consists largely of canal .shares which were the property of the house of Orleans at the time of the great revolution in the latter part of the eighteenth century. After the downfall of the dynasty this property was confiscated. In 1814 laws were passed providing for its restoration to the original owners. This was impossible in a majority of cases, as the government had disposed of the property. Subsequently the law provided that the (restoration should be made in cases *where the new owners died without (heirs, which would place the government in actual possession of it. Restitution has been made under the decision rendered lately by the courts.