Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — A ROYAL DEATHBED. [ARTICLE]

A ROYAL DEATHBED.

Demise of the Count of Parle at London. The Coant of Paris, grandson of Louis Phillippe, and the recognized head of the Bourbon Royalist party of France, died at Stowe House, near London, Sept. 8. Louis Phillippe Albert, Count of Paris, was born at Paris, Aug. 24,1838, and was educated by the celebrated Adolph Regnier. After the revolution, which- deprived Louis Phillippe of the throne, the Count of Paris and his brother, the Duke of Chartres, were by their mother taken to Germany, where they completed theii education. After traveling extensively throughout Europe, he took up his residence in England, and when the war of secession broke out in this country he joined the army of the North in the capacity of captain on the staff of Genera! McClellan, and figured in the campaign against Richmond in the siege of Yorktown, in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks and in his retreat on the James river. He left service in 1862 and retired to England. For many years the Count of Paris has lived in comparative quiet in England, a greater part of the time near London, an exile from his native land. In 1890 the Count of Paris, attended by an elaborate retinue, visited the United States and was made the honored guest of the republic. His visit called forth unstinted encomiums of his gallant conduct during the civil war and his freely avowed sympathy for the United States. The Count and Countess of Paris had six children—two sons and four daughters, The eldest of the sons, Louis Phillippe Robert, Duke of Orleans, will be recognized by the Royalist party in France as the legitimate heir to the throne. He was born in England and is now In his twenty-sixth year.