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punished. He has given up large sums to forward the Revolution. It 

 must have been with the idea of ascending a new throne. The Republic 

 allows of no throne. He must be extinguished." The reasoning was 

 irresistible, and the proud Philip of Orleans was cast into the dungeons 

 of Marseilles. Trial rapidly followed ; he was found guilty ; and the 

 justice which he had eluded during a long career, at length overtook 

 him at the hands of a tribunal of assassins. He died firmly, as became 

 a man of high name, and still retaining the single virtue that saves the 

 criminal from utter contempt. The populace, for whose plaudits he had 

 sacrificed all things, rewarded him by scoffs and hisses on his way to 

 the scaffold. " They will applaud me yet," said he, with a sudden sense 

 of the giddiness of popular opinion. Yet he was mistaken. No man has 

 since applauded him. He has been left in the neglect due to his crimes. 

 No hand has planted the laurel, nor even the cypress, on his grave. 



Louis-Philippe, the present King of the French, was born on the 6th 

 of October 1773, in the Palais Royal, eldest son of the late Duke, and 

 of Louisa Maria Adelaide, daughter of the Due de Bourbon Penthievre, 

 Admiral of France. In infancy his title was Due de Valois, but in 

 1782 he assumed that of Due de Chartres, on the death of his grand- 

 father, the Duke of Orleans, from whom he had been called, his father's 

 name being Louis Philippe Joseph. He had two brothers, the Due de 

 Montpensier, and the Comte de Beaujolais, who both died of consump- 

 tion about twenty years ago, and one sister, Adelaide Eugene Louisa, 

 Princess of Orleans, born in 1777- 



The education of the Orleans family was for many years in the hands 

 of Madame de Genlis, well known for her novels, her tracts on educa- 

 tion, her scribbling at the age of eighty, and her figuring in the scan- 

 dalous chronicle of Paris. Her system of education was founded on 

 the fanciful absurdities of Rousseau, and the young Duke was to be the 

 Emilius. A large part of this was foolish, but some was practical, and 

 all was better than the wretched system of flattery, indolence and vice, 

 in which the children of the French nobles were generally brought up. 

 De Genlis removed the Orleans children from the pestilent habits of 

 Paris to the country, and there gave them the exercise, and in a consi- 

 derable degree the habits and pursuits of the peasantry. The boys 

 were taught to live on simple food, to run, swim, even to climb trees, 

 and walk on poles, for the purpose of accustoming them to help them- 

 selves in any case of personal hazard. The results were, health, 

 handsome proportions and activity; but the Countess taught them 

 more, for in her ideas of life she mingled, like all fools of both sexes, 

 the glories of political bustle, and she took the children to see the fall of 

 the Bastile. Doubtless every man of common sense on earth must have 

 rejoiced at the fall of an infernal prison, in which the caprice of a mi- 

 nister, or the mistress of a minister, or of a clerk in office, or the mistress 

 of a clerk in office, might shut up the most innocent man for life. The 

 Bastile could not exist in any country without degrading the very na- 

 ture of man, and making every individual, writer or not writer, tremble 

 for every syllable he uttered. Still it was a piece of indecorum and 

 insolence in the governess of infants to lead them to a spectacle, which 

 to their minds could be only one of riot and butchery, and which was 

 at the moment a direct triumph over the unfortunate king and relative 

 of their father. The truth was, Madame volunteered revolutionary dis- 

 plays for the honour of her friendsh ip with M. le Due. 



