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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (JOINVILLE.) 



last century. His first appearance was in the part 

 of Bartolo in The Wife, at the Maryport Theater, 

 Cumberland, in 1845. He became manager of the 

 Theater Royal, Sheffield, in partnership with John 

 Coleman,'in 1853, and there produced Uncle Tom's 

 Cabin, which had a run of forty nights extraor- 

 dinary for that period. He became a member of 

 the Lyceum Theater, Sunderland, in 1855, playing 

 the comedy roles. This theater having been 

 burned, Dec. 25, 1855, he went to Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, and when the Lyceum was reopened re- 

 turned for the opening in September, 1856, when 

 Mr. Henry Irving made his first appearance. His 

 London (h'hiit \v;ts at the Lyceum in 1859, when 

 he played Cassim Baba in The Forty Thieves. In 

 1860 lie began a three years' service as comedian 

 of the Theater Royal, Edinburgh. Oct. 10, 1864, 

 he began a ten years' engagement at the Theater 

 Royal, Dublin. He was very popular in Ireland, 

 and besides playing the standard comedy parts he 

 was a favorite in Shaun the Post, Myles-na-Cop- 

 paleen, and Conn the Shaughraun. He was then 

 for four years the comedian of the Theater Royal, 

 Belfast, and when Henry Irving began his man- 

 agement of the Lyceum Theater, London, Dec. 30, 

 1878, with Hamlet, Mr. Johnson was the come- 

 dian of the company. He remained a member of 

 the Irving company until the end of the season of 

 1898 twenty years of continuous service. His 

 last appearance was in the part of Maitre Van 

 Spennen in The Black Tulip. 



Joinville, Frangois Ferdinand Philippe 

 d'Orleans, Prince de, born in Neuilly castle, Aug. 

 18, 1818; died in Paris, June 17, 1900. He was 

 the third son of Louis Philippe, King of the 

 French, younger than the Due d'Orleans and the 

 Due de Nemours, but older than the Due d'Au- 

 male and the Due de Montpensier, and he sur- 

 vived all his brothers. He chose a naval career, 

 went to sea at the age of thirteen, and became a 

 favorite with the French navy and the most popu- 

 lar of the Orleans princes, devoting himself en- 

 tirely to his profession. In 1837 he commanded 

 a vessel in the Mediterranean and saw vigorous 

 service. He commanded a corvette in Admiral 

 Baudin's expedition to Mexico, taking part in the 

 bombardment of San Juan d'UIloa and leading 

 the storming party into the gate of Vera Cruz. 

 Later he was sent to St. Helena to bring Napoleon's 

 ashes back to France. He married Donna Fran- 

 cesca de Braganza, sister of Dom Pedro II, Em- 

 peror of Brazil, on May 1, 1843, while visiting Rio 

 de Janeiro in his ship. In 1845 he commanded a 

 squadron in Marshal Bugeaud's expedition against 

 Morocco, and with his ships he bombarded Tan- 

 gier and took Mogador, gaining the rank of vice- 

 admiral. He was in command of a squadron at 

 Algiers, where the Due d'Aumale was governor 

 general, when the revolution of 1848 broke out, 

 and after their father's deposition both brothers 

 resigned their commands to the republican au- 

 thorities and sailed for England to join the rest 

 of the family at Claremont. In 1849 a party rose 

 in France that wished to elect the Prince de Join- 

 ville to the office of President of the French Re- 

 public. When Napoleon III overrode the republic 

 he was disquieted by the popularity of the Due 

 d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinville, although 

 they did not conspire or do aught to stimulate 

 it, and in 1852 the Emperor confiscated the Or- 

 leans estates. The Prince de Joinville was in the 

 United States with his son and the Comte de Paris 

 and the Due de Chartres when the civil war was 

 going on in the United States. His two nephews 

 obtained commissions and were attached to the 

 headquarters staff, while he remained with them 

 on Gen. McClellan's camp. They saw much active 



service before the French intervention in Mexico 

 seemed likely to involve France in a war with the 

 United States, when they resigned and departed. 

 The Prince de Joinville had witnessed the principal 

 actions of the Virginian campaign of 1862, and he 

 wrotr an impartial account of them in an article 

 printed in the Revue des Deux Mondes. When the 

 Franco-Prussian War broke out all the Orleans 

 princes offered their services to Gen. Trochu, and 

 were refused. Nevertheless the Prince de Joinville 

 succeeded in entering under the name of Col. Lu- 

 therod, and served with the army of the Loire in 

 the operations around Orleans. Gambetta con- 

 cluded then that a French prince was dangerous 

 in the army, even when fighting incognito, and 

 after detaining him five days at Le Mans sent 

 him back to England. When the law of banish- 

 ment against his family was abrogated on June 8, 

 1871, he returned to France, having already been 

 elected a member of the National Assembly for 

 the department of Haute Marne, and he took his 

 seat, breaking, according to the statement of 

 Thiers, a promise he had made. He and the Due 

 d'Aumale discreetly refrained from speaking or 

 voting on political questions. The repeal of the 

 law of banishment had been carried by an anti- 

 republican majority as a preliminary step toward 

 the restoration of the monarchy, yet after the 

 princes had been some time in the country the 

 republican Government relaxed its proscriptions 

 still further by restoring a part of the Orleans 

 properties. Although the Prince de Joinville 

 helped to bring about the fall of Thiers in 1873, 

 'he did not vote for the new Constitution, and in 

 1876 he requested his electors not to send him 

 back to the Chamber. He had taken no active part 

 in the efforts to bring about a reconciliation be- 

 tween the house of France, as the main stem of 

 the Bourbon family was called by the Legitimists, 

 and the Orleans branch. He went with the Comte 

 de Paris, however, to Frohsdorf to render homage 

 to the Comte de Chambord in token of the accept- 

 ance of his nephew, the head of the Orleans branch, 

 as the legitimate heir to the French throne and ' 

 the consequent fusion of the Legitimists and the 

 Orleanists into one political party. When the last 

 representative of the direct line was buried in 

 Frohsdorf, in 1883, he went with the rest of the 

 Orleans family to the funeral. The union of the 

 two royalist parties and the accession of some of 

 the Bonapartists in support of the pretensions of 

 the Comte de Paris created a new political situ- 

 ation; and when in the elections of 1885 the Con- 

 servatives increased their strength in the Chamber 

 from 80 to 210 out of 580 members the Republican 

 majority sanctioned various repressive measures 

 culminating in the renewal of the law of exile in 

 1886, denying the right to live or sojourn in Franco 

 of pretenders or their eldest sons. The Prince do 

 Joinville with the rest of his family went into exil' 1 

 once again. The prince had a finely cultured mind 

 and most affable manners. In military and naval 

 matters he always took the deepest interest, and i i 

 all questions of the day he was well informoi . 

 The Princess de Joinville died in 1898. leaving 

 two children Franchise Marie Amelie. born in 

 1844 and married to the Due de Chartres, and 

 Pierre Philippe, Due de Penthievre, born in 1845, 

 who was a cadet at the naval academy in Annapo- 

 lis while his father was in the United States. The 

 Prince de Joinville was the author of studies that 

 were highly praised on navies and maritime war- 

 fare. When the second law exiling the heads of 

 families that once reigned was enacted it excluded 

 from office all other members of the dynastic farii- 

 ilies, and thus the Prince de Joinville lost his 

 rank as vice-admiral of the French navy. 



