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myself once, and have seen one or two boys, who were less lucky, 

 get a swim, on similar occasions. However, no harm was done : 

 only a good deal of sport was created among their schoool-fellows. 



Louis Philippe, 



THE late King of the French, and one of the most remarkable men 

 of the world, was born in Paris, on the sixth day of October, in the 

 year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-three. 

 He was the eldest son of Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans. 



So far as ancestry could avail --and in his case it availed much 

 he was a prince by French descent, and had direct relationship to 

 the line of Stuart, or Queen Victoria's family. While a child he 

 was entitled Duke of Valois. At the age of twelve his father suc- 

 ceeded to the title of Duke of Orleans, and the boy became the 

 Duke of Chartres, taking the place vacated by his father, as he was 

 always entitled to do. 



Louis Philippe, at an early age, was put under the instruction and 

 government of the Countess de Genlis, a lady eminently qualified, 

 by extensive learning, natural genius, and a happy disposition, to 

 form the mind and habit of a prince. She taught him to love God 

 and his \vorks, and to love man. She not only taught him the 

 common branches of polite learning, but to speak with ease the 

 Italian, German, and English languages, the latter of which were 

 accomplishments soon called into requisition. 



She had him instructed in gardening, turning, basket-making 



