Show lost dauphin bobs up again libel suit in paris cour revives mystery of french heir paris once more across the in france there moves the tragic fig ure of the I 1 ost douphin Diu phin the pa uncrowned louis alu died a prisoner in the temple anc around whose personality a score ol 01 legends have beep woven still the tale persists that the unfortunate prince escaped still recollections are brought forth of the dozens of pre tenders who have claimed that they were the authentic heir to the bourbon throne of france only the other day in a paris court thare was en acted an echo of the famous naun dorff case when louis charles jean de bourbon calling himself the rightful king of france brought an Ln successful action for libel on account of statements published about his grandfather bays the hew york times was the ten year old dauphin resi cued from his prison tower by royal ests and taken to england did te male his way to america and end a long life there as some have as sorted eminent historians have busied themselves tor years prodoc ing proofs of the princes death and dismissing the reports tint he was seen in other countries long after the date of his burial iso less than 25 lost dauphine dauphins Daup hins the foremost of them have appeared before I 1 rench courts to press their claims fru chard Marass tn SIa thurin bruneau dufrasne auguste sieves richemont Rich emont these are only a few of the mining princes who each in his day collected enthusiastic partisans and disturbed the govern ment of france the little louis who saw his royal father and baarle antoinette his mother go from the temple to the guillotine had not been dead five years before there were signs that the tale that he was still alive was finding its sympathetic audience in a work by a certain regnault warin it was detailed how the dauphin was smug aled from the temple tower in a wooden hobbyhorse and adums and bickly child left in his place this was the child it was asserted that died in the prison the dauphin him self according to the romance waa balled as ling at fonteno and later put aboard a ship for america the ship was seized by a republican frigate and the dauphin died between its debbs wide variety of claimants the regnault warin volume in many claimants to the throne startlingly alike are the tales narrated by the various dauphine dauphins Daup hins as they were brought before the court the son of a tailor sprang into instant fame as the first claimant gathering a small court about him and declaring that the elder had provided the tute in the tower while he himself was the real prince balled tor a time in spain as the authentic dauphin iier devault was arrested on his return to france and sent to prison tor four years cut no sooner was he free than he collected once more his circle of followers and resumed his pose for a second time he faced the court which sent him to Bic etre where he died still proclaiming that he was the dauphin A drummer boy tried it next he confessed eventually that he was the eon of a clockmaker A third contestant pointed to the mirk of a fleurde alls and crown and the bour bon initials on his thigh as proof that he was the prisoner of the temple bogli found adherents who were loyal to them the popular mind refuses to believe that romantic figures pass away 0 o firmly had the tale of the substitute child gripped the public that it became the foundation of every missing dauphin claim that appeared math arin bruneau the son of a shoemaker returned to france from america to press his claim to the throne lie went further than bis fellow claimants issuing a saries of in the name of the ling of trance which promptly landed him behind prison bars up to the time of the tall of the bourbons the missing dauphine dauphins Daup hins had uniformly been persons from the lower ranks of society but now a different type of claimant an of natural gifts with the ability to convince influential circles vi as about to appear in this clas are listed Naun dorIT and the two men who gave the government of france the most to think about in connection with their representations it was in 1831 that richemont Rich emont made his bow with the publication of the memoirs of the dake of Isor mandle ion of bouts louts I 1 the work was an imposing seemingly well authentic bated claim backed by many docu ments and statement from important persons fate of richemont Rich emont unfortunately for richemont Rich emont how ever he seems to have been hessed of a natural liking for intrigue of all varieties following up his memoirs with a volley of pamphlets and mixing enthusiastically in a host of political intrigues he rapidly became such a thorn in the side of the government that the police made a descent on his lodgings where they unearthed papers of a treasonable character one more dauphin went on trial this time charged with con against the life of the king and the safety of the state lie created a sensation by beclar ing that he had disclosed his identity as the dauphin to louis but had refused to press his claim to the throne at the time fearing that it would precipitate a civil war told a tale of being rescued from the temple in a basket of laundry an of travel in italy america and brazil tw eh e years imprisonment was the penalty he received but he escaped and returned to the publication of further memoirs of the dauphin with the revolution of 1848 the pub lie interest in missing princes had waned a good deal and Kich emont found himself unable to impress the public with his declarations he died in 1853 tale was the most remarkable of all arrived in paris in 1833 even dispatching an emissary to Rich emonts trial to protest in the name of Iaun dorff against the claim ant his first act on opening his cam laign was to send a letter to the duchesse calling epou her to appear in court to accord him recognition as her brother the miss lag prince the result was an imme diate opportunity for to recount his story on the stand rallied to his call biere there and everywhere sprang up the to rally at his call with a full documents in support of his representations iaun dorff was marshaling by far the most important mass of evidence yet ad deuced by a claimant to the throne the court heard the evidence and banished him from france after a further effort to continue his campaign from angland Ln gland naun dorff turned his interest to inventions Indent ions and while on a visit to bolland in connection with a discovery was permitted by the dutch government to reside in delft stricken by a sudden illness he died just hta wife and daughter had been sum boned from england to the inventor who had brought napoleon josephine and a legion ot other historic figures into his testimony and who had told of imprisonments per rescues and wild adventure as the lost prince the dutch govern ment accorded a great funeral sol diers bore the bier and public men followed it to the grave the most picturesque and important claimant had passed it was isain dorff who asserted that as the dau phin he had been carried to the top of the tower and hidden there by friends while another child was put in ahls place when the substitute died his tale ran the body was removed from the coffin and drugged with opium he was smuggled into it on the way to the cemetery in a carriage he was removed and the empty coflin was burled among the theories advanced and given wide credit in connection with the death of the dauphin Is the one that states that the unfortunate prince was murdered in the temple in january 1794 and that a feeble child was substituted in his cell when this child in the course of time succumbed it was given out that the dauphin had died a natural death and the substitute was interred louis bisot even the tale of laiglon LAl glon frances other pathetic prince can compare with that of the dauphin in its hold on the alon many throne pretenders have sprung up in history but never in such numbers as those who have as aired to be hailed as louis X IL |