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Show DIE OF ORLEANS , RETURNS JEWELS r Bulgarisui Orders Formerly Bestowed Be-stowed Upon Frenchman Are No Longer Wanted. BITTER LETTER TO KING Reminds Ruler of Visit to Paris to Point Out How Much Bulgaria Owed to France. - Paris. Oct, 15, 5 a. m. Tho Duke of Orleans addressed a letter to King Ferdinand of Bulgaria several days ago requesting the monarch to take back jewels of Bulgarian orders which had been bestowed upon him, but the letter was to bo published only on the day Bulgaria entered tho war. In his communication tho duke said: "The attitude your majesty has thought right to-take In the present war contrary to your previous policy, forces me to tho sad duty of praying voiir matestv to take back tho .lew- els of Bulgarian orders with which your majesty Invested me, first upon the death of your venerable mother, and second, when your majesty was in Paris to point out how much Bulgaria Bul-garia owed to Franco. "I tell your majesty to take back the jewels because, alas! I cannot send them, but your majesty has only to apply to his ally who for more than a year has occupied my chateau in Belgium and for who my hate can have no secrots. I authorize giving up to your majesty orders I can no longer wear. Name Struck from Chapter. "Your majesty will understand I am obliged to Inform your majesty the day he takes up arms against my country, France, his name will be struck from the chapter of Knights of the Holy Spirit I do not ask your majesty to send back tho Jewels of the Order of the Holy Spirit, but wish on the contrary that these souvenirs souv-enirs of tho Franco he has betrayed shall keep alive perpetual remorse." A letter tho duke wrote to Emperor Joseph at the outbreak of the war also has been published. In It he asks the ruler of Austria-Hungary to take back the jewels of the Order of the Golden Fleece and refers to his marriage mar-riage to the Archduchess Maria Dorothea Do-rothea as "the misfortune of my life." Divorce Not Granted. Prince Louis Phillip, Duke of Orleans, Or-leans, and the French pretender, was married to the Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria at Vienna in No vember, 1896. She obtained a separation separa-tion from him In Paris in July of last year after years of. domestic difficulties. difficul-ties. Under" the decree granted by the court of arbitration she was to receive $11,000 a year from the duke who also was ordered to restore to her money which he had used Improperly. Improp-erly. While the separation was granted gran-ted the court refused to recommend , a decree of divorce. |