Show f S th ahe blosl I 1 st dauphin ID au h of n r solved C vc 7 ta A Y M T S J ja it by ELMO SCOTT WATSON INE il of the must mysteries of all time line a mystery mastery which histo rit I 1 ns to tor r years hue have vainly tried to clear up Is that in which the central tri I 1 figure wits MIS it little boy ho the son of louis XVI and marle antoinette or of 1 I 1 rance nince a apriece of royal roal blood who although known in history lil story us its louis never reigned and who Is suppo supposed M to have died tit nt tile the age of ten lie Is perhaps better known as the lost da dauphin than ns as louls louis and the story stori of the beginning of the mystery Is familiar familial it to most of us briefly it Is this after the heads of the french monarch and his queen rolled down don the guillotine their son the eight year bear old dauphin was held as a prisoner in tile tower of the temple in paris by the revolutionary lutio lutlo nary government the bo boy was kept in close confinement und and even een ills sister marto therese also a prisoner was vas never permitted to see him the french royalists most of whom had fled front that eliat country us tile the red tide of the revolution mounted higher had bud proclaimed the dauphin king ilung louis but in june 17 1795 the revolutionary authorities announced that after a short illness capets son had died this version erslon of the fate was generally accepted nut not only luring during the revolution and tile the reign of napoleon lut but even eden after the bourbons lind had hem been restored to tile the throne for 11 1 period pel led of their brief rule rate it Is true that thaid were constantly recurring whispers in france and throughout europe that th lie e dauphin had 1 id not died lit in the temple but that ali it lie he had been secretly removed by royalist conspirators con anil and was still living along with these rumors canie ame the alie first ot of the crop of pretenders who were to hob bob up regularly each eacle to claim or line it claimed fur for him that eliat lie he wits ahe the lost dauphin one of the most famous of all these pretenders was the prussian clock malcer karl wilhelm Wlllie lm Noun dorff who came forward with ills his claims in 1833 recently there lias fins appeared appeal id a new hook book on the lost dauphin Daup liln mystery mastery affords no end of interesting speculation specula llon ns as to tile answer to this lil puzzle it Is tit iha shadow king by dans roger madol first in 1 germany in 1928 and recently published in tills this country hj by t the lie houghton company it Is based ul upon n original documents many of will leave live hitherto been unknown to historians the shadow blindow mug king Is king louis and herr madol believes anil and sets forth in this book evidence evl dene to prove that lie he was karl wilhelm doril regarded burim his lifetime only its as one of the numerous pretenders to that title the first part of ills book Is devoted to proving that tile lie real dauphin wits secretly smuggled away front from the temple le and another child it a dent mute put there in its his place the I 1 he evId evidente enve lit it support of the belief that the lioy boy who died there was not the dauphin Is based upon these facts that the was declared to have die died of scrofula although there Is nothing to indicate that lint lit had it before that beginning in decent her ber 1791 1794 1 ile he suddenly stopped speaking and that hint a front froia tire tile national olal assembly which v visited sited ills tell cell could not get it a word from him whereas before that time the little prince ila had talked volubly vol that about the same time his warden waiden lean jenn laurent Ln suddenly resigned ills his post and left paris and that years later inter when the grave in n which tile the dauphin was reported to lauve been burled was opened the skeleton of a fifteen year ear old boy and not of it a ten year old boy bo was found further evidence in support of the belief eliat the vas its abducted Is based base upon the secret lilii ory of the french revolution tint that has tome come to light in comparatively recent years ears tills this includes lix ludes the met fit lint flint innumerable intrigues were under way to release the royal roial prisoner pil mainly on the part of royalists both those who ila hid led fled from france I 1 lame and tin those who were able to remain then too it has been shown that those two prent great rascals among tile the revolutionists 1 aind bar air ans regarded the boy us its a valuable asset to have in their posses i possession slon in vase use the revolution failed and tind they were not above double crossing the members of their party to serve sen a their own ends so the probability of the Daup liln s escape seems convincing enough As for establishing identity us its the Daup liln ln the second pirt part of the shadow lindow fc king which la Is devoted to ti that task Is pretty well summed up till in the lite following words from tile the first chapler r of the hook book Sel seldom doin Is the picture of a historical character found in such it complicated frame as that of the clock clockmaker karl wilhelm llie lin who ume nine fruin from prussia to france in the thirties of tile the list last century and declared that he was tile the son of loula louis XVI vii tile the dauphin who wh was supposed to have died in the temple as it boy of ten und and who had won tile the pity of all who had read of the ill treatment fuated aeu by the child ut at the hands liand of j fit AV al al 1 3 J ali 1 k 6 r w q azz M A the shoemaker simon the astonishing tiling thing Is that this same Naun dorir it 11 inere artisan and to all appearances of common origin hardly able to spank french tit nt HP flip beginning of ills his stay it in parts a stranger to the country tiiu fur for nt at least twenty years and by no means it young oung man ns as yet jet able to win the confidence of a mass of nf people and of lit people bif if consequence p the meni lors ot of louis 1 auls XVI s imbt coart ills his minister tit of ju justice tIce and annl private secretary flip he nurse who wits us still alave till nil identified hlin him lilies favre the le millions minims barrister mid find undertook to de tend fend ills asp antl lits ills friend throughout the lie manifold of ills adventurous life whuell brought blin renia aka alp tile successes us as well hell us its hitter bitter fal failures lures lit in Engi tind anil and holland tile the pretender Ire lendLr fled died tit nt lite lie very ery moment hen it 11 coment lon with tile dutch government eminent had relieved him of if lili ills lil i mah anxiety about the fate of ills his wife and children till dnn ills sons pons tin and grond sons bolls have haie never ui tit the lie luht for recognition As officers olt lers in ili tit ohp dalch army they llie bear today by right of patent the nunie of bourbon lio urbon the orius attempts which were made tit nt nil times to flip file existence el stenie of tills this pretender tire lire illustrated hv by tile the unsuccessful attempt which wits made on oil lila ills life by his expulsion from france I 1 in 1811 1836 and by the eions of those who mio could find no further legal weapon against him film which lasted right up to its his death however much right minded people in france frame protested against tills this unconstitutional treatment ns as for instance Crem leia the minister of if jufim Just lie at the time of ills his expulsion they were ere unable nimble to ti do anything ani thins for the ohp pretender the alie documents with which lie he intended to defend ills cla clavins lins and which were confiscated on this occasion were never deer returned turned rt to him elsewhere lit in ills book ascribes the attempts to eliminate the disturbing existent exl exi stenie stene e of the pretender to the involved political altun tion in europe lit the time it situation in prussia Pruss ln austria mid and eranee were involved and in which chancellor metternich of if austria chain bellor blui of prussia Irus gln and of france played tie lite lending leading roles tile inu tives which set louis auls 1 on the throne and robbed the mail who tilio wits perhaps 1 luls VII tit or ills lila lierl tage tire lire still to detect deceit hs he says sail the reading of the history of the nineteenth century will hill no doubt lime have to le ile more than anve ap before adequate light Is shed on tile the figure egure of louis hut flut the ino motives tIves of others concerned with noun dorras history are fairly s louls louis philippe louls louis and ills government refused to examine claim in fit the civil court and expelled CMiel led him film without trial to england in spite spile of repeated entreaties adarle therese the dauphins dauphine Daup hins sister who survived her imprisonment in the temple persistently refused to grant 1 ernnt illin him tin nn interview and never ceased to describe him film us as en an imposter it Is reasonable to suppose that both of then them feared that Naun dorit 8 claims might he be proved gen 1 alne and tie lie would thus be the only legitimate heir to louis throne and his wealth if was identical with louis ills his ilfeld life Is so remarkable that his adventures deserve a place lit in history says madol if on the tha other hand he was an imposter lin poster he has an even greater title to recognition for he must have been a genius to emerge at the age of fifty from an insignificant existence in prussia ind and go oft off to an unknown land there to play the part of a claimant to tile the throne after a few months he wits was able to express himself so perfectly in a foreign language lang inge that he was able to convince the most important persons in ills long years of correspondence with ills hla wife and children he never once quits the role of heir to the throne in addition to the circumstance that both lie and his eight children all bear a striking resemblance to tile the bourbons ills handwriting follows the characteristics of the bourbons ile he was able to show a number of personal marks in nilis such as a mole in the of a fil fidgeon geon which had been con ious in fit the dauphin even ills his opponents were so much struck hv by tile dignity of ills demeanor that lint no one found him bin ridiculous in the part the 1 I fibian who wits was able to sustain ills his admed assumed role so well must have been a genius tills this main attained ills hla object to the point that ills children were registered in england its as princes of france fiance that his grandchildren en tire lire today on titled by li law to ID live under the narrie name of bourbon and that tant in 1913 heart Kothe foit was sentenced for albel for refusing to admit that the family had the right light to call nil themselves bourbon their grand futher Is none the less still branded us tin nn impostor the supposition that lie he wits was obsessed by a mania la Is easy to it rebut in ili spite of many In gulart ties never in ills his life showed signs of being mentally mu itally defective tied died in 1845 in delft holland and tin nn exit till na tion of his body which was made in the alie presence of dutch officials whose report incidentally referred to him as LOUIS showed that but it bore the same marls marks as were known to lune have been borne by the dauphin these were the sear on the tip lip the broad mole on the thigh tin the prominent teeth similar to louis rabbit berth te rth and the triangular vaccination mark as mandame All idame de Rain baud his nurse had described and recognized them to tills this day despite protests protects which have been made by the french government ills his gravestone in the church yard at delft bears tire tile inscription which reflects tile of ills hla claims accorded by the dutch B OV eminent it reads here lies louis charles louis due ie de normandie Nor mandle king of fra france nee and navarre norn born at versailles on unroll march 27 1 died at delft on august 10 1815 1845 1 Naun dorYs s appearance on the alie stage of history took place a century ago but its his name has been heard again in recent years when jules favre who and ad been legal adviser and worked for years lears to ills claims went as french minister of foreign affairs to sign the terms of the armistice imposed upon france by to end the franco prussian war in 1871 lie he had find with him blin no oll iclal seal beal to put on the after lie had signed them nis maidi inabel suggested suc that lie use ue the ring lie he was w wearing oaring s so ravie took ott off the ring an and pressed it into hit the wax beside ills his signature the ring nn fin fla tique gem in it simple gold setting bore upon its surface the lilies of france tine this symbol of the bourbons iskui lions it had find been given to in 1852 by ills his grateful client karl Wil liplin in telling lils ills aide de camp about tile the incident as they were vrn returning from tile the meeting with the germans favre stated it its as ills firm belief that hint was louis and remarked upon the tact fact that this important document which ile he lind had just signed bore the emba emblem ein of the son of louis XVI VI this rine had nn an interesting later history at the end of the world war premier Clemence flu sealed tile the treaty of versailles with the same ring which had sealed scaled frances defeat in so the man mall who may have been the lost dauphin and tile the shadow king of france again played a part in world history CC by News newspaper tY bolon |