Noces scandaleuses (Les Historiques) (French Edition)

On Sunday eveing, February 13, , the duc and duchesse de Berry went to the Opera, rue de Richelieu. They entered by the side door on the rue Rameau and watched a one-act opera Le Rossignol and then a ballet Les Noces de Gamache. At the start of the ballet's 2nd act the duchess asked to go home, and the duc walked her to their carriage at the side-door. As he was stepping back in, a man named Louvel mortally stabbed him in the chest. The duc de Berry died around 5am that night.

His wife had born him three daughters, two of whom died immediately after birth. With the duc de Berry's death the senior branch seemed doomed to extinction. The opera was immediately shut down and the theater torn down a few months later. Plans to build a chapel on the side were not implemented before and dropped afterwards. A son would, of course, save the dynasty. Her pregnancy was surrounded by many precautions. One attempt was made to disrupt it when two men exploded a device beneath her windows in April with the apparent hope of frightening her and provoking a miscarriage.

As the due date neared, measures were taken to ensure that no doubt surround the birth. The duchess herself lived in the pavillon de Marsan, at the other end of the palace. Both pavilions still stand, at the ends of the Louvre palace, although the rest of the Tuileries palace was destroyed after a fire in Walking the whole length of the palace would probably have taken mn.

The birth is told in detail by the vicomte de Reiset , at the time an officer in the King's Guards who lived close by across the Seine river. He was soon informed, rushed to the scene, witnessed some of the events, collected details from by-standers about the rest, and wrote it down.

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That, at least, is what the document published in appears to be. The following is based on this account. In spite of all the precautions, there were no witnesses at all to the birth. The duchess went to bed around midnight, having briefly felt slight pains during the evening. The former rushed to fetch the First Lady in Waiting while the second goes to the bed of the duchesse, whose child was born with the second contraction. Fifteen minutes later the obstetrician Deneux arrives; the duchess asks him if the child can remain with the umbilical cord uncut, and he assures her that he can stay for an hour.

She orders the other physicians and surgeon who have arrived to abstain from cutting the cord until witnesses arrive. Mme de Vathaire returns with a King's Guard, followed by the duchesse de Reggio and the comtesse de Gontaut, then five national guardsmen randomly taken from the sentries on duty to serve as witnesses. The duchesse de Reggio rushes upstairs to warn the comte d'Artois.

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Then the cord is cut and Deneux, privately, finishes the delivery. At that point the room becomes so filled with people that all move to a nearby room with the child. The king soon arrives, the doors to the bedroom are open again and the child given back to his mother. The king remains until 4: This anecdote also appears in the memoirs of the duchesse de Gontaut, who was one of the eye witnesses. That he should have asked the witness officially appointed by the king is natural: As an example of this enthusiasm, here are two odes written by a young and a not-so-young poet: According to Reiset's account , it appeared sometime in mid-October and originated in London.

Copies were seized in Calais but others circulated clandestinely, and English newspapers reproduced it "with satisfaction. Capefigue, writing 13 years later, said that it had been published in the Morning Chronicle.

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I have found two publications of the protestation in English papers: Note that these publications occurred sometime after the appearance of the pamphlet in France. In both cases, the pamphlet is treated as a news item, not a submission or official document. The introduction to the text in both cases makes it abundantly clear. It is positively denied to be genuine, as indeed our readers will conclude from the text, as well as from its being inconsistent with the amiable character of the illustrious Duke; but it shews the spirit of the times; for extreme pains have been taken to circulate it in every part of France, and copies of it have been addressed to the Ambassadors of every Crowned Head in Europe, as if to lay a foundation upon the allegations it contains hereafter.

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It was afterwards publicly disclaimed by the duke. LB Souvenirs de LB The catalogue also lists these mysterious entries, for two undated lithographed broadsheets is the "alors" an interpolation of the catalog-writer? If not, they must dates to at the earliest: The accompanying commentary makes it clear that it was printed sometime in the second or third week of August , since Louis-Philippe is called "aujourd'hui Louis-Philippe Ier" which he was since August 9 and the end of the commentary indicates that Charles X had not yet left France which he did on August The text is identical to the English version found in the London papers, except for one clause missing in the French version.

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