The Due d'Orl6ans died in Sicily last Sunday. He was
well known in this country, where he lived for many years after the Comte de Paris had to' find a home for himself and his family outside France and settled in England. He lost most of the popularity that he might have had here by one blazing piece of ingratitude and ill-manners. Otherwise his high spirits, his sportsmanship, his real love of adventure and travel and even-his appear- ance; consciously modelled -on that of 'Henri' IV, might have made great appeal to British people. In France he was thwarted in every attempt to serve in the Army or gain admittance after 1886 except when he was arrested there in 1890. Whether a different kind of man could have made a more forceful position as the Legitimist Pretender, we cannot say, but we believer-that the Republic is too firmly-established to fear danger froth without unleis there is incredible folly within. If the Duke's life seems to have been a futile one, can one blame a man cast for such a hopeless r8le ? His cousin, the Due de Guise, now becomes Chef de la Maison de France.
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