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THE CITY THAT SOON FORGETS.
There are in humble life some families which settle their domestic differences on the doorstep, while the neighbours, gathered hastily by the commotion, tiptoe behind each other to watch the fun.

In the European congerie France represents this loud-voiced household, and Paris--Paris, the city that soon forgets--is the doorstep whereon they wrangle.
The bones of contention may be pitched far and wide by the chances and changes of exile, but the contending dogs bark and yap in Paris.

At this time there lived, sometimes in Italy, sometimes at Frohsdorf, a jovial young gentleman, fond of sport and society, cultivating the tastes and enjoying the easy existence of a country-gentleman of princely rank--the Comte de Chambord.

Son of that Duchesse de Berri who tried to play a great part and failed, he was married to an Italian princess and had no children.