4/16 She made a famous journey through La Vendee on horseback to rally the Royalists. She urged her father-in-law, Charles X., to resist the revolution. She was the best Royalist of them all. And her son was the Comte de Chambord, who could have been a king if he had not been a philosopher, or a coward. As if France had ever called for anything with one voice! Amid the babel there rang out not a few voices for the younger branch of the Royal line--the Orleans. |