He had inherited, it would seem, that invaluable knowledge of men by which his uncle had risen to the greatest throne of modern times.

He knew that a party is never for a moment equal to a Man.
And the Legitimists had no man.

They had only the Comte de Chambord.
At Frohsdorff they still clung to their hopes, with that old-world belief in the ultimate revival of a dead regime which was eminently characteristic.

And at Frohsdorff there died, in the October of this year, the Duchess of Angouleme, Marie Therese Charlotte, daughter of Marie Antoinette, who had despised her two uncles, Louis XVIII.

and Charles X., for the concessions they had made--who was more Royalist than the King.