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On July 23, 1832, the news of the death of the Duke of Reichstadt, involving possibly momentous changes in France, reached Paris un- expectedly, to spread dismay in the heart of the majority of the French people and undisguised exultation among the partisans of Louis Philippe's Government. The son of Napoleon, the King of Eome (Duke de Reichstadt) had expii-ed at Vienna on the 22nd, after a lingering illness which the doctors had been unable to check. His death was hailed by the Court, the cour...tiers, and a small nucleus of short-sighted Republicans with unfeigned 114 COUNT ORSrS RECOLLECTIONS. Joy. Louis Philippe was at once relieved from the harassing bugbear with which the existence of the presumptive heir to the Imperial throne was con- tinually besetting his mind. Having got rid of the Prince whose rights to the throne were indisputable, he considered himself safe from any conspiracy on the part of the elder branch of his family, turned out of the country by the recent Eevolution, as well as from any outbreak of the Kepublican party, "in no great favour at that time in France.
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