The Lost King Of France: A True Story Of Revolution, Revenge, And DNA - Plot & Excerpts
… He {the old man} said it often made him feel easier and better for a while if people … got down on one knee to speak to him, and always called him “Your Majesty,” and waited on him first at meals, and didn’t set down in his presence till he asked them … So Jim and me set to majestying him … This done him heaps of good, and so he got cheerful and comfortable. —MARK TWAIN, ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, 1885 After the death of Mathurin Bruneau in the 1820s, potential “lost dauphins” began to come forward all over France. Louis-Charles’s tragic story had captured the public imagination; sightings and confessions became commonplace. Many a blue-eyed, fair-haired adventurer suddenly found an overwhelming need to unburden himself and admit to his blue-blooded descent. And some dark-eyed swarthier claimants were equally sure of their pedigree; their talents and manifestations of royalty were all equally diverse. In time, Louis XVIII’s staff at the Tuileries in Paris became expert in dispatching the various “Louis XVIIs”
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