Word: dauphines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concert of Europe (Sun. 5 p.m., ABC), tape-recorded in Paris, is being broadcast in the U.S. by ECA to promote both the tourist industry and international good will. Concert features Actor Claude (The Happy Time) Dauphin as M.C., a French orchestra of impressive musicianship and a new conductor each week from one of the 18 Marshall Plan countries. The first: Switzerland's Otto Osterwalder...
...Angry Rabbit. When at last he arrived in Paris, Naundorff was a down-at-heel beggar. But he found an important champion. The lost Dauphin's old governess had come to scoff at the beggar's claims, but when she saw his prominent front teeth, the triangular vaccination on his arm and the pigeon-shaped mole of Louis Bourbon on Naundorff's thigh, she became convinced that he was the Dauphin. Naundorff even had a scar on his upper lip like that which the imprisoned Dauphin had got from the bite of an angry rabbit; the Dauphin...
...Shoemaker's Wife. Paris was used to such claims; the fate of the young Dauphin had long been shrouded in mystery and rumor. In 1795, the revolutionary government, which held him prisoner, had officially announced his death from scrofula at the age of ten, but the stories of witnesses who claimed to be present at the death varied widely. Some years later a shoemaker's wife, who had been charged with the care of the royal prisoner, swore on her deathbed that young Louis had been spirited away and that another boy had been buried in his grave...
Naundorff's own early life was as clouded in obscurity as the Dauphin's, death. In 1812, he was run out of Berlin for claiming to be King of France. He moved to Spandau and wrote Louis XVI's daughter Maria Therese a letter saying, "I am alive, your real brother. Ask me to prove it." Maria, then the Duchess of Angouleme, paid no attention, but others were more sympathetic. The mayor of Spandau believed Naundorff and took him to Brandenburg. There Naundorff was arrested for arson and jailed for counterfeiting, but two years later...
...dispel the mystery, but the Survivantists were not discouraged. Next year in the Vatican, on the 100th anniversary of her death, the secret will of Maria Therese, Duchess of Angouleme, is to be opened and read. Perhaps, hope the Survivantists, it will contain the final proof that the lost Dauphin of France had been found at last...