Word: grandson
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...Other illustrious descendants of John and Abigail: grandson Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's Civil War minister to the Court of St. James's; great-grandsons Henry Adams and Brooks Adams, historians; great-great-grandson Charles Francis Adams III, yachtsman, banker, and Secretary of the Navy...
...were more than usually jittery about the future of popular rule in France. The tubby nephew of Emperor Napoléeon I was spending many an evening plastering Paris with posters denouncing the republican government and advocating a prompt return to empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever all heads of those families which had ever...
...legitimate" pretender, Henri d'Orleans, Comte de Paris, was less fortunate. Moustached Henri, who looks as all French counts should in fiction and many French garage mechanics do in fact, is the great-great-grandson of King Louis Philippe. As the Bourbon-Orleéans* pretender to the throne, Henri has spent most of his 41 years hovering in expectant exile just outside the boundaries of France. In 1931 he married Isabelle d'Orleéans-Bragance, the doe-eyed, lovely daughter of a pretender to the throne of Brazil. Fearing that the line might become extinct, Henri...
...Charles X, who reigned from 1824 to 1830, was the last of the Bourbon descendants of Louis XIV to rule France. Forced into exile by the revolution of 1830, he relinquished his throne to his grandson, the Comte de Chambord. The proud count, however, refused to recognize the tricolor of constitutional monarchy, and refused to be king unless France adopted the lily-white ensign of the Bourbons. The throne passed to Louis Philippe, descendant of Louis XIII's second son, the Due d'Orleans...
Died. General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, 70, grandson and namesake of Italy's famed, red-shirted Liberator, onetime ardent antiFascist, author (A Toast to Rebellion); in Rome. A soldier in six wars, Garibaldi, at 23, led 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, later became Francisco Madero's chief of staff in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11, organized an Italian Legion to fight for France in World War I. At first violently opposed to the Black Shirts, he eventually shifted his allegiance to Mussolini during the Ethiopian campaign but was put into jail by the Nazis during...