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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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refused to acknowledge the peace of Aix la Chapelle and to withdraw fromFrance—soured his character and ruined his life. Released from Vincennes,he hurried to the then Papal city of Avignon, where he introduced boxing-matches. England threatened to bombard Civita Vecchia, and Charles had todepart. Whither he went no man knows. There is a Jacobite tract of 1750, pur-portmg to be written by his equerry, Henry Goring. According to this, Charles,Goring, and a mysterious Comte de la Luze (Marshal Keith ?), went to Lyons,Dijon^ Strasbourg. Here Charles rescued a beautiful girl from a fire, and honor-ably declined to take advantage of her manifest passion for her preserver. Theparty was attacked by assassins, Charles shot two of them, La Luze and Goringaccounted for others. They took ship from some northern coast, were tempest-driven to an unfriendly port, visited, apparently, Frederick the Great, spent sometime in Lithuania, and there are hints of a love affair, though Charles had already
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< zoo o< <o COUJ _l <Io ul o z DCCL o H UJUJ s to cc UJ I1- PRINCE CHARLES STUART 185 proclaimed that he would never marry to beget royal beggars. He certainlyvisited Sweden ; there was talk of him as a candidate for the Polish crown. Formany years (i749-1755) neither James nor the English Government knew whereCharles really was. Grimm says that for three years he lay hidden in the houseof a lady in Paris, a friend of the Princesse de Tallemant. A sportsman and alover of the open air is not likely to have loitered so long with Armida in a secretchamber. There is tattle about him in DArgensons Memoirs; a disguisedshabby prince appears now and then, none knows whence, and vanishes. In thepapers of Charles Stuart, Comte dAlbanie, one finds a trace of a visit paid by theprince to Ireland. There is evidence, in the State Papers, that he was not farfrom Paris, in June, 1749. We have it under his own hand, in the Stuart Papersat Windsor, that he visited London on September 5, 175

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