The Dauphin, Louis XVII: The Riddle of the Temple (Classic Reprint)

On leaving home, as usual, on the morning of August 10th, 1792, Francis Turgy certainly never imagined that he was setting out on a journey which would take him to Switzerland, Austria, Courland and England, and bring him back to Paris, after a quarter of a century, ennobled, grown into a personage who forever would have a place in history. Turgy was a waiter in the King's kitchens. Twenty-nine years old and by birth a Parisian, -consequently honest and clever,-he was most attached to his modest office, which he had obtained in 1784. As lie did not live at the Chateau, which was too small, in spite of its huge proportions, to shelter the crowd of functionaries of all degrees who for more than a year had still gravitated around the dying monarchy, he walked as far as the Carrousel to seek information,-and there ascertained that the disaster was indeed great. The guardhouses and out-buildings of the Chateau were on fire; the mob, master of the residence of th

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