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MARIA STELLA , the self-styled legitimate daughter of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans. -According to her, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe was not the son of Philip duke of Orleans, but a suppositious See also:child, his See also:father being one Lorenzo Chiappini, See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable at the See also:village of Modigliana in See also:Tuscany. The See also:story is that the duke and duchess of Orleans, travelling under the incognito of See also:Comte and Comtesse de See also:Joinville, were at this village in See also:April 1773, when the duchess gave See also:birth to a daughter; and that the duke, desiring a son in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to prevent the See also:rich Penthievre See also:inheritance from reverting to his wife's relations in the event of her See also:death, bribed the Chiappinis to substitute their newly-See also:born male child for his own.
Maria Stella, the supposed daughter of Chiappini, went on the See also:stage at See also:Florence, where her putative parents had settled, and there at the See also:age of thirteen became the wife of the first See also:Lord Newborough, after whose death she married the See also:Russian See also:Count Ungern-See also:Sternberg. On the death of her putative father in 1821she received a See also:letter, written by him shortly before his death, in which he confessed that she was not his daughter, adding " See also:Heaven has repaired my See also:fault, since you are in a better position than your real father, though he was of almost similar See also:rank " (i.e. a See also:French nobleman). Maria Stella henceforward devoted her See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time and See also:fortune to establishing her identity. Her first success was the See also:judgment of the episcopal See also:court at See also:Faenza, which in 1824 declared that the Comte Louis de Joinville exchanged his daughter for the son of Lorenzo Chiappini,and that the Demoiselle de Joinville had been baptized as Maria Stella, " with the false statement that she was the daughter of L. Chiappini and his wife." The See also:discovery that Joinville was a countship of the Orleans See also:family, and a real or fancied resemblance of Louis Philippe to Chiappini, convinced her that the duke of Orleans was the See also:person for whose See also:sake she had been cheated of her birthright, a conviction strengthened by the striking resemblance which many See also:people discovered in her to the princesses of the Orleans family. In 183o she published her proofs under the See also:title Maria Stella ou un See also:change d'une demoiselle du plus haul rang contre un gar(on de plus vile See also:condition (reprinted 1839 and 1849). This coincided with the See also:advent of Louis Philippe to the See also:throne, and her claim became a weapon for those who wished to throw discredit and ridicule on the " See also:bourgeois monarch." He for his See also:part treated the whole thing with amused contempt, and Baroness Newborough-Sternburg de Joinville, or See also:Marie Etoile d'Orleans, as she called herself, was suffered to live in See also:Paris until on the 23rd of See also:December 1843 she died in poverty and obscurity.
In spite of much discussion and investigation, the See also:case of Maria Stella remains one of the unsolved problems of See also:history. See also:Sir See also:Ralph See also:Payne Gallwey's See also:Mystery of Maria Stella, See also:Lady Newborough (See also:London, 1907), is founded on her own accounts and argues in favour of her point of view. More convincing, however, is See also:Maurice Vitrac's Philippe-Egalite et M. Chiappini (Paris, 1907), which is based on unpublished material in the Archives nationales. M. Vitrac seeks to overthrow Maria Stella's case by an See also:alibi. The duke and duchess of See also:Chartres could not have been at Modigliana in April 1773, for the See also:simple See also:reason that they can be proved at that time to have been in Paris. On the 8th of April the duke, according to the See also:official See also:Gazette de See also:France, took part in the Maundy See also:Thursday ceremonies at See also:Versailles; from the 7th to the 14th he was in See also:constant attendance at the See also:lodge of Freemasons of which he had just been elected See also:grand See also:master. Moreover, it was impossible for the first See also:prince of the See also:blood royal to leave France without the royal permission, and his See also:absence would certainly have been remarked. Lastly, the duchess's accouchement, a semi-public See also:function in the case of royal princesses, did not take See also:place till the 6th of See also:October. M. Vitrac identifies the real father of Maria Stella with Count Carlo Battaglini of See also:Rimini, who died in 1796 without issue; the case being not one of substitution, but of See also:ordinary " farming out " to avoid a See also:scandal.
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