A ROYALIST EXILE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 10

A ROYALIST EXILE.

An interesting document is published in Lo Gaulois giving an account of determined efforts made by the Duko of Orleans to remove the ban of exile under which he is not allowed to enter France, and to obtain permission from the French Government to serve as a, soldier under tho tricoloui-. Two of his agents repeatedly interviewed M. Viviani, the French Premier, and, on behalf of the duke, pleaded that be might be allowed to join one or other of the allied armies. It was suggested by the duke himself that he should s serve as an interpreter to the British Army, but, according to Le Gaulois, Lord Kitchener, who had been approached on this subject, did not give his consent. M. Viviani could not ccc his way to abrogate the law of exiles operating against the representative of the old French monarchy, and declares that the Duke of Orleans would not be allowed to serve either in th<j British or Belgian armies, as they were fighting on French soil. He did not see any objection, however, to the duke taking service in the Russian Army, and the French Ambassador at Petrograd would mrke this statement to the Russian Government. This offer has not so far been accepted by the Royalist exile, who desires a more formal recommendation and not a mere expression of tolerance.