"They are the rightful kings of France."
"Why do they let Bonaparte and his brothers take their place?"
Doctor Chantry turned from the promenaders below and, with slow and careful speech, gave me my first lesson in history.
"There was a great civil war in France called the Revolution, when part of the people ran mad to kill the other part. They cut off the heads of the king and queen, and shut up the two royal children in prison. The dauphin died."
"What is a dauphin?"
"The heir to the throne of France was called the dauphin."
"Was he the king's son?"
"The king's eldest son."
"If he had brothers were they dauphins too?"
"No. He alone was the dauphin. The last dauphin of France had no living brothers. He had only a sister."