The Bourbon Family

The King of Naples naturally chooso Spain as his place of refuge. 'l'lio roigqi:ig family ore his relativos. liy his rotura lo the Spnuish C.mrt, the Burb7a dynasty n Naples oiuli where it bogan. Carlos, the tWrd'son of Phiüp Vth, of Spain, obtained the throne of Naples lu 17-jO, kept it u:itil 1700, wbop, ascemJiu the throno of Spain himself, hú bjstowei his Neapolitan Kingdinu ou his son FurJinand. It di'soeiulej from Foriliuaiil-" to Francia I , who married one of his Spanish coi'.bias, and was the grandfuther of t!ie present exilod monarch. The ]?ourbon fiunily during thia and the last ceutnry havo held four thrones - those of France, Spain, " N:ip!es and Panna. They are now reduc-jd to on and th;it n:io tfiitcrs. Napoleon used to say tliat their chief characteris'ic was, that tli o y loarned nothing from experienea. Their piliey ia always dïspotio, even when it provokes revolations that