It Happened in Nashville, Tennessee

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Excerpt from It Happened in Nashville, Tennessee: A Collection of Historical Incidents Which Occurred in Nashville, Are Commemorated There, or in Which Nashville People Were Actors Nashville's earliest visitors of note came in 1797. They were the three French princes - Louis Philippe d'Orleans, aged 24, Count de Montpensier and Count Beaujolais - whose father, the Duke of Orleans, had been guillotined in October, 1793. They were in exile from their own land, the horrors of whose Revolution were still fresh in the worlds memory. Louis Philippe became King of France. The ashes of Count Montpensier have slept for generations in Westminster Abbey, in London. Bent upon a study of the resources and conditions of the new republic, Washington was applied to by them for an American itinerary, and the father of his country drew in red ink on a pocket map the route for their journey. Travel through the sparsely settled country in 1797 was a matter of much hardship, the journey being made on horseback. At certain points smoked bear's grease and Indian corn served to satisfy the hunger of the young Bourbons, drenching rains sometimes occurred, beds were scarce, and a cup of coffee was a rarity. In East Tennessee Louis Philippe, having had a fall from his horse, bled himself with such good results that he was invited to operate on a venerable chief of an Indian tribe. This operation, too, was highly successful. The princes reached Nashville May 10, 1797. It was court week in the future capital of Tennessee, and the royal visitors were forced to sleep three in a bed, their temporary abode while here being at the house of Captain Maxwell. While in Nashville they were guests at dinner of an Englishman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.