Show 1873 1881 AN anniversary to on this day in the year 1873 ended the earthly existence of a man who had more than once thrown E europe drope into convulsions and who upon the ruins of popular liberty aimed to establish his glory until fate overtook bim him louis Napo napoleon leori III not the nephew of napoleon ij I but the eon son of hortense wife of aslin king louis brother of napoleon I an and I a dutch admiral was born on april 20 1808 his early education he lie received in switzerland whither his mother the gifted hortense had fled with him and his elder brother napoleon louis when the bonaparte empire crashed down at waterloo in the castle of Ar enenberg young napoleon received his big car early I y education he was bright keen fascinating in the swiss army ho he occupied the rank of a lieutenant of artillery flashing in wit dashing in manners but ever lacking in cash when the italian carbonari rb started on their revolution revolutionary a ry exploits the two nephews of the great corsican emperor joined the republicans public ans both swore eternal enmity to kings craft and napoleon louis the elder oder waa was killed in a skirmish between the loyal troops and the insurrection ests there is reason to believe that the younger soi son whose ambition was then equal to that of the macedonian alexander had a hand in the snatching away of his elder brother the death of the duke af reich stadt napoleon F Is s only ony son in 1832 made louis Nap napoleon oledn the heir presumptive ivell of the bonaparte dynasty and he put ut himself to work worl with a tigers tenacity a foxs foals cunning and a hyenas cruelty he schemed lie plotted he lie intrigued tri gued he failed at strasburg in 1836 he made an abortive attempt at boulogne in 1840 ridicule was showered upon the author of napoleonic pole onic ideas for his ridiculous failures and humiliating escapes from imprisonment but there was a spark of the old corsican Corsica ii fire it in him his determination was unconquerable the glow of his ambition inextinguishable after i imprisonment and exile h he e returned to paris when it was the capital of the republic as the tile fiduciary heir odthe of the principle twice elected member of the constituent assembly of france in 1848 lie twice resigned but when he returned the third timo time he came to stay he played pl ayed for a high stake nothing less than the pr presidency es of the french republic of seven and a half million popular votes he got five and a half how he e got them theta the almighty judge j lie and the catholic church know kilow for per three years ho he ruled as nominal president of the republic while virtually opening the avenues for the empire the second of december 1851 will ever bo bs fa meus detested and heinous as the day of the coup d clat when a nations ti onswill will was trampled upon a nations naf lions representatives were outraged and a nations liberties torn tom to shreds by a vile horde of P piratical rati adventurers semi legalized cut throats and corrupt courts the empire was established in f fact t although napoleon III assumed the imperial throne only one year after the dastardly deeds of 1851 W wo anre not whitin writing a history here those who want to find the details of the hideous horrors of the coup tre gretat tat will find them in victor hugos history of a crime the Napo napoleonic leonio dynasty was reestablished F france rance again had an emperor emperor to perpetuate her mil military gitary glory to add to her laurels and to satisfy the frenchmens French mens thirst f for or martial renown the crimean war 1853 56 the italian campaign 1859 the temporary overthrow of the mexican republic in 1863 all these were apparent successes which fortified napoleon III in his is pride and in his confidence little did he perceive the ominous cloud that rose in the north at first only as large as a hands breadth but finally overshadow overshadowing 13 the sky of of his fortune having been a traitor from birth a traitor through training anda and a traitor by predilection ho he succumbed ue to treachery in the summer of 1880 impelled by empress eugenic eugenie who designed tho the downfall of protestant Ger manyin ln I the interest of infallible papacy he threw the gauntlet to the aged king of prussia A war ensued which eclipsed all wars of history both in the numbers of combatants and in the swiftness of its termination I september ind 2nd 1871 found napoleon III and marshal mac macmahon kalmn at sedan nid am the nest next day witnessed the annihilation of the bonapart the castia of ho received the imperial capt captive lc the war raged on between the german fore force sand and the republican armies of regenerated and rejuvenated france peace waa was concluded but it brought no good to tho the emperor the nation which he had oppressed and tyrannized for I a score of years s loathed him to OH extent that prevented ev even en a bismarck is ff 11 rel from reinstating I him I m upon the throne of the tuileries Tuil erics eries in louis lonis nap napoleon alcon joined his wife the haughty beautiful and impI impulsive jive spanish woman and his son the unfortunate louis not long was tho the probation of his decadence and still Stil lit it was ion long enough to malic make him drain the bitter cup of disappointment d degradation mg und and detestation to the ver very dregs broken i in mind as he lie had long been in body a consequence of his execrable sexual excesses lie ended hh bia career on the ath of january 1873 h a stranger in in a strange land mourned by by less respected by nune none his career brings to our mind the file words of the poet of wilhelm tell teu schiller i this is the cry very of evi deed that propagating it engenders evil |