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Show O ELIESS' PfiAYS FDR DEATH - Widow of Emperor Maximilian, Maxi-milian, Now Seriously AH, Pathetic Figure BRUSSELS. Julr J!. tmprui CaAotta, "th nad ampresa," SI and faabla. ha. prayad for death for maay y.ara. Two year. ago. Btrlch-en Btrlch-en with Influenza, .h. ajmoat r.-celved r.-celved herwlah. Wif. of former Emperor hfail-mlllaa hfail-mlllaa of Meilco, ah. ha. tor nearly half a century been th moet Pathetic, Pa-thetic, figure la European royalty. She became bereft of her reason la la7, when her huebaad was executed exe-cuted by Mexican rebel. , elt la her cloae Identity with North American life, even es long ago, that raakea her an unuaually lnc.ere.tlag flgur. In the United Btatea. In I86T Maximilian, brother -of i Prancia Joaephlate war amp.ro of Aaatrax, arrived in Belgium. He waa 25. hendeom and' a command tag figur. ' Cariotta, daughter of King Loo-1 fold I. wa. but 17. 8h waa baa-i Ifut and wh.n th two met. It wa. love ac flret eight. They were married, mar-ried, and aettlt-d dowa to a Ufa of bllea Maxlmlllaa aa governor general gen-eral of Italian province... ' An opportunity to .elr. tn. tnron. of Mexico aroae, and Maximilian frraaped It. The couple, .ntranoe nto America wa. dramatic Everywhere Every-where wr thy proclaimed with de-frrence. de-frrence. But Mexico grew clrtd of It. new emperor, and hla rul and lit wer threatened. Carlotta returned re-turned to Franc to plead with Napoleon Na-poleon III for flnanoe. to keep French soldier In ataxic. .Napoleon "ThVmad mpra" began to d-cllne d-cllne In health an hour after that fatal Interview, sh refused to eat food, fearing ah. would be potaoneu. Meanwhll Maximilian wa. .hot. Newa of this was kept from the now raving widow, but somehow she divined the worst, sad genuine la-sanity la-sanity sot In. A long tlm latr, they told her th truth. ... . Kor jaaay years, secluded In her chateau at Fouchor, she has lived In the peat. She believed, excapt n rar momenta whea reaaon would unaeoountahly return, that aha was living In Mexico and that her. -loved husband still waa allv. |