Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-05 | Page 8 | Famous Women

f FAMOUS WOMEN o- HORTENSf OF HOLLAND. Few queens have been mors dissolute dis-solute In character, and few havs possessed mors beauty and talent than ths fair but frail Hortense of Holland. Born In Paris, in 1711, she wss ths daughter of ths Immortal Josephine Beauharnals, by her first husband. In compliance with ths wishes of her Imperial stepfather. Napoleon, she was given In Jove-leas Jove-leas marriage to Louis Napoleon, although she was then violently la love with another men. Ths elevation of, Louis to ths Dutch throns msds Hortense ft qusen, but royal responsibilities did not sober hsr, and she was ths mistress of dosens of prominent men. One of these. Admiral VsrusL a Dutch naval officer, was com- I monly supposed to havs been ths i fsthsr of Napoleon UL M. da ; Morny. universally recognised mm a. the Illegitimate half-brother of Na- poison III. was ths son of Hor- 1 tenss and ths Comts de Flahsut. Another son of Hortsnss, oeorgv ds Heeckeren d'Anthes, wss taken by his father. Baron do Heeckeren. to Russia. There be married a slater sla-ter of the wife of Pushkin, th great Russian poet, and paid such attention to Mm. Pushkin that a dual was fought In which ths poet, was slain. A descendant of this 'son of Hortsnss was killed on th French front In tha early 'part of j 117. r