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Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 4 | An Emperor's Last Love

Type issue
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title An Emperor's Last Love
Type article
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 4
OCR Text An Emperors Emperor's Last Love The German myth about that wise and good monarch Wilhelm Vilhelm I and his great chancellor Count Bismarck Bismarck Bis Bis- marck is torn to shreds by tire tiro vIvacious viva- viva doug clous memoirs of Countess Louise de 10 Mercy Mercy-Argenteau which Doubleday Doubleday Doubleday Dou Dou- bleday Page Co has Just published pub pub- The English historian Sir George Arthur has written a preface preface preface ace memoirs and supplying biographical notes a about out the chief characters in this drama of ofa oCa a picturesque and crumbling empire em em- pire The Countess de Mercy Ar was a beauty of the old noblesse noblesse noblesse no no- blesse of France who scorned the court of Napoleon III nr At a chance meeting Louise fell tell under the spell of the emperors emperor's personal charm and from that time became b both lh his so social social social so- so cial favorite and political adviser After Sedan she was the only of ef effective intermediary between the newly fallen emperor of or the Fren French h hand and the newly risen emperor of Ger Ger- many She gives an intimate witty picture pIcture pic pie ture tune of the last days of the second empire and of Louis Napoleon Wavering wavering wavering wa wa- vering In indecision dominate 1 both Loth by amazing ng superstition and the In Indomitable in- in greed for power of the Empress Eugenic Eugenie Old Emperor Wilhelm I she pictures picture a weak old man of feeble Intellect and the great chancellor an unscrupulous and licentious statesman with no discrimination between a lady and anda a barmaid
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