Show he saved an empress IF TF IT had not been tor for th the e re 1 and courage of an american dentist the last empress of the french might have met death at the hands of an infuriated mob of revolutionists and another tragic chapter might have been written in the history of deposed royalty in in that country the empress was eugenie wife of napoleon III and the man who saved her wa s a dr thomas W evans not long after louis napoleon became emperor dr evans was made court dentist of the second empire at that time dentistry was not the respected profession that it is today but such was the genius of this former philadelphian that lie he was held in equal esteem with all of napoleons ministers so on september 2 1870 when news of the disaster at sedan rans and ana a bloodthirsty populace began clamoring at the gates gales of the Tuille ries rles and threatening the life of the empress she said to the officers of the palace guard 1 I will go to dr evans he is an american I 1 am sure he will render us every assistance we require with only a veil as a disguise and accompanied by one of 0 her servants the empress fled by a secret passage to where a carala carriage e was waiting for her then she was ws criven in safety to dr evans home only to find him absent when he returned he realized that it would be dangerous for the empress to try to escape then so she and her servant spent the night there meanwhile dr evans had engaged a private carriage and the next morning he starter out with the royal fugitive on a perilous journey everywhere soldiers were on the lookout look out for the empress but the quick witted action and ingenious ruses auses of the Ame american more than once prevented their capture uy spending his own money free freely y lie he brought eugenie in safety to the coast and there he persuaded the owner of an english yacht to talce take her to En england aland dr E evans vans continued his practice n both france and america and MS inventions in his profession made him world famous ile he later accamo one of the founders of the fled cross society and upon his cath in 1896 he bequeathed his enire ire fortune of some twelve millions to american institutions |