Show GREAT LOVE STORIES aes I 1 OF HISTORY by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE NAPOLEON III AND EUGENIE bl th AU Aul Lorl the love story of napoleon n III tw eugenie do has been be en called by some frenchmen the romance of an adventurer and an adventuress 01 for though the latter term Is too harsh to apply in its worst sense to eugenie eugenic yet napoleon ill III merited tho the title of advent adventurer ger and far worse when napoleon tho the great napoleon 1 I was waa crushed and the old bourbon monarchy once more swayed franco france there was a more or less leas strong party that still clamored for tue restoration of the Bona partes napoleons po leons next ot of kin in succession was his nephew louis napoleon known later as napoleon ill III and nicknamed by lila his toes foes as napoleon the little lie ile was a sensationalist a mountebank a charlatan a man wh whose ose word could never be relied on time and time again as a man he made ridiculously useless efforts to persuade franco france to accept him as its ruler ile he was laughed at as a failure allure and twice was thrown into jail later he escaped to england where he was at one time so poor that he was glad to accept a job as special policeman ile he crossed to america taught school in new jersey an emperor and got into trou brou in new jersey ble near borden en town N J for shooting a farmers little pig which he be mistook for a rabbit at last he was allowed to return to france elected to the national assembly he wriggled and schemed ills his way to the presidency of af the french republic then violating his oath as president and causing his guards to commit wholesale slaughter he be hod had himself declared emperor in 1852 under the title of napoleon III ills empire was built upon a tissue of lies and was soaked in the blood of innocent people it could not t en endur dure napoleon ill III when he looked about for a wife quickly learned that other european rulers had no faith in him or in his empires permanency for he could find no princess who i would consent to marry him it was about this time that he fell completely under genies eugenics Eu influence eugenie eugenic was the daughter of an impoverished ed spanish nobleman and a she grew to be one of the most beautiful of women aben loula louis became emperor he met eugenie much more often than before and speedily found him self belt as madly in love wl with th her as his sluggish lal i crafty I 1 temperament apera would permit out but euge ae held him at arms length she ha had no intention of becoming a morgan ic wife ke mrs fitzherbert she meant to make herself empress one day slie she was leaning from a balcony as the emperor rode jode past seeing her there arid wishing to lo join her on the balcony he be called out jiow how can I 1 reach you through the church only sire 1 was the girls girl B laughing retort at another time h b placed a crown of flowers dowers on her beads 1 I would prefer a heavier crown than this she suggested at court she was snubbed right and left at length she came to the emperor in tears declaring she could endure his courtiers insults no longer and that she was going to leave parts paris forever this move brought napoleon lo 10 ter terms m mp ile he asked her to marry him t eugenic uge ile well trained referred him to her ei m rr tor for consent this consent naturally was easy to obtain and napoleon informed his miti ministry of his approaching marriage in disgust his advisors resigned but by specious arguments lie he won the nation over to his views and in january 1853 made eugenie eugence his wife and empress of the french she was 27 he 44 other royal families avoided the couple with the exception of queen victoria whose friendship eugenio soon won the young empress lifted her court to unequaled heights of gayety gaiety and set the fashions fash lona for all europe she also gave largely to charity and visited the plague hospitals before long she tegan began to dabble in politics and to influence napoleon to diplomatic blunders that led to his final downfall A son napoleon eugene louis tha prince imperial was born to the couple france rejoiced but soroa historian observed that no french kings son in downfall of more e than two the empire centuries urics b had a d lived to mount his fathers father s throne napoleon the little continued utterly under his cifes influence once according to malmesbury when she was dangerously ill for 15 hours the emperor cried and sobbed without beasi ceasing 1 the empress party in 1970 I 1 if brought 0 u 0 on n the disastrous war w with ith prussia which cost napoleon III his crown the empress called this conflict conni ct my war when the downfall came she at first thought to appease the furious parisians Pari by riding through the streets in black but among ajl ail her magnificent gowns no ene b baick ack dreo dress s could be found an awe american bican dentist dr evans help helped d A her escape to england En giand after the col I 1 lapse apse of 0 the empire there her son and husband joined her napoleon III died soon afterward a r d and in 1879 the prince imperial was killed in Zu luland the aged ex exempress empress lives on lonely heartbroken in england sometimes tim s stealing back to parts paris to gazer gaze on the scene where once she reigned supreme and where she Is now all but forgotten |