The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-10-18 00:00:00

A NA POLEONIC SCAND tL

The Daily News correepondent wriks fr .•i. Tows •
—The highly seem:Wong affair of Mins hlrgeeiit;
BeMiner and President Lhvienne, doelo4o.j hy the
publication of the ex-Emperor's prilrate c
natarally produces a great seneattni. ibuic cot
hoopoe., that the story is altogeth. rar iv i:. to
Pariaione. What is new is to question:ld
pat. rry
of • little boy, and the disgraceful part i.:ayi i by the
fir.t judge of the empire to au off .ir el
But all Paris cu att. st the troth of the reineated
,tatement in the l. t r to her imperill laver. t he
buil &no • "cc. y grtat deal for lee.' B..l4i.erits
Bilang.r'e horses, carriages, dogs, j•iwelkty, obi Iced
dress,' were will known in the Bois do I:
ever) cabin:in k.iows I,h lung and gorgetu•:y.hut..shaf
rnen,ion in the Re do Varneuil where, ei• in -
throw of the Avenue des Champ, E.,p,C, in t.!..c
nook Lis official promenade with the isi, the
Emperor w-e wrut to pie ho try f • :11. .vith
Marguerite &Danger. Only at th 11.1 j I this
year, and some time alter Pre:silent
IT okd an staingement, a husband vent f.nt, i for the
lady. On the out mien of her inuring., hi: ,j. ;t4
that her hotel in the Rue do Vercetil -a- the
stalacr, 111 thereupon the Elllpef g.vt lir
teens palace in the Avenue du is Lilco llrt,cse,
which, in hcr netniage settlement puh'i-11...1 i:, the
Figaro of the ti,,.,, was v Itteel at 1,500,0 it'. IL r rale
in the Rao do Verged! produt-ed 3411,(?ar., and die
bought in some mignificent (lobelia tapestry, r ith the
&ph r of the Crown, whiob the auctiryt-t r put at. tpa
catalogue to excite 4:otiosity. The !nitwit assigned tt
her was an emplve in a linendrapoes lip; hit at Lis
fucction was t keep the books, she ratli:r wittily
of him that lie w in not &tradesman, bu: iii is olhAttrs.
Writing air, e I ain doing in the very Lucie n w the
Hotel dais empathic, in which Iladttne tie it VALI.,
was born, I can only wonder that such j yen,/ t de
Roi, indulged in ty the hat' encensser to the throne of
. Lents X IV., ahoutd have regul-ed such ponderoue
ishinery as that of the intervention of a chief jut'en to
bush them up. From a variety of circuit. ti.nce, I
believe the esplanation of the extreme anxiety which
mule him invoke the awistacce of President lierienne
,to be this. At a time when the Prince was
In very bad health, the Emperor was certainly under
the impreseion (whether truly or not) tint lit was the
father of Marguerite Ballengee* boy. lin,.: rtitg hie
grief to her at the prospect of being depiivel of per.
faulty, she, in melting utontentt, got him to iuder. to hr
coruplacently, when she said her son was his, ant eat
awl front mochah oonvea,tl,..:s which he might urtriala,
the direct tine of the Napoleons wan iu any mut
as-mred. The Emperor, who had reservet to hiei.eff
by hi, constitution o, absolute power to adopt an heir
to the exclusion of Prince Napoleon, miAt s. ,:y well
have caressed the ideal over a cigarette that if he led
his Icgimate son, his power and might weuhl opal
to the achievement of • plebiseit •, oonfirmin4 his soap.
lion of an illegitmate one. Later, the P.in,:e
got be..ter ; the Empress rebelled against the Marguerite
scandal; and • moment came wh.ta the Euip roe
thought it expedient to obtain a disavowal from
Margaret cf his paternity other child at any pric-•