The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-28 00:00:00

THE F I,IZ E NCH EMP E

The Moniteur contains the following programme
of the marriage ceremony of the Emperor and Em-
press on Sunday :—" On Sunday, 30th January,
1853, at 11 o'clock in the morning, two of the court
carriages will go for the Empress to the palace of
the Elysee. In the first carriage will be the Grand
Mistress of the Household, the Lady of Honour,
and the First Chamberlain of her Majesty. The
second carriage will receive the Empress, her Ex-
cellency- the Countess de Montijo, the Grand Mas-
ter of the Household of the Empress, and the
equerry of her Majesty will be at the door. The
carriages, which will be escorted by a picket of
cavalry, will enter by the gate -of the Pavillon de
Fiore. The Grand Chamberlain and the Grand
Equerry, the First Equerry, four Chamberlains,
and the orderly officers on duty, will receive the
Empress at the door of the Pavillon de l'Horloge.
Their Imperial Highnesses the Prince Napoleon and
the Princess Mathilde will receive her Majesty at
the bottom of the grand staircase. The cortege will
ascend the grand staircase, and will proceed to the
Salon de l'Emperor. The Emperor, accompanied
by his Imperial Highness the Prince Jerome, the
Ministers, the Marshals an dAdmirals, the Grand Mar-
shal of the Palace, and the Grand Huntiman, will
advance towards the Empress from the Salon de
l'Empereur, and will conduct her into that salon.
At nine o'clock in the morning, a Master of the
Ceremonies and assistants will go to the cathedral,
to superintend the placing of the persons invited to
the ceremony. The members of the constituted
bodies and the functionaries will be in uniform, the
ladies in high dresses (robes montantes) and bon-
net, the gentlemen invited in dress coats. The
doors on the side of the grand entrance, and the
southern and northern doors of the church, will
alone be opened to the persons invited. The central
door will be exclusively reserved to their Majesties,
and to the Ambassadors and foreign Ministers going
in a body and with an escort. An orchestra will
play sacred music until the arrival of their Majes-
ties. On an estrade erected in the midst of the
transept in face of the altar will be placed, under a
canopy, two chairs of honour and two prie-Dieu for
their Majesties. Vast estrades, in the form of an
amphitheatre, filling each of the branches of the
Latin cross, will be set apart for the French and
foreign diplomatic bodies, the Senate, the Legisla-
tive Body, and the Council of State. Tribunes,
opening on to the Latin cross, will beset apart forthe
ladies of the diplomatic body, the members of the fa-
mily of the Emperor who may not be in the cortege of
their Majesties, the ladies of the presidents of the
great bodies of the State, the ladies of the Ministers,
Marshals, an I Admirals; the widows of the great dig-
nitaries of the Empire, Marshals, and Admirals ;
the ladies of the grand officers ; the ladies of the
household of the Empress ; and the ladies of officers
of the household of the Emperor. Other tribunes
and galleries will be reserved for the ladies and
gentlemen not functionaries invited. The first
row of chairs in the nave will be reserved to
the Marshals, the Admirals, the Grand Chan-
cellor and the Grand Crosses of the Legion
of Honour. The rest of the nave will be
occupied by the deputation of the constituted
bodies, by the high functionaries of the public ad-
ministrations, and by the other persons invited. At
12 o'clock their Majesties will leave the Palace of
the Tuileries ; the firing of artillery will announce
their departure. A double line of the National
Guard and the army will be placed on all the route
to be taken by- the cortege from the Tuileries up to
the Parvis Notre-Dame. At the head of the cor-
tege will be carriages occupied by the civil and mili-
tary officers of the Emperor, and they will be pre-
ceded and followed by a squadron of cavalry.
Then will ccme the carriages of the Ministers,
those of the officers and ladies, of the Princes
and Princesses ; a carriage containing the per-
sons attached to the household of her Imperial
highness the Princess Mathilde • a squadron of
the Guides • a carriage in which will be the
ladies of the Palace of the Empress ; a carr age
occupied by the Grand Master and First Chamber-
lain .of the Empress ; a carriage drawn by six
horses, occupied by the grand officers of the house-
hold of the Emperor ; a carriage drawn by six
horses, in which will be her Imperial Highness
Princess Mathilde,: her Excellency the Countess de
Montijo, the Grand Mistress of the Household of
the Empress, and the lady of honour of her
Majesty ; a carriage drawn by six horses, in which
will be their Imperial Highnesses the Prince
Jerome Napoleon and the Prince Napoleon. In a
carriage drawn by eight horses will be the Emperor
and the Empress. The carriage of their Majesties
will be followed by a squadron of Guides and a
regiment of cavalry. Informed of the approach of
the cortege, the Archbishop of Paris, preceded by
his clergy, will go in procession towards the great
door to receive their Majesties. The great doors will
be thrown open ' • the Emperor leading the Empress
by the hand will enter the basilick ; their Majesties
will place themselves on the throne. The Archbishop
officiating will salute their Majesties, and will com-
mence the ceremonyof the marriage. After the bles-
sing of the pieces of gold and the nuptial ring, their
Majesties will go to the foot of the altar, will re-
main standing, and will give each other the right
hand. The Archbishop addressing himself first to
the Emperor, and then to the Empress, will re-
ceive their declaration to take each other for hus-
band and wife, and will successively present to the
Emperor the pieces of gold and the ring. The
Emperor will present the pieces of gold to the
Empress, and will place the ring on her finger.
After the prayers, their Majesties will return to
their throne. Their Majesties will successively
present themselves at the offering. After the
Pater, their Majesties will go to .the foot of the
altar, and will kneel ; the first chaplain of the
Emperor, and another bishop will extend above
the heads of their Majesties a canopy of silver bro-
cade, and will keep it so extended during the orai-
son. During the episcopal benediction and the
reading of the Gospel, the choir will chant several
times the Donvine salvum. The Archbishop will
then present holy water to their Majesties, and will
commence the Te Deum, which will be taken
up by the orchestra and the singers. After the
Te Deum, the great officers of the Crown, the
Princes, the Ministers, and other persons who
arrived in the cortege will resume their places.
.Their Majesties will descend from the throne, and
Will return, followed as they were on their arrival.
The Archbishop will immediately precede them to
conduct them in procession up to the great door."
The Moniteur also gives the following as the line
to be taken by the cortege :—" The cortege of their
Majesties will leave the Palace of the Tuileries by
the principal gate, will cross the Carrousel and the
court of the Louvre, and will follow the Rue des
Fosses Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, the Rue de
Rivoli the Place de Motel de Ville, the Quai de
Gevres, the Pont Notre-dame, the Quai Napoleon,
the Rue d'Arcole, and the Parvis Notre-Dame.
After the ceremony, the cortege will return to the
Tuileries by the Rue d'Arcole, the Quai Napoleon,
the Quai aux Fleurs' the Pont au Change, the
Quais up to the Place de la Concorde, and it will
reach the palace by the grand avenue in the
garden."
Workmen have commenced erecting barriers in
the streets contiguous to Notre Dame to prevent
the crowd from pressing on the procession, and
likewise from thronging round the cathedral. On
the piece of ground behind the archbishop's garden
a space has been railed in to receive the pieces of
cannon which are to fire during the whole time that
the marriage is being celebrated in the church.
On Saturday, after the ceremony of the civil
marriage at the Tuileries, there will be a concert in
the theatre of the Palace, and a cantata will be
sung, the words of which are by M. Mery, and
the music by M. Auber. The music of the mass
to be performed at Notre Dame on Sunday is also
by M. Aube_,.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Rheims has arrived
in Paris to be present at the religious ceremony of
the Imperial marriage.
" We are informed," says the Patric, " that the
National Guard will be called out on Sunday, and
tat it will, conjointly with the army, form the line
ofh
the procession of the Emperor."
Monltis,Tmounced that a grand ball will be offered
-mapress by the Legislative Body on Easter
Mday.
Sun-
day The public edifices will be illuminated on Sun-
Peror. eveningi honour of the marriage of the Era-
he
Municipalordihayaitl Commission had held an extra-
propositionstut' in order to deliberate on the
mitted to it n Which the Prefect of the Seine had sub-
Emperor. p°,llltll° occasion of the marriage of the
propositions, the admitting the suitableness of these
shoiCommisston. decided that a min
Prefect, to Ad. be placed at the disposal of the
of
arlizZed as follows : 600,000 fr. for
the purchase u
the future Ernpressin tV necklace to be offered to
name of the Cityof Paris;
and 300,000 fr. in differ'e
be devotel acts
latter sum will of charity. This
portions to 28 couples chose lcst' to give marriage
inhabitants of the twelve arrn -ruin among the poor
and of the two rural arsondiss"dissemenes of Paris
ments of the Seine ; 2dly, to erineuts of the depart-
workmen pledged at the monteleem the 'tools of
complete the work previously
ne-Piete • 3clly, to
Municipal Commission on the 0 inlertaken by the
clamation of the Empire on thecca 2d of
of the pro-
last, of remitting to poor women
ti of December
to the Administration des auras they owe
children ; and in distributZices for their
th 0 necessitous-4thlyi famlies 'inscribed a assistance to
de
Bienfaisance. In 1804 the toilet the Bureaux
the Empress cost 500,000 f., and the
slim
te offered to
to works of charity was 144,000 f. On T
sdevoted
d
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