Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1849-03-23
The Empress Josephine.

/ brought vivldly before Us the character aud
position Of the Empress Josephine. Con-
necicd with France, Ia her days Of reVo.
lnilonary excitement, she bad suffered much
bitterness beiure she was made partner in
III imperial crown and from the enviable
l eight which she attained she was most
wanlonly hurled down by the unbounded
ambition ofihe unfortunate Napoleon. YET.
amidst all her positions, whether as ayoung
Creole on her fathers plantation. a count
ess ouong the nobility Of France, prison.
er IN the dungeons Of Paris, an Empress
on The throne, or the rejected victim Of am.
biion. she displayed magnanimity OF soul
scarcely paralleled in the annals Of her sex.
She was born on the 9th OF June. 1863,
in the Island Of Martinique. and there re-
NAMED until she had reached the years Of
womanhood At the urgent solicitation Of
her parents, she then visited France TO re.
side with her aunt Renaudin, where she be-
became acquainted with and married Wis
count Beauharnais. OF her early years
few remarkable incidents are recorded She
was lighl-hearied daughter Of our Ameri-
can islands. and loved to sport unresirained
by conventional forms. Her own language
! is:
81 did not like the restraint Of my cloth
ing, or to be cramped in my movements. |
ran, and jumped, and danced from morning
to night. Why restrain the wild movements
of my childhood wanted to do no hurt
to those from whom received any evil
dences OF affection. Nature gave me
gres, facility for everything undertook.
Learning TO read and write was mere sport !;
the same was true as TO the instruction re-
ceived from my father and there were few
better taught men, or possessing more
skillful manner in making himself under.
stood, than he had no other master IN
Ill was twelve years old"
In common with young people generally.
she had strong desire TO know her future
destiny in life and for this purpose she WIS.,
tied the cottage Of an old negro woman,
who was reported to be a foflune-teller.
The result OF that visit we extract from the
account given by Msdemoiselle Normand,
as containing a most singular prediction,
which was literally fulfilled:
1.-THE black woman, after telling her that
her art taught her that she really wished TO
know the whole truth, notwithstanding her
apparent Indifference, remarked that her
frankness would cause her great surprise.
She then examined The ball of her left
thumb with marked attention; while doing
so, the Pythoness changed counlenance re-
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