Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-09-17
A secret Passage I'm Nap0leons.
Life.
THE YOUNG COUNTESS wALEsKl.

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which policy had given him but
which Empire could not attach to
him, adversity brought back to him
at Fontainbleau a young and beauti-
fu) foreigner, whose love neither de-
feat nor exile could extinguish.--
Among the numerous and fugitive
objects of his capricious and illegiti-
innate attachments, Napoleon had
loved once perhaps with a tender and
durable passion. At the summit Of
his success and glory, at a fete at
Warsaw, the beauty Of q young Pol
ish lady, intoxicated with enthusiasm
for his name, had made a lively inn
preston on him. She was the young
wife of a noble Lamaritan already
advanced in years. She shone for
the first time, amid the pomps Of a
court. She adored in Napoleon-as
what Pole then did not?-genius,
victory, and the fallacious hope of the
independence of her country.
Her cOuntenance beamed with the
adoration she internally felt. Ma
poleon saw her, understood her, low
ed her. Long resistance, violent
struggles between passion and duty,
and tears famed the flame into a
passion. The Emperor carried off
the Countress Waleski from her hus-
band, from her country. He con-
veyed her to his camps and to con-
quered capitals. A son was born,
the result of this attachment. A
handsome residence at Paris, often
visited at night by Napoleon, con-
cealed from public view the ever i'm
passioned mother Of this child.
Adversely rendered her fault almost
sacred, and his love more dear to her.
She wished, by devoting herself to
the exile, to atone for her weakness
for the conqueror of Europe. She
wrote to Napoleon to ask for an in
terview, and to offer to accompany
him wherever misfortune might lead
him. He consented to the interview,
and the last night but one which pre-
ceded the departue Of the Emperor
for Fontainbleau, the young wife was
introduced by a back staircase into
the room adjoining the bedroom Of
her lover. The confidential valet an
nounced to his master the arrival OF
her whom he had consented to re-
ceive. Napoleon was plunged into
that kind Of dreamy stupor which had
overcome him since his fall He an
swered that he would shortly call her
who, on his accounthad braved mod
esty and adversely. The young lady,
in tears, waited in vain the greater
part of the night. He called her not
See heard him, nevertheless, walking
in his room. The attendant again
reminded his master of his visitor
"Wait little longer" said the EN-
peror. At length the night having
passed away, and day beginning to
dawn, there was some danger of the
secret interview being revealed; wher
the young woman, repulsed, detected
and offended, was re-conducted, ir
tears, to her carriage by the conf
Dental witness Of her last adieux.-
Whether it was that Napoleon hat
lost all sense of feeling in the agita
ton OF his mind, or that he was a
shamed to appear as the cast-dowl
captive before her who had loved hin
as the victor and sovereign of Europe
he evidently had no compassion 70
her devotion. When the confiden
tai servant entered his chamber il
the morning,and describing the hopes
the fears, and the shame Of the Coun
ties Waleski, "Ahp said he, "it is hu
initiating for her as well as for myself
but the hours passed without my be
ing aware of them. had sOmethin;
here he added, touching his forehea,
with his finger. Despair which sol
tens the hearts Of other men, render
ed his hard and frigid.-Lamartine.
Baron Won Humbolt, although |
small man-born SO long ago as Sept
Ia, l769-is all animation, and hi
conversation of the most varied an
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