The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-07
Intended Marriage of Louis Napoleon.

The Niagaras revive the rumoys of an in
tended marriage between Louis Napoleon aud
Princess Of Baden. His recent visit TO the Grand
Ducby, ana his reception there, gives color TO the
report. The lady is the Princess Of Wasa, and an
alliance with her would be mingIng Of tie blood
Of Napoleon with that Of the famous Charles XII
OF Sweden.
We have somewhere seen the following account Of
On the 29th Of November, 1892, Gus.ayus the
Third, kiEg Of Sweden. murdered st a ball, by
an officer named Ankerstrom, from which event fol-
lowed many important circumstances among others,
the most magnificent spectacle ever exhibited in the
Paris theatres. which many persons here have no
doubt seen and admired, under the title CT !" Gus
tay ave }, on l. Bal Masqas7Gustavus, or the Masked
his con Gustavus Adolphus, the Fourth, then four
teen years old, who joined the famous coalition
against France, and was in consequence forced in
1909 to abdicate his throne, which was, in 1914,
adjudged by the voice Of the people, TO the French
Marshal Bernadotte. The abdicated King had
married a Princess of Baden, by whom he
had a son and daughter. After his abdication
be separated from his wife, and spent the
mainder Of his days in poverty and Obssurity, in
one or another small town in Germany, under the
name of Colonel Gustafson. He died in 1927, when
his sen, then an officer in the Austrian army, as
more commonly written his daughter married her
cousin the Duke of Baden, and is now Duchess o.
Baden.
The Prince of Wasa married, in 1880, the daughter
OF announcer luke OF Bauen, whose vile was n MaQe-
moisele Beauharnais, niece to Josephine, the EN-
peror Napoleon's first wife; and by this marriage
the Prince of Wasa had one daughter the Princess
Caroline Frederick Francisco Stephania Amalia
Cecilia born the 5th of August, 1888, the lady to
whom the President Of France is reported to have
rendered his hand.
This lady, in consequence, has in her veins the
blood Of the old kings Of Sweden, Gustavus Vasa,
Gustavus A6olphus, Charles XII, Sc, mingled
with that Of the dukes Of Baden, (nvAe Of whom
have made any figure in history) and with that of
the Beauharnois Of which the French President is
himself scion, being the of Hortense Beau.
harnais, the daughter Of the Empress Josephine.
This Beauharnais family has been more Fortunate
than any other OF modern times, except that Of
Bonaparte. Of the two children ofsthe Empress
Josephine, the daughter, Hortense, married Louis
Bopaparte King Of Holland; and the history Of her
descendants is now beginning-where it will end,
who can say! Her son, Eugene. became King Of
Italy, and married daughter of the King Of Ba-
yaria, by whom he left two SONS and two daugh-
ters The eldest son married Donna Maria, the
present Queen Of Portugal, but unfortunately died
month afterward. The other son, the Prince of
Leuchtenberg. married a daughter Of the Emperor
Nicholas, OF Russia, who is determined to make him
King a soon as kingdom can be carve d for him
OF the two daughters of Eugene Beauharnas, the
eldest is the Queen of Sweden; the other is the ex
Empress Of Brazil, widow Of the once famous Don
Pedro. She, though no longer an Empress, yet
lives very comfortably at Lisbon with hor daughter
now twenty-one years old, who will probably, some
day or other. likewise marry King
so much for some of the characters in the great
drama to be performed in Europe, Of which the first
act is now in progress.