Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-02-09

eain Mdc. Iarquin.) worthy Of attention.
From al that we have read of Hortense in these
memoirs, and from all we have heard OF her IRON
those whs knew her intimately, she must have
been not merely an interesting and accomplished
but fascinating person. however frall aud ftiul
in many respects. She is described TO US as fair
and golden-haired, with good figure and graceful
features rendered more interesting by tlnge OF
melancholy and delicate health. Her salons were
the headquarters of many of the most distinguish
cd young men Of Paris.
In the summer OF 1913, IIortense was ordered
to Dicppe for the sea baths. when the mode of'ba-
thing was exactly the same as resorted to four
teen years afterwards by the Duchess of Berry.
Apayillion WAS erected on the beach, with two
apartments, in which the ex-Queen of Holland
undressed, clothed herself in long eamet gown,
fitting closely 10 the person, and was then carried
into the water in the arms of two stalsart sailors.
While taking her bath hundreds of spectators
ON the beach, raising their opera glasses
and telescopes 10 have better view of the i'm
mersion.
In the prosperity of the Bonaparte family, IInr-
tense, Notwithstanding the lightness of her elar-
aeter exerted herself deeply for the unfortunate
and prosecuted, and thus golden opinions
from of all parties.
When reyerses, came on the Emperor, the ex-
Queen of Holland found friends and protectors,f
not admirers. in the Emperor Alexander in
in other high and mighty personages whose
names it is not necessary to mention. Mdlle.
Cochelet gives us full true and particular nc
count Of the efforts of Alexander and Nesselrode
10 procure for Hortense dignifed position and
existence, and the means of enjoying that social
station, which, in France, any more than in Eng
land, cannot be accomplished without money
The assiduities of the Cossack Emperor SAVIOR of
mo than the proceedings of the preux eheya-
ma he dose he'd iuIa he ardent
attentions and gallantry of personal admirer
Prince Leopold, too, was earnest and assiduous
but not altogether so empreSse as the sovereign III
whose army he then held commission
In justificati III of Alexander, it ought, howev-
or. 10 be stated that he always proiessed some
what of an esteem for the Beauharnois family,
for the Empress Josephine and her son Eugene,
the hitter Of whom he had known long previous
to this date. With Josephine. Hortense and Eu-
gene we learn from Mdlle Cocheet that he
spent many happy days and evenings, not only
ut the Malmalson. but at the Chateau of Navarro
where the ex-Empress habitually resided after
her divorce. iIortense and Alexander visited
the waters of Marty together and it was on this
occasion that the young Emperor of all the Rus
sias norrowly escaped fatal accident, from the
skirt of his coat having caught in the machinery
of the celebrated machine hydrdulique which caus-
ed the waters to play that had SO often amused
the stated, worn out, aud inamusdbte Ito use the
word of Madame de Maintenon) old age of Louis
XIV.
We have stated that in the palmy days of the
empire many royalists owed not only their par
don but their lives to the intcrcessiun of llor-
tense-among the rest Polignac; yet at the hands
of this royalist party, she met with harsh and UNI
kindly treatment. There is II good deal in the
volumes as to Ii ,riense's children, for whom the
mother entertained devoted affection. Men
ton Is made oi Louis Charles (now the Emperor
Louis Napoleon) as person of a soft, tmd and
reserved character, one shy and silent. Yet,
says Mdlle. Cochlet, his mind is penetrating and
full of fneSse, and he is Of such sensibity that
he fell Ill of the jaundcc when his elder brother
left. Batting the .fneSSe, this dear and interest
ing boy must have greatly changed since octo
Der, lel5, when he was seven and half years
old. That he had even at an early are, ad-
mration for autocracy, or the great professor of
autocracy, appears from this-that he gave the
the Emperor Alexander ring which was presen-
ted to him by his own brother,
Mde. Cocheet continued to reside with Hor-
tense during her soiourn at Constance, and in
deed, till she retired to Arnenberg; and il
at this period she occupied herself in preparing
her memoirs for the press. When the ex-Queen
purchased the chateau at ArnenFerg, Mdlle.
Cochelet, who had become Madame Charles Pas
qun also purchased pied a IRE near to il, cal
led the Chateau of Sandegy. There, OF at VOL
ferg, she continued to reside till 1885, when she
expired, after a long and lingering illness, leav-
higher memoirs unfinished at the end of the
fourth volume. Hortcnse did not long survi> c
her, She died at Niero, on the 9Th of October.
ls37, at the house of the Duchess of Ragussa,
III the 9th year OF her age.
Aldlle Cochrlet knew the ex-Queen well, for she
had lived the greater portion of her life i'll Hor-
lenses society. They had been brought up togeth-
at the famous establishment of Madame Cam
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