Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-05-14
Louis Bonaparte Father Of Louis
Napoleon.

Louis Bonaparte Father of Louis
Napoleon.
He was a Sub-Lieutenant at fourteen,
and distinguished himself both in Italy and
Egypt. His philosophical turn of mind ac-
companied him to the field; and when he
found himself among the dirty. ferocious and
strong smelling Bedouins, he expressed
wish tha, Jean Jacques Rouss eau could have
been compe lied to DIV ell with the man of
nature whom he larded so much and of
whom he Knew so little. 1t was the long
ing wish o. Josephine, and the desire of
Napoleon to see Louis united to Rorte1se
.-Jesephine's daughter. The lady was
beautiful accomplished, and-nineteen.-
But Louis, though only twenty three years
OF age was too reserved, too mild, and too
little susceptible, to be attracted by The brill
liancy of Hortense. The first marriages. at
all events. of all The gona2artes, were
honest love matches.
Louis struggled hard 10 escapeengagement
which, he was convinced, would tail to secure
happiness for either of the contracting par
ties, however, where under influences which
they could not Withstand; and without af-
fection on either side Hortense and Louis
were married in the year 1902. Never was
a marriage more insisted on by one side and
resisted by the other than this. 1t was
urged by Josephine and Napoleon, as if the
exi>tence of the empire depended thereon.
And it proved 10 be marriage of the high
est interest to the empire. OF the three
sons born of it, the servivor is he who sup
pressed the second Republic, honestly CON-
fessed himself to be parvenu was elected
Emperor, and formed the Auglo French al
lance that had not been known in France
since Athelstan sent a feet in aid of Louis
G'Outre Mer.
Wher the crown of Holland was pressed
upon Louis Bonaparte, he resisted the offer
as long as he had withstood the project to
unite him with Horense. He was smit-
ten with paralysis, and racked with rheuma
tism. He may be said to have been carried
to the new throne, rather than to have as
cended it. Nevertheless he acted with en-
ergy and honesty When Joseph mounted
the Spanish throne, he told his new subjects
that although he must remein Frenchman
by patr iotism he would always be found a
Span lard by religion. Deuis was more sa-
iisiactory exI licits in Holland. Hence
torth;' he said, i am in all things a true
Duichman.
The assertion was not idly made, for Louis
struggled to preserve the rights of his sub
jects and their commercial prosperity
against policy destructive of both. The
strugg .e~vas Intellectual He vas only the
Lieutenant of his brother. Scorning to be
that, while he woro the name of King, Louis
descended from the throne in 1910; and
Napoleon annexed Holland to the Empire
OIL France. The ex-king left Haarlem in
m ight be seen a. various GermaH baths an
invalid t mild ye, not melancholy aspect,
affable in his manners, and of extreme SIM
piclty In his way Of life This was Louis,
Count St. Leu, whose conssrt resided in
Paris, with the courtesy title of Queen
His residence was for some time at Gratz.
in Syria. He refused all pecuniary aid Of
tered him by Napoleon, but repaired To Paris
to welcome him. after the Emperor had lsud-
ed IN France from Elba.
Subsequent to The second downfa II Of the
Empire, the Count de St. Leu obtained the
Papal permission to reside in Rome. Thr-
y two years were spent By him almost en-
tlrely in Italy; and the routine OF his life
there may >e told in as many lines. His days
were devoted to pursuits which became
country gentleman of cultvuted inte llect
and dec lining health. His principal en-
jovment was derived from literature, in
which the ex King himself took respecta-
BILE position. He was visited by his suns,
but took no part in the aspiring views of
any; yet he evidenced his paternal svmpa-
thy alter the affair of Boulogue' deprived
one OF these sons of his liberty.
Louis died at Loghorn, in June of The year
1886. Three months subsequently, his body
was inferred at ST. Lea. The lberality of
Louis Philippe allowed Of the reunion OF
the exiled family around the grave of 'he
honest ex-King. Within two years the
condition OF the fami les strangely reversed
Louis XVII had made the wife of Louis ex-
King of Holland, Duchess o. st. Leu, for
" hich honor the ex- Queen Hortense thanked
him in person. After the Hundred Days.
the Duchess retired to Switzerland where her
son Louis Napoleon, became for time an
artillery officer of the Swiss Confederation.