The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-03

JOSEPHINE was consecrated by Pope PIUs
VII. Empress of France; NAPOLEON him
self placed the crown upon her brow.
Soon after, at Milan, she was crowned
Queen of Italy She bore her honors
like one that had inherited nobility, and
ever spoke and acted as a woman born to
rule nation. Her children, whom Ma
PoLEoN dearly loved, were duly remem-
bered by him who had taken the place of
their beheaded father
That incident which cast dark cloud
over the glory of the Emperor, and deep
mantle of sorrow upon proud and illus
trious woman-that feature in the history
of the great conqueror which all the
shouts Of fame an assembled world could
raise could not drown, was the divorce,
founded upon reasons of State. TALLEY-
RAND, FoUcHE, and other accomplished
diplomats that surrounded the throne,
thought the throne of no value unless it
could be transmitted to later times, and
NAPOLEON was at length persuaded to ap-
proach her who had been the star of his
fortune, who had accompanied him
through the darkest hours, and risen
with him to the loftiest position.
JOSEPHINE was told that an heir was
wanted by the family of NAPOLEON; that
Austria, whose armies she had so often
assisted her husband by her counsels to
defeat, could be made the ally of France
by matrimonial alliance; that, in one
word, she must step aside and surrender
her domestic home to a young and dash.
ing girl-MARtA LOUISA, daughter of the
Austrian Emperor
The lortiest features Of the character OF
JOSEPHINE never shone until this dark
hour; her heart though desperately
racked, did not break, and she prepared
like stole, for the awful sacrifice. Shed.
ding bitter but accomplishing and una.
vailing tears, she parted from him whom
she loved as her own life, and retired to
Malmaison, accepting the position of EN-.
press-Dowager, with two million francs
per year.
NAPOLEON always loved JOSEPHINE
after the divorce he often visited her. and
at st. Helena his thoughts seemed all d
rected toward her. Never did woman
love man more than JOSEPHINE loved Ma
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, Rome had been born of Maria Louisa, OF
her who had taken her place, she is said
to have rejoiced that her former husband
: had an heir!
After the disastrous battle of Leipsic
she again thought of the Emperor, and
offered to go to Elba, and share his exile
When the allies entered Paris, the
King of Prussia and the Emperor Of
Russia sought Josephine at Malmaison.
Though unwell, she dined with them, on
the 10Th of May, 1914. The next day
she was worse, and on the both of the
month, she died She was buried in the
church of Ruel, where her children, after
a lapse of seven years, erected, by per.
mission, a monument to her memory
When Napoleon left Paris to meet the
armies of his powerful enemies, Maria
Louisa was made Regent. After the over
throw of the Empire in the campaign of
l8l3-l4, during which the French lost
twelve hundred thousand men, the young
Empress left Paris; her father, the Aus
trian Emperor, would not permit her to
go to Elba Upon the return of Napo-
leon from that Island, and Just before the
great battle which decided his destiny, he
invited Maria Louisa to Paris, but his let
ters remained unanswered. A few years
after, while administering the Duchies Of
Parma, Piacienya, and Guas talla she
privately married her master of horse,
Col. Niepperg Maria Louisa was a
weak-minded woman, who, after yielding
to all the sensual pleasures that sur
rounded her, died.
"Unwept, unhonorsd and unsung"
Josephine, the gifted and beautiful wo-
man that had encountered all the storms
Of fate, did not live to see her insulted
honor avenged; but when the Imperial
Guard - that proud column that never
faltered, and that at her command would
have perished man by man--fell back in
dismay and horror, torn and mangltd,
from the awful nights of Waterloo the
superstitious world looked on and said
"He was not true to Josephine p
Eugene Beauharnais had son who
married the sister of the present Emperor
of Russia one of her grand-sons is Louis
Napoleon, Emperor of France; a grand
daughter by Eugene is Queen of Sweden;
a granddaughter by Eugene is Empress
of Brazil one grandson long since dead,
married the Queen of Portugal.
France army head of tho army
Josephine !" were the last words of the
Emperor; "Isle of Elba - Napoleon p
we've the last syllables that escaped the
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