The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-04-14
Louis Napoleon, as a Boy and
II .a 10 Young Man. fsssa1r.
By Hon. E1waRn EvERErr.

The Mount Vernon paper from the pen Of
the Hon. Edward Everett, this week, is about
the Emperor of France. Mr. Everett visited
Europe in 1915. The pilot who clambered
over the bulwarks of the vessel in which he
sailed off Holy Head, informed them that
"Boney had broken loose again" This
meant the great Napoleon's return from E1ba
Mr.. Everett met Lord Byron in London, and
Byron expressed to him the opinion that
Bonaparte would defeat Wellington. The
noble poet, a few days afterward remark ed
to Mr.. Tickner, of Boston, who told him of
the defeat of Bonaparte at Waterloo, that he
was Odd sorroy to hear it," The kindred
of the fallen Emperor took up their residence
at Rome. Mr.. Everett writes .2a @eoH -a
Here it was my good fortune, in the winter
of1s17-1s, to become acquainted with the
venerable mother of the Emperor, three
Kings and one Queen: and with those of
her children who were living at Rome, viz:
the Ex-King Louis, (the father of the present
Emperor of the French y Lucian, who, at an
early period of his career, lost the favor of his
imperial brother and the Princess Bourghes,
still oRe of most beautiful women of her day,
and as amiable as she is beautiful. 70 100
In the course of the winter saw for the
first time, at dinner at his fathers table, the
present Emperor Of the French, then boy
of eleven years of age. The party was small
and being very near the Ex-King, when we
were invited to seat ourselves unceremonious-
ly,I was about to place myself in the chair
next him, and as it happened on his right
hand. With a good humored smile, as if
rot wholly in earnest, he requested me to
let his son sit there and accept seat myself
on his left hand. 1t probably did not enter
even into his fond imagination, that the lad
for whom he claimed this little remnant of
royal Difference would one day sit upon the
throne of his Uncle! have no distinct re-
collection of him in this first phase of his life,
but as handsome, well-behaved youth, with
an expression somewhat beyond his years,
ofmature manners, and as taking little part
in the conversation of the dinner table. ~-a
Twenty-one years pass, and being on a
second visit to Europe in the summer of
1910, was present in the gallery of the
house of Peers in Paris, when the handsome,
well-behaved, quiet boy, with whom had
dinedat his fathers table in 1918, now grown
up to resolute, aspiring, fearless young
man, thirty-two years of age, was on trial
for his life, after the miscarriage of the affair
at Boulogne. Eight years Ct think) before,
similar attempt at Strasbourg had sent
him into exile in the United States and
England, where he lived without attracting
public notice, though doubtless cherishing
the visions one day to burst into start
ling realities for himself and Europe Moth
ing had occurred in the twenty lone years to
call my attention to him; bit when I saw
him on trial for his life before the peers of
France, could not, in the extreme peril in
which he stood, but recollect with emotion
under what different circumstances I had
first seen him. His demeanor before his
judges was firm, composed and respectful.
The French criminal jurisprudence subjects
the prisoner to a severe interogatory, for q
purpose wholly forbidden by out law, that
of making him, if guilty, criminate himself
As far as could Judge, the young man an
swered with frankness the questions pro-
pounded to him, and the impression made
by him on his judges-certainly the impress
sion on the crowded galleries decidedly
favorable. ... ...f....