The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-09-17


Could be wiped out, forever, ever. NJ M
COLUMBIA, s. e.
Louis Napoleon's Love Anairs.
The first flame of the present Emperor of
the French was Eleonore Gordon, the
daughter of q French captain, who fell in
Spain. Ele onore was the Princes conf
dante in the Strasburg attempt. She was a
singer, and made advances to the Pretender,
at Baden, IN the summer of 1889 It is
said she had drevmed that she would be-
come the Empress of the French. In any
case, sh.: behaved very courageously While
Lous Napoleon was upsuccessfully ha-
rangueing the troops in the Pinmatt Bar
racks, the gendarms were already knocking
at the door OF Miss Gordon, whom Persigny
had just informed that the Princes enter
prise was failure.
Miss Gordon burned all the papers refer
ring II, the enaeute-the lists of cons.,irators.
the correspondence with them, and when
the gendarmes threatened to break the door
IN, she placed fchest Of drawers against it.,
SO as to complete her auto de .fe at leisure.
1t was owing to her presence of mind sub
sequently, that so little came to light at the
trial. Louis Napoleon held Miss Gordon
IN afectionate memory for long time.
When Louis Blanc visited him at Ham, in
1872, he spoke kindly about her.
Almost simultaneously, Louis Napoleon
had fixed his eyes on theQuecn of Portugal,
who was then fifteen years of age. The
portrait of Maria dc Gloria produced an
impression on him, and he would not have
oeeh lndlsposed to become King of Portu-
gal: But the matter did not 90 on ouite
right, in spite of all the .exertions made by
ms ms relatives On December A, 1885, Louis
Napoleon, in an official letter. declined fbe
fortugess, CLndhl1teslA1p.
AT that time, however, a third lady was
Tie rival OF the singer and the queen This
was Mathilde, King. Jerome's seventeen
year old daughter. She seemed to haye
loved Louis Napoleon sincerely. When he
was transported to America, on board the
Andromeda, he thought with sadness of his
= cousin, and wrote the following in his
journal:
''When [ was taking Mathilde home, a
few months ago, we entered the park toge-
fher, and saw there q tree which had lust
been destroyed by tempest, upon which ]
said to myself, that our marriage plans
weuld be destroyed by destiny in q simila,
manner. What my mind then darkly fore.
boded has since become the truth Have I,
during this year, enjoyed the whole amount
of felicity granted to me in this world?"
Matbllde, who was born at Trieste. OF
May II, 1920, was a great beauty, of short
stature, but we'll formed, with a head ot
classic shape, large, flashing eyes, and ex
pkfss1vc, regular features. Her blooming
complexion served as q relief to her lipht
tlaxen hairs, Soon after her marriage viii
Pnnce Anatole Demidoh, her charms faded
away, and her face assumed an expression
OF Wearlness.. When Louis Napoleon be-
came President, Mathilde did the honors in
his house.
In 1S4O, Louis Napoleon was enamoured
OF the lovely Lady s. He bore he1
colors at the tournament which Lord Elgir
got up IN Ayrshire. From the tournament
nc proceeded to Boulogne. At the fortress
Boulogne failure. he fell in love with y Dir
OF the name Of Badingnet, the daughter Of
a wholesale baker in town. BY. her he had
two children, of whom Miss Howard after.
wards took charge, of course for o LARGE
allowance. o
Miss Howard was robust English beauty
VINO cost Louis great deal. He made he1
Sounuess de Beauregard, and purcha sed
her splendid villa near Paris. In 1910
siiG siI, had tG"sse coNc1e; and the Parisians
stiu remember, as it were to-day. how
straw was spread Fin front of the house o.
the RESIDENTS mistress. It is notorious
mat 1T was Miss Howard who, in the white,
OF 1861, drove the Empress to Scotland b,
her audacity; she took bog in the opers
exactly opposite Eugenie's, and stared a
her through her glasses in a most provoking
Why.
!Aa, last -cs Naro,ecn's" .c-es. no:.n.es
Eugenie Montijo, was the happiest of all
she hecame Empress. In 1S49, Louis Ma
Z poleon was, while, the admirer of Madam
Kalegris, charming biondine, to whom
Cavaignac also paid court. LOFTS is sai(
to have defeated the general with the lady
who lived apart from her husband.
leon tie 1H'1E apd lis G. ri.
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