The Portland daily press., 1865-09-12
THE Z BoYHooD1,5 9, OF < NAponaon 1lAlpe / III
THE CHATEAU OF ARENENBnae.

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The reeentvisit- of the Emperor and En-
press of the Frenchto TO the chateau of Arenen-
berg has drawn public attention thereto. The
Inhabitants were out in full force, and few
triumphal arches were erected. No one, how
ever, cried Vive Emperor. n
IA singing club, serenaded the Emperor in
the evening. He talked freely with the mem
bers, and in reply to question whether there
were any among the citizens who could recol-
lect his departure, the answer was given,--
s'Yes,yo Majesty. You then said, Il leave
with regret, but when come again it shall be
with JOY" a1 Ilia 8aalaii li.' z, '...a So + M
A French writer gives this account Of Aren-
enberg: .a,lssa iili.asa ..ii55ssiii i''sfs..i
"The aspect of the place has changed little
| since 1920. In 1917 Queen Q, Hortense pnr-
/ chased Arenenberg, in the canton of Thufgau.
The house had two stories, with three windows
In 'front.' of the most simple construction,
painted white, with gray Venetian blinds
The Queen had a. dining-room built on the
| left, over which was terrace standing on col
umns and bordered by light balustrade.-
Groups Of flowers, with poplars and weeping
willows, covered the esplanade. The part of
the garden looking ON the lake, presenting the
steepest ldeclivity, was planted with vines At
some distance from the dwelling house there
| was a court surrounded by buildings some
/ what loitier, with an exterior gallery on the
| first floor giving access to the different apart
ments. The verdant horizons of the forest ex-
tended behind, and in front was seen on the
small lake the island where legends place the
| tomb of Charles lie Gros. The great lake hay
ing on its side the city of Constance and the
| glaciers of the Senlis, formed the complement
| of the picture. s se'z 'ass II fAti II
Prince Eugene Beauharnais, in order to pass
| some time with his sister, had caused grand
pavilion to be built on a high ground in the
neighborho0d, which was called Engenberg-
Such was the frame in the midst Of which rose
the dwelling of her who was then called the
Duchess de st. Leu. 1t vas there that Prin-
cess who had just before held at her disposal
the palaces of half Europe was permitted to
dwell, under the surveillance of three or four
| different police bodies. At the entrance of the
vestibule there was the bust of the Princess,
| crowned with wreath of flowers, and placed
| on column In the small sitting-room there
| were few pictures and two timepieces; in an
| other, communicating with it, there was placed
between the windows the picture by Gros, rep
resenting Bonaparte crossing the Alps. Lastly,
| in third sitting room, there was fine por-
| trait, by Proudhon, of the Empress Josephine
seated on a sofa, and a magnificent piece of
Gobelins tapestry. The Queens sleeping
apartment on the first floor was provided with
a set of rosewood furniture, which had belong
| ed to Marie Antoinette. The two young
princes, Napoleon and Louis, lived with their
tutorin the buildings surrounding the court.
The Arenenberg party was at that time
composed of the eldest son of the duchess,
Prince Napoleon (brother of the present En-
peror,) then sixteen years of age, ant charac-
terized by the nobleness of his figure, features
and manners. To these external signs Of eIe-
vation in mind and spirit there was already
| Joined an undefnable passion and sentiment
| for the fine arts. When we reflect that it was
| in combating for the liberty of Italy that this
| generous nature succumbed, we find won
derful accord between his promise and his end.
| Such deaths are pledges-they are fruitful, sa-
cred, imprescriptible gauges given to a cause.
| The Prince Louis 1.-THE present Emperor, the
sdOax entre,' as his mother was wont to call
| him, with a more melancholy, confiding and
| tender expression of fcountenance, was already
remarkable at all bodily exercises. Although
| only thirteen, whenever we were bathing to-
| gether in the lake, and came unexpectedly on
| icy currents, he would dart away from us with
the dexterity of fish, and then laugh to see
us landing Were it question of horse diff
ficult to mount, he was sure to be the first to
offer himself, and the picture in which Cotter-
| eau at a later period drew him in the act of
tanning superb Swiss courser which had al
ways thrown its riders was no fiction or Dat
terry. The two young men had preceptor
who had received and who transmitted to
them not only the profound erudition of the
Normal School, wherein he had been 'naattre
de conferences but almost the most infexible
principles Of the French revolution, namely
M. Philippe Lebas, since member of the In
stltute, and who formerly belonged to one OF
our republican assemblies, - rs ,l1.sIt NJ