The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-16
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SsOnmonday last the frincess, M9rat was
F,pRrEief, FIth ai due poHp and ceremony, 70
~ thu Due de Mouchy. The close connection oi the
I bfide With the Imperial Court and family, the
~ Bigh rank and lineage of the bridegroom, the
7a magnihcence of the marriage dowry given by the
Emperor himself, the peculiar interest which the
wedding was supposed to excite at the Tuileries,
and the beauty OF the lady, famous for her fair
ness in court where fair women abound, all con-
tTibuted to make the nuptial ceremony nine
days wonder In Paris. But TO the great world
lying outside that city which Frenchmen regard
as the centre OF cvlization-the one habitgbie
spot on the habtabe globe--the marriage will be
noteworthy chiefly for its strange historic interest.
The story of the iirst and second empire is as it
were, epitOmzed in the single fact that the
marriage OF granddaughter OF Joachim Murat
should be an event OF European Importance SO
long as the fame of the Napoleons endures the
name of the Murats must live also. OF all the
generals who FOUGHT and conquered, and ruled
under the reign of the great Emperor n one ever
Impressed his memory so strongly ON the popular
mind as the beau s0bTeUT Ney ana Massena,
Soult and Moreau, had little personal claim to a
place in history save that which they derived
from the reflected lustfe Of their masters fame
But Murat, like Bernadotte, made his own mark
upon the world. And. until the world grows so
bGse that strange vcissitudes otfortune lose their
interest for succeeding generations, men will
not forget the story OF the son of the French
3 tavern keeper, the dependent of the house or
Talleyrand, the chorister at thu College Of
l.ahors, who threw away the frock for a sol
dier's uniform, and fought his way to a crown
t by his own dauntless courage and reckless
oiaring. The man who, in the Judgment of
Napoleon, - the best cavalry officer in
. the worldn-who was Kline of the two Sicilie5-
who, deserving the founder of his fortunes, came
back TO his old allegiance when the star of the
Bonapartes rose once more after the return from
Elba-and who died on the Calabrian coast,
whittier he had gone to recover a lost ldngdom
shot there like dog by Neapolitan court
martlal-1yas one whose career viii be forever
Bourbon tyranny the name OF Murat was
cherished by the people over whom he had once
ruled; and even now, in those southern provinces
OF the great Italian kingdom, there is still
party lett which dreams fondly of the day when
the Murats shah have their own again, The
lady whose marriage every newspaper in the
Old World and the New viii chronicle may we'll
be proud OF her descent from King Joachim of
Naples and the youngest sister OF the great
Napoleon.
But the fortunes of the race to which she be-
longs are associated no less with the second
empire. During the three aud thirty years
which passed between the day when the sun OF
the Napoleons seemed to sink forever upon the
2 field Of Waterloo, and that other day when the
nephew of the captive of St Helena was pro-
claimed President of the French Republic, the
Mnrats well nigh disappeared from the worlds
notice. The eX-Queen lived and died as the
Countess Lipona, in that Kindly Tuscan capital
which, alone amidst the courts OF the continent,
extended to the surviving members of the Bona
parte race something OF a tmid welcome. The
children OF King Joachim were scattered about
the world The eldest son, once Prince Royal
of Naples and heir apparent to the throne of the
Two Sicilies, passed across the Atlantic, married
there grand niece OF the founder and first Presi-
dent of the American republic and died South
ern planter in the State of Florida The sisters
became the wives of small Italian mobiles. The
second and youngest son, following his brother
to the New World, settled down for many years
asia quiet American citizen
" Few among the emigrants in that vast hive of
seething industry seemed to have less brilliant
future than that of the quasi royal exile. Po-
D" verify and he-so gossip says-became intimately
acquainted, and tor time this branch of the
Murats owed its means of livelihood to school
RnD nv an
English lady, whom the Prince had married in
the days when Louis Philippe was called to the
throne of France, and the prospects OF the Bona
parties seemed at their lowest ebb Then, when
the Prince had reached an age at which most
men begin to think that fortune has little more
in store for them, the Orleans dynasty fell Napo-
leon III restored the empire and the last of the
Murats returned to Paris to become Senator
and noble of France, the trusted friend andfavor-
1te OF his cousin chief among the grandees of the
second empire. 4
The Princess Anna herself has thus crown up
during the prosperity OF the race to which she 4
belongs and it is understood that the Emperor
has always taken especial interest in the subject
of her marriage. Sutors without number have
been talked of as candidates for the hand of this 4
daughter OF the empire, and the choice of hus-
band is said to have been the theme of frequent
elaboration in the imperial councils. Whatever
may be the personal merits of the fortunate
nobleman who has been selected to reeeivethe
hand of the youthful bride, there can be no
doubt that his position must have been power
ful recommendation in the eyes of q sovereign
dynasty. The Due de Mouchy, belonging as he s
does to one of the Oldest of French families
represents the legitimist party. Hitherto the
Faubourg st. Germain has refused to recognize
the empire very much as it refused to acknow-
ledge the Government of Italy. The historic
names of France were not to be found in the
visiting lists of the Imperial Court. ''
Between the partisans OF the new order of
things and the devotees of the dncien regime
there was gulf across which it was well nigh
impossible to pass The mobiles might appear at
court on state occasions, but the salons of the
nObteSse were closed TO the courtiers of the
Tuileries. Whether for good or evil, however,
the French aristocracy are no longer power in
make nor mar a dynasty. Yet, socially they
represent force; and Napoleon III is too wise a
rnler to ignore the Importance of social In
fuences. His own throne he has probably now
established firmly enough; but he may well wish
to secure for his son the active sympathy,
well as the sullen acquescence of every party in
tho country. Moreover, in some portions of
France the old legitlmist section is not without
power; and the enterprise of winning it over to
the empire is by no means so hopeless as it might
at first appear.
With the death of the Due de Bordeaux a
sickly and childless man, now advancing in
years, there will perish the last direct male
descendant of the elder branch of the French
Bourbons, and it is by no means certain that the
partisans of legitimacy, will transfer their allie
glance to the Orleans family, whom they dislike
far more than they do the &apoleons. Accord
ing to the orthodox theory, the descendants of
Louis Philippe are excluded from the succession
by their fathers disoyalty to the lawful soye.
reign and the throne of France becomes vacant
If Henry V. dies without son or heir. These cal