New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-11
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The Prince EmperiaI


From Paris Correspondent of the Chicago Republican,
Because child is one day to govern a people,
why should he be so educated, lodged and fed
that he can have no knowledge of their wants or
sympathy with their mistortunes One who mas
lust had the privilege of seeing them describes the
apartments of the Prince Imperial at the
Iuieries ....
The school roomis an immense saloon, hung with
pictures aud carpeted with velvet The walls Of
his bedroom are hung with light blue satin, with
oil paintings overhead. He has a dressing ROOM
play-room, a room for exercise, saloon TO
receive his friends, and many others which are yet
useless as he is not old enough to appropriate
them His tutor has also suite of apartments
adjoining and the other persons who are his lmme-
date attendants are comm0diously lodged not Tar
off And these are not sufficiently sumptuous. In
the new wing which is being added to the Tuile-
ries looking upon the quay, he is to have far more
spacious halls, furnished with lar greater elegance
and luxury.
He is addressed as Monseigneur, and your Impe-
rial Highness and spoken Of as the august child,
or pupil and, with the constant Difference paid
HIM and servility with which he is surrounded,
| ought to be something bordering upon the divine
not to become vain, selfish, and dsagreeable
Those who attend him say he is quite the reverse.
| He rises in the morning at seven o CLOCK AND
| having taken bread and chocolate, goes TO the
rooms of the Empress to say good morning, and
| afterwards TO those of the Emperor. From here
| he descends to the garden to run about awhile
and then enters the school room, where he Is occu
| Dle0 TIL eleven, WnG0 ne DTphhidSlhs hilGl Ills
| he takes lessons in fencing, shooting horseman
ship, and gymnastics, and then rides or walks VIII
his tutor, and returns to study till dinner. Inc
| evening he spends with toys and hobby horses,
which he has a specimen of all that NuremberJ
4 has produced. His favOrte amusement is Il
manmuvre his legiOns upon MINIATURE battle
field and to ride war horse, while cannon arr
fred and tambours play He is true to the tamil!
instincts.
course learns without Study, but is perfect onl,
in English and French. Long before his birth th
Emperor wrote to the physician Of Queen FlGtou
to send him trustworthy person to take all tn
care Of him except that OF nOurlshItg; and out o
O bevy which came to be examined, Miss Sh3y
was selected for her frankDess and good nature
Sht has had all the care Of his baby and boyh0o
toilet, and slept every night in his room. Sh
processes to adore him, and this will not b
doubted by any good woman who has had, dun
ing ten years the care OF an ordinarily interestin
child.
History is his favorite study, and the charac
teristcs of his mind are observation and invest
CATION
His precociousuess may be inferred from a
anecd0te related by his tutor. After having lii
tened to the story of Cadmus sowing dragon
teeth, from which sprang giants he said " Gao
mus is civilization. The dragon is barbarism pre-
, venting the approach to the fountain or iigh
The triumph of Cadmus is that Of civilization, an
the soldiers who Stay one another in civil wars al
the agitation of the discontinued and rebeliiou
that iufest all States" This is certainly bein
J wondrOus wise for a boy Of ten years.
, he has also great taste for the fine arts; pain
t and draws without teacher, makes clay mode
without having taken lesson; and repeats upo
. the piano. with one finger, the airs lie has heal
4 thousand details are given concerning the gi
and rosewood furniture, for which we have NJ
space aud most of il is the same which surTounde
| Bourbon princes when they were beng trained Il
the same destiny.
When giving lessons the tutor is allowed to ST