Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-03-01
Louis Nstppols on's Love Affairs.

1t is interesting to follow the course Of
Louis Napoleon's amours. The first flame
of the present Emperor Of the French
was Elenores Gordon, the daughter of a
Ere ch captain who fell in Spain. Ele-
more was the princes coafdante in the
Strasbourg attempt. She was .asinger,
and made advances to the pretender OF
Baden in the summer of 1886. 1t is said
that she had dreamed that she would be-
come Empress of the French. In any
case she behaved very courageously.
While Louis Napoleon was unsuccessfully
haranguing the troops in the Finkmatt
barracks, the gendarmes were already
knocking at the door of Miss Gordon,
whom Persigny had just informed thatthe
princes enterprise was failure. Miss
Gordan burnt all the papers referring to
the emeute-,he list of conspirators, the
correspondence with them and when the
gendarmes threatened to break the door
in she placed chest Of drawers against
it, SO as to complete he. Guto-da.fe at leis-
ure. 1t was owing to her presence Of
mind, consequently, that SO little came to
light at the trial. Louis Napoleon held
Miss Gordon in affectionate memory for
long time. When Louis Blank visited
him at Ham, in 1845, he spoke kindly
about her. Almost simultaneously, Louis
Napoleon had fixed his eyes on the Queen
of Portugal, who was then fifteen years of
age. The portrait of Maria de Gloria
produced an impression on him, and he
would not have been indisposed to become
the King of Portugal. But the matter
did not go on quite right, in spite of all
the exertions made by his relatives. On
] December IA, 1885, Louis Napoleon in
an official letter, declined the Portuguese
candidaieship in these words )" Convinced
that the name bear will not always be a
cause of exclusion from my fellow citizens,
because j: reminds them of fifteen glori-
Gus yeaIs, / calmly await, in a free and
hospitable land, the time when the nation
will take back TO its bosom those persons
who were banished by the foreigners in
1915. The hope Of being able some day
to serve France as soldier and citizen
strengthens my mind and is more in my
eyes than all the thrones in the world
Al that time however, third lady was
the rival of the singer and the queen.
Z This was Mathilde, King Jerome's seven
teen-year old daughter. She seemed TO
have loved Louis Napoleon sincerely.
When he was transported to America, on
/ board the Andromeda. he thought in sad
ness of his cousin, and wrote the following
in his journal: I" When was taking Ma
thilde home few months ago, we entered
the park together, and saw there tree
which had just been destroyed by the
tempest,-upon which / said TO myself
that our marriage plans would be destroy
cd by destiny in similar manner. What
my mind then darkly foreboded has since
!. become the truth. Have during this
= year enjoyed the whole amount of felicity
granted 10 me in this world?" Mathilde,
who was born at Trieste on May 81, 1920,
was great beauty, Of short stature. but
well formed; with head of classic shape,
large. flashing eyes, and expressive, reg
1 ular features. Her blooming complexion
. served as a relief to her light faxen hair.
Soon after her marriage with Prince An
atole Demidoff, her charms faded away,
and her face assumed an expression Of
weariness. When Louis Napoleon became
President, Mathilde did the honors in his
= house. ~ W..
4 II $40, Louis Napoleon was enamored
of the lovely lady S.. 4, He wore
her colors at the tournament of which
Lord Ellington got up in Ayrshire. From
the tournament he proceeded 10 Boulogne
"a AT the fortress Of Ham, whittier he was
conveyed after the Boulogne failure, he
fell in love with girl by the name Of
Bad;nguet, the daughter of a wholesale
baker in the town. By her he had two
children, of whom Miss Howard after.
ward took charge, of course for large
allowance Miss Howard was a robus,
English beauty. who cost Louis great
deal He made her Countesse de Beaure.
gard, and purchashed her a splendid villa
near Paris. 1t is notorious that it wa;
this same Miss Howard who in the win.
ter of 1861, drove the Empress TO Scot
land by her audacity. She took box ii
the opera exactly opposite Engenie's, ant
stared at her through her glass in a mos
provocative way
The last Of Napoleon's loves the Count
ess Eugene Montio, was the happiest Of
all-she became Empress.
In l848, Louis Napoleon was for a
while the admirer OF Madame Kalergis
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