The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-10-25
NAPOLEON THE SECOND.

Napoleon were transferred from the
rocky-prison isle of st Helena to q
French frigate, La Bella Poul, com
manded by the Prince de Joinville.-
a week before Christmas, 1910, these re
mains were deposited, with remark
able funeral pomp, in the shape of the
Hotel des Invalide, in Paris. AND
thus, nearly twenty years ;'fter this
great eXile's death, was realized hi:
last wish, conveyed in the testament
tary document, which England has al.
so given to France: "It is my wish
that my ashes may repose on the banks
of the Seine, in the midst of the French
people, whom | loved so WE'LL"
Louis Napoleon reigns in France un-
der the title of Napoleon the Third
and some persons have wondered, OF
affected to wonder, why, being only
the second of his family upon the
throne of France, he calls himself the
third. The case is easy of solution.
When Charles II came back to London,
on the 29th May, 1860, he at once be-
gan to date his public documents, as
then issued, Sin the ta0eIfth year of our
reign" though it was only the first.
His father had been executed in front
of his palace at Whitehall, in January,
1649, and there had been Republican
Commonwealth in England from that
date until May, 1860, when Charles
Stuart came back. In like manner, on
the restoration of the Bourbons, in 1924
the Count de Provence, succeeding
Louis XVI, his brother, who was
guillotined in January, 1898, took the
title of Louis the Eighteenth, on the pre-
tence that the Dauphin then succeeded
his father as Louis the Seventeenth and
from that period until his death, a
prisoner in the Temple, in June, 1895,
really was monarch by right, if not
Dy fact. Louis XVIII, ignoring the
republic and the empire as much as
if they had never been heard of, COM
menced in 1914, by declaring in all Off
cial documents that they were execut-
ed " in the twentieth year of our
reign" AS for Napoleon III, he fol-
lowed the above examples, took it for
granted that his uncle's abdication in
1915, when he proclaimed his son Gun
der the title of Napoleon the Second,
Emperor of the French" actually
made him Emperor, though the poor
child was then at Vienna, never re-
turned to Paris, and died in Austria at
the age of twenty-one.
1t is understood that, at the recent
meeting at Salzburg, of the French and
Austrian ambassadors, Napoleon re-
qnested Francis Joseph tOgive him the
ashes of Napoleon II, that they might
be inferred in his native France, and
and that this request has been acceded
to. The coffin is to be removed from
the Imperial burial place of the I'M
perial line of Hapsburg, and deposited,
it is said, in the vaults of the Abbey
of st. Denis, near Paris, the ancient
burial ground of the Borubon kings of
France. When the ashes of the great
Napoleon were placed in their final res
ting place, "by the banks of the Seine" !"
Louis Philippe tried to make political
capital out of it, but cannot be said to
have succeeded. Neither will the funer-
al of the titular Napoleon II, cause any
great emotion in Paris, come when it
may. Napoleon's marriage with Ma
ria Louisa, an Austrian Princess, to eff
feet which the much loved empress JO-
sephine had to be divorced, caused
great dissatisfaction in Paris. He
wanted an heir, but France would have
been better pleased if he had married
the daughter of one of his own soldiers,
rather than seek to ally himself with
such line as that Of Hapsburg. Lit
tie Napoleon was born in Paris, in
March, 1911, and the title of "King of
Rome" was Immediately conferred up
on him. He was only three years old
when his mother was compelled to fly
with him from Paris, to which neither
ofthem ever returned. On Napoleon's
temperance from Elba, he used all
means in his power to induce Marie
Louisa to rejoin him at Paris, with
their son, but she refused. Even after
the abdication, in 1915, there was dis
cussion in political circles respecting
the rights of Napoleon II, but Fouche
and Wellington turned the scale by de-
claring for the second restoration of
the hated Bourbons. The future life
of the ex King of Rome was spent at
Scenbrun, near Vienna, where he was
educated in manner to stifie hope and
ambition. His mother was made
grand duchess of Parma, but her only
son, once chief of the French Empire.
was expressly precluded from succeed
ing her on that petty throne. He was
created Duke de Reichstadt, and rails
ed to the rank of an Austrian prince.
He received military education, but
all mention of his father was prohibi-
ted. At last when he was twenty years
old, he met Marshal MarmOnt, one Of
his fathers old generals, and from him
learned more about his father than he
had ever heard before. The revolution
of 1889, raised hope among the Bona
partists that France would remember
and recall the dead emperor's son, but