The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-05
NAPOLEON III.
A Forthcoming Biography of the French Eiu-


y tOflhcOmlHE biOSfapHS OF tbt trti'H Hih-
Paris (JUy 22) Correspondence Morning star.
The House being defnitively prorogIed,
there is but little political news to record.
The event of the hour is the biography of
Napoleon III, which will appear i'll a few days,
by Louis Ulbach, better known under the
pseudonym of ''Feragus,' editor of La
Cloche, which scarlet-bound weekly pamphlet
has replaced the tlame-colored and fiery L0B-
te1Re. ''Feragus' begins by description of
the sovereign's physiognOmy. The head,
writes Louis Ulbach, would indicate
obstinacy were not persistence in hest
tation revealed by particular signs. The
forehead is clouded; the eyes sweet, dull,
of hue peculiar to China, implying
more imagination than Judgment and yet
more dreaminess than imagination; the pupil
has the dull tint of the wing of blue butter
fly, and possesses a misty hue the nose is
long, prominent, and indicates no vivacity. |
do not like statesman to wear moustaches,
especially such long ones as those of his Ma
iesty. BY concealing his mouth he easily
hides the impotence of his smile and the
weak point i'll his thought. Moustaches are
too often adopted by people whose characters
are void of any originality. You will never
see them worn by men of genius. Louis
Ulbach next explains the well-known
mystic tendencies of Napoleon's mind. He
reminds his readers of an engraving
which had a great success at the time of
its appearance. The subject of the print
was the First Emperor in the Clouds lowering
above the weeping willows of st. Helena,
| leaning toward his son, while France. in
tears, with uplifted arms turns for help to
this Olympus. Prince Louis Napoleon had a
vision of this subject in his childhood. Edu-
Gated by devoted mother, who impaired
certain degree of romance to his studies and
to his regrets; who mingled the sound of the
harp of which he read in Ossian with his bow
! ish games, having been brought up without a
vlrlle instructor, who would have impaired
force to his political ideas, which We're too
easily lmbued with sentiment. he interpreted
| according to his education, according to his
! feminine eHt0uIUGe, according to his tempera-
ment, the legend Of which he was the heir,
and he converted it rather into a mystic re-
hglon than into an opinion. He repudiated
the man OF the redjRgOte grjSe of the Colonne
| Nendome; and rs soon as he could do as he
pleased, he placed in its stead an almost deiied
Napoleon The description given by Beranger
III ms song was nov calculated to produce any
enect on the mind of the man who only
views modern realities through a Utopia and
VINO consented to lis own apotheosis, now to
pe seen on the recently-built wing of his
palace, wherein he is represented with un-
covered legs, his head crowned, and, in fact,
as demi-god Unswerying in his gentle OBJ
Stlnacy, Queen Hortense, as you will remen-
per, always called him 'Ie d0,sG oateta. " }
Napoleon Ill endeavOrs to realize the life he
ureamt OF when a prisoner at Ham, and if
reality compels him at times to make conces-
Slons, reality has not effected any essential
n,louilca'lohs IN the worship of which. for
the common good, he wishes to be at once
the ldol and the high priest. The Emperor,
according to ''EelTagus, is not only mys
uc' he Is also tatalist The President OF
the republic, when inaugurating in 1s49 the
Chartres line of railway, drank toast tC
Faith, and in reply to an address from tn,
eehate' III 1900, ne said:-'I have no fear OF
assassins; there are existences which are The
instruments of the DEGREES of Providence
Until my mission is fulfilled am not in dan
ger. From these sketches of inner character
ulbach passes to external indications, and re
lates tle following ipcident-"A writer