The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-11-26

had loved and been betrothcd when
she was only fourteen years Of age;
but their families were active pc-l
litical antagonists, and the mar.
risge was deferred for two years,
when the Paoli psrty, to which
Carlo belonged, became absolute
masters of Corsica, aud active strife
ceased. They were welded in
1766 by the archbishop, and re-
ceived the blessing Of her parents
at the nuptials.
Count Marbeuf, the cenqueror.
wss made Governor OF Corsica,
and Carlo Bonaparte and his fam
lily were highest on his list of per-
sonal friends. Ten years after
that conquest the Corsicsn mobiles
sent Carlo TO Paris as their repre-
sentative In the popular branch of
the imperial government of France.
Leaving Letitia in charge Of their
growing family, he took Joseph
and Napoleon with him. They
crossed the sea to Leghorn and
journeyed to Florence, where Car
10 received from the Grand Duke,
Leopold, letter to his sister, Ma
rie Antoinette, the Queen of Frace.
She made Carlo . welcome guest
at Versailles, when Napoleon, then
ten years old, first looked upon
that gorgeous palace Of which he
WINS afterward the master. Carlo
left Joseph in q school ut Autun,
and through the influence of Gov
ernors Marbeuf he was allowed to
place Napoleon in the Military
Academy at Brienne, where the
afterward eminent Pichegrue was
one of his instructors.
Six years later n heavy weight Of
misfortune fell upon Letitia. Car
10 was attacked by the same dis
ease which terminated the life of
his most illustrious son at St. He
lena thirty-six years afterward.
He went alone to Montpelier, in
France, for advice and remedies,
and there he died, in 1885, under
the hospitable roof of a girlhood
companion of Letitis, the mother
of the celebrated Marshal Junot.
When Carlo died Leti:ia was not
thirty five years of age, and had
been the mother of thirteen chill
dren. Five sons and three daugh-
ters were yet liviDg--a race OF
monarchs who occupied thrones
and lost them during one of the
most wonderful historical dramas,
enacted in the space of ten years,
the world has ever known. She
saw them rise and fall while her
tresses were yet dark, and the beau
ty of her youth yet bloomed on her
cheeks and sparkled in her eyes.
Her sons were Giuseppe, or Jo-
seph, who was made King of Naples
in 1906, and of Spain in 1908; Ma
poleon, who made himself Emper,
or of the French and disposer of
thrones in 1906; Luciana, or Luz
cien, who alone refused crown,
but accepted a principality, with
its title, from the Pope. in, 1908;
Luigi, or Louis. made King of Hol-
land in 1906, and refused the crown
Of Spain in 1909; and Girolania,
or Jerome, who was made King of
Westphalia in 1907, when that
province was erected into a king
dom. The daughters were Maria
Anna Eliza. who was created soy
ereign of Tuscany, with the title of
Grand Duchess, in 1908; Carlotta,
afterward Marie Pauline, who, as
wife of Prince Borghesc, became
the most illustrious' Italian prin-
cess of her time, and Caroline Ma,
ria A Annunciado, the wife of Murat,
who became Queen of Naples in
1903. - 50 sss.a ,smo5 asa Is sa5
:, The young widow Of Ajaccio had
no reason to dream, in widest
fancy, of the splendors that await
ed herself and family. The latter
were mostly little children Je-f
rome, the youngest an infant in
her arms. She was left with scan
ty means for their support and
To these she devoted
all her energies, with marvellous :
success. Strength, we have OBJ
served, was the prominent feature
in her character, and this was dis
played in the hour OF q need. Ma
poieon once said, 'sShe had the
head of man on the shoulders of
q woman -. Lossess privations,
fatigue, had no effect upon her;
she endured al, braved all. These
came at times thick and fast. Jo-
seph, ever kind and good, helped
his mother with all his might as
he grew toward manhood while
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