, 1870-07-24

TTuMIeo ~ ~ Gooa mother, aaw enough uY hi
EeEerc economy TO form habits md ideas If
order; discipline and frusaity. Probably lie
best thing for him was bls carsy msrri.re A.
me age OF p, to the beautiful md accom-
Gitshed Fs1ocess Louisa Of Mccklenburg Sire
itx, whom Le met in Frankfort ia 1893. II
sesme 70 havc been IN honest, old
ont il the end to be, and the Prince Of
l1nssla was 20 much struck By her beauty.
nonleneee, grace, aud Sense thxt he at once
asked her hand. The tclrolhA took place.
and the maniage followed on the a4th of
december following, On the dsath Of King
with her husband November 16. 1913, aud Won
AL hearts ~ her goodness She helped The
unfortunate, interested herself in art and lit
esatute, encouraged agriculture md educa~
tion, and had N eye for merit Of ali kinds.
1ne iavol'te OF Tie rr9ss'an people. she had,
Of course, certain influence in public At
fatrs, and u supposed in 1905 to have infiu.
eneed theh ing II favor Of tho war with France,
which proved to be 90 DISASTROUS for Prussia,
Ntho1gh 1t Was Sezy popuiar with tho people
! ut the time.
LOUISA AND NAPOLEON.
need not fecAptu1ate the disasters of The
Mara With Napoleon. or the great triumphs
| that redeemed them Ansterti'z, jena, Ind
| E;edland brought tho Lumiliating peace OF
ii'sis, July, 1907. which sacrificed cno-hall
|
| at the merry Of tho copqueror. Louisa was
! with Frederick William during that treaty,
and there met Napoleon twice 1T dinner, and
| almost persuaded hun, in epite OF himself. to
grant her request. The first time he presented
heE With rose, and rs she accepted 1t, the
| adaed, "Acec +409d5oirg ou n,oinsr-t'With
Magdebourg 1t least" She did not cot fhat
fortress from Napoleon, bat he confessed thst
she was fully up to him in spirit, and led tho
conversation in spite OF his efforts and his ad.
RfltVF I,
with great propriesy, md in way that could
not possibly provoke him The Queen seeus to
have been shazp thorn. however, to the
French Autoczat, aud there is reason to believe
that he eountehsnced innpoons against her,
ano even accused her Of too much regard for
sati Elzed the part she took At the tomb Of
Frederick the Great at Potedau in the oath Of
her husband and Alexander xgainst tho French.
November !. 1905, and tho consequence which
vas the battle Of Austerlitz and thcevarualion
OF Germany BY tho Russian army with march
ing ratlons. Yet IN the calm reelection Of st.
1ae1epA he seems to have Thought we'll OF the
brave woman who had done 70 much to get
Germany Against him, and whose spirit
st7ose agas,rt him long after hes exhaust
tributes there seutimcnts to Napoleon: ~
have had" said the Emperor. :. q high con i'd
Grafton for her; aud II the Hing !,ad brought
her At first to Tfleit, he would have obtained
t.,
prodIgionsl5 iueinuatinr, She bitterly de
plored the war. Tho Queen could not bs con-
eoled for tho treaty of Tilsit aud for the loss
Of MAgdebouEg. Peace ia concluded she
wrote y little time after, but at what price!
Our frontiers do not reach beyond the Elbe
than his 1dve1nary.'"
Napoleon had good causo to remember her
"a she WAS before and after her early death at
34- She Was with the King in his humiliation
aftcr his defeats, went with him to 81. peters-
burg, IN 1908, to sha.o In the splendid rccep-
entered Berlin With him, aud took part in ali
| lis worthy efforts for the good Of dts people.
ard her name deserves to be- CONNECTED with
the foundation Of that great Berlin university,
which, in some respects, has no superior o.,
$srth In June, 1910, she died iu her husband.
AIMS, and her body wa lid In peace ia the
! park ut Cbarlotteuburg, where haueh raised
! 1 statue worthy Of her memory. and where
| now her husband rests bv her side In a
tomb with a statue from The esuo master
tion. She WAS with Nuchcr md the Prus-
| sians piisn ther born down nnon tha Frenrh
nj Waterioo and srtt1ad }hc forrnnoa ~ tha
dsy. and eyen nav tho order of Innis, which
| the King created Aurnst =. 1s14 after enter.
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