The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1870-08-18

hceiYe the guards, and securing q nriyata
carriage, put Louis behind in the disguise Of a
Ieotman-traversed the entire breadth of Italy.
| afI embarked IN Il small vessel on the Ncii
tFranean Landing at Cannes. the fu,itive<
! vent at once to Paris and threw themselves
7pon the protection Of Louis Philippe. This
generous monarch though not unwilling to aid
them was afraid tc grant them personal in
,efVlew, but sent the President Of the Council
20 call upon Hortense. She addressed him
nus: Sin, am a mother Nv only means
of saving my son was to come to France.
Hho" very welIthat have tranSgressed a law
am wei aw2re Of the risks we run You
nave d right TO cause our arrest Il would be
Just" Legal, madame" req lied the minis
ter. 1T might be, but not just.n
The result of this meeting was that Hortense
ana the Prince were advi ed to 90 to England
ana thlther accordingly they went and rcmain-
Gu several months, receiving great attention
from from the ID luke Of Bedford and other prominent
dent ahd UodhcfI 81 the f 1857 Fvi;,
conferred upon Prince Louis the right Of
citizenship, and invited him 10 put himself
under their protection. Gladly accepting the
offer, Hortense and her son returned to their
old home at Arenemberg, but h, d scarcely
arrived there before Polish deputation APP
peared, bearing letter from G en-. knaizewiez-
Count Pluten. and other leading men of Poland
begging Prince Louis to put himself at the
head OF their nation il a final struggle for in
dependence.
The entreaty was not m de in vain. and
Louis st out for Poland; but before he had
gone far the news Of the fall of Warsaw reached
him. and he returned to Arenemberg In
July, 1882 Napoleon son. the Duke Of Reich
stadt, died, leaving none but Joseph and
louis Bonaparte between Prince Louis and
the succession to what then seemed the barren
sceptre Of the imperial dynasty. This quick
ened his hopes and infaned his ambition. He
renewed his military studies, and Erve to the
world several books Of considerable merit.
among toem ''Rcyeries PolitquesH and Man
uel sur IArtillerie." In October, 1896, oc-
CURED the memorable fasco at Strasburg
from the consequences of which Louis IS
saved by the fears Of Louis Philippe, who did
not dare punish with death a scion of that
family whom France still worshipped. He WAS
banished to the Unitea States, and Hortense
who. at the first news of disaster, had hastcned
to Paris, did not see her son ag tln until Il
year later, when he stood beside her death-bed- .
The stories of his poverty and dissipation III
this country are wholly fabulous. While here
Prince Louis was u guest of Washington lrv
ing, Chancellor Kent, the Hamiltons, LivingS-
tons and other dis inguished familie. Of New
York and conducted himself in manner be-
fitting his rank. He had contemplated an
extended tour through the States, bot his
plans were changed by an urgent letter f. ON
his mother, in obedience to which Prince
Louis Immediately sailed for London, made
his way with great difficulty across the conti-
nent, and arrived at Arenemberg just in time
to close the eyes of a parent who had loved
him better than she loved her life.
The attempt at Boulogne in 1910, his Sly
years Imprisonment at Ham, his adventurous
escape from that fortress, and the career which
began IN lSi8, are too well-known to need
recapitulation. With such "a marvellous past
as this behind him, Louis Napoleon BonapartC
now confronts future which will furnish q
fit,i"s olimo~ to story that mocls all the
creations Of fiction