The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-12
ImDeriaI Secrets.

cclved, suppose, copies OF these two
letters Of Marguerite Bellanger, which
were found in the Imperial cabinet at the
Tuileries, tied with rosecolored ribbon
and labeled in Napoleon's hand writing,
"Letters to be kept" You must not
suppose that the story of Marguerite
Bellanger is altogether revelation to
the Parisians What is new is the qnes-
tionable paternity of little boy, and the
disgraceful part played by the First
kind. But all Paris can attest the truth
of the reiterated statement of the letter
to
HER IMPERIAL LOVER,
That he had done "a very great deal
for her" Marguerite Bellanger's horses,
carriages, dogs, jewelry, and loud dres
ses were well known in the Boise de
Boulogne, and every cabman knows the
snug and gorgeously furnished mansion
on the Rue de Ferneuil, where, within
a stones throw of the Avenue des Cham ps
Elysees, in which he took his official
promenade with the Empress, the Emper-
OF was wont to pass hours of idleness
with Marguerite Bellanger Only at the
beg inning of this year, and some time
after President Dcvienue had effected an
arrangement,
A HUSBAND WAS FOUND FOR THE LADY.
On the occasion of her marriage, she
objected that her hotel in the Rue de
Fcrneuil smclt of the stables, and there
upon the Emperor gave her sumptous
pale zee in the Avenue de la Refine Hor-
tense, which, in her marriage settlement,
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valued at one million and half of francs
Her sale in the Rue de Verneuil produc-
ed 800, 900 francs, and she bought in
some magnificent Gobelin tapestry, with
the cipher of the crown, which the auc-
tioncer put in'o the catalogue to excite
curiosity The husband assigned to her
was
AN EMPLOYEE IN A LINENDRAPER 5
SHOP,
But as his function was to keep the books
she rather wittily said of him that he
was not tradesman, but man of let
ters. Writing this, as | am doing, in
! the very house (now Il hoteD in which
! Madame de la Valiere was born [ can
only wonder that such joyeusrns du Itoi,
| INDUCED in by the late successor to the
throne of Louis XIV, should have
required such ponderous machinery as
/ that Of the intervention of Chief JUS
tice to hush them up. The antecedents
of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte are such
| that no additional instance of
:, BREACH OF THE SEVENTH COMMAND.
MENT
/ Could damage his reputation. From q
variety of circumstances | believe. the
explanation of the eextreme anxiety which
made him invoke the assistance Of Presl-
when the Prince Imperial was in very
bad health, he was certainly under the
impr. ssion (whcther truly or not), tha
he was the father of Marguerite Bellan
! gers boy. Imparting his grief to her a
the prospect of being deprived of poster
/ ity. she, in melting moments, got him tt
listen to her complaeent.y, when
SIZE SAID THAT HER son WAS HIS,
and apart from social conventions whicl
he might overrule, the direct line of til,
Napoicons was in any event assured. Th'
Emperor, who had so long been in th
habit of treating France as his ''wasl
pot, and who had reserved to himself b,
his constitution an absolute bower t
adopt an heir to the exclusion of Prime
Napoleon, mi ght very we'll have caresse'
the idea over cigarette that if he los
his legitimate son, his power aud Nigh
would be equal to the achievement of
plebi<cite comforting his adoption OH a
illleeitimate one. Later the Prince I'm
perial got better
THE EMPRESS REBELLED
Against the Marguerite Bellanger scan
dial, and a moment came when the En-
peror thought it expedient to obtain
disavowal from Miss Margaret of hi
paternity of her child, at any price. NJ
: Devienne, at the time when he suiled hi
ermiuc with the dirty business, wa
First President of the Imperial Court
the second Judge of the Empire. AS
reward for services which the loves
pettifogsing attorney would have bee
ashamed to own, he was promoted to tn
highest judicial office in the gift of til
Crown namely, the Court of Cessation
, He is now i,npeached for disgracins til
bench. His brother Judges and subo
; dinatcs in the Supreme Coura must tt
him according to law, and, although the
. were all Imperialists three weeks ago.
is not doubted that in the present tempe
of the times they will find him guilt.
! and sentence him to dismissal.
, THE PRYINGs OF THE GOVERNMENT
Into the papers OF their predecessor
have made 1t certain that most of til
! conspiracies against the Empire were g
: up by the police, and that the Empero
e bribed portcrs and postmen to open le
ters. His main object seems to hay
been to get hold-of the letters of h
. Ministers to their mistreSses. The fourt
division of the French papers contain
. the report of sry on the doings of th
, Russian Minister. This gentleman To-
some document. and observes that it ca
only be his Prussian colleague who sto
: it from him. Such is diplomacy.
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