Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-10-25
EUGENJE INTERVIEWED.
Description of the Ex-Queen of Fashion
"A shabby Alpaca Dress-story or

Description of the Ex-Queen OF f'ashfon
"A shabby Alpaca Dress-story of
Her Flight.
A lady who lately visited Eugene
writes to Cassells Magazine:
She looked what Tennysons calls
+" divinely fair" but as one who had
suffered much. There was worn
weary look inexpressibly pathetic in her
ewes. lust touched over the lower lids
with black !; her cheeks We're thin and
very pale, her fair hair simply arrang
ed on the neck behind, drawn back at
the sides, and with curls at the fore
head, and it was her own hair dis
tinctly and palpab1y her own. Her
dress was of black paramette, self
trimmed with general scantlness
about it, She wore white shlrt-collar
and cuffs, and not a single jewel, save
one diamond star that held the
little collar. Her manner suits her I'm
perial presence simple, courteous,
earnest It is as of ready-witte ed wo-
man, sweet-tempered, full of human
Interests and feelings, impressionable,
mobile fascinating emphasizing all
she says with her grandly cut Spanish
eyes, that might almost indeed stand
her in lieu of speech, so eloquently dc
| they converse. There is a wonderful
and varied charm about her, Cleopatra
like, that neither age nor custom can
wither or stale. To see how the wo-
man struggled with the Empress, and
how it brought her down to claim sym
pathy and pity from solitary stranger,
was very touching.
After some preliminary conversation
the ex-Empress spoke of her last days
in Paris: al was forsaken by all the
ministers. Trochu, whom the Emper
or had appointed, left me. They al
left me and betrayed me. What coulo
lido? was alone. All, she added
with an inspired look, " 1t was my pas
sion T"
/ She turned her fearful eyes to heaven
"Her passio- y Gould anything be
more touch ,:
az was one" she repeated, as
though in justification; utterly aban
doned. What could do but fy2
was not afraid [ could look death IL
the face; but all had left me. y
"Were the details of your maiesty's
fight, which appeared in the newspa
pers, accurate2
eyes, said she, tolerably SO. Fol
thirty days was guarded by those mer
of Belleville. Oh, it was horrible !
They took possession of the Tuilerles;
My only happiness was, that suffered
alone The Emperor away and my boy
safe. No! I could not have borne II
had my boy been in danger"
"By what door did these wretches
enter the Tuileries, madame 2"
EEverywhere-by all the doors, and
the windows, too They came down
from the Place de la Concorde. / saw
them coming through the trees. Then
! they broke over the fences into the re-
served garden, and at last smashed the
lower windows and broke open the
] doors They came, too, on the othe,
side, from the Place de Carrousel;
black masses of men, pressing closer
and closer; they, too, broke in every
where. No one opposed them; the
guards were gone. There were hOrri-
BILE cries, and screams. and oaths.
From these thief dogs expected death;
[ saw it in their faces, the Belleville
mel; they wanted my blood. / was sc
weary did not care; to live or to die
was the same to me. For the last three
days there was a change; more savage
men came about me. / never left my
room; Lay down little ON my bed fol
rest, but I did not undress; / weuld not
be murdered in my bed in my night
dress
She made little motion with hel
hand as she said this that [ cannot de
scribe. 1t told of the delicacy of the
woman, and the lofty decorum of the
sovereign, that carefully gathered hel
j robes around her ere she dies.
4 - G Madame" said had YOU faller
by The hands of those wretcbes, yor
would have lived forever in history and
poetry. Every art would have beer
evolved to celebrate your memory
You would have united the beauty and
fascination OF Mary, Queen of Scots
to the virtuous fortitude of Marie
Antoinette. It would have been {
glorious Immortality 7"
Yes" she said, melting into the
sweetest, merTiest smile; eyes, that is
i, all very. well; but I would like to enjoy
yet little in my life. y