Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-01-16
Magician the Third.

''CHARLEs LOUIS NAPOLEAN BONA;
PARTE, or NAponEAN Ill, ex-Presi
dent Of the Republic of France, and
ex-Emperor of the French, died at
his residence, Chiselhurst, England,
yesterday morning at q quarter to Ii
o'clock.
He was the youngest son of Louis
the King Of Holland and Hortense
daughter Of the Empress Josephine, and
was born in Paris April 20, 1903.
He was carefully educated by his
mother, who resided in Paris under
the title of the Queen OF Holland.
After Waterloo the family retired to
Augsburg and subsequently to Swift
erland. In 1881 Louis and his broth
er Napoleon took part in revolutionary
! movements in Italy, which proved un-
successful and the Bonapartes were
banished from the Papal territory.
/ THE death Of the Duke Of Reich
stadt in 1882 left Charles Louis Ma
poleon Bonaparte the Successor Of Ma
poleon l., according TO the Imperial
edicts Of 1894 and 1895, which set
aside the usual order Of descent and
fixed the SUCCESSION IN the lire Of the
fourth brother Of Napoleon, Louis, III
stead OF in that Of the elder brother,
Joseph.
| In 1885 he proclaimed revolution.
The result was miserable failure,
| only a few regiments rallying to his
standard. The Prince was captured,
but through the entreaties of his moth
er, was sentenced to banishment ms
tead Of to death.
Banished from France, he came to
the United States, and after idling here
awhile went to South America Sum
moned to Switzerland by the dying
condition of his mother, after her death
the Government of France demanded
his extradition; which he avoided by
withdrawing to England. In August
1910, he made second revolutionary
expedition landing at Bou'ogne with
retinue of fifty persons. Louis Ma
poleon was tried for treason, and SELL
fenced to perpetual Imprisonment in
the fortress Of Ham.
After six years he effected escape in
the dress Of d workman, and went
again to England:
"When the revolution of1848 broke
out the star Of Louis NAPoLEN was at
asst in the ascendant. He repaired to
Paris, and was elected as Republican
to the National Assembly from the
Seine and three other departments. In
May; 1859, he was elected President of
the Republic BY a large majority. Once
President, all his schemes were directed
to his personal advancement, and a
breach soon occurring between the
Prince-President, as he was called, and
the representatives Of the people, the
famous coup deta5 took place. On the
22d of December, 1851 Paris was de-
clared in state Of siege, the Assembly
was dissolved, one hundred and eighty
members placed under arrest, and the
people who rebelled We're shot down in
the streets by soldiers, Universal suf-
trage was at once established by decree,
and Louis NAPOLEON, under another de-
cree, was elected President fer ten
years. In 1852 the National Guard
was revived, new orders of nobility
were issued, and in the same year the
people were asked to vote upon
pIe6iscitaena reviving imperial dignity in
the person Of LOUIS NAPOLEON. The
votes were counted largely in his favor,
and he was declared Emperor under the
title Of NAPOLEON III. AS Emperor he
reigned until lst of September, 1870,
when the surrender of the French army
at Sedan to King WILLIAM, ofGermany
by LOUIS NAPOLEON in person opened
the way for the establishment Of the
present Republic of France He was
for while prisoner at Wilhelmshoe,
near kassel, and after the close Of the
Franco-German war went to Chiselhurst,
England, where he died"
He had talents, GOODNESS and shrewd-
ness, and the greater part of his reign
was one Of peace and prosperity to
France, but his unfortunate war with
Germany inflicted upon France the
heaviest disaster she ever knew and re-
duced her from one of the first civilized
Powers to the second ranks in the
grade of nations.