Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-20
THE LATE LOUIS NAPOLEON.

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the daughter of the Empress Josephine.
The Emperor and the Empress, Marie
Louise, were sponsors for Louis at his
baptism. which was administered by
Cardinal Eesch, November 4, 1870
When Napoleon returned from Elba, the
child Louis, then only Z years old was
presented to the deputies of the people
and to the army on the Champ de Mars
After Waterloo. Queen Hortense took the
boy to Augsburg and later to Switzer-
land where Louis was admitted to citi-
zensbip and to the army. He studied
gunnery at the military academy of
Thun; and was under the tutorship of
nj, Lebas. After the revolution of 1880
he asked permission to return to France,
but was refused by Louis Philippe, and
that king simply renewed the decree of
Punishment when Louis Napoleon asked
to be allowed to join the army as pri-
vate. In 1881. he with his elder broth
er, Joined in the instruction against
Rome, but his brother died in conse-
quence of the fatigue of the campaign
at Forth, March II, 1881. France and
Austria interfered and put an end to
the instruction, and the future emperor
was forced to escape as best he might
through Italy and France to England.
Soon after he retired with his mother to
the chateau of Ahrenenberg, in Thur
gau.
During this epoch in his life Louis
Napoleon was already looking forward
to the day when he should rule France.
The death of the Due dc Reichstadt,
the son of tie first emperor left him the
head of the Bonaparte family. Between
1882 and 1885 he published several
books, the first. of which entitled ''Rev-
cries Politiques, was designed to show
that Bonaparte alone could reconcile
republican principles with the French
national longing for military glory. The
other works were on military subjects.
During this period he made constant eff
forts to enlist the support of Frenchmen
to enable him to seize the French crown.
In 1886 he attempted to capture the
fortress and garrison of Strasbourg The
intrigues promised favorably at first but
the final assault failed miserably and the
prince was himself captured. He was
kept in confinement few days and was
then carried to Paris. His mother had
preceded him thither to beg for his life,
which was granted on condition that he
should be sent to the United States. He
was but short time in this country
before he went to South America and re-
turned to Ahrenenberg in 1887 to fine
his mother on her deathbed. France de
manded the extradition of the exile who
had returned to the country from which
he had been banished, and on the failure
of Switzerland to comply an army wa
sent to the frontier. Thereupon thu
prince went to England, where in 1885
he published his work ''Des Idos Napo
leoniennes." In 1910 he made anothe
attempt at revolution at Boulogne, bu
this too failed utterly and Louis Napo
leon, captured once more, was sent t
Paris to be tried by the House Of Peer
on charge of high treason. He wa
defended by NJ Berger, but was con
victed and sentenced to perpetual i'm
prisonment in fortress of France. H
was imprisoned 6 years in the citadel o
Ham, but made his escape, in 1916, as
Stunning the disguise of workman, cross
ed into Belgium and thence to England
where be resided until the revolution @
lS48. Soon after that event he wa
chosen a member of the national assem-
bly,, and in spite of the ridicule whic
his rash attempts at revolution had draw
upon him, and the contempt in whic
many held him, he was chosen presi
dent.
In this position he took every metho
which fertile mind could conceive t
strengthen himself. and while disavov
ing all ideas of Selling upon the govern
ment, laid all his plans to that end
When all was ripe, on tire I'd Of Decem
Der 1851, he imprisoned every opposi in
statesman in France, dissolved the as
sembly, arrested the most distinguish
generals and proclaimed himself dictator
The popular election of president wa
, held, and as he tolerated no oppositio
he was chosen by an immense maiorit
to be president of the French republ
for ten years. A year later he had s
strengthened himself that he could sui
, nit to the French people the question
E reviving imperial dignity in his persol
| A plebiscite was held and the assent
a the people was given by a majority
e five or six millions. The emnire W;
S proclaimed Dec. 2, 1852.
e The new government was speedily re-
}. ognized by the European powers.
v 1854 Napoleon made France an al
b with England in the Crimean war, fro
; which he obtained some standing amor
r sovereigns and some glory for Franc
V He had previously, in January, 1856