New-York tribune., 1873-01-10
THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON III.

The career of Napoleon Ill. from wbaeVei side Il
may be viewed. constitutes very slniikable
episode In the history of Europe The son OF LOUIS
BOnaparte the great Emperors third brother, ana
of Hortense Beauharnas, the daughter OF Josephine
he was born at the Tuileries on the Goth OF April,
1905 The marriage OF his parents in 1902 had been
at the command of the Emperor, and 1t was to both
parties hateful union. Both were already ate
tached if not formally betrothed-L0uis Ia Emile
Beauharnais the niece of Josephine anu hortensa
TO Gen. Duroc. Four years atterward, LOUIS was
forced by his brother TO accept the throne OF Holland
After his assumption of the royal dignity ms dislike
of bis wife was rather increased than lesaened and
Horense on her part took great pains to win ms
affection. The birth of two sons, and the death OK
the elder of them in 1897, did nothing 10
effect a reconciliation. and when the third.
Charles Louis Napoleon, the subject OF thus
sketch came into the world, their married
life was already virtually at end Ii - said that
King Louis hestated To acknowledge tho child AZ
his own and only yielded TO the urgent solicitations
of his brother. The name of Hortense was at tnas
time mentioned in connection with the Dutch Adj
miral Verhue whose. features many persons be-
lieyed TO be reproduced in face which certainly
had no resemblance to either the Bonaparte or tina
Beauharnais family. The baptism of the young
prince did not take place till Nov 4, 1870 after Lous
had abdicated the throne of Holland, separated for
ever from Hortense. and retired to private lie IA
Austria. Napoleon and Marie Louise were the god
parents. and Cardinal Fesch performed the ,cere-
mony. The two sons OF L0uis and Hor-
tense were the only imperial princes recog-
nized by the Emperor, before the birth Of bis
own son. The younger was his favOritc, stood by
his side on the Champs de Mars on the return from
Elba, and was one of the last to embrace him when
he left Paris forever lIor,ense, who had remained
IN Paris with the title OF Queen Regent of Holland,
was banshed after the restoration. She settled first
at Augsburg where her were instructed in Ger
man and the classics, and then at the castle ef
Arenenberg, on the Lake of Constance, in Canton
Thnrgan, Switzerland. Her Winters however were
spent in Italy, and her sons who accompanied her.
thus received but an interrupted and desult0ry edu-
cation. The brothers during their residence in
Italy, had already become implicated:iD the political
conspracies of the Italian patriots. and both took
part in the attempted revolution in the Romagns in
January, 1881. The action of France and Austria
speedily crushed this premature movement, and the
princes no doubt owed their escape 10 the courage
and energy of their mother who hurried TO the scena
of action and by the most heroic exertions, saved
them from capture. The elder brother, Louis Ma
poeon exhausted by the privations he hal endured,
was attacked with the measles and died at Forli.
The younger thenceforth known as Louis Napoleon.
also fell i'll at Ancona, which city he left. when able
to travel in the disguise Of footman to Hortense,
who gave herself out to be English lady OF rank.
The death of his elder brother was followed, in
1872 by that of the Duke Of Reichstadt king Of
Rome) aud he found himself the next heir 60 Napo-
leon's throne In his Reveries PolitiQues' he de-
cared that France ouy be restored 10 her pros
perty and political importance by member Of the
Bonaparte famly-that no other could unite the de-
velopment of Republican ideas with tbe military
spirit of the French people. He also published a
work on tho political and military condition IL