The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-05
SECRET HISTORY OF THE BONA
Parties.
Eugenfe's Attempt at Sui1ide-A Wed
ding Brought About by Back Hair.

The mother Of Eugene was divorced from
her husband retaining her two daughters
and for some time managed to maintain her
self by keeping one of the private gambling
saloons which have at all times been com
mon in Paris. The young ladies' were in 50
ciety great deal they rode much, "dressed
exuberantly, and in the flying excursions
which they made now and then to Spain
they delighted in bull-fghts, masked balls
and other amusements of dashing kind
1t was during one Of those excursions that,
being at buIl-fight one day, the two pretty
MontjO girls were seen by the Duke of Alba,
and this circumstance led to a very romantic
passage in the life of the future Empress of
the French.
The Duke of Alba was immensely rich
and bore one of the finest names in the
kingdom. He was also young, handsome,
amiable and charming in every way, SO that
it was an exciting day for the two sisters
when he obtained an introduction to their
with assiduity. He proposed to the eldest
one. Euginie, who perhaps loved the duke,
or who perhaps had simply aspired, after
the manner Of young ladies all the world
over, to make dazzling marriage, was
cruelty wounded by her disappointment,
and in the first burst of her griet tried to
commit suicide. Engene swallowed poi
son /; an antidOte was administered in time !;
but the drug left trace behind it in the
shape of an occasional twtching of the
mouth.
Aud so it befell that ct a ball given by the
President at the Elysee, some nights before
the coup detai, Mile Eugene met her future
Emperor and husband The manner Of meet
ing was somewhat romantic. Louis NapO-
leon did not much care for the crush of ball
rooms, and he had chosen a prOpitions mo
nent TO escape with his friend, Edgar Ney,
the Duke of La MOskowa, into the Elysee
gardens, when he came suddenly upon a
radiant, blushing girl, who was trying to do
up her hair alone, opposite glass in the
conservatory.
riage was officially notified to che French
people, and on the 3Oth Of January it was
solemnized at NOtre Dame. Napoleon III,
who had early formed the same opinion of
his mothcr-in-law that the Duke of Alba had
done before him, had finally stipulated that
this clever lady should take herself away
from Paris and never return to it. Nor did
she return to It.
When the Empress wished to see her mother
she went to Biarritz, and met her, as it were, |
on the Spanish frontier. At other times she
resided at Madrid, keeping up such high i
state that her mansion was rival court to
lsabella's. Tho Empress is immensely rich,
and her money supports Bonapartist organ
IN Paris, while large sums are used in the |
printing OF Bonapartist documents and |
stirring up dissatisfaction throughout
France.
The Prince Imperial is handsome, amia-
BILE boy; a capital horseman, ready with
his money, unaffected and much liked by
his brother pupils at Woolwich. Ii left to
himself he would have gladly joined them
in all their amusements and rambles; but
this he was only allowed to do as regards
the amusements held within the college
grounds. From fear that he might be assas-
sinated by commuualist refugees he has
never been suffered to go out without the
escort Of Viscount Clara and NJ Bachon, his
two equeries, while couple Of private
Corsican detectives follow him about every-
where, well armed, at a distance of fifty
wards or so.