Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-11
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A correspondent Of the Boston Advertiser,
writing from Munich, says: When arrived
in Munich the Bayarians were looking every
where for their King. He had gone-dis-
appeared from their gaze. The court was
distracted, the cOurtiers frantic. They
searched for him in the palace, on the top
OF his favOrite mountains, and nowhere
could they find their master. Suddenly a
telegram arrived from Paris telling us he
had gone there iHcOgHitO, Cor rather
had attempted it, When a royal
parsonage goes OF suddenly without crying
''gare,n there must be something in it; but
what this particular something was no one
knew. Several days were passed in sus-
pense, when the news came that the King
had gone TO Paris to study the chateau Of
Versailles and the bed Of Louis XIV.
Some say the King is only original; Others
that he is not quite sane; at any rate be is
young, handsome and peculiar. He hates
and flies from the world; his people are
nothing to him; he comes and goes no one
knows where.
He avOws passionate admiration for
Wagner and his music, and is in love with
the I'D fashioned majesty of the King Louis
NV. To initiate him he is going to
create another Versailles. He has chosen
an island in the middle of the largest Of the
lakes, called Chiemsee. / believe there
used to be = convent of Bene6 ictines on il.
Out the principal attraction is the beauti-
Jul view extending over the BaYaEian Alps
from Sonahe to Salzburg, in Austria.
Here he intends to reproduce the palace
and park Of Versailles. The cost and labor
Of carrying ali the material for building
acTOss the lake are matters Oflittle Importance
% the youthful monarch. He was in the full
tide OF another cratic construction at Fal-
'senburg, costing already four millions Of
francs. but that he has now abandoned
after eight or nine years of hard work.
But what cannot a King dO9 Poets glow
in their praises of his "beautiful artistic
nature;' painters put upon canvass his
glorious deeds; even Wagner makes music
at his command; and the pOpulaee, awed by
such vast ideas, loves him, and the mystery
with which he surrounds himself adds to
his popularity. He is not like a sovereign.
l forget who it was that was so unpOpu-
lar that on some journey his cOurtieTs,
fearful lest he should remark the dead
silence that attended his progress,
had the idea 10 attach some me
chanical apparatus to his carriage,
that with every turn of the wheel cried,
'Vive rEmpereur.7 The pOtentate, half
asleep, would awake occasionally to the
consciousness Of his peoples devotion, and
congratulate himself on the gratitude they
felt for all his benefits. In our DAYS we
are all actors; some princes play at being
comedians, some princes at being jockeys,
and, like them, break their neck on race
courses; but Louis III. # Bavaria plays Sc
riOusly the part Of king. Though he has
thirty chateaux built by his ancestors, all
more or less beautiful and in good repair,
he will not live in them, but prefers one Of
his own making.
With great labor, stone and iron are car
ried by man and beast to the summit of
some pet mountain, and there, in the midst
of the forest, only surrounded by his court
iers, does he hold his court. Extravagant
stories are told Of him-that he walks
about in the costume of Louis XIV,
doubtless with silken dOublet and hose,
powdered wig and prOverbial cane, pre-
ceded By torches borne by gayiy-dressed
pages ond 'OllOWed by his chamberlain.
Again, that in winter he will 90 in golden
sleigh, rushing through villages slumbering
in the snow, with a frightful noise of
galloping horses and a sudden CLEAN of
hundreds of torches. By the time The viii
layers ara aroused and realize that it is the
King, he has disappeared. Then they say
that when he wants a little music he orders
The theater 10 be lighted up, and at mid
night, long after the last glass Of beer has
been drunk in quiet Munich, lie arrives
noiselessiy in his box, and the play begins.
The actors DO their painful work of per-
forming a whole opera TO an empty house
and to a dead 81 lenoe. Suddenly the King
leaves as quietly as he came, and all is over.