The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-09
The Prince Imperiaps Governor.

a Paris correspondent writes: The de-
cease of Gen. Frosard, governor OF the
Prince Imperial, deprives the Bonapart
lists OF one of their staunchest men,. The
General was appointed todhe post which
was then considered to be of paramount
Importance, in 1867, at the period when
half the sovereigns of Europe were the
guests Of the Emperor Napoleon, whose
power appeared to be so solidly estab-
lished. The General, in recounting the
honor so Unexpectedly conferred upon him
by the choice of the Emperor, gave the
following particulars to an intimate
friend, from whose journal they are taken:
MY nomination. said the General,
twas very simple matter. His Majesty
sent for me, about ten days ago, and said
to me: My dear General, thesgreatest Joy
l ever hoped for, after that of having, .
son, was to train and educate him. find
that cannot do this. Business, work,
my health, render it impossible. have
therefore turned my eyes to you. Will
you undertake the management of Louis ?
l have no advice to give you; no pro-
gramme to propose to you. l say to you,
merely, will you do what I should have
wished to be able to do myself?' The
Emperor took my hand, and felt that he
could hardly refrain from tears. / made
no reply, but nodded my head, by way Of
accepting. l was moved myself; and,
for moment, lost sight of the sovereign
confiding to my care the heir to his
throne, and saw only the father who was
putting his son into my hands, as man,
ON the point of death, intrusts to his best
friend what is dearest to him in the world
he Is leaving. What could have caused
<l,so i'm, r R,,t
there was an accent in His Majesty s
words that suggested the idea OF one who
was reading passage from last will and
and said: 'Yes' The Emperor pressed
my hand warmly and, when the first mo.
ment Of emotion was over, asked His
Majesty to give me some directions re.
spacting the plan to be pursued with
his son, but the Emperor interrupted
me, saying: You will do, my deal
| General, exactly what you think best
have nothing more to ask of your This
was all. But next morning I tried
again to obtain from the Emperor
some outline of the plan to be adopted in
regard to the Prince. I found the EN-.
peror with the Empress. The Empress
gave me some few Instructions, such as al
mothers would give in regard tt
a child; butthe Emperor said nothing.
then boldly laid down my conditions, ant
l did so with the utmost precision.
begged their Maiesties to inform til,
father and mother of the child that it wa!
my intention to have them come to hi!
rooms-or, rather, to mine-as seldom a!
possible. l added that l would fix thu
hours for the child's going out, and de
manded that no one should come to dis
turb ME at any other hours. And l sale
that should adhere, and expect TIN
father and mother and everyone else to nd
here, rigidly to these conditions. Afte
this everything went on smoothly. The
child is charming little fellow. He i!
not wonderful genius and am glad o.
it. As regards aptitude and intelligence
should call him good middling. Wer'
he the son of a grocer. going regularly Il
college, he would he fifteenth or twentieth
in class of thirty boys. His specia
tendencies are not yet very decided. III
bites we'll into literature, and is on prett,
we'll with Latin and Greek; as for mathe
mates he is nothing particular as yet
His special faculty as yet is drawing
IT'S very odd, Bonaparte an artist; if h
were left to himself he would draw TIL
whole day long. On the other hand he i
very daring and courageous. But l ar
not going to initiate the trick ofboarding
school masters, who, when they cannc
award any other prize to a stupid pupil
give him a prize for gymnastics, by wa
of flattering the vanity of his parents
No, no; I'shall make him study dillgen,
ly, and shall keep him steadily at wor
at all the serious branches. He is
Prince and must learn to discharge wei
the duties of that position; but he must ais
learn to be able to be no longer Prince
such should be his destiny The Gen
eral, knowing Paris and France as h
knew them, seems already to have seen til
insecurity of the throne, which then ar
pearcd to be at once so brilliant and S
strongly-bascd. His system of educatlo
was therefore we'll adapted to the cond
tons of the case; and his imperial pup
has done honor to the care and foresight
OF his governor.