The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-03
NAPOLEON ".
His Birth, Education and Early Life.

day son had been borr to the Emperor
and Empress Of France, and prospec-
tive ruler to the French people. AT six
O'Clock in the morning the cannon Of the
Inyalides announced TO the yet scarcely
awakened city the tidings of the arrival
of an heir TO the Imperial throne. The
fact, however, was hardly known in the
city until about eight o'clock. Tele-
graphic dispatches were sent to all the
various diplomatic agencies of France on
the Continent. Notice was sent to the
representatives. of other Powers resident
In Paris, and in the course of the morn
ing. they visited the Tuilcries and left
their names: Preparations were made
at all the public Offices for iluminations
and decorations. Many houses on the
Bouieyards were embelished with stream
ers. The flags of England, France.
Turkey and Sardinia foated united at
this moment of rejoicing as they had
during the long and dreary hours of suf-
fering and danger. No one Visiting
Paris could mistake the temper of the
people.
Three years had elapsed since the mar
riage of the Third Napoleon with the
young Spanish lady, who had received
but beauty and ambition as her only
dowry from her ...other, the Countess de
Montijo. The young Prince had nm
English nurse provided for him. and he
remained under her charge until his
seventh birthday, so that he could speak
English before he could pronounce his
own tongue, and he always spoke it with
remarkable fluency and a pure accent.
All through his childhood and boyhood
the Prince Imperial had an inseparable
companion in the young Louis Connear
son of the DR.. Conneau who aided Ia:
father to escape from Ham, and this lad
was rs good as a second tutor to the
Prince. In his first teachers the Young
FRINGE was not fortunate. One began by
teaching him republican doctrines. The
next turned out to be affiliated with
what was considered highly dangerous
community. He was dismissed before
he had an opportunity to influence the
boys mind. Gen. Proessard was then
selected by the Emperor. He was popu
iiarly supposed to be military eagle, but
he proved much tanner bird. The
Prince Imperial, under this more courtly
than erudite warrior, learned a little
mathematics, some Latin, less Greek. and
a good deal of horsemanship and fencing.
Being fond Of the study of history. he
gathered q good deal through his own
efforts. He WAS O quiet hammered boy.
naturally shy, and disposed to become
more 80 by the diplomatic reserve con-
tinually inculcated upon him. He had.
nevertheless, from his earliest childhood.
considerable amount of shrewdness
and used often to say, ri always take off
my hat to the Perisians, because they
take oft ones crown so easily when they
are offended"
When he +" is three years old he was
placed on the roster of the Imperial
Guard. AT five he was promoted to a
corporalship. He was made sergeant
ut seven, and wore his sub-lieutenant's
epaulet for the first time when he started
for the German war with his father. Af-
ter the peace, when Napoleon III. was
released from his captivity at Wilhelm
shoe, the young Prince, who had been
spirited away to England at the first
French defeat, was entered at the Wool
wich Academy. A banquet was given
in August, 1875, to few of the older
adherents of the Napoleonic dynasty,
while the Empress and her son were en-
Joying holiday at the Castle Arenen-
berg, and the young Prince addressed
his friends with considerable tact and
political ability in the following words
Should the people some day recall me
to power, will force all honest men to
rally round the Empire by erasing from
the French language the words Exile
and Prescription If it could only be
known what lessons have learned from
the past, what resolutions I have drawn
from experience of the events which
passed under my own eyes, it would be
seen how we'll l understand that 1 must
only look backward for example and
teaching, but not for objects Of vengeance
and bitterness. A great people is not to
be governed by hatred and revenge"
The birth of the Prince Imperial was
regarded by all who wished to be consid-
cred true, Frenchmen as good omen,
second only in its European importance
to the millennium. Thenceforth the sun
of peace and prosperity was to shine upon
everything French and eve body who
had the surprising happiness to be born
on the soil of the favored nation. The
Princes birth was to be the panacea fer
all grumbling, disaffection and discon-
tent: the dynasty was firmly established,
and, as to the future, did not his Impe.
rial Majesty himself presently assure all
the world that "the Empire was peace ?"
1t was halcyon time for France.
Time, which was rude enough to 20 on
in France much as it did in other and far
less favored countries, and even in a
neighboring State peopled by such barba-
rians as the ill-conditioned Prussians had
invariably proved themselves to be-
Time, which would not acknowledge the
supremacy even Of a Bonaparte, passed,
and France, the model nation: the envy
of the civilized world, basked in the
warm but enervating sunshine of pros
perity. 1t is true that the country was
ruled with what some few millions con-
sidered an iron hand; that, if stranger,
you were watched by the police with cat
like vigilance; that. despite the gay ex-
terror of every Frenchman and the
smiling face of every Frenchwoman,
there wero people who, when they got
You safely enscopced in their charming
country houses, were prone to compare
English and other institutions to the
great disparagement of the latter.
The young Prince was meanwhile oc-
cupying himself in much the same man
ner as other boys of his age. His chris
tening at Notre- Dame, on the 10Th of
June, three months after his birth, was
ono of the most magnificent sPeotacics
ever witnessed even in France.
AT the age of six months the Prince
was admitted with becoming ceremony
into the ranks of the first regiment Of
Grenadiers of the Guard, who, as the
recognized victors of the Alma, Inker-
man and the Malakoff, were the objects
OF alteration. AS he grew in years the