Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-07

OF "a lovelcss life and q deathless woe
o, love my love, II it should BE so!
NAPOLEON Ill. AND EUGENE
Spanish Countess Made Empress Of France
ina Day.
Now that public attention is directed
to Chiselhurst, and the sympathy Of the
world goes out to the widowed and child
less woman, whose very life may at any
moment yield to the latest burden of sor-
now, q special interest attaches to all that
relates to the life and history of the ex-,
Empress. Eugene-Ma de Guzman was
born at Grenada, in Spain, Mays, 1926
and is second daughter Of the Count
Montijo and Of Marie Manuela Kirkpat-
rio. At an early age she displayed an
intelligence equal to her great beauty,
the style of the latter being very remark
able; for with Andalusian form, features
and the soft eyes peculiar to Spain, it
united coronal of golden hair not often
seen in that Southern cline. These and
some other characteristics she doubtless
inherited from the Nothern ancestry of
her still beautiful mother. Her educa-
ton was varied, and colored by localities
IN which it was received. Accustomed
rs she became in her earliest years to the
music and the mystic poetry Of Spain
as much so as to the blue skies, the
orange and the citron groves, the vivid
culoring of flowers and of costume in that
romantic land, she was sent to acquire
knowledge first to Toulous, and atterward
to Bristo.. With England she therefore
soon became acquainted, as likewise
with many of the EN- llsh people. To-
ward France, however, that France for
which her father had voluntarily fought
and suffered, the thoughts Of the young
Eugene were often turned with keenest
interest, and over that tair land, in her
imagination, the Eagle of Napoleon, I'M
der whose banner her father had marched
to victory, was ever ready, despite all
changes Of dynasty, to fly from tower to
tower, until resting with folded wings on
the nights Of Notre Dame in Paris.
In 1880 her father died at Madrid, and
now, no less than ever before, was she
likely TO forget the legends of French
glory by which he had charmed her child
hood. It must consequently have been a
sort Of nascent prlde and earnest sympa-
thy that she heard first Of the attempt of
Prince Louis Napoleon on Strasbourg,
and aftcrw ards I'm 184O) near Bologne
Women adore heroism, and though men
may sheer at the attempt OF q banished
prince to re-enter the land of his birth
by the aid Of only half hundred men
and by the Ii ght Of t at star Of his DIES.
tiny l., which he had implicit belief, there
was something heroic in the eventful voy
age or fins prince across the British Chan
mel, in She steamboat called the Edlnbure
Custl,', md all the more SO because he hat
already been made 70 pay the penalty O.
Punishment to America for his sudde1
entry ilto Strasbourg. From America hi
in the hope Of soothing the last days o
his adored and adoring mother, Queer
Hortrnse, and latterly, in England, HI
had not shrunk from the consequences .
that act Of tilial duty, which had helped
10 entail upon him consequences, includ
ing poverty, from which the heart of
less brave man would have recoiled. S.
it was no wonder if the fair Eugene. borl
Of a heroic race and early smltten with tn
legends of the first Napoleon's glory, di(
feel that which many men might deem
romantic interest in the luckless landing 0
Prince Louis Napoleon at Bologne. Sol
diers on the French coast were excited
ready to hail him with rapture; othe
brave men also; but he was captured am
imprisoned in the fortress of Ham, an
this with such rigor that it seemed yer
doubtful whether the beautiful Spaniart
destiaed one day to become his wifi
would ever meet him in this world, fc
as yet they we're personally strangers
each other.
From the first moment, however tha
the Emperor had beheld Mile. de Montijt
Countesse dc Teba, after the Revolutlo
Of 1913 had given him power over tn
land from which he 50 long was an exil
his fate was fixed; and whether at til
Presidential festivities, given at the pa
ace Of the Elyse-, under the auspices {
his accomplished cousin, the Prince
Mathilde, or at ST. Cloud, or elsewher
the lonely and graceful Spanish lady ws
observed by him as the only one mos
worthy to be placed on the throne {
France. Accompanied by some Of he
relatives she had visited that countr,
When first she arrived there she foun
the accent of the French language some
what o. posed to that of her own melod
Gus and more southern tongue; but c
last day came when the illustrions hos
OF st. Cloud, where she was on Wis
with many other guests, said to her: 81
it love that has taught you French?'' An
she IS reported to have answered: "N'
sire; it is the French that has taught m
love-" In company such as then assem-
blcd at st. Cloud-the once tavorit
abode Of Queen Marie Antoinette, an
after"ard of the Empress Josephine
is often difficult to trace the real origi
of anecdotes such as this, but there ca
be no doubt whatever that in the mont
of January, 1868, the Emperor Mapoleo
I'LL, having convoked al assembly Of til
chief Legislative representatives at til
Tuilleriee, thus announced his approach
ing marriage with Mile. dc Montijo: ISL
who has become the object of my prefe
ence is Of elevated birth. French
heart, by education, and by the memor
of her fathers blood shed for the caus
Of the Empire; she, as a Spanlard, hi
the advantage of being the member of
family on which it might be necessary
confer honors and dignities. Endowe
with all the noble qualities of the sou
she will be the ornament of the thron
while in the day Of danger she would b
come one Of its most courageous supper