The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-12-18
How EugenIe Re.en.ered pnris.

The London Globe has an article de-
scribing the ex-Empress Eugenie's pas
rage through Paris on her way to the
bedside of her dying mother in Spain.
Permission for Eugene to enter the
French territory had to be obtained from
the authorities. Few knew, says the
Globe, that the president of the republic
and the ministry had sanctioned the re-
quest made, and that General Fleury had
taken with him to England permission
Tor the ex-empress to pass through Paris
on her way to Madrid to visit the Count.
ess de Montijo. The inner room of the
station was cleared some minutes before
the train arrived in Paris, and a strong
body of police was in attendance. The
landau of the Due de Mouchy was drawn
up opposite the door, and behind it was
a cab for the police escort, composed of
NM. Caubet and Boucher-Cadart, with
four of their myrmidons. Beyond a
| dozen people who were among the crowd
waiting for friends and relatives, no one
in the yard of the station knew that the
empress was about to visit Paris for the
first time since she quilted the capital in
| 1870. The travellers, most of them Eng
lish, stood aside to let lady, dressed in
very deep mourning and closely veiled,
pass. Her majesty appeared to lean
heavily on the arm of the Due de Bas
sano, who raised his hat several times in
acknowledgment of tie tributes of SYM
pathy and respect paid to the august and
unfortunate lady whom he accompanied.
The two employees who stand at the
door and levy the municipal dues on the
different articles enumerated in the tariff
stood for a moment and then they ap-
peared to recognize the lady, and, for
getting that they were officials belonging
to u republican government. they re-
moved their kepis and abstained from
asking whether the lady or gentleman
had anything to declare. Not word
was ute ed, not a cry was raised rs the
empress, seemingly overcome with emo
tion. walked slowly along the line of
people to the carriage awaiting her.
Heads were barred as she passed by, and
tears stood in the eyes of more than on. 7,
person when those who knew the en-
press years ago. when she was in the
zenith of her beauty and influence, con-
trasted her present widowed and child
less position with that she once held in
! Partisan society. The carriage, con-
tanning the empress, lady, and the Due
de Bassano, drove straight to the Boule-
ward de Courcelles, the residence of the
Due de Mouchy. The landau was fol-
, lowed by the hack cab. containing the
: police, and the latter took up their posi-
ion outside the mansion of the Due as il
to prevent any manifestation. Those
who saw the empress say that her late
trials have greatly altered her, and that
. sorrow and grief have left indelible
m'rks on her handsome countenance,
2 once so happy and full of hope. Her
L majesty quilted Paris early that morn.
+ ing. The carriage which drove her to
t the station passed by special desire
y along the new road the Paris municipal
5 council has opened in front of the ruins
of the Tuileries dividing the old palace
q from the private garden. What must
/. have been Il feelings of the august lady
Q rs she saw the blackened ruins of the
; place where she had lived and spent sc
' many happy hours? There was the gar.
e den, with its well known statues, ant
, the broad walk where some dozen year;
e ago boy. who was the idol of hi:
F.. parents and the hope of his country
, rode round and round on his bicycle
, laughing and talking with his comrades
!, On the lett of the carriage was the Sail
8 des Marechaux, with the legend Hon
neur ct Patrie," written in letters of golt
|, against the scorched and blackened wal
where kings and princes had been re
. ceived in 1867, and where balls had beer
given rivalling in nagniticence the splen
, dor of some Eastern tale. Nine years
: ago her majesty left the Tuileries il
| exile.