The daily gazette., 1879-07-18
I've Parislaa Topics,
THE RELATIONs OF THE EMPRRss WITH
~~~ THE FATED PRINcH.G 81 ,yaD
VA PARIs. .Julvi4. 1889.

THE RELATIONS OF THE EMPREe6 WITH
~~~ THE FArED PRINcB9 = "a .yaD'
"a. a.. PARIS, JulyF4, 1881
The feslipg Of Paris ron the subject Of
the recent death Of the Primes I'M
poFial u one OF Indignation rather than
Of sorrow. Why, tits almost snivsrsally
asked, did the Empress. lot the boy 60 ?
II is idle to answ~r shat he was quite. cid
enough 10 decide for himself. The
French have no such opinion, They
hold that Chg. night q parental control q @
gal l-majority, The mother should have
kept hun BY her side atsail hassfds. It.
was har duty 70 restrain hls youthful ar-e
dor, d 3t because he WAS she heir 70 the
BonApRftes but becanse, he iwas her SOD,
1t was rash, and this average Frenchmxn
being 1t hesrt about the most, cantiOps
fellokw inlths world never fOreives p
fault OF that kind. 1t has Intensified the
disposition OF most people here to regard
the unhappy lady as essentially q femme
fatats, a woman whose influence brings y
curse to all within its range.
The war and its results started this
suspicion and this last event has confirm
ed IT, till 1t H. now almost q faith. The
luck IL against her; woe TO all who walk
In her ways !, The very Bouapaftists will
nUw tell ysu 30 in private, and men who
believe IN nothing else thsJ may fairly be
supposed TO form part of . scheme OF
Providence believe firmly ip her fatality,
of Ill. This, of course, ~ all no OAsense; SO
too Is the belief held BY small but in
,reasing section here that the Prince was
Basuto escort. He was In fact I"be-'
trayed" by savagsin the pay OF Prince
jerome Napoleon, who succeeds him a.
heir. 1 give yOu this AZ o standard mea-
sure ofhuman stupidity which 10 at the
same time peculiarly French. 1t IL only
less foolish and cruel to make the EN-
press directly responsible for her sons
departure, and l happen to know thst 1t
Is false. Her indirect responsibility
though 1t lsaves her perfectly blameIess
Ia more easily proved. In truth, the
poor young fellow was to some extent
driven way from home by too much re-
ligioh. He had soldiers natural desire
to see service with bis comrades, but
this might never have led him to the
decisive step but for WEAKNESS OF the
cloistral retirement of Chiselhurst.
The death Of Napoleon III. Intensified
a disposition to religious gloom always
latent in his wife's mind. Amid the
distractions Of her time Of power and
glory Eugene was always ferven'
Catholic; and 1t was only its quick sue.
cooelUn Oh pIodHuro6 Vuat WoTo 'Oot uutAo<
under another name that prevented hel
from being an almost fanatical devotee
There was nothing to check this ten.
dency in the quiet rural suburbs oi
Chiselburst, and the misfortunes thai
took her to that quiet country retreat
did everything to promote 1t. The
Princes home life was made almost un-
| bearable to q high.spIrited lad by hi,
mothers dscetism. There were whole
days when she exchanged barely dozer
words with him, having her thought.
fully engaged with the most scrupufous
| fulhlmept.Of the duties OF religion anG
with tho meditatisns supposed to b.
proper to her fallen state. She dressed
almost like nun and felt a nuns re luc
tance even to speak of the world iron
which she had retired. Many a tim
the boy, running over for days hon
day from the military college, has fOun
conventual stiffness Instead of the ao
nation of fhome-found it 30 often tha
to wards the last he came to expect
and went anywhere rather than
Chiselhurst whenever he had a momeI
| to spare.