St. Landry democrat., 1879-08-16
Death of The Prince Imperial.

The mournful interest is attached to
the pending Zulu war by the news of the
death of the young Prince Napoleon at
the hards of the savages. 1t appears
that he went out with a scouting party,
and that, while resting, they were SUR
rounded by the Zulus--a fatality which
seems to continually follow the English.
The party sprang to their horses, and
succeeded in escaping, with the excep'
tion of the prince, whose horse got away
from him. He then started Oh the run,
but was speedily overtsken and slain
with the murierous assegais-pierced
with no less than seventeen wounds
The events of bis life are very brief,
He was born in the Tuileries, March, 16,
1856. His education was very thorough
one, and at the outbreak of the Franco
German war he accompanied his father to
Metz, and thence to Saarbruck, where, as
Napoleon teleg raphed to Eugene, he re-
ceived baptism of fire. Shortly after
wards he joined his mother in England
and has remained with her until recently.
when he obtained permission from the
English government to accompany the
my to i5s S>us1 African campaign,
where the baptism of fire has over
whelmed him, and ended mis- ambitious
career in the very flower of his youth.
The death of the prince removes one of
the most formidable of the Bonapartist
claimants to the throne. By the decree
of 1904, Napoleon I. left the throne to
the descendants of Louis, the third
brother, and father of Napoleon III.
The son of Napoleon l., Napoleon Joseph,
died childless, and indeed his claim was
never recognized. Joseph, the Oldest
brother, renounced his claim, and the
decree to which we have alluded barred
out Lucien and his family. Lucien
died in 1916, and the throne descended
to the only surviving SOD, Louis Ma
poleon (Napoleon III. J, who married the
beautiful and ill-fated Spanish Princess
Eugene Marie de Montijo in 1854. His
two brothers, Napoleon Charles and Ma
pojeon Louis died respectively in 1907
and 1881. By this marriage he had one
son, Louis Napoleon, who has now fallen
victim to the Zulu savages. By his
death the lineal claim now reverts to the
family of Jerome, the youngest brother
of Napoleon l., who married Elizabeth
Patterson of Baltimore, Md, recently
deceased. If this marriage had been
recognized in Francs his American chil>
dren would now be on the direct line,
but as it is, the descendants of the second
marriage are in the succession. The
claimant now is Napoleon jerome, better
known as Plon-Plon, who married
daughter of Victor Emmanuel, and after
him his two sons, Napoleon Victor, born
in 1852, and Napoleon Louis, born in
1864. Whatever sympathies the repub~
licans of France may have ON personal
grounds for his mother, there will un~
doubtdly be feeling of relief on polbi.
cal grounds that the most powerful
Bonapartist claimant is no more.
For the unfortunate princess, now
entering into the shadows of life, bereft
Of her only child upon whom she fondly
hoped to lean in her declining years,
there will be a widespread feeling of
sympathy. Her eventful life has closed
with catastrophe which it is no won
der has made her reason totter. She has
been woman of wonderful beauty and
grace and possessed of rare accomplish
ments. At the French court she was
the center of coterie of some of the
most brilliant women who have ever ap.
peared in the French salons. She has
been noted, however, not alone for her
beauty and for her brillancy with which
she invested her court, but also for her
works of charity and for the encourage
ment she has bestowed upon various
societies of science and art. Her mis-
fortune began with the downfall of her
husband at Sedan, when she escaped in
disguise from the mob which had invaded
the Tuileries. The next blow was the
death of her husband, and now the news
of the death of he- only child has been
broaght to her in her retirement at
Chiselhurst It iS q sad end of life of
splendor, and in her great bereavement
she will receive universal sympathy.
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