Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-12-03

Joseplline de Beauharnais was al idea
wife fOr a young and rising man OF geni1s
She had everything that would appeal 10 :
fancy like his; at once selfish and passion
ate. She had beauty. rank, the power o
pleasing: and a certain incident grace thai
promised an Obedience reasonably free from
Jealousy. Up to the time h. mounted th'
Imperial throne ard seated her By his side
she Was all that his narrow heart auu
bOundless ambition could desire But af
ter the marvellous victory at Wagran had
opened uD to bis feyercd Imagination still
wider perspectiyes Of dominion, he looked
for another style Of WIFE and found her IL
Marie Louise Of Austria. Her blendt
B beauty, formed of pink and white color
and rouHd!y cUrying lines and the golden
floss cf child's hair. appealed strosgly to
his iaded taste. lie WAS not old, but, as
he said to the Directory, zone ages fast
upon the field Of battle, and he wanted
some such sGlacc as this soft, unin,c!iect-
Ull beatty tsDmehody has called il the
{ Aldeney style Of prettiness) in his home,
/ if such word may he used Of the Tuiler-
/ les. Besides, he doubtless felt that al en-
peror should have an enpercrs daughter
/ 20 wife, and this was young girl who had
= hundred ElOnarchs for her ancestors, and
We: she would be gentle and obedIent, and
not argue with him or answer him, and
would give him heirs. lie was genuinely
attached 10 her, and If he knew nothing
about her. and had no premonitiOa ot
Count NcipPcre. It was all the better for
him. She also was quite taken by Storm
b -. 1 - r.
being loycd by an ogre-for SUCH she had
always considered hin,-was agreeable to
her. Bet his tumultUOuS glory was quite
too much for the daily food of such 2 hui
man small being rs the Empress. and she
was doubtless relieved when the indignant
soul left his body a. Longwood, and she
waS free to follow her ignoLle little heart
and marry Neipperg.
Josephine would have had her revenge
If she coIid have fnvseen the course Of his
tory for even few years. IL is she. and
noi the pretty Austrian, who viii be known
forever as the wife Of Napoleon. Il is her
statue that rises in marble in the public
places Of Paris. II is her name and those
of her children that mari, tie great aven-
ucs Of the metrOpo.is-AveGue JOsephene,
In Refine IIortensc, Boulevard du Prince
Eugane Though she was Otis,cd reInorse-
lessly from "A throne TO make room for
Maria Louisa, it was her children-the
children of the creole proscript-whOs should
become the tenants Of palaces, and not
those Of hei rival. The Duke of Rich
s'ad. was 10 pass youth Of i1glOrious
pleasure and was 20 die before his prime,
aud leave no soa to iuhcri, his claims To
empire: while the Bcauharnais line was 10
stretch out like the swarm Of Kings seen by
The Th1nc Of CdwdOr III his vision. Eu-
gene her heroic son, after the fall Of the
Eap1lep1s, returned 20 the court of his
father-in law. the King OF Bavaria. aud be-
cane Prince OF Eichstadt, Duke Of Lcuc!l-
tcabcrg. and IirSt nobleman OF the kingdom.
Ills daughter united 10 the son Of Berna-
d1i.c. became Queen of Sweden; another
became Princess OF Hohenzollern, and Il
third Empress of Brazil. His oldest son
Won the hand of the Queen Of Portugal,
ard the younger married daughter OF the
Gar Nicholas Of Russia. And whatever
doubt might be thrown on the purity OF the
Napolcoaic dcsccn; BY which the Emperor
Napoleon III, claimed the throne, he was
unquestionablv the son Of lIoriense, and
was BcauharriS and TascheT-la-Pagerie be-
yond challenge. Tine grandson Of Jo-
scphine. Louis Napole0n. ruled France in
peace and with sort Of sp!endor for the
s2acc Of twenty-five years while the period
Of the first Napo!coG's reign counting Con
sulate and Empire together, was hut fifteen
though 50 powerful was the personal i'm
print made hy the uncle. and 80 vague was
the iudiyidaal character OF the nephew that
the shorter reign seems like an age. and tho
longer ike an episode.