Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1879-07-01
Anecdotes Of the Late French Prince.

Anecdotes OF the Late French Prince.
The late Prince Louis Napoleon, killed
by the Zulus in South Africa, celebrated
his twenty-third birthday in March
Born three years after Napoleon's mar
riage to Eugene de Montijo, he was con-
fided to an English nurse, about twenty
five years old, strong, handsome, of very
jovial disposition and pleasing manners.
People who have seen Zamacois' beauti-
full painting, The Education of a
Prince" have seen a good likeness Of her /;
so far as regards the costume it is q per-
feet portrait. The prince was slender
and had a mild, pleasing countenance i;
his ears were rather too large, and on this
account the Parisians, for whom nothing
is sacred, and who always find nick
name for everybody, called him Prince
Oreillard." " His christening by Cardinal
Patrizi, as representing Pope Plus *,
was a gorgeous court display. The
empress showed herself a real mother to
the boy, often spending her entire days
and nights beside his cradle in spite of
court etiquette and the emperor's re-
monstrances. She had her reward in
the boundless affection that the child
learned to feel for her-a love which has
known no diminution.
His father, though he loved the boy
very dearly. rarely petted him save in
public. One day the boy, then perhaps
five years old. was crying with tooth
ache The emperor scolded him, saving
that the future emperor of France should
be above all such weakness. "But it
hurts me awfully, papa, replied the boy
8 No MATER sternly reioined the hero
of Sedan; stop up your ears with your
fingers, and you will not feel the pain. =
The boy glanced at him in amazement,
but followed his fathers advice, and ten
minutes later announced that the pain
was over.
Mild and amiable as he was, he oeca-
sionally yielded to temper when his
playmates, the sons of DR. Conneau and
Gems. Fleury and Espinasse, were not
ready to obey his whims 6 / am Ma.
poleon," he said one day to young Es-
pinasse, who had refused to race with
him; "woe to him who will not obey"
His father overheard him, and the boy
was condemned to bread and water for
twenty-four hours. The young prince,
when a little boy, could not be induced
to mount pony until he had been
threatened with the sever est punish
mcnts, so much did he fear tumble.
Afterward he became a fine horseman.
His favorite pastime was to listen to the
music that the band of the Imperial
Guard played daily in the court of the
Tuileries. He took such strong liking
for the cornet player of the band, Du-
four, that he Wouldnot consent to the lat
ter's retiring with the others. Often,
when all the others had gone, the colos-
sal NJ Dufour was seen either standing
before the diminutive prince to play the
cornet, OF carrying him around in his
arms for hours and hours in succession.
One day the empress was talking with
some of her ladies of honor about a GER
tain marriage which had recently taken
place. I, too, will get married. y said
the boy; Il will marry M. Dufour.n
Young Louis was frequently requested
by his tutor, Gen. Froissard, to be pru-
dent; a prince he was told, "should
never commit himself one way or the
other A short while after he had
been reminded of this duty, the son of
Gen. Fleury asked him whether he was
hungry. II would not like to express
any opinion on the subject, y young Louis
gravely replied. E 9G E
Some two or three years ago Prince
Louis accompanied his mother on a Jour
uey -luEOU1u AuStIld ttUu lldfy- I0pV
Travelled as the Countess and Count Of
Pierrefonds, but their identity was no.
where a secret, and they were received
with the highest consideration every
where, except at Vienna, where, il is
said. the ex-empress was refused an
audience at court. Perhaps the memory
Of the campaigns of 1859 and 1866. which
deprived the Austrian crown of Lom-
hardy and Venice, was still too fresh in
the mind Of the Austrian sovereign. On
their way to England the empress and
her son had asked permission to cross
France, but they were politely advised to
take another route On the Belgian from
tier o young gentleman was arrested be-
cause of his resemblance to the prince
imperial, especially in his thorough Eng
lish style of dressing. Itwas said that
This journey of the prince abroad had as
its object q marriage; another rumor
was that it was undertaken for the pur-
pose of forming an alliance between the
Pope, Austria and the Bonapartes at the
expense of Italy. Though with little
profit. a propaganda has been constantly
carried on in France for the destruction
of the republic. Prince Louis lent him
self to no intrigues, but he certainly in
tended to recover the throne that his
father had lost. For the peace of Europe
and the triumph of the republic his death
is proyidential.-Nea0 York sun