The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-13
LOUIS NAPOLEON.
THE EDUCATION OF THE BOY FOR
WHOM THE ONCE SPLENDID
EUGENE LIVES.
London Truth.

neau (son OF the Doctor on the private terrace
Of the Tuileries. Young Conneau, already
true courtier. held his hand SO that the Prince
might not be defeated In public; but In slack
enjpg speed he gave his bar too sharp jerk,
so that his fore wheel caught that OF the
Princes vehicle and both vehicles rolled on
the ground with their riders. The merry way
In which Napoleon Ills heir laughed as he
scrambled to his feet and assisted his friend
to rise stamped him as good-natured boy.
He takes after his mother in sweetness OF
temper All who have ever approached him.
either during his fathers reign or since his
exile. have been struck by his sunny face,
great intelligence and frank MANNERS.
He was born very delicate child, and had
to be n,lrsed with the utmost care Till be was
ten Years old. His nurse was an English
woman. and lie had a German-Swiss valet;
both were enjoined to speak to him always In
their respective tongues. while his mother adj
dressed him In Spanish, SO that the boy grew
10 to be good linguist without any effort
He could read In four languages when he was
seven, and he spent many OF the long hours,
when he had to remain indoors by doctors
orders. perusing books which treated OF his
great-uncle's battles. He preferred this
literature to any other, and became rather oil
a bellicose mood In consequence, strutting
about with u toy sword by his side, and light
mo sham battles with young Conneau III the
broad corridors OF the IuieIies. His father,
who loved him with doting love, would have
spoilt him; but his mother, wiser In aef IL
lection, insisted upon his blind Obedience
When he WAS two years OLD ne was appolhn!ed
CORPORAL In the Imperial Guard. anu at five
was nromoted to his sergeantship. For hay
tnp dist,beyed the Empress while he held this
grade her Majesty CAUSED his stripes to be
taken away FROM him, and he was reduced to
the ranks for whole year. The disgrace
v vr deeply affected him, for he was very
fond OF showing off his uniform before the
children who we're invited to the palace to
play with him. Once by the by, child Of
Tho actor fletcher was among his guests, and
the Prince. having quafreled with this BRAT
gave him slap Oh the face. Fletcher was
Gufed when he heard Of tho affair, and de-
cIincd To lot his boy go to the Iuilerles again.
He was under the tutolship of a French
professor of some ability, but who labored
J under the disadvantage OF being egregieusly
vain This gentleman had taken into his
head that he would make OF his pupil phil
osophicai emperor, and he proceeded To ply
him with maxlms which seemed derived
from Rousseaus Emile" One day az 9
mtted to dessert, stupetied the whole teble
by saying to an Austrian arehduke: Fous
ares lev ideea ne fop,cien regime, Prince: mais
eLlea ont fit Lenf temps. LIE peupte est. an
ocean, 81 rous ini resistes, Il sous e,nporte.' >,
The E,mneror felt bad rs an American would
say, aud requested the philosophical tutor TO
20 and preach his maxims elsewhere. The
| Prince, however had become SO imbued with
his lessons that, being asked soon afterward
what Disguise he would wear at q fancy. dress
ball that was to be given at the Tuleries, he
elected to appear as MasaDiello. The En-
peror and Empress agreed to hunor his
wish. because as they ludiciously observed,
nothing was to be gained by making believe
that his first tutor had put foolish notions
| into his head They gave him. however, as
iii second tutor and governor Gen. Frossart,
| Who knew so little ABOUT philosophy that he
wou,d probably have spelt it with an T.
| Gen. Froissart is the warrior who cut such
j noor. verv poor-tigure at the battle OF
| FnIhach He was clever strategist on pa
| nor and q decent scholar all round: but he
pwns at the same time an extremely conse-
nupntiaI fussv personage, whom the Prince
never liked I saw them together in 1863,
when the Prince went with his mother on a
| nolitical trim to Corsica. While they stood on
tha nlatform of the Lyons railway staff IN,
where crowds were cheering and loyal mayors
were presenting addresses, the General kept
saving audbly to his pupil: "Take your hat
off. sput voi1r hat on ""Bow to the gentle
well what to do, looked profoundly bored and
| ended nv walking off to get nearer to his
mother. leaving Froissart In the lurch TO
give the Prince some emulation in his studies
to be educated with him Conneau's father
lad been the Emperors closest friend during
his captivity at Ham, and was chiefly instru-
mental in abetting his escape from that for
tress. The Emperor never faltered in his
gratitude for this service and he wished his
Son to make the friendship hereditary. It
has become so. for Louis Conneau is to this
day Prince Louis Napoleon's most trusted