Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-08
The Fortune of the Ex-Prince Impe-
rial and the Ex-Empress.

Apropos OF the various reports circu-
lating with regard to the rumored mar
riage of the ex-Prince Imperial and the
! Princess Thyra, of Denmark, it may
not be uninteresting to see what the
would.be benedict possesses in the
shape of worldly goods. According to
recently published account, having
every appearance of genuineness, the
prince" personally, has only small
income of 10000 francs per annum,
brought in by his estate at Vincentini,
near Goritz, in Illyria. He owes this
revenue to the Princess Bacchiochi,
who left it to him with her estate in
Brittany. The Brittany property was,
| however, nearly all mortgaged, and
when all was paid off. the property was
reduced to nothing in particular. So
much for the personal property of the
young pretender.
1t may be wondered that his father
made no provision for him. The ex-
PLANTATION is easy. When Napoleon
made his will in 1866. he did not count
on being dethroned by the revolution
which occurred four years later. In
1866, the Emperor and Empress, then at
the height of their power and prosper
ity, made each other a sort of exchange
of donations, bequeathing their proper
ty in such q way as to allow their sur
vivor the benefit OF the others proper
ty. The Emperor gave his wife Aren-
enburg, and assigned her as a place of
residence in Paris, the Elysee, now the
abode of the President. To his son he
bequeathed the throne, fancying he
thereby assured him the best of his
| possessions.
From this it will be seen that if the
Empress were to hold strictly to the
1866 will the son of Napoleon III.
would have poor chance of marrying
decently, his whole fortune consisting
of the 40, 900 francs per annum and q
few trifes-all that the revolution left
him.
A lot of imaginative statements have
been made respecting the fortune of his
mother, Eugene. The Republicans
have made her the possessor of fabulous
sums, while, on the other hand, the
Bonapartists have reiterated again and
again the assurance of her being some.
thing like pauper. In point of fact,
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ton, according to the will of 1866, de-
posted with notary named Mocquard,
and opened at Chiselhurst on the 18th
of January, 1873, three days after the
death of Napoleon III. The will puts
the Empress Eugene in possession of,
firstly, 120, 900 francs per annum, de-
rived from the estate of Mezzola, near
Bologna, Italy, once forming part OF
Prince Bacchiochi's fortune; secondly,
of diamonds of the value of about
| 2,SOO. 900 francs, equivalent to an in
come of $4,000 francs; thirdly, of sun
dry houses in the Rue de lElysee,
Paris, which, though partly mortgaged
to cover debts due by the Due d'Albo,
were bought by Baron Hirsch, who
gave 1900, 900 francs for them, say an.
other 100, 900 francs income; fourthly,
of $4,000 francs in rentes, allotted to
the Empress on the 1872 loan of three
| milliards.
Ii all these sums are added together
we get total of 450, 900 francs income,
or about 500, 900, representing the in
stantly available fortune of the ex- EN-
press. The chateau of Pierrefonds and
the Chinese Museum at Fontainebleau
count for nothing, as the republic has
charge of them at present, and does not
seem likely to hand them over.
1t is out of this income of 500, 200
that young Louis must be provided for
whenever he weds. They say that his
mother has promised him two-thirds,
or $50, 900 per annum. On this and
| his expectations-not worth much Just
| for the moment-ha homes tn set I'M
housekeeping with the Princess Thyra,
or any other amiable and unassuming
princess who will have him.-Corres.
pondeace Cincinnati Gazette.