The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-11
Gables porttolio.
a PEI P OTOGRAPH OF JOSE
PINE. NAPOLEANS ONLY
LOVE-IS HIS DRY AT
FAULT?
Josephine's Character in a New Light
The charm Of Her Fashion
N~apOleon'S jealousy.
CReview of Nine. de Rumusat's work.
C 0ucluded.)
~NAPoLEoN'S JEALOUSY.

vi UDlS ndUIleSIdtIOH vi ANapoiCoh . JN"
ttlsy Bourrienne has left Us a strlcking pic
ture. 1t was in Syria, in 1899, that Bour
rienne saw Junot walking with Bonaparte,
who was more pallid than usu al, with his
features cOnvulsed and his eyes wild, and
subsequently, heard him vow to 'exterml-
nate all that race of dandies, and for her
divorce, public and conspicuous divorce.
Bcurrienne declares that, instead Of the
GOODNESS between Bonaparte and Josephine
lasting only some hours of one night, it was
not until after three days, during which
Bourrienne did the pleading, and not Jose
pbine WHOM he WOULD not see that the
husband gave away. According to Hour-
%rienne, Junot had mention to Napoleon
the name of Murar as the adulterer in this
particular instance. Bourrienne, however,
sdds his belief that Josephine had affected
' IN interest in Murat SO as to captivate him,
to Carolina B~onaparte, and have an ally
against her sisters in-law. In his "Notes
on the hundred Days" Sismohdi has Al
interesting passage, as follows:
Napoleon greatly loved his wife and ten
derly beloved by her: nevertheless she was
= creole of passionate and ardent tempera-
ment, and she was guilty of many infdelities.
Napoleon knew it, and the knowledge
threw him into frightful fits of anger. Du
ring his first campaign in Italy be dismiss
III lTOEl Ills SUdll StfcIdl " OOSCpuIuC . VI
lnireIs; he banjshed others after his return
from Egypt, but none of them were depriv-
ed Of life or liberty. When be came back
srom Egypt sundry people displayed a good
deal of malice in letting him know all that
his wife had done. Murat was one. Napo-
leon was beside himself with passion, but
Josephine had an inexpressible magic in
her tears and soft demeanor. On the NOR
row all was forgiven. Josephine said to
Murat, You have been cruet to me, and
have lone me much harm, but l have been
forgiven and l forgive YOU
Josephine long found her irrepressible
magic sufficient, and the last words of the
4 quarrel usually were something like those
Napoleon used to her when the frs. enter
ed the palace: ''Come, little Creole, away
with you into the bed of your ancestors"
Josephine was Of the gushing kind, and
permitted familiarities as he allowed him
self to take them, which was saying a good
deal. On the very night that the execution
of the young duke of Eughien was resolved
upon, indeed. we hear that Napoleon was
boisterously gay and for "a considerable
time toyed with his wife with more freedom
than decency' before sitting down to chess
with Nine. de Remusat, repeating poetry
to her a bout the grandeur of forgiveness
and clemcncy.
ALNAlS HARD II
When the publication of another anxious
~ expected volume gives US an excuse for
discussing the subject that will then, for
the first time, be Thoroughly illuminated
the amours Of Napoleon I've may have
something to say about Josephine's moral
character. To-day we only pretend to dis
play the woman, as she was seen by her
fntimates and the world. She was always
hard up. Tmpecuniosity under the direc-
tory threw her into those into intimate re-
iations with Barras and others which did
SO much to %injure her fame. So it was du-
ring Napolean's absence in Egypt, and
when she was empress, though she had
1920, 900 a year for her charities, she was
always getting more and heavily into debt.
After the campaign in Italy the salons of
decorated with pictures, statues, and
mosaics, and she had diamonds, pearls, and
jewels of all kinds in profusion, yet she
lacked money for her ordinary house bills
and to get it sold her influence with prom
inent personages. Her allowance were
double those of the Archduchess Marie
Louise, her successor, but the latter had no
''poor relations to provide for. Josephine
gave presents with a liberal hand, but she
was not so prudent as Queen Victoria
(whose invariable wedding present, when
she must give one, is an India shawl, the
shawls coming to her from Indian poten-
tates as gifts, and SO costing nothing), and
always bought something to give away,
She would net limit her expenditure, nor
even keep an account of it, nor could Ma
poleon induce her to refuse audiences to
people with goods for sale any person could
find the way to her presence. and whatever
lie brought she would buy. Her ante-rooms
were crowded with merchants and artists,
one of her manias being the dissemination
her portraits among her relatives, friends,
attendants and even her tradesmen. Dia
monds, jewels, shawls, %stuffs, she bough,
ell that was brought to her without eve
asking the price. Sue had three hundred
ar four hundred India shawls, then brought
into fashion by the campaign in the east