The Osceola times., 1884-11-29
FALLEN ROYALTY.
The Ex-Empress Eucenie and Her Recent
Visit to Paris.

The Empress Eugene spent SAD
week with the Duchesse &c Mouchy in
her new house near the Hotel des In
valides. She was attracted to the scenes
of her former triumphs, went to look at
the balcony OF the Ecole M'lltaife where
she wItnes sl So many reviews in i'm
perial state. was at Lonechamps, st. Cloud
in the Tuile-ies gardens, and everywhere
passed. almost unnoticed. Her cousin,
NJ. de Lesseps, fastened from Berry to
pay his respects to her. She was paid
many visits, but was not in mood to
receive any but old and valued friends.
1t is not at all true that she wants to
make peace between her cousin, Prince
Napoleon, and his eldest son, whom she
calls her petit neveu. She was very
much agitated in going over the theatre
on which the imperial drama was play
ed by her and the emperor. But her
general attitude was that of person
who through much suffering has cone
almost to be insensible.
HER COMPLEXION Is BLEACHED
as her hair. The eyes of pale blue have
lost the faculty of lighting up. 1t would
be hard to say whether they express i'll
difference to most things OF resignation;
but they look as if they had cried so
much that no more tears were left in
them. The empress drove about in 4
plain coupe. She was always in black
Grape and Inerino. Her figure has loo,
all flexibilty, and though the Carlsbad
waters were of service to her, she has tb q
stiff walk that rheumatism or the weight
of years gives. The outlines of the
shoulders, however. retain some of the.l
former elegance. As the adherents 81
Prince Victor are anxious to organic
an electoral campaign by next year, and
to OBTAIN pecuniary assistance from The
empre IS, the house of the Duchcsse de
Mouchy was closely watched when sh,
was there. If the world has not gone
from her, she has lost all taste for it
The seclusion of Marlborough sometime,
weighs upon her. Nevertheless, she
says she would be glad to return to it at
ter
HER CONTINENTAL TRIP.
At Carlsbad she refused any excep
tional honors and favors, lived quietly
a, hotel, and took her place in queue
at the pump. Her old vivacty has died
ont. lit had not, she would try TO sub
lugate it, for she ascribes to her impetu
Gus disposition the eliminating error o
the emperor's rein, and another event
for which she VIII mourn rs long as lilt
and consciousness remains to her. She
has the generosity to admit the errors o
ludgu ent into which she was hurried
and which was attended with disastroli.
consequences, both for her family aLd
for the nation over which, by an astound
ing freak of nature, she became the SOW
ereign. The empress still thinks aloud
and talks often and rapidly of what i,
on her mind. She i'll bears any menta
tcnsisn. unless in religious exercises, anC
has not the resources of music, embr0id
cry, knitting, or sewing, which enabled
Marie Amelie TO beguile the tedium of /;
residence at Claremont.
HER INFIRMIrY
prevents her walking as much as sh,
wishes. She lives altogether at Farm
borough in the past and among object
reminding her of departed glories OF TIA,
emperor and of her ill-starred SOP, q
whom she can now speak without Iailin.
into paroxysms of grief. The inner wo
man is chastened by affliction, and tn,
outer woman laded; but she is more in
teresting, perhaps, than when she haC
the prestige of beauty, a throne and lex
ternally) the most brilliant court c
Europe. | have heard her compa e,
to Henrietta Maria, who also had reason
to deplore the impetuosity of her dispo
sition. That queen, however had tria
in her old ago to which the empress ha
not been subject. She lived in Franc,
when she was discrowned queen anC
widow in dire poverty. Her house q
Bois Colombes was in the marshy part o
a wind-swept plain and being too poor (,
buy firewool, she had to stay in bed il
winter To keen herself warm