Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-01-17
Prince Napoleon and the Princess
Clotilde.

An article in the December Century,
by Miss Anna Bicknell, on 1.-The Pre-
tenders to the Throne of France" con-
tains several interesting portraits. At
ter describing favorably the character
of the Comte de Paris, the writer says:
Ear different is the character of the
Bonaparte claimant, Prince Jerome
Napoleon. His resemblance in feature
to his illustrious uncle, the great En-
peror, is most striking; but no less
striking Is the difference of expression,
which is certainly not to the advantage
of Prince Napoleon. All the revela-
tons of that face are confirmed by pop
ular report, and universal sympathy is
felt for the admirable Princess Clotilde,
forced by necessity to live apart from
the husband TO whom she had been
sacrificed through political consider
atoms. No two individuals could be
more Unmatched than the atheistical,
dissipated Jerome Napoleon, rs cele-
brated for his immoral life as for his
coarse brutality of temper and his sup
posed-what shall we call itp-perSondL
prudence under fire, and the calm, Dig
nified Italian Princess, fearless, like a
true daughter of the house of Savoy;
devout, almost to excess; with the
tastes and habits of nun and the
ardent faith of a martyr. She did not
possess the beauty or the quick, bril-
liant wit which might have pleased
him; she cared little for splendid dress
or worldly pleasures. She spent al
most too much time in devotional prac-
tees, which he abhorred. During the
Empire, the home life of the Princess
Clotilde was austere, quiet, and, 1t
must be owned, very monotonous;
perhaps too much so to be quite judi
cious, under the circumstances in which
she was placed. But everything that
surrounded her shocked her feelings so
much that she could only take refuge
in silence and reserve. Her husband
was openly an unbeliever, the enemy of
the church to which she was devotcd;
and his conduct in other respects was
such as to be q permanent and cruel
insult to his wife.
"When the Empire fell, the Princess
went TO reside at q country seat, in
Switzerland, on the Lake of Geneva.
There she led the life of n 5 ster of
Charity, tending the poor and the sick
with her own hands, and depriving
herself of everything that could possibly
be spared, in order to give more to
those in need. After the death Of the
King, her father, she retired, without
any opposition from the Prince. her
husband, 10 the palace of Moncalieri,
near Turin, which had been left to her;
there, at least, she was not obliged to
endure the affronts which hitherto had
not been spared TO her. The sympathy
of all went with her, and the unpopu-
larity of Prince Napoleon consequently
increased. Notwithstanding his re-
markable intelligence, which cannot be
denied, his eloquence as an orator, and
the prestige of that Bonaparte face, so
like that of the great Emperor, Prince
Napoleon is universally disliked, and
despised as much as he is dislked.
Even the Bonapartists dare not put
forward his claims; their chance of
success would be too small.
The following appears as an adver-
tisement in conversative daily paper,
sandwiched between a puff of the
reptile house at the Zoo and the an
nouncement of n 1.-THE sale; MAR
woods executing apparatus, comprising
the whole of his ropes, pinloning straps,
Gladstone bag. family Bible, book OF
devotions. diary and correspondence,
also portrait of Marwood in his own
clothes, now on view at the east London