Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-06-04
EUGENE RIVAL.
Some of the Inside History OF the Married
Life Of the Last Napoleon.

Some of the Inside History OF the Married
Life Of the Last Napoleon.
Paris Letter to San Francisco Chronicle.
The Countess dc Castili0ne, one of
those ladies who played a sensational
part during the Second Empire, has
written and Is going to print her mem
Oirs. When she came to Paris the COun-
tess was in her Goth year. That was in
1856, and unfortunately, as she has al
ways declared. she came too late, for, had
she done so few DAYS earlier, perhaps
she-and not Eugene de MOntijo- would
have been selected by Napoleon iii to
share his newly established throne. Not
being able to become mistress OF tho
Tuileries, she contentsd herself with be-
coming that of its master, whom she
fairly brought to her feet at fancy ball
given at the palace.
The imperial liaison soon became
knOwR to everybody in Paris except the
Empress. Napoleon used 10 arrive in q
plain coupe, which would drive up in
front of the Office OF John Arthur, an En-
glish house agent. and on stepping from
his carriage would pass through this Of
fee and out by back door into sort Of
alley communicating with ves.ibule
of the house in which the Countess lived.
One day M. Pietri, chief of police, discov-
cred that some Italian eOnspiratOrs had
arranged to lie in wait for him in this
alley aud went and told the Empress all
about his discovery, Eagenie sent for
Napoleon, accused him of liaison with
the Countess, and he stopped going to
the Rue Castiglione; only. however to ride
cut to the Rue de Ia PomDe, where a
pretty little house had been fitted up for
his bien aimee. This street is almost at
the very edge of the Bots dc Boulogne.
The Countess did not quit her residence
in the Rue Castigli0ne for this little box
at Passy, and it was only used as a place
Of rendezvous by the two levers whom
Eugene had tried in vain to separate.
The Empress was becoming more and
more jealous of the Countess, and finally
at st. Cloud where certain s0vsreigns
had gone to pay visit of courtesy, the
feeling of bitterness eliminated in a
grand scandal. When the sOvereigns
entered the room all the ladies present
arose from their seats with the excep.
ton of Nine. de CastiglioAe; thereupon
Eugene went 10 the Emperor and do
clared that she could bear it no longer
and Weuld leave at once for Scotland
The next day while holding a council
Napoleon received message from his
1 wife to the effect that she intended
TO come in and explain in person to the
ministers the reasons which prompted
her abrupt departure.
The Emperor sent one of his chamber.
lnins to stop her, and authorized thai
official to resort to any means that
might be necessary in order to prevent
her fulfilling her threat. The chamber
lain finding eloqueHce Of no avail, quiet
ly left the room and turned the key in
the lock. Eugene, noticing that hel
bell remained unanswered, set the win
dow curtains on fire. In the meantime
the Emperor had dismissed the minis
tiers, and he now came in person to re-
lieye his wife and thank the Chamber
lain which he did most warmly, for hav
ing so literally carried out his orders
As the Empress refused to be pacifed
he consented to her paying visit to hel
cousin, the Duchess of Hamilton, in
Scotland, and it was not until he haC
formally promised to get rid of TIT
Countess DO CastigIione that she con
sented to return to Paris.