Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-20
The SeIfishness of a Great Man.

Napoleon regarded marriage as means
of promoting political plans, and, to judge
from the number of matches he made,
must have devoted a large share of his
time to arranging marriages for his
brothers and sisters, his adopted chill
dren, and the ladies and gentlemen of
his court. He took special pride in mar
rying the members of his family among
the various royal houses of Europe, and
his divorce of Josephine was perhaps not
inspired so much by his desire for an heir
as the determination of marrying into an
imperial house. In the days of his exile,
when he had time to look over the ground
and to come to a calm conclusion, he
pronounced the Austrian alliance an
abyss covered with flowers, and declared
it to be the cause of his ruin, since it did
not prevent Austria taking the side OF
the allies in the last tremendous strug-
gle. In the matrimonial affairs under
taken for others, however, he succeeded
very well. Prince Eugene married Bava-
rian princess, while Napoleon's niece,
Stephanie de Beauharnais, was married
| to the Russian emperor's brother-in-law.
| Jerome Bonaparte married the daughter
of Mr.. Patterson, of Baltimore, but was
| forced by his ferocious brother to repudi-
ate her and wed the daughter of the
King of Wurtemburg instead. Prince
Lucien also gave Napoleon great trouble
by falling in love with woman whom
the Emperor did not think it prudent for
him to marry, and was virtually banished
on account of his stubborn persistence in
the match. Napoleon insisted on marry
ing all his kinsfolks to the best advan-
tage, and when these were all gone be-
gan on the attendants of his court. But
even this was not sufficiently wide for his
talents in this direction, and occasion
ally he would undertake wholesale
marriages. After the battle of Aus
terlitz he issued proclamation
owe adopt all the children of the gen
erals, officers and soldiers who fell in the
battle of Austerlitz. They will be edu-
Gated at Ramboullet and st. Germaine,
provided for and married by us. They
will add to their names that of Napoleon. y
He was, perhaps, the most notable match
maker of any age, and always declared
that the number of his brothers and sis
ters was of great service to him in ena-
bling him to form many connections with
noble houses and thus increase his influ-
ence. One of his favorite schemes was
that OF fusion, the idea being to unite the
old families of the former monarchy with
those that had sprung up during the rev.
olution, thus infusing new blood into the
( nobility. But so far as he was personally
concerned he did not know what it was
to treat a woman politely, and CHANGING
once to come into the portion of the palace
reserved for the Empress Josephine, he
fell into terrible rage on seeing a milli-
ner there with her bandboxes and bun
dies, his wrath being further stimulated
by recent extravagances of Josephine,
and in a fury he yelled at the poor woman,
chased the Empress attendants out of the
room, and having thus routed the enemy
he had the wretched milliner sent to
prison, where she only remained over
night, but from the fright fell into fever,
so that for some weeks she could not
busy herself at all with her bundles.-.St.
! Louis Globe Democrat.