The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-10-23
Ex-EMPRESS EUGENE.
How the Lesser Napoleon's Widow
spends Her Cherries Days.

Eugenie. the cx-Emprcss of the
french, has recently returned from her
5isit to Queen Victoria to the place in
he County of Hampshire. Farnbor.
,ugh, where she has concluded to
pend her declining years. 1t is only
,hirty-threc miles from London, and
The Empress lives there in = style that
he world would call magnificent, but
which to her-who was for so many
fears the first lady of naughty France
md the queen par excellence of the
fashionable worlds a style OF pro.
bounced simplicity for awoman OF her
station. A lady who saw her recently
avs the Empress health is good, and
hat she carries her sixty years with
becoming grace. True, her Spanish
.resses have become silvered, but not
30 much by the march of time as by
he succession of Affections which fol-
owed that memorable 4th Of Septem-
5er in 1870, when her husband was
leposed from the throne OF France. 1t
5 sad the arrangements. which
laye been in progress for several years,
and of which the reading world has
1eard little. for the removal of the
bodies of Napoleon III. and the poor
Prince Imperial from Chiselhurst to
Marlborough are nearly completed.
There are those who think the rest OF
he Emperor aud the heir should not be
disturbed. and that the bodies should
.cmain in the transformations little
Roman Catholic Church al Chiselhurst
lntil they are taken to France, there
o be honored with a grave as noble as
hat in the Inyalides where sleeps al
hat remains Of the great Napoleon.
But this could never be, except under
imperial rule, and the career of repub'
lean France is not yet run.
The little Church of St. Mary'sstand'
NJ almost alone on a sequestercd road
act more than ten miles from the
gilded dome of st. Paul's, has for a few
years back been the objective point of
many 4 pilgrimage from London, and
many have been the tears dropped
within the sacred presence Of the sar-
:ophagi that contain the bones of i'm
perial France, as it were. When
EUgcnie fed her country and went to
England she took up her abode, as
very one knows, in rural Chiselhurst,
and it was there she lived when her
killed husband died, and when the
awful news came from Zululand tell.
ing of the cruel death of her son, six
years later. She considered the place
III the home she had, and naturally
he had the bodies brought there, but
simply as d temporary rcsting-placc.
as it now appears. The church that
contains what is so dear TO the once
proud Empress is a diminutive one,
and the congregation that assemblies
here Sunday to listen to the preaching
oi Mgr. Goddard, the priest, whose
residence adjoins the church, numbers
,css than two hundred.
To the left of the altar, in an alcoye
wing erected for the purpose, rests the
scotch granite sarcophagus containing
he remains of the late Emperor. Al
IS head is a small shrine and falling
rom the opposite wall is a trophy flag
Of the French tricolor. Wreaths,
.rosses and other offerings of immor.
Celles over the floor. and on top of the
stone box is always TO be seen a basket
IF fragrant flowers, In another wing
directly opposite, is the coffin contain.
ng the body Of the Prince Imperial,
almost buried from view by the many
ioral tributes that come weekly from
France, among which the flower of the
Napoleons-thc Observation-Disclosures.
The aisle OF the church is covered
with a rug worked by some of the
grand ladies of Paris, and just inside
The chanccl rail are two cnnameled
chairs where sit the ex-Empress and
ler escort when she goes there
% worship. She visits the out
of-the-way little church as often
as once a month, or has until
recently. The imperial remains are to
DC transferred from the watchful care
IF Father Goddard to a costly mortuary
chapel at Marlborough, within the
grounds of the Empress residence.
here to remain nobody knows how
,ong.
The Empress is a privileged guest at
Windsor and Balmoral, and the two
widowed sovercigns are the closest Of
friends.
Apropos of the illusion to the friend.
hip existing between the Queen and
The ey-Empress, it is said that the