Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-08-21
PRINCE NAPOLEON.

PRINCE NAPOLEON.
His wsnderings in the Past ON Diplomatic
Business for the Emperor.
The government having, after hard
fought battle and brilliantly-won victory
in the senate, determined to promulgate
the expulsion bill, it took effect recently
in Paris and the provinces, writes Paris
correspondent OF the New York Tribune.
Princes Napoleon and Victor had there
fore to 60. The former is of row.
ing disposition, and was brought up in
going to and fro in southern Europe.
He was now with his father at Florence,
again with him at Trieste, then with his
uncle, the king OF Wurtemburg, at Stutt-
CART, whence he sometimes went to pass
months with his aunt-in-law Hortense,
and her sons, Napoleon, Louis, and
Louis Napoleon, at Nuremberg. He had
a grandmother and his uncle Lucien and
lot of wild cousins at Rome with whom
he occasionally stayed. At no time did
he ever, except at Stuttgart, obtain q
regular instruction. But he had very
active brain, good deal Of Corsican
keenness and good German sense, and
somehow developed into-save the great
Napoleon-the ablest man of his family.
When he officially lived at the Palais
royal he was always wandering to keep
out of the EmpEess Eugenie's way, and
not to be annoyed with the presence of
his estimable, but plain, unseductive,
morose, and narrow-minded wife. The
emperor, to afford hia pretext for rowing
hither and thither, used to confde to
him UNOFFICIAL missions, diplomatic, politi-
cal and geographical. He was sent to
Turin and Florence when Victor En-
manuel was getting impatient at the
difficulties which French diplomacy
threw in the way Of Italian unity. He
went to Corsica to make grand official
speech at the Inauguration of some
monument in honor of the first emperor,
and abused Austria to such an extent
that Bismarck thought he might attack
her with impunity. He was also fire.
quent visitor 20 Berlin on diplomatic
business; to Cairo, to give support and
countenanoe to Lesseps: to Spain, to pre-
vent Montpensier mounting the throne
from which his iptrigues cast Isabella; to
English and Irish universal exhibitions;
to the United States, where he first came
out as the 'friend" of the Marquis de
Canisy. Being on mission" afforded
him pretext for travelling and under
first class conditions at the expense of
France. An allowance was made for the
travelling expenses OF the Princess
Clotilde. But she stayed at home and
he took some more congenial companion
with him. Cora Pearl, thus, was received
as an illustrious parsonage by west of
England and Irish gentry and along the
Danube below Vienna.
Prince Napoleon had at bis disposal
the imperial yacht La Refine Hortense,
in which he went to Madeira, the Azores,
the West Indies, New York, Iceland, the
Arctic circle, the Hebrides and Orkney
islands, Greenland, and most of the
ports of Norway. He was going to the
Loffoden islands when the news reached
him that the empress had prevailed in
making the emperor declare war against
Prussia, and hastened back to France to
see what he could do to help with advice
or as negotiator in trying to induce
Victor Emmanuel to lend helping
hand to the French. Prince Napoleon
is now physically indolent, and he had
always lazy will. He is one of the
best theoretical politicians in France, and
an admirable adviser. But he hates
business details, has no administrative
capacity, and rather than check expenses
reduces his household to a. nutshell,
keeps no cook, and contracts with a
restaurant to furnish his meals at his
in the Rue Phalsburg on first floor,
with I believe, the auburn-ha mar
quise and Baron Brunei, his secretary.
The Rue Phalsburg debouches at one
end on the Pare Monceau, where the
prince every morning took ''constitu-
tional." His fat was not luxuriously
furnished with the exception of the lib
rary, saloon and dining room, which all
contained handsome works of art and
Napoleon's relics. Prince Napoleon was
glad to be exiled. as in point Of fortune
be was on a footing of inferiority to the
dOrleans, and could not compete, if he
did his best, with the Due d'Aumale's
hunting parties at Chantilly. The Comte
de Paris, thanks to the muniicent friend
ship of the Duchess de Galliera, resided
in the finest mansion in the Faubourg
st. German, and was able to entertain
in royal style the august and illustrious
personages who attended the wedding
Of his niece at Eu, and the famous re-
ception which preceded the duchess of
Braganza's wedding.
R0secrans a. . Fatalist.
Gan Francisco Gall
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