Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-05-05
IN EMPRESS AND HER PETS.


How Napoleon Sought to Win Marie
Louise's Love.
Marie Louise's dog was slim Italian
greyhound, and as far as she was con-
cerned it proved to be very winsome
bit of doghesh. 1t twined itself into
her affections by its graceful ways. She
had her other pets-her singing birds
and her parrot-in her boudoir at Vi
emma, a room where, We read, there
was scarcely thing, down to the car
pet on the floor, which was not the work
of some loved hand" Nine. Junot
says when the Archduchess became
Empress she had to leave her fawn-
colored favorite behind her at Vienna.
In the memoir of the Empress Marie
Louise by Saint Arnaud, he says it
was at Munich "she was compelled to
separate from little dog she loved
dearly, which the Countess (LaZansky)
had to take back to Vienna with her."
The reason of this was that Napoleon
did not lie dogs. Nine. Junot says,
"the Emperor used to be annoyed by
Josephine's favorite pet dogs, with For
tune at the head" The Empress cried
bitterly when she found the plaintive-
her grand mistress. Every one was
anxious to swell the train of this new
Empress. She longed to keep her
coaxing little friend beside her, because
she knew it alone cared to be with her,
not because she was the wife of the
man who had so much of Europe in his
grasp, but simply because it worshiped
her from the depth of its true little
heart. ut was cruel separation"
writes Nine. Junot, "and the Empress
and her favorite parted with duo OF
complaints. The acquisition of colos-
sal empire did not console the sovereign
for the loss of little dog" says an
other historian. 1t is satisfactory to
know that the timid, shrinking hound
was not long parted from the Empress.
Berthier told Napoleon of Marie
Louise's tears over leaving her dog,
her feathered friends, her room made
dear by cherished association, and Ma
poleon prepared delectable surprise
for his wife, strategy to win her love.
Leading her from the balcony of the
Tuileries, where he had presented her
to the people who had thronged below,
he led her, in wonderme mt as to her
NeobiudIlOH, W u uiHlly lShi't pOiii-
dor. A woe-begone greyhound had
been sitting in room there forlorn
and puzzled till it heard step it
knew, and, whining with impotence,
sprang out when Napoleon opened the
door. The phlegmatic Empress
greeted her recovered pet with elusion.
She knew its alteration was genuine
The tickle multitude that cheered her
might turn on her as they had turned
on her grand-aunt, the Queen of
France; but this four-legged courtier
was genuine and stancb. In the room
where her trusty favorite awaited her
Marie Louise found her birds, her
music, in fact, every article was there,
and placed in the room in the same
manner as she had left them on quit
ting her paternal roof" Napoleon
was well pleased with the delight his
kindly thoughtfuiness gave the En-
press. and maybe honored the over
Ioyed hound with some notice. -Four
years after this the dog left the
Tuileries with the Empress and her
son. 1t returned to Vienna with her,
loving her as truly as pensioner and
a prisoner at her fathers court as
when she was Empress over power
full nation. Journal.